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Today's
First Look:
Ron
on RON Markets as heard on K101
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with cash and futures reviewed- includes where the Cash
Cattle market stands, the latest Feeder Cattle Markets
Etc.
Okla
Cash Grain:
Daily
Oklahoma Cash Grain Prices- as reported
by the Oklahoma Dept. of Agriculture.
Canola
Prices:
Current
cash price for Canola is $11.22 per bushel-
2012
New Crop contracts for Canola are now available at
$11.39 per bushel- delivered to local
participating elevators that are working with PCOM.
Futures
Wrap:
Our
Daily Market Wrapup from the Radio
Oklahoma Network with Ed Richards and Tom Leffler-
analyzing the Futures Markets from the previous Day.
KCBT
Recap:
Previous Day's Wheat Market Recap- Two
Pager from the Kansas City Board of Trade looks at all
three U.S. Wheat Futures Exchanges with extra info on
Hard Red Winter Wheat and the why of that day's
market.
Feeder
Cattle Recap:
The
National Daily Feeder & Stocker
Cattle Summary- as prepared by USDA.
Slaughter
Cattle Recap:
The
National Daily Slaughter Cattle
Summary- as prepared by the USDA.
TCFA
Feedlot Recap:
Finally,
here is the Daily Volume and Price Summary from
the Texas Cattle Feeders Association.
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Oklahoma's
Latest Farm and Ranch News
Your
Update from Ron Hays of RON
Tuesday, November
22, 2011
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Howdy
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Here is your daily Oklahoma farm and ranch
news update.
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Featured
Story:
Effort
to Get Farm Bill Under Super Committee Umbrella
Ends as the Dozen Lawmakers Fail to Find Deficit
Reduction- House Ag Committee Chair Lucas
Disappointed
Rep.
Frank Lucas, Chairman of the House Agriculture
Committee, and Sen. Debbie Stabenow, Chairwoman of
the Senate Agriculture Committee, released the
following statement in response to the
announcement that the Joint Select Committee on
Deficit Reduction has failed to reach an
agreement.
"House and Senate Agriculture
Committee leaders developed a bipartisan,
bicameral proposal for the Joint Select Committee
on Deficit Reduction that would save $23 billion.
However, the Joint Select Committee's failure to
reach a deal on an overall deficit reduction
package effectively ends this effort. We are
pleased we were able to work in a bipartisan way
with committee members and agriculture
stakeholders to generate sound ideas to cut
spending by tens of billions while maintaining key
priorities to grow the country's agriculture
economy. We will continue the process of
reauthorizing the farm bill in the coming months,
and will do so with the same bipartisan spirit
that has historically defined the work of our
committees."
National
Corn Growers Association expressed their
disappointment with the announcement by the Super
Committee. President Garry Niemeyer released the
following statement:
"We're disappointed
the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction
did not agree on a plan to reduce our federal
deficit. We appreciate the hard work of the chairs
and ranking members of the House and Senate Ag
Committees to meet agriculture's responsibility to
help address our debt crisis."
Click here for more from NCGA on the
Super Committee failure.
And
one reaction that is somewhat surprising- but
shows that even those outside agriculture
understand the bi partisan efforts were unique to
the Agriculture Committees. Sara Hopper with the
Environmental Defense Fund offered praise for the
efforts of Lucas and Stabenow- "While this
agreement included significant savings from USDA's
voluntary conservation programs, and any cuts to
these programs are painful, leaders of the House
and Senate agriculture committees worked in a
bipartisan way to minimize the negative impact of
the cuts by also including in their agreement
certain policy changes that would have improved
the effectiveness of conservation programs.
" Click here for her full statement
released on Monday afternoon.
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Oklahoma
Crop Weather Update - Cooler Temps Move
In
The
latest USDA Crop Weather Update says the cooler
temperatures have finally arrived in Oklahoma
saying- "The entire state received temperatures
below freezing, with the Northern and Panhandle
area's receiving the longest hours below freezing.
Mesonet reported hours below freezing ranged from
one hour in Southeastern Oklahoma to 46 hours in
the Panhandle. Freezing temperatures ended the
warm season grass production for this year.
For
our fall-planted crops - "Wheat, canola, rye, and
oats conditions continued to be rated good to
fair. Wheat producers grazed wheat fields earlier
than normal due to hay and pasture shortages.
Canola, rye and oats conditions were unchanged
last week, mostly rated good to fair. Wheat
emerged reached 93 percent, four points above the
five-year average.
Harvesting
of row crops continued to make good progress last
week. Sorghum reached 79 percent harvested,
slightly under the five-year average. Soybeans
mature reached 98 percent complete by Sunday, and
75 percent of soybeans were harvested, 10 points
behind normal. Peanuts dug reached 95 percent
complete and 88 percent of the peanuts were
combined by Sunday, six points behind the
five-year average. The cotton harvest was 68
percent complete by week's end, four points behind
this time last year."
When
it comes to hay productions, the dry conditions
kept harvest progress behind normal. Third
cuttings of alfalfa were 75 percent complete, and
22 percent of the state had completed a fourth
cutting, compared to a five-year average of 100
percent. A second cutting of other hay was 60
percent complete by Sunday, 31 points
behind normal.
Click here for the complete Oklahoma
Crop Weather Update as of Monday, November 21,
2011. |
Noble
Foundation Board of Trustees Names Bill Buckner as
New President
The
Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation Board of Trustees
has selected Bill Buckner as the organization's
new president and chief executive officer (CEO).
Buckner, who will begin his tenure on Jan.
16, 2012, most recently served as president and
CEO of Bayer CropScience LP and has more than 30
years of experience within various agricultural
industries.
"Bill Buckner is a proven
leader with great integrity and foresight," said
Vivian DuBose, chair of the executive search
committee and granddaughter of the organization's
founder, Lloyd Noble. "The board is confident that
he will continue the Noble Foundation's tradition
of excellence and advance our mission to improve
agriculture for the benefit of mankind."
Buckner becomes the eighth president in
the Noble Foundation's 66-year history. He will
replace Michael Cawley, who is retiring after two
decades of leading the Ardmore, Okla., based
foundation.
Click here for more information about
the Noble Foundation's new president, Bill
Buckner. |
Miss
Oklahoma Sharing Importance of Dairy With Oklahoma
Students
Miss
Oklahoma, Betty Thompson, has been helping to
spread the word about the dairy industry,
agriculture, and the importance of exercise and a
balanced diet in schools across the state.
Recently at a Fuel Up to Play 60 event in Guthrie,
Okla., Thompson talked with students about all of
these issues and capatilized on her platform of
"Milk It Really Does a Body Good."
Growing
up on a farm just north of Davenport, Okla.,
Thompson raised Jersey cows on a small dairy
operation. Thompson grew up milking cows every
morning and every night as well as bottle feeding
cows. Thompson says her experiences at the family
dairy helped inspire her platform as Miss
Oklahoma.
Thompson has been traveling to
multiple schools during the school year to to talk
to students about setting goals, having a healthy
lifestyle, making good decisions and having self
respect. Thompson says taking these programs and
implementing them in schools has been her main job
as Miss Oklahoma.
But Thompson says this
is also preparing her for the Miss America pageant
coming up in early 2012 in Las Vegas. Going out
into the schools and having some type of speaking
opportunity with children and interacting with
people on a daily basis are the the biggest part
of the preparation process says
Thompson.
Click here to listen to our
conversation with Miss Oklahoma Betty Thompson and
for a video clip of her presentation to
students in
Guthrie. |
Futures
Traders Hit Hard by MF Global Bankruptcy-
Shortfall Doubles to $1.2
Billion
The
shortfall of commodity customer funds at MF Global
Holdings Ltd may be around $1.2 billion,
about double initial estimates from regulators,
the trustee liquidating the company said on
Monday.
The news was a blow to
customers still hoping to get more of their cash
out of frozen broker accounts and raised new
questions about why the authorities managed to
locate only about 60 percent of the segregated
customer funds three weeks after the parent firm's
October 31 bankruptcy.
There
is impact down on the farm as producers across the
country that use the market to hedge have had some
of their funds caught in this trap- and the same
is true for many country elevators.
We
have an article on our website that goes in depth
into the farmer/rancher impacts of this MF Global
mess- you can jump over there and read more by clicking here.
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Ranchers
Need To Avoid Nitrate Toxicity During First Winter
Storms
Almost
as predictable as the coming of the winter season,
will be the quickly spread horror story of the
death of several cows from a herd that was fed
"the good hay" for the first time after a snow
storm. According to Dr. Glenn Selk, Oklahoma State
University Emeritus Extension Animal Scientist,
ranchers that have purchased or harvested and
stored potentially high nitrate forages such as
forage sorghums, millets, sudangrass hybrids,
and/or johnsongrass, need to be aware (not
fearful) of the increased possibility of nitrate
toxicity.
This is especially dangerous if
the cows are fed this hay for the first time after
a strong winter storm. Cattle can adapt (to a
limited amount) to nitrate intake over time.
However, cattlemen often will feed the higher
quality forage sorghum type hays during a
stressful, cold, wet winter storm. Cows may be
especially hungry, because they have not gone out
in the pasture grazing during the storm. They may
be stressed and slightly weakened by the cold, wet
conditions. This combination of events make them
even more vulnerable to nitrate toxicity.
The rancher is correct in trying to make
available a higher quality forage during severe
winter weather in an effort to lessen the loss of
body weight and body condition due to the effect
of the wind chill. But if the forage he provides
to the cows is potentially toxic, his best
intentions can back fire.
Click here for more tips from Dr.
Glenn Selk on managing nitrate toxicity this
winter. |
DuPont
and Evogene Enter Multiyear Collaboration for
Soybean Rust Resistance
DuPont
and Evogene Ltd. announced a multiyear
collaboration to improve resistance to soybean
rust, one of the most devastating fungal diseases
in soybean. Under the agreement, DuPont business
Pioneer Hi-Bred and Evogene will collaborate to
develop soybean varieties displaying in-plant
resistance to rust. Financial terms of the
agreement were not disclosed.
Soybean is
one of the world's most important crops, supplying
protein for human and animal consumption and
feedstock for oil production. Soybean rust is a
severe fungal disease, which causes significant
yield losses that can reach up to 80 percent of
the affected field. It is estimated that the yield
losses caused by soybean rust exceed $1.5 billion
annually. Development of new rust-resistant
soybean varieties would help growers protect
harvestable yield against rust, ultimately
improving productivity of
agriculture.
DuPont and Evogene will
jointly generate a genomic database tailored to
soybean rust resistance. Evogene will utilize its
computational genomic technology, the ATHLETE™, to
identify novel genes predicted to improve soybean
rust resistance. Pioneer will use proprietary
technologies to evaluate the genes in transgenic
soybeans, and may advance leads for further
development and commercialization. Evogene will be
entitled to receive milestone payments and
royalties based on the sales of resulting
products.
Click here for more from DuPont and
Evogene on the work against soybean
rust. |
Rainfall
Event Helps SouthEastern 2/3 of
Oklahoma Flooding in
southeastern Oklahoma has come with this latest
round of showers, but no violet storms have been
noted with this widespread rain event at the
beginning of Thanksgiving week 2011. The far
northwestern part of the state got little rain
from this system- and the Panhandle got virtually
nothing- but other areas that are still rated in
"exceptional" or "extreme" drought got significant
amounts of rain.
We have grabbed a
snapshot of the Mesonet readings as of 6 AM this
morning- click here to take a
look!
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