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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.
We
have a new market feature on a daily basis-
each afternoon we are posting a recap of that day's
markets as analyzed by Justin Lewis of KIS
Futures- and Jim Apel reports
on the next day's opening electronic futures trade- click
here for the report posted yesterday afternoon
around 5:30 PM.
Okla
Cash Grain:
Daily
Oklahoma Cash Grain Prices- as reported
by the Oklahoma Dept. of Agriculture.
Canola
Prices:
Cash price for canola was
$10.98 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 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, March 27,
2013 |
Howdy
Neighbors!
Here is your daily Oklahoma farm and ranch
news update.
-- Horse
Processing Bill Passes State Senate, Farm
Bureau's Collison Expects Governor Fallin to Sign
the Bill (Jump to
Story)
-- Activists
Thank Outgoing USDA Deputy Secretary Kathleen
Merrigan (Jump to
Story)
-- DuPont and
Monsanto Reach Technology Licensing Agreements on
Next-Generation Soybean Technologies (Jump to Story)
-- USDA Announces No
Marketing Quota for 2014 Wheat Crop
(Jump to Story)
-- COOL Itself is Not
Ruled Illegal by WTO, But Finds Label Wording
Problematic (Jump to Story)
-- Seeing is
Believing: Answer Plot Knowledge Events Offer
Insight into Canola and Wheat (Jump to Story)
-- This N That- Wheat
Freezing Blogging, Big Iron and
OYE Oversight- Thanks Mom! (Jump to Story)
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Featured Story:
Horse
Processing Bill Passes State Senate, Farm
Bureau's John Collison Expects the Governor to
Sign the Bill
Legislation
to allow for horse processing facilities in
Oklahoma passed the Oklahoma Senate yesterday
following a lengthy battle between livestock
producers and animal activists. HB 1999, sponsored
by Sen. Eddie Fields and Rep.
Skye McNiel, received 32 yes
votes and only 14 no votes in the Senate chamber.
"I
am very pleased with the support of my colleagues
in the Oklahoma Senate," McNiel said. "I
have said repeatedly that when all the facts
regarding this issue are on the table and our
lawmakers are educated on this issue, they will
find that this bill is a much more humane way to
treat these animals, to manage the population and
to control the neglect that we are seeing when
irresponsible owners decide they can no longer
take care of their horses." (Click here to read more from
McNiel.)
John
Collison, Vice President for Governmental
Affairs at Oklahoma Farm Bureau, is confident
that Governor Mary
Fallin will sign the bill into
law. We talked with Collison on
Tuesday afternoon at the State Capitol- and you
can hear our conversation and read more by clicking here.
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Sponsor
Spotlight
Midwest
Farm Shows is our
longest running sponsor of the daily farm and
ranch email- The attention
now turns to next
month's Southern
Plains Farm
Show in
Oklahoma City. The
dates are April 18-20, 2013. Click here for the Southern Plains
Farm Show website for more
details about this tremendous farm show at the
Oklahoma City Fairgrounds. AND- We do want
to make our annual request for anyone that has a
horse that has some attitude problems or needs
some gentle horse training- give me a
call at 405-841-3675 and leave me details about
your horse- we will consider your horse to be one
to be trained in the sessions with Scott Daily
free of charge at the 2013 Southern Plains Farm
Show. You will need to be able to get your horse
to the State Fair Grounds in OKC on those
dates.
We
are proud to have P & K
Equipment as one of our regular sponsors
of our daily email update. P & K is Oklahoma's
largest John Deere Dealer, with ten locations to
serve you. P&K is also proud to announce
the addition of 6 locations in Iowa, allowing
access to additional resources and inventory to
better serve our customers. Click here for the P&K
website- to learn about the location nearest
you and the many products they offer the farm and
ranch community.
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Activists
Thank Outgoing USDA Deputy Secretary Kathleen
Merrigan
More
than 100 environmentalists, activists, CEOs,
actors, chefs, pediatricians, authors, and public
interest groups sent a heartfelt letter to
Kathleen Merrigan, who is
resigning as deputy secretary of the U.S.
Department of Agriculture, to thank her for her
extraordinary service at the agency over the past
four years.
Signers include actresses
Marisa Tomei and Kristin
Bauer, chef Alice
Waters, author Laurie
David, Whole Foods CEO Walter
Robb, Annie's CEO John
Foraker, The Honest Company founder
Christopher Gavigan, Organic
Valley CEO George Siemon and
Environmental Working Group president Ken
Cook.
"You have been a voice for
millions, not only as a courageous advocate for
local food production and its marketing but also
for organic food and for farmers," the letter
states. "In light of the challenges facing the
health of our country and food system today, the
value of your work cannot be emphasized enough.
From improving school meals, expanding
opportunities for American farmers and managing
USDA budgets through challenging economic times,
your work has touched so many lives."
You
can read more by clicking here.
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DuPont
and Monsanto Reach Technology Licensing Agreements
on Next-Generation Soybean
Technologies
DuPont
and Monsanto announced a series of technology
licensing agreements that will expand the range of
seed products they can offer farmers. The
agreements include a multi-year, royalty-bearing
license for Monsanto's next-generation soybean
technologies in the United States and Canada.
Through these agreements, DuPont Pioneer
will be able to offer Genuity® Roundup Ready 2
Yield® soybeans as early as 2014, and Genuity®
Roundup Ready 2 Xtend™ glyphosate and dicamba
tolerant soybeans as early as 2015, pending
regulatory approvals.
DuPont Pioneer also
will receive regulatory data rights for the
soybean and corn traits previously licensed from
Monsanto, enabling it to create a wide array of
stacked trait combinations using traits or
genetics from DuPont Pioneer or others. Monsanto
will receive access to certain DuPont Pioneer
disease resistance and corn defoliation patents.
DuPont and Monsanto also agreed to dismiss
their respective antitrust and first-generation
Roundup Ready® soybean patent lawsuits pending in
U.S. federal court in St. Louis.
Click here to read
more.
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USDA
Announces No Marketing Quota for 2014 Wheat
Crop
The
U.S. Department of Agriculture announced that no
marketing quota will be in effect for the 2014
wheat crop, a declaration required by current
circumstances.
The Food, Conservation, and
Energy Act of 2008 authorized commodity crop
programs for the 2008 through 2012 crop years with
the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 providing
a one-year temporary extension for the 2013 crop
year. Unless superseded by new farm legislation,
any actions taken by USDA pertaining to the 2014
wheat crop must be done in accordance with the
Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended
(the 1938 Act), and the Agricultural Act of 1949,
as amended. Those laws require, under certain
market conditions, the imposition of quotas,
acreage allotments, marketing certificates and
parity price support programs for
wheat.
Therefore, if a new farm bill is not
written or the current law extended, the 1938 Act
calls for a marketing quota for the 2014 wheat
crop if the total supply of the crop is likely
excessive without the quota, and requires the
Secretary to decide not later than April 15, 2013,
whether to impose it. Based on USDA projected
supply and demand for the 2014 growing season, no
quota is required.
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COOL
Itself is Not Ruled Illegal by WTO, But Finds
Label Wording Problematic
Daryll
E. Ray, director of the University of
Tennessee's Agricultural Policy Analysis Center,
writes in the latest Policy Pennings
Newsletter:
On Friday, March 8, 2013,
the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
issued a new rule to bring the mandatory Country
of Origin Labeling (COOL) regulations into
compliance with the July 2012 decision of the
World Trade Organization (WTO) Appellate Body
(AB). The US first included COOL requirements in
the 2002 Farm Bill though no regulations were
issued for beef, pork, lamb, and a number of other
agricultural products until after COOL was again
included in the 2008 Farm Bill along with a firm
date for issuing the implementing
regulations-September 30, 2008.
The
administration complied on August 1, 2008 by
issuing rules implementing COOL, though in a way
that left loopholes large enough to drive a train
through it. As we will see it, in part, the
loopholes put into place by an administration that
consistently resisted COOL that, in part, provided
the basis, in a case filed by Canada and joined by
others, for the World Trade Organization's
Appellate Body to rule that the COOL regulations
violated US trade obligations under parts of the
WTO's Technical Barriers to Trade Agreement
(TBT).
According
to the Appellate Body, the issue under examination
is not whether the COOL law and its implementing
regulations "have a detrimental impact on imports"
but whether or not the measure "'stems exclusively
from a regulatory distinction rather than
reflecting discrimination against the group of
imported products.'"
Click here to read more of Daryll
Rays's analysis of the COOL
ruling.
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Seeing
is Believing: Answer Plot Knowledge Events Offer
Insight into Canola and
Wheat
The next Canola and Wheat
Answer Plot Knowledge Events will be held April
2nd in Apache and April 3rd in Kingfisher. Both
events start at 9:30 a.m. The Apache plot is
located one mile north of the Apache Livestock
Sale Barn on the west side of N2590 Road, and the
Kingfisher plot is on the north side of the
fairgrounds. Each Canola and Wheat Answer Plot
Knowledge Event lasts approximately two hours with
opportunities to get questions answered and gather
new ideas.
Canola and Wheat Answer Plot
Knowledge Events are full agronomic tours in a
four-acre outdoor classroom that allow for
hands-on learning opportunities with the newest
genetics and best agronomic practices,
demonstrating the best available options for
maximizing yield potential in the area.
At
the events, experts in agronomy will be available
to meet with you to answer questions about the
technology on display, as well as address your
unique field challenges. Lunch will be provided.
For more information please contact John Stotts at
405-826-8603 or Justin Stejskal at
405-747-4415.
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This
N That- Wheat Freezing Blogging, Big Iron and OYE
Correction- Addition
Predicting
freeze damage is not an exact science- but Dr.
Jeff Edwards has posted on his
wheat blog some of what may have happened to us on
Mondy and Tuesday mornings when temperatures got
downright cold. Jeff tells us "it remains to be
seen whether or not we actually have widespread
wheat freeze injury in the 2013 wheat crop.
My best guess is that we will have some
injury and might lose our primary tillers in more
advanced fields."
You
can read Jeff's full post by clicking here- he even has
pictures.
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It's
Big Iron sale day- and this week
they have a total of 488 iems- click here to jump over to their
web page and you can go looking for the items you
need for your operation- the first items start
closing at 10 AM central time on this online no
reserve auction.
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Finally-
we missed one of the hog breed champs in our list
of Barrows at the 2013 Oklahoma Youth
Expo- and a very sweet Mom called us and
pointed out our oversight- so click here and you will see the
full and complete list of Breed Champs as a part
of our wrap up story on the Market Barrow
competition for the "World's Largest Junior
Livestock Show."
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God Bless!
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