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Let's Check the
Markets!
Today's
First Look:
Ron
on RON Markets as heard on K101
mornings
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
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as reported by the Oklahoma Dept. of Agriculture.
Canola
Prices:
Current
cash price for Canola is $11.24 per bushel-
2012
New Crop contracts for Canola are now available at
$11.47 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
Wednesday, November
30, 2011
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Howdy
Neighbors!
Here is your daily Oklahoma farm and ranch
news update.
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Featured
Story:
USDA
2011 Farm Income Forecast Up from
2010
Agriculture
Secretary Tom Vilsack made the following statement
on USDA's 2011 Farm Income Forecast, which
forecast net farm income at $100.9 billion for
2011, up $21.8 billion or 28 percent from
2010.
"Today's farm income forecast shows
that the American brand of agriculture continues
to be a bright spot in our nation's economy.
Following on a strong 2010, all three measures of
farm sector earnings again experienced strong
growth in 2011.According to today's numbers,
farmers are earning 28 percent more for their
products than they made last year. And it is
making a real difference for America's farm
families, whose household income was up 3.1
percent in 2010 and is forecasted to increase 1.2
percent in 2011. This is good news for rural
America and for our national economy.
"A
combination of factors has made these numbers
possible including growth in cash receipts,
off-farm employment, and a record high of $137.4
billion in FY 2011 farm exports-which continues
U.S. agriculture's year over year trade
surplus.
"A strong U.S. agricultural
economy means more opportunities for small
businesses owners and jobs for folks who package,
ship, and market agricultural products. Our
farmers and ranchers have worked hard to keep
their debt low and to capitalize on a broader
economic recovery."
Click here for more from Secretary
Vilsack and a link to the complete Farm Income
Forecast report.
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Tulsa Farm Shows will be a part of the 2011- and
that includes gentle horse training by Craig
Cameron, Livestock Handling Equipment Demos, the
Youth Livestock Handling Skills Contest and a lot
more. Click here for the Tulsa Farm Show
website
to learn more about the 2011
show. |
Noble
Foundation and Other Researchers Collaborate to
Address Global
Challenges
The
four largest nonprofit plant science research
institutions in the U.S. have joined forces to
form the Association of Independent Plant Research
Institutes (AIPI) in an effort to target plant
science research to meet the profound challenges
facing society in a more coordinated and rapid
fashion.
Scientific leaders from the Boyce
Thompson Institute for Plant Research (Cornell
University), The Carnegie Institution for Science,
the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center (St.
Louis, Mo.) and The Samuel Roberts Noble
Foundation (Ardmore, Okla.) formed the AIPI to
facilitate scientific discovery through
intellectual and technical collaborations. The
group will also disseminate research outcomes and
provide a forum for discussion of approaches to
the challenges facing agriculture.
Collectively, AIPI member institutions
operate nearly 60 laboratories with more than 400
personnel. Each organization offers different but
complementary technical expertise that ranges from
measuring individual chemicals and proteins within
plants to the ability to obtain three-dimensional
images of plant structures and proteins in living
tissue. In addition, state-of-the-art greenhouse
and field resources allow science to mature beyond
the laboratory and into tangible outcomes to
benefit consumers and provide for
tomorrow.
Click here for more on this research
collaboration with Noble Foundation and
others. |
Farm
Service Agency County Committee Elections Deadline
Approaches
Francie
Tolle, executive director for Oklahoma Farm
Service Agency (FSA), reminds producers that the
2011 FSA county committee elections began Nov. 4,
with USDA mailing ballots to eligible voters. The
deadline to return the ballots to local FSA
offices is Monday, Dec. 5, 2011.
"Our
county committee members play a vital role in the
operations of our Agency," said Tolle. "New county
committee members provide input and make important
decisions on the local administration of disaster
and conservation programs. With more producers
seeking election in recent years, we have also
seen increases in the number of women and minority
candidates, helping to better represent the
diversity of American agriculture."
County
committee members provide a link between the
agricultural community and USDA. Farmers elected
to county committees help deliver FSA programs at
the local level, applying their knowledge and
judgment to make decisions on commodity price
support programs; conservation programs; disaster
programs for some commodities; emergency programs
and eligibility. FSA committees operate within
official regulations designed to carry out federal
laws.
Click here for more information and
to find out if you are an eligible voter.
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Last
Chance to Weigh in on Department of Labor's
Craziness Regarding Youth Labor on the
Farm
The
deadline is now here- tomorrow is Thursday,
December first- and that is the final day that
comments can be submitted online for the changes
that the Department of Labor wants to make to a
relatively old law- the Fair Labor Standards
Act.
The
Feds want to make everything done on a
farm or ranch by a minor subject to their
blessing.
For
example- one segment of the proposed rule relates
to moving cattle from one pasture to another on
horseback. "Hired youth should be prohibited from
herding animals on horseback. The National Farm
Medicine Center noted that past and recent data
indicate a significant number of animal-related
injuries occur to youth when they are involved in
the activities cited in its second recommendation.
It also reports that ''horseback herding requires
a person to monitor and anticipate the behaviors
of two (large) animals simultaneously. No youth
development data exists to suggest youth younger
than 16 years have the cognitive ability to handle
this responsibility.'' Hired youth-
according to the wizards in Washington is any
young person under 16 not working directly for his
mom or dad on their personal farm or ranch.
It can't be a LLC or a similar legal structure of
ownership- the fifteen year old can't work for his
granddad or other family member or neighbor they
have known since birth.
Your
chance to tell DOL your thoughts on these rules
ends tomorrow night. It has been suggested
to us that you need to say more than that you are
just against it- but rather why and give specific
examples about how working in a supervised manner-
your kids or you- learned life lessons in those
key teenage years that helped establish a work
ethic that has made US agriculture what it is.
(just tell your story- that will can have impact)
Click here to learn more about the
proposal and how you can make your comments
known. Once you get your comments
submitted on the Federal website- you may want to
forward them to your US Senators and to your US
Congressman- when they feel heat- they often see
the light. |
Former
MF Global CEO Jon Corzine Called to Testify before
Senate Committee
U.S.
Senator Debbie Stabenow, Chairwoman of the Senate
Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee, has
called on former MF Global CEO Jon Corzine to
testify before the Agriculture Committee at a
hearing on December 13th.
The
hearing is the latest step in an ongoing
investigation into circumstances surrounding the
October 31 bankruptcy of MF Global Holdings Ltd.,
the eighth largest bankruptcy in U.S. history. The
Senate Agriculture Committee has oversight
jurisdiction on commodity trading and its
regulatory agencies.
"The farmers, small
business owners and others who trusted this firm
are now facing tremendous hardship and may
ultimately never recover all of their money," said
Chairwoman Stabenow. "A discovery of this
magnitude demonstrates yet again the need for
strong oversight and protections for consumers to
prevent this sort of abuse from occurring. Anyone
engaged in wrongdoing in this matter must be
swiftly held accountable, to help bring justice to
victims and to prevent further erosion of
confidence in the financial
system."
Click here for more on this hearing
by the Agriculture
Committee. |
State/National
Partnership Key to New Beef Retail Marketing
Program
State
beef councils are joining with the national Beef
Checkoff Program in support of a new retail beef
marketing program that has the potential to
significantly increase U.S. beef sales. The
checkoff-funded program, called Beef Alternative
Marketing (BAM), has identified innovative cutting
techniques and marketing strategies for securing
beef purchases from shoppers who previously looked
elsewhere for nutritious, high-quality,
size-appropriate proteins.
BAM creates
smaller filets and roasts out of beef ribeyes, top
loins and top sirloins. These new cuts are thicker
than many being sold by retailers, which have been
sliced thinner because of larger beef carcass
sizes and a retail desire to control package
weights. By increasing cut thickness, final
product quality is protected. At the same time,
smaller portions give consumers the sizes and
nutritional profiles they seek.
We have a
story on BAM that describes the State-National
Partnership efforts- and includes Heather
Buckmaster's take on BAM as well as the Oklahoma
Beef Council's role in bringing this program
successfully on line. Click here for more information
on this partnership between state beef councils
and the national Beef Checkoff.
We
also have featured BAM on today's Beef Buzz, as
heard on great radio stations across the region on
the Radio Oklahoma Network. Click here for our Beef Buzz,
which has Beef Operating Committee member Becky
Walth of South Dakota weighing in on BAM.
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Syngenta
Ordered to Defend Atrazine-Contamination Lawsuit
in Court
A
federal judge in Southern Illinois has ordered the
Swiss parent company of atrazine-maker Syngenta
Crop Protection Inc. (SCPI) to appear in his court
to a defend a water-contamination lawsuit brought
by Midwestern public water providers filed by
Korein Tillery of St. Louis.
The order
marked the first time the company has ever been
held subject to the jurisdiction of U.S. courts.
The notably detailed opinion by District
Judge J. Phil Gilbert of the U.S. District Court
for the Southern District of Illinois was handed
down the day before Thanksgiving and found that
Syngenta AG (SAG) - the Basel, Switzerland-based
international conglomerate - "has organized its
group of subsidiary companies, including SCPI,
purposefully to limit the jurisdictions in which
it is subject to court authority."
Judge
Gilbert focused on substance over form, however,
and exercised jurisdiction because voluminous
evidence revealed SAG's pervasive operational
control over its indirect subsidiary SCPI - the
agrochem giant based in Greensboro, N.C., that
manufactures and distributes the herbicide
Atrazine that is at the heart of the lawsuit.
Click here for more information on
this atrazine-contamination
lawsuit. |
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