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Etc.
We
have a new market
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on a daily basis- each afternoon we are posting a recap
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here for the report posted yesterday afternoon
around 3:30 PM.
Okla
Cash Grain:
Daily
Oklahoma Cash Grain Prices- as reported
by the Oklahoma Dept. of
Agriculture.
Canola
Prices:
Cash
price for canola was $8.31 per bushel- based on
delivery to the Northern AG elevator in Yukon yesterday. The
full listing of cash canola bids at country points in
Oklahoma can now be
found in the daily Oklahoma Cash Grain report- linked
above.
Futures
Wrap:
Our
Daily Market Wrapup from the Radio
Oklahoma Network with Jim Apel and Tom Leffler-
analyzing the Futures Markets from the previous
Day.
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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Tuesday, February 11,
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Howdy
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Here
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and ranch news
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Oklahoma
House Names Jeff Hickman of Fairview as New
Speaker
The
Oklahoma House of Representatives has a new
Speaker. The 72 House Republican caucus
members yesterday selected Jeff
Hickman of Fairview to
replace outgoing Speaker T.W. Shannon. The full
House voted along party lines 69-29 to
confirm Hickman.
"I think it's a great
deal for Oklahoma," says
John
Collison of Oklahoma
Farm Bureau. "Jeff Hickman's been around a long
time from up in northwest Oklahoma. He's
been a massive friend of the Oklahoma Farm Bureau
and we look for that friendship to
continue."
Governor Mary
Fallin applauded
Hickman's selection to the top House
post.
"Jeff Hickman is a dedicated leader
who has earned the respect of his colleagues,"
said Fallin. "I am confident he will be an
effective and hardworking speaker of the House. I
look forward to working with him in his new role
as we continue to pursue commonsense conservative
policies that will help create jobs and eliminate
government waste."
Hickman was elected to
represent House District 58 in 2005. The district
covers Alfalfa, Major, Woods and Woodward Counties in northwest
Oklahoma. He was
born in Alva in 1973 and graduated from Cherokee High School.
He earned a bachelor's degree in journalism from
the University of
Oklahoma in
1996.
Collison said his organization is
excited about the prospect of having another
speaker from rural Oklahoma. He
said representatives of other farm organizations
seem equally pleased with Hickman's
selection.
Click here for more of this story
and to hear more comments from John
Collison.
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Oklahoma
Cotton Farmers Say They Will Plant 8.4% More Acres
in 2014
U.S.
cotton producers intend to plant 11.26 million
acres of cotton this spring, up 8.2 percent from
2013, according to the National Cotton Council's
31st Annual Early Season Planting Intentions
Survey
Upland cotton intentions are 11.04
million acres, up 8.1 percent from 2013, while
extra-long staple (ELS) intentions of 225,000
acres represent an 11.8 percent increase. The
survey results were announced today at the NCC's
2014 Annual Meeting being held in Washington, DC, February
7-9.
In the planting intentions survey,
Oklahoma cotton
farmers showed optimism in the face of another
year without irrigation water coming from Lake
Altus Lugert- as they indicated that they would
plant 201,000 acres in 2014, up 8.4% from the
actual acreage planted in 2013. Texas cotton
acreage is predicted to be 6.508 million acres, up
from 5.8 million acres actually planted in 2013-
that's a gain of 12.2% in potential acreage for
the largest cotton producing state in the
country.
Click here for more of this
story.
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Cold
and Dry January Impacts Oklahoma Winter
Grazing
Derrell
S. Peel,
Oklahoma State University Extension Livestock
Marketing Specialist, writes in the latest
Cow-Calf Newsletter:
After
starting with considerable promise last fall,
winter wheat grazing conditions deteriorated
dramatically in January. Although some areas of
the state did receive snow that carried beneficial
moisture, the majority of the state has received
less than 40 percent of normal precipitation since
the beginning of the year including a large
portion of the central and north-central part of
the state receiving less than 20 percent of normal
precipitation. As a result, dry conditions have
spread from the already dry western region back
into central and eastern areas of the state. The
area of the state with some drought conditions (D0
or higher) increased from less than 50 percent of
the state to over 70 percent of the state on the
latest Drought Monitor map. Expanding drought
conditions is mostly a threat of what can happen
in another 60-90 days if conditions do not
improve.
The biggest immediate threat is
to the winter wheat crop, with grazing all but
exhausted in many areas, especially the region
north of Interstate 40. Grain yields are
threatened now with dry conditions and cold
temperatures increasing the potential for winter
kill.
Click here for more from Derrell
Peel.
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Boehringer
Ingelheim Sponsors BQA Certification for Second
Year
For
the second year in a row, Boehringer Ingelheim Vet
Medical is sponsoring the opportunity for
individuals to get certified in Beef Quality
Assurance. Dave
Korbelik spoke with me
at the recently-completed Cattle Industry
Convention. Korbelik says his company is pleased
to once again help producers pay for their Beef
Quality Assurance certification.
"We're
proud to be the sole animal health partner with
BQA on their national efforts. BQA has such a
strong history, almost three decades of commitment
at the grassroots level and state organizations.
But, it has evolved and now there's technology.
There's an opportunity to go online and have
customized modules. A rancher can go online and
have a customized module designed for ranchers or
a customized model designed for feedlots or
dairies or stocker operators.
Korbelik says
that allows producers to go online anywhere they
are at their convenience and gain their BQA
certification. Normally the cost is $25 for the
online modules, but Korbelik says Boehringer
Ingelhiem is picking up the cost of that training
through April 15th and producers will pay
nothing.
You can click here to read the rest of
this story.
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Export
Estimates Rise for 2013 Record U.S.
Corn Crop
U.S.
Department of Agriculture estimates released today
lowered ending stocks estimates by 150 million
bushels on increased export estimates for the
record 2013 corn crop. This change resulted in an
upward revision of the average farm price by 10
cents per bushel at both ends of the spectrum.
"It is clear that America's farmers
have the ability to produce an abundance to meet
all needs," said National Corn Growers Association
President Martin
Barbre, a farmer from
Carmi, Ill. "Given this
ability, it is imperative that we maximize markets
for this essential national
resource."
Average yield estimates for the
crop are 158.8 bushels per acre while harvest area
estimates are 87.7 million acres. The resulting
yield broke previous records with 13.9 billion
bushels of U.S.
corn produced in
2013.
Click here for more of this story
and a link to the full WASDE
report.
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Ag
in the Classroom Names Teacher of the
Year
What
does the cow say? Third-graders in Kingfisher know
the answer. They also know where their food comes
from, how to eat a healthy lunch and what farmers
do for their community. This is all part of the
fun of being in Lisa
Storm's class at
Heritage Elementary.
Storm has been named
2014 Teacher of the Year for the statewide Ag in
the Classroom program coordinated by the Oklahoma
Dept. of Agriculture, Food and Forestry and the
Oklahoma State Dept. of Education.
Storm
has become such a fan of the online Ag in the
Classroom lesson plans for Smartboards that she
regularly shares her own ideas with other teachers
at annual AITC conferences.Her popular sessions
are usually standing-room only as she shows other
educators how to communicate basic agricultural
knowledge.
You
can read the rest of this story on our website by
clicking
here.
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This
n That- Johnston Letter
to Customers, Lucas on Open Mic and Pacelle Gets a
Dose of Reality
Joey
Meibergen
with Johnston Enterprises has sent an open letter
to customers of W.B. Johnston Grain with
assurances that services they have come to expect
from the company will continue- and only get
better as a result of an acquisition in the works
between Johnston and CBG Enterprises for the Grain
Company part of their business.
Meibergen
says that in CGB Enterprises, W. B. Johnston
believes they have found a company that lines up
with the philosophy of the Miebergen family "when
it comes to our focus on customer success,
employee success and growth goals going
forward."
Click
Here to
read more from the Meibergen
family- including the complete letter sent at the
end of this past week.
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Our
friend and colleague (and native Okie)
Ken
Root talked with the
Chairman of the House Ag Committee, Congressman
Frank
Lucas for this week's
Open Mic feature as heard on the website
Agri-Pulse. The interview offers more details of
several provisions of the bill plus implementation
and potential government exposure if commodity
prices fall. Chairman Lucas also responds to news
media mockery of the bill over obscure provisions
and discusses his political future in Oklahoma after
compromising on several key provisions to gain
passage of the bill.
You
can hear Ken's conversation with the Roger Mills County
rancher by clicking here.
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Wisconsin
Dairy Farmer/Blogger Dairy
Carrie has responded to
Wayne
Pacelle of the HSUS who
recently wrote an open letter of his own
complaining about those who contend that HSUS is
not white as the driven snow regarding their
intentions about caring for animals first and
foremost- and are concerned about HSUS driving
their agenda down the throats of every citizen in
this country.
Carrie
Mess basically offers a rebuttal in her blog that
has over 13,000 followers and is widely read by
rural and urban folks.
She
didn't try to respond to the full letter that
Pacelle released- but here are a couple of
highlights that I enjoyed-
"It's
quite obvious that you don't care for
Rick
Berman and Humane
Watch. If I was in your current position after
years of being fast and loose with the facts and I
suddenly had a group calling my organization out,
I wouldn't like them much either. I find it funny
that you call out Rick Berman for being a lobbyist
when HSUS spends millions on lobbying each
year."
Dairy
Carrie goes on and talks about the fund raising
efforts of the HSUS- saying "commercials you use
to solicit donations show dogs and cats being
rescued from horrible situations. You seem to
think that's alright because you feel certain that
the people who give your organization money to
save the puppies and kitties also want to end the
use of lead bullets and whaling. Maybe they do,
but it's pretty presumptuous to guess that the
little old lady who loves her cats and wants to
help other cats also wants to change how farmers
raise their pigs. You know what they say about
people who assume... Your organization has 41% of
it's budget devoted to fundraising, Almost half of
the money you take in is used to ask for more
money!"
Well-
you get the idea- to read her full posting dated
yesterday- click
here.
It's
worth your
time!
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