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invite you to listen to us on great radio stations
across the region on the Radio Oklahoma Network
weekdays- if you missed this morning's Farm News - or
you are in an area where you can't hear it-
click
here for this morning's Farm news
from Ron Hays on RON.
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- as reported
by the Oklahoma Dept. of Agriculture.
Canola
Prices:
Current
cash price for Canola is $11.19 per bushel-
2012
New Crop contracts for Canola are now available at
$11.42 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
Monday, December
12, 2011
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Howdy
Neighbors!
Here is your daily Oklahoma farm and ranch
news update.
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Featured Story:
Moratorium
Likely on Production of Castor Beans By Oklahoma
Board of Agriculture at Tuesday
Meeting
After
months of discussion within the agricultural
community of the state- it appears that the
Oklahoma State Board of Agriculture is on the
verge of issuing a moratorium on the commercial
production of castor beans in the state of
Oklahoma, as the board anticipates that a law
formalizing that position may be coming out of the
2012 legislative session.
On
Saturday, Oklahoma State Secretary of Agriculture
Jim Reese announced the board would consider that
measure in their Tuesday board meeting, predicting
the moratorium would be approved- Secretary Reese
making that prediction to those in attendance at
the Oklahoma Wheat Growers Annual Meeting held in
Oklahoma City.
We
talked with Jim Reese about this expected move by
the State Board on Tuesday- and also picked up
comments about the situation from State Lawmaker
Don Armes, who was also a speaker at the Wheat
Growers meeting. Click here to read more on the
efforts by an Indian tribe in the Red Rock area to
bring Castor bean production to the state- and the
pushback on the idea by the state farm and ranch
community. Our story includes audio comments with
both Jim Reese and Don Armes.
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2012
Oklahoma Winter Wheat Crop Enters Winter in
Surprisingly Good
Shape
Back
during the dog days of summer 2011- prospects
looked bleak for the fall growing season potential
of either the winter canola or winter wheat crop.
Exceptional Drought stretched across the great
majority of the wheat and canola belt within the
state.
Mark Hodges, Executive Director of
Plains Grains, Inc, says it is nothing short of
amazing the turnaround in growing conditions we
have seen since mid August up to this weekend,
with only a portion of the Oklahoma Panhandle now
being rated in exceptional drought. The 2012 wheat
crop is still not as well established as you would
like in the northwestern countries of the state,
but northcentral, central, south central and
southwestern Oklahoma all has had enough rain to
establish the crop as it enters the winter
dormancy season.
We talk about the
conditions of the fall with Hodges, as well as
what kind of shape we are with the crop as we hit
the winter season- and the need for timely rains
to continue in order for the potential of this
crop to be realized.
Mark also gave us an
update of the quality of the 2011 hard red winter
wheat crop- which he described with a single word-
"WOW." While the southern plains were short on
bushels, test weights across the entire HRW region
were great, protein levels trended above 12% and
perhaps the only shortcoming of the crop from a
quality viewpoint was that some millers would have
preferred bigger berries.
Click here to listen to our complete
conversation with Mark
Hodges. |
It
turned out to be a very busy weekend for the
general farm organization American Farmers &
Ranchers- as they are the main sponsors of the
annual Tulsa Farm Show Livestock Skills Handling
Contest. The Livestock Handling Contest,
held Friday, is designed to help teach youth in
agriculture how to properly handle and manage
livestock while providing vaccinations and other
types of handling.
The top three teams
this year were: First place-Pawnee Northeast with
members J.D. Steele, Chase Collins, and Macey
Skidgel; Second place-Porter Northeast with
members K.C. Barnes, Hallie Barnes, and Jarrod
McKinney; and Third place-Pawnee Southeast at
Large with members Hayden Skidgel, Morgan Vance,
and Chrissie Collins.
Click here to listen to our
conversation with AFR's Terry Detrick on the
contest.
On
Saturday, a couple of hundred top placing 4-H and
FFA youth gathered on the campus of Oklahoma State
University for the AFR State Speech Finals- these
young winners earning the right to be in
Stillwater by placing at their state District
contests.
Click here for the full list of top
winners in all of the categories- but of note-
Spencer Stuck of Kingfisher won the Tournament of
Champions in the Senior Division on Saturday- this
is the competition held for young people who have
already won a state title in the AFR contest- but
have not complete their high school careers as of
yet. |
In
Defense of Technology- The Way to Feed a Hungry
World
The
issue of increasing population and the need for
increased food production to meet these needs is
not unknow to farmers and ranchers. In fact, it is
projected that the world population will be 9
billion people by the year 2050, which means the
agricultural industries will need to produce 100%
more food than they did in the year
2000.
In the video posted below, Jeff
Simmons with the Plenty to Think About blog,
addresses this issue and how changes in food
production need to be made. This video was shot at
Gleaner's Food Bank in Indianapolis, Indiana,
which is just one of many food banks working to
solve the problem of world
hunger.
Click on the link below to
watch a video to learn more about the
Plenty to Think About blog and the issue of food
production, rising food prices, and fighting world
hunger.
Click here to watch the video on ag
technology and hunger and for a link to the Plenty
to Think About blog. |
Livestock
Marketing Association Weighs In On USDA Animal ID
Rule
Livestock
Marketing Association (LMA) on Dec. 6 filed its
formal comments on USDA's proposed Animal Disease
Traceability (ADT)
rule.
LMA
President David Macedo notes in the comments that
America's livestock marketing businesses "take
pride in the role they play in protecting the
health" of the nation's livestock, and
consequently, "the financial investment of
hundreds of thousands of livestock operations
selling and buying livestock through our
facilities."
Because
of the millions of cattle and calves, hogs and
pigs and sheep and lambs that go through America's
markets annually, Macedo says these markets have
"long been considered a pivotal point in the
identification and tracking of livestock for
animal disease surveillance and
control."
Click here for a link to all of LMA's
comments on the proposed
rule. |
Ten
Food Trends for 2012
In
a release distributed by ConAgra Foods,
"Supermarket Guru" Phil Lempert notes that 2012
could be a game-changer in the
industry.
"2011 brought us higher food
prices at unprecedented levels, in part because of
crops and livestock being destroyed by global
weather catastrophes," Lempert notes. "We will
continue to see higher prices, but we will also
see all the different ways Americans love their
food-in supermarkets, on television, at
restaurants and now even on their mobile phones.
We are on the verge of what may be one of the most
exciting and game-changing years in the food
world."
The first of the ten trends that
Lempert projects for the food supply chain in 2012
was:
Food prices that keep rising.
Environmental conditions and higher production
costs will goose food prices, spurring the use of
printable grocery coupons, frequent shopper cards
and shopping lists-perhaps generated by a
processor's website featuring specific
recipes.
Click here for the complete list of
food trends in
2012. |
Oklahoma
Wheat Growers Name Jeff Krehbiel of Hydro as Their
Mr. Wheat for 2011
On
Saturday, the Oklahoma Wheat Growers Association
announced that the recipient of their 2011 Mr.
Wheat Award was Jeff Krehbiel of Hydro. Krehbiel
was honored posthumously by the wheat growers for
his outstanding serivice to the wheat industry
before his death of earlier this year.
His
wife, Karen, accepted the award for her late
husband, who lost his protracted battle with
cancer in September. Click here for a picture of Karen
receiving this special honor on behalf of
Jeff- as well as a link to our September email
that we wrote after getting the news that Jeff had
moved on and had graduated from this life and was
busy moving into his mansion in Heaven.
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