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Oklahoma's
Latest Farm and Ranch News
Your
Update from Ron Hays of RON
Friday, March 8,
2013 |
Howdy
Neighbors!
Here is your daily Oklahoma farm and ranch
news update.
-- OALP Class Hears from HSUS in D.C.;
Class Member Chris Hitch Speaks His Mind ( Jump to Story)
-- Consumers Define Quality When it
Comes to Making Beef Purchasing Decisions ( Jump to Story)
-- Ed Crall Honored for Sugar Creek
Restoration Work
-- FSA Reminds Producers of Important
March 15 Deadline for 2013 NAP Coverage ( Jump to Story)
-- Bill Gates, Carlos Slim and Mexican
Dignitaries Get Demo of OSU's Greenseeker at New
Mexican Bioscience Facility ( Jump to Story)
-- David Anderson Asks- Who is Gonna
Rebuild Those Mama Cow Herds? ( Jump to Story)
-- This N That- In the Field, USDA Numbers,
Hall Coyote and Jampacked Week Ahead ( Jump to
Story)
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Featured Story:
OALP
Class Hears from HSUS in D.C.; Class Member Chris
Hitch Speaks His Mind
Class
16 of the Oklahoma Agricultural Leadership Program
is visiting Washington, D.C. this week. I spoke
with class member Chris Hitch, a
beef and pork producer from Guymon, after the
group heard from Paul Shapiro, vice president of
farm animal protection with the Humane Society of
the United States. I asked Hitch about his
reaction to Shapiro's presentation given HSUS's
dislike for animal agriculture.
"Well, Mr.
Shapiro is a pretty polished guy. He shows up in a
nice suit and everything and talks very
professionally. He's very astute and the way he
words everything is very, very specific. He
doesn't lie, but I don't think he really tells the
truth," Hitch said.
"To give you an idea,
Paul is a vegan and formed a radical group back in
high school which is still active today. Their one
and only goal is the complete abolition of all
animal agriculture and promoting a vegan
lifestyle. So, that's just background. That's
where he comes from.
"I call him a liar.
Basically, they claim, they being HSUS, that they
don't really want to abolish animal agriculture.
They just want it... 'We take everything from
these animals so we might as well give them the
best life they can have while they're alive.' But,
when you get right down to what they're asking us
to do a lot of times it is, basically, cost
prohibitive, production prohibitive to do what
they're asking.
"And we asked him, 'Is
there anything we can do to get you off our back?'
And he say, 'Well, society's values change over
time, so our values are going to change over
time.' So, the answer is 'No.' It's a moving
target."
Click here to read for more from
Chris Hitch, or to listen to our extended
conversation.
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Consumers
Define Quality When it Comes to Making Beef
Purchasing
Decisions
It
doesn't really matter how cattlemen define quality
says Texas A&M University Meat Science
Professor Jeff Savell. What
matters, he says, is how beef consumers define it,
enjoy it, and come back to purchase
more.
"We always talk about palatability
being flavor, juiciness and tenderness. I've spent
my whole career in the tenderness area looking at
how we can increase tenderness, but sometimes we
forget that flavor is that big driver, too.
In fact, the 2011 Beef Quality Audit found
that flavor is the number one driver of quality
since most beef is tender, but marbling plays a
key role.
"Without question, marbling
plays a great role in both tenderness and
flavor... It's a pretty good proxy for delivering
good eating satisfaction and things like that,
especially as we go across major grades. You start
going from the high end, prime, down to top
choice, low choice and select and down even to the
standard grade."
You
can read more or see the video version of this
story on our website by clicking
here.
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Ed
Crall Honored for Sugar Creek Restoration
Work
Ed
Crall, Caddo County Conservation District
Project Coordinator has been honored by the
Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) for
his contributions in restoring the Sugar Creek
Watershed. John Mueller, Acting
State Conservationist for NRCS made the
presentation to Crall at the recent Oklahoma
Association of Conservation Districts' 75th Annual
Meeting in Oklahoma City. Mueller said, "Ed Crall
is being honored for "Standing in the Gap." The
Standing in the Gap Award is given annually to a
person who has bridged the gap between NRCS,
Landowners, and Conservation Districts, and has
made significant conservation progress through
hard work and innovation.
Mueller also
said, "The Sugar Creek Watershed restoration is a
Cooperative Conservation Partnership Initiative
(CCPI Project). Mr. Crall has worked hard to
secure funding from the NRCS national office to
support the priorities of the Conservation
District and help farmers and ranchers address
critical erosion concerns adjacent to the stream.
Over $1.5 million dollars of restoration work has
taken place in the Sugar Creek Watershed." His
work has resulted in the Oklahoma Conservation
Commission and NRCS being able to effectively
supplement the initial efforts of the Federal
Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
Click here to read
more.
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FSA
Reminds Producers of Important March 15 Deadline
for 2013 NAP Coverage
Francie
Tolle, executive director of USDA's Farm
Service Agency (FSA) in Oklahoma would like to
remind producers that they have until Friday,
March 15, 2013 to sign-up for the 2013 Non-insured
Assistance Program (NAP) coverage for spring and
summer planted crops. This deadline applies to
warm season grasses intended for grazing as well
as spring and summer planted crops such as: forage
sorghum, peas, soybeans, sunflowers, pumpkins,
melons and all other spring and summer planted
specialty crops grown for food or fiber where they
are not insurable.
NAP covers losses
caused by damaging weather conditions. Producers
receive a payment when the loss is in excess of 50
percent. Losses are generally determined by the
percentage of loss compared to the producer's
Actual Production History (APH). Eligible
production losses are paid at 55 percent of the
established value for the crop.
You
can read more by clicking
here.
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Bill
Gates, Carlos Slim and Mexican Dignitaries Get
Demo of OSU's Greenseeker at New Mexican
Bioscience Facility
The
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center
inaugurated a new $25 million research complex at
its headquarters in El Batan, Mexico. The new
advanced bioscience research facilities, 45
kilometers (20 miles) from Mexico City, marked its
grand opening to a crowd of more than 100 invited
guests.
The event was attended by Bill
Gates, Carlos Slim, Lic. Enrique Martínez y
Martínez, Mexican Secretary of Agriculture and
leader of the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock,
Rural Development, Fisheries and Food (SAGARPA),
and Dr. Eruviel Ávila Villegas, Governor of the
State of Mexico.
Gates and the other
attendees watched a demonstration of the new
GreenSeeker handheld crop sensor that was
developed at OSU and is now marketed by
Trimble.
Click here to read the rest of
this
story.
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David
Anderson Asks- Who is Gonna Rebuild Those Mama Cow
Herds?
David
Anderson of Texas AgriLife believes the
day is coming when the question of who will step
up and start holding back heifers- adding to the
US Beef Cow Herd- will become relevant. It's not a
matter of If but rather of When.
Anderson
says everyone understands that while the drought
has drastically cut into the beef cow herd numbers
in both Oklahoma and Texas- at some point the
drought will end- grass will be growing again- and
at point- the question becomes- who will rebuild
the Mama Cow herds in these two states that have
traditionally been the two largest beef cow states
in the US?
He says some of the older
producers who have gotten out because of the
drought will likely not be back- but the market
will provide an incentive for cattle producers who
want to step up and add to their beef cow
herds.
You'll
find more of this story on our website. Click here to go
there.
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This
N That- In the Field, USDA Numbers, Hall Coyote
and Jampacked Week Ahead
Newcastle
Ag Education teacher Brandon
Morgan is going to join us "In the Field"
this Saturday morning on News9, KWTV in Oklahoma
City- he helps us paint a preview picture for the
2013 Oklahoma Youth Expo- the OYE kicks off next
weekend and it is shaping up to be a dandy! Click here for the OYE website to
check out the latest info just ahead of the
animals and young people arriving in Oklahoma
City.
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Uncle
Sam releases the latest Crop Production
and World Agricultural Supply and Demand
Estimates from USDA at 11:00 AM central
time this morning- DTN says in a thumbnail preview
that "creative accounting it takes to keep
domestic corn and soybean ending stocks and ending
stocks to use aboce certain levels. Globally, it
is all about South American production
estimates."
We
will have details of the report (and reaction)
middle of the day on our website- click over to our front page to
check it out.
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The
Hall-Coyote Hills Ranch, Mostly
Black Black, All Polled Bull Sale happens
tomorrow- Saturday, March 9, 2013 at the ranch,
Chattanooga, Oklahoma.
Selling
96 Black ~ 1 Red ~ All Polled Limousin &
Lim-Flex Cattle
7 Fall Yearling
Purebred Bulls. Lots 1-7 66 Fall Yearling
Lim-Flex & Percentage Bulls. Lots 8-72 24 Y
earling Lim-Flex & Percentage Bulls. Lots
73-97 84 Homo Black * 75 Homo Polled * 66
Double Homo 5% discount with purchase of five
or more bulls; 10% on 10 or more bulls
For
more information, click here and jump over to where
you will find the full sale catalog with details
of this high quality
offering. **********
If you go
to our Calendar page at
OklahomaFarmReport- click here to do just exactly
that- you will see a lot of events are going on
over the next seven days or so- that includes
today's Superior Video Auction, tomorrow's P&K
Drive Green Challenge, next Thursday's Texoma
Cattleman's Conference and next Friday's Oklahoma
Pork Congress and Oklahoma Peanut Expo. I'm
thinking I'm gonna need two or three tanks of gas
before next week is done!
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