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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
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from Ron Hays on RON.
Let's Check
the Markets!
Today's First
Look:
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- click here for the report
posted yesterday afternoon around 3:30 PM.
Okla
Cash Grain:
Canola
Prices:
Cash
price for canola was $5.00 per bushel- based on
delivery to the Hillsdale elevator 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:
Feeder
Cattle Recap:
Slaughter
Cattle Recap:
TCFA
Feedlot Recap:
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Featured
Story:
AG
Pruitt Endorses Bush, Says He Would Start to Undo
WOTUS Day One in the White
House
Oklahoma
Attorney General Scott Pruitt has
announced his endorsement for Governor Jeb
Bush in his quest to become the GOP
nominee for the Presidency of the United States.
Pruitt said they found common ground over
federalism and the need to give power back to the
states. This has become a core message for the
Bush Campaign, in desiring a balanced relationship
between the federal and state governments, a need
to make sure Washington is not the center of the
universe and is not so consequential in our
day-to-day lives. In receiving his
endorsement, Pruitt has also gained a leadership
role in the Bush campaign. Pruitt has been
appointed to lead an effort nationally in
restoring a proper balance between the federal and
state governments. Pruitt will likely recruit
other Republican attorney generals to join the
coalition. Pruitt said Bush is committed to
disempowering Washington D.C. and giving power
away. Pruitt said Bush has recognized the federal
government needs to be more limited in the power
and reach of the office and respect the role of
the states. Over the last six years,
Pruitt and other AG's have fought the Obama
Administration over government overreach through
healthcare, banking, energy, immigration and
property rights. Many states are suing the federal
government over the Environmental
Protection Agency's 'Waters of the U.S.'
regulation. An injunction has been entered for 13
states that are involved in a lawsuit in North
Dakota, while the other 37 states, including
Oklahoma, remain in uncertainty, as the regulation
is implemented. With coalitions of states filing
litigation, Pruitt said those actions will likely
be consolidated in a proceeding in Washington D.C.
At that hearing, he said they will ask the judge
to extend the North Dakota order to stop the
enforcement of the rule, while the case is
pending. Pruitt said WOTUS is the most egregious
and most far reaching rule ever to come from
EPA. "It literally submits
decision-making that we have in respect to how we
use our own land, to a first stop at the EPA, as
far as getting permit authority to our own land,"
Pruitt said. "It is quite breath taking the impact
it will have on our economy and on our use of
private property, and so we've got to fight this,
preferably we will get an injunction to prevent
the implementation of it, because we need it as a
country." Pruitt is hopeful the WOTUS
litigation will continue through the remainder of
the Obama term. He said then we can get a
President Bush in office, that will undo the rule.
In by-passing Congress through executive order,
Pruitt said the next President can reverse the
actions just as quickly. I talked
with AG Scott Pruitt yesterday afternoon. Click or tap here to
listen to the full interview.
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September
30th Means Deadline Day for Crop Insurance, Farm
Program Signup and More
In
case You Missed It- This past weekend,
Scott Bulling with Superior Crop
Insurance joined me for my In the Field segment as
seen on KWTV, News9 on Saturday morning. Bulling
talked with us about the signup deadline of
September 30th for winter wheat crop
insurance. Click here to jump
over to our ICYMI story that includes the video
conversation that we had with Scott- as well as
the off camera audio visit as well- we remind one
and all that you have to sign up for
winter wheat crop insurance by close of business
today. ********* It's also
deadline day to sign your enrollment contract for
the federal farm safety net that comes out of the
2014 Farm Law. Our friend Chris
Clayton with DTN penned a good blog on
that subject a few days back- you may want to skip
over there to read it- available here.
********* A couple of events
coming up have deadlines today as well. The Early
Bird Discount for No TIll on the
Plains Winter Conference ends today-
details on that available on their
website. The event is not til next January-
but they are offering substantial savings if you
sign up today. And- the American
Angus folks have a really good looking
Boot Camp planned in mid October on the campus of
Oklahoma State University- you cannot register on
site or, for that matter, at all after today- so
click here for those
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Poll
Shows Broad Support for Endangered Species Act
Reform
Most
Americans think the Endangered Species
Act is outdated and needs to be revised,
a survey by Morning Consult
shows. The poll conducted in early August adds
impetus to congressional efforts to overhaul the
increasingly outdated 1970s-era
statute. The survey
shows: -- 63 percent of Americans
support modernizing the ESA; -- 62 of
Americans believe the act should help with species
recovery, as opposed to merely cataloguing changes
in their populations; -- 69 percent of
Americans want the federal government to offer
resources to third parties to help species
recovery; and -- 49 percent of
Americans believe that state or local authorities,
rather than the federal government, lead in
recovery of endangered and threatened species.
Only 31 percent of Americans favor the federal
government taking the lead. "The intent
of the Endangered Species Act is inspiring, but
results have been less so," American Farm
Bureau President Bob Stallman said.
"Farmers, ranchers and environmentalists agree
that we must save wildlife facing preventable
extinction, but the current recovery rate of less
than 2 percent shows the law is a failure."
Click here to read
more about the statistical summary of
the poll. |
Champions of Agriculture
and Distinguished Alumni Selected
by OSU
Oklahoma
State University's Division of Agricultural
Sciences and Natural Resources recently selected
the 2015 DASNR Champions and Distinguished
Alumni.
The
word champion is synonymous with someone going
above and beyond the call of duty to succeed,
often on someone else's behalf or in support of a
cause. The purpose of the awards program is
to recognize and honor those who are not graduates
of the College of Agricultural Sciences and
Natural Resources but who bring distinction to
DASNR and have demonstrated a continuing interest
and commitment in agricultural sciences and
natural resources. This year's DASNR
Champions are Linda Cline,
Rita Sparks and John
Williams. Click here to read
more.
The
DASNR also recently selected its 2015
Distinguished Alumni. This year's recipients are
Minnie Lou Bradley, James
Kennamer and Robert
Westerman. "While we have an
extremely supportive and accomplished alumni base,
Minnie Lou, James and Robert stand apart as
exceptional achievers and leaders," said Tom Coon,
vice president, dean and director of the Division
of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources.
"Their professional success and continued support
of the division is a testament of the
relationships that are founded and built on the
campus of Oklahoma State University." Click here to read
more about this year's recipients.
Both
the "Champions" as well as the Distinguished Ag
Alumni will be recognized during an
inaugural DASNR Honors night, Oct. 16 at the Wes
Watkins Center in Stillwater.
One
personal note- I am grateful that I was
in the first "class" of DASNR Champions in 2011-
and most certainly say congrats to all six of
these remarkable folks- the stars will be shining
brightly (a bright shade of orange no doubt)
October 16th in
Stillwater.
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Op-Ed:
We Must Trust Farmers and
Ranchers
Op-Ed
Written By: U.S. Senator James
Lankford"It's always
surprising to me how often bureaucrats in
Washington, DC, who spend most of their life on
concrete, want to control everyday Americans
thousands of miles away who spend most of their
life on dirt. They think they know better than
hard-working Americans, and nowhere is this
philosophy more evident than in the agricultural
industry. "Over the last few years,
federal government overreach has reached new
highs. The Environmental Protection
Agency's (EPA) Waters of the U.S. rule is
a perfect example. With this proposal, puddles and
potholes could be subject to regulation under the
Clean Water Act, whether they be on private or
public land. This new EPA action is not a result
of a new law or act of Congress, this is simply
the President "reinterpreting" a decades old law
in a way that no president ever has
before. "We all want clean drinking
water, but this unprecedented attempt to gain even
more federal power will burden farmers, ranchers,
businesses, private property owners, and state and
local governments. Virtually every river, stream,
and creek in the nation could be under the
regulation of the Clean Water Act if the EPA gets
away with this power grab. As we all know well in
Oklahoma, if you control the water, you control
the economy. In the past two months, we have cut
the funding from EPA to implement the Waters of
the U.S. proposal and a wide variety of effective
private lawsuits have been filed against the
out-of-control EPA. I have also personally talked
with the Administrator of the EPA about the Waters
of the U.S. rule and scheduled multiple hearings
to determine where the EPA perceives they have the
authority to change this rule." Click here to read
more from Senator Lankford.
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USDA
Handing Out $20 Million to Help Small Business in
Rural America
U.S.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack Tuesday
awarded nearly $20 million through 385 grants to
help support the start-up or expansion of rural
small businesses. "These grants will
strengthen the economic fabric of our rural small
towns and communities by providing capital to
small and emerging businesses," Vilsack said today
during a visit to the Pine Ridge Indian
Reservation. USDA is awarding the
grants through the Rural
Business Development Grant (RBDG)
program. Recipients may use the funds to
provide technical assistance, training and
job-creation activities. A total of 5
grants are being offered to Oklahoma entities-
including the City of Heavener, Eastern Oklahoma
State College and the Choctaw Nation.
$406,000 is being dished out in these Oklahoma
grants. Click here for the
complete list of grants nationally. The
complete USDA release is available here.
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We
posted the final commentary for Oklahoma Farm
Bureau's radio guy Sam Knipp
yesterday- as he explained to his listeners that
after doing radio reports about Farm Bureau in
Oklahoma for the past 19 years- he is hanging it
up. Sam says that he has done 988
Focus on Agriculture programs over these past 19
years. He thanks Oklahoma Farm Bureau for
the chance to advocate for agriculture over these
many years. You can click here to take a
listen. In visiting with Sam yesterday
in his office on the third floor of the State Farm
Bureau building across the street from the State
Capitol- we relived days gone by- and the fact we
were both doing farm radio in the 1970s in Kansas-
I was at KFH Radio in Wichita and he starting out
at the radio station in Pratt, Kansas. Sam
is one of the good ones. I wish him well as
he takes care of that list of "To Do" items that
have piled up while he has been busy covering
agricultural events and activities.
********** Express
Ranches is getting ready for their 2015
edition of their fall Ranchers Bull Sale- set for
next Monday, October 5th. With 300 Bulls
headlining a great sale lineup- Express Ranch
Owner Bob Funk and His President
Jarold Callahan offer this
invite- "We, at Express Ranches, are excited about
the future of the cattle business and are proud to
present you with this big, stout set of
predictable Angus and Hereford bulls. At Express
Ranches, our objectives are to produce
high-performance, problem-free cattle that have
moderate birth weights with superior growth and
excel in Marbling and Ribeye." Read more-
and more importantly- learn more about the Bull
Sale lineup by clicking
here.**********
It's Wednesday- and that means the
Big Iron folks will be busy
closing out this week's auction items -
all 659 items consigned. Bidding will
start at 10 AM central
time.
Click Here for the complete
rundown of what is being sold on this no reserve
online sale this week.
If you'd like more information on buying and
selling with Big Iron, call District Manager
Mike Wolfe at 580-320-2718 and he
can give you the full scoop. You can also
reach Mike via email by clicking or tapping
here.
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