~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Oklahoma's latest farm and ranch news
Your Update from Ron Hays of RON for Tuesday August 12,
2008! A
service of American Farmers & Ranchers, Johnston Enterprises and
National Livestock Credit!
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-- USDA Releases Crop Production Report Details This Morning.
-- Sugar Creek and Cobb Creek Watersheds Gets Multi Million Dollar
Infusion for Infrastructure Repair.
-- Latest Oklahoma Crop Weather Update Describes Break From Hot and
Dry Conditions.
-- Latest Crop Conditions Crop by Crop Suggests a Corn Crop a Little
Later Than Norm- But in Better Shape Than in 2007.
-- The Input Cost For that Extra Cow or More May be TOO High- Bob
Woods.
-- Permanent Disaster Program Deadline Just a Month Away
-- Calendar Remains Busy
-- Looking at our Agricultural Markets...
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USDA Releases Crop Production Report Details This Morning. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ It's one of
the most important crop production reports of the year- and the 2008
August Crop Production Report from USDA is not exception. Prereport
guesses, according to Tom Leffler of Leffler Commodities is the
expectation that we could see an increase in the corn crop for 2008 to
11.94 billion bushels. Average prereport guess on the expected yield is
152.3 bushels per acre. For the soybeans- the guesses ahead of the report
suggest little change in the anticipated size of the crop compared to one
month ago- and that is for a three billion bushel crop.
Here in the cotton belt, traders will also digest the predicted size of the 2008 cotton crop- guesses ahead of the report average 14.04 million bales, slightly above the 14.0 million bale crop estimated earlier. Within the supply-demand numbers- analysts believe that USDA will up the size of cotton exports from 14.00 million bales that had been predicted in the July data to 14.52 million bales this month. At our link below- you will see what we call our "Top Story." In advance of the report- it's a preview of the crop numbers with some audio comments from Tom Leffler of Leffler Commodities. ONCE the report is issued, we will have some of the most pertinent crop production and supply demand numbers for Oklahoma- and will have commentary as well from Leffler and others as this is digested by the trade. Click here for the Top Story of this Tuesday from OklahomaFarmReport.Com | |
Sugar Creek and Cobb Creek Watersheds Gets Multi Million Dollar Infusion for Infrastructure Repair. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ It takes
really creative accounting to take three million dollars and turn it into
$25 million- but with multiple matches of state funds, it appears that
will be the amount that could end up going to the Sugar Creek and Cobb
Creek watersheds for repairs needed from the floods of this past year.
State conservation leaders today unveiled the first projects resulting from the Conservation Bond passed in the closing week of the 2008 legislative session. The Conservation Commission has committed $3 million dollars from the $25 million bond to match Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) funds to repair flood damage to the conservation infrastructure in the Sugar Creek Watershed in the county and to match United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) dollars for a Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP) initiative in the Sugar Creek Watershed and the Cobb Creek Watersheds. The Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP) is a U.S.
Department of Agriculture (USDA) that encourages the establishment of
vegetative buffers in watersheds to reduce sedimentation, stabilize stream
banks and improve water quality. Funds committed by a state for this
program are matched 4 to 1 by the Federal Government. In addition to this
match, FEMA will match state funds at a rate of 75% to 25%. Taken together
the FEMA and CREP projects may bring over $25 million worth of
conservation work to Caddo County. | |
Latest Oklahoma Crop Weather Update Describes Break From Hot and Dry Conditions. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The latest
Oklahoma Crop Weather Update reports "Parts of Oklahoma received some
relief from hot, dry weather when a cold front moved across the State
bringing rain and cloudy skies. The average rainfall received last week
was 1.01 inches."
Checking our row crops- "In many areas, row crops received a break from the hot, dry weather during the end of last week. Corn silking continued to wind down at 94 percent, an increase of four percentage points from the week earlier but still four points behind normal. Seventy-nine percent of the State's corn had reached the dough stage, up 12 points from the previous week and two points ahead of the five-year average. Twenty-two percent of the corn had reached maturity by week's end. Most row crop conditions were in the good to fair range, with the exception of sorghum. Sorghum emerged was at 90 percent, up four points from the previous week but 10 points behind normal. Thirty-seven percent of the State's sorghum had headed, an increase of seven points from the previous week. Sorghum coloring was at 19 percent by week's end, up six points from the previous week but two points behind normal. A small percentage of the State's sorghum had reached maturity. Soybeans blooming were at 63 percent, an increase of two points from the previous week but eight points behind the five-year average. One-third of the State's soybeans were setting pods, an increase of 13 points from the previous week but 15 points behind normal. Peanuts pegging increased two points from the previous week to reach 94 percent, four points behind the five-year average. Peanuts setting pods were at 63 percent, 18 points behind normal. Cotton squaring increased 15 points to reach 94 percent, equal to the five-year average. Half of the State's cotton acreage was setting bolls, 17 points behind normal." Pasture and grasses, in areas that received rainfall, quickly showed signs of improvement. Pasture and range conditions remained mostly in the good to fair range. According to the report- 67% of the state's pasture and range is rated in fair to good condition. 26% of our pasture conditions remain in the poor to very poor category. You can view the entire report by clicking below. Click here for the latest Oklahoma Crop Weather Update Issued Monday Afternoon. | |
Latest Crop Conditions Crop by Crop Suggests a Corn Crop a Little Later Than Norm- But in Better Shape Than in 2007. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In taking a
quick look at the major spring planted crops, we see that the 2008 corn
crop actually looks significantly better in the ratings at this point in
the growing season versus last year's record crop. At a rating of 67% of
the crop rated in good to excellent condition- that's up one one point
from last week and 11 points compared to one year earlier. Half of the
crop in 2007 by this date was in the dough stage- versus 30% at the
beginning of this week.
Soybeans are the same as a week ago at 63% in good to excellent shape, grain sorghum is also at the same rating as a week ago at 50% good to excellent nationally (versus 64% a year ago) while peanuts slipped three points this week to 57% good to excellent and cotton was off by 2 points to 45% good to excellent versus last week- and down substantially from the 53% good to excellent rating at this point in 2007. Oklahoma Pasture and Range conditions are in the middle of the pack here in 2008, with 38% in the good to excellent rating and 26% in the poor to very poor category. The best good to excellent ratings seen across the country for pasture is seen in the hills of West Virginia at 81%- just ahead of Illinois at 80% good to excellent. California remains plain awful- 100% in the poor to very poor ratings with 80% of that very poor. | |
The Input Cost For that Extra Cow or More May be TOO High- Bob Woods. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The price of
fertilizer has a great deal to do with the ability of our cow-calf
operators to make a profit here in 2008- so says Area Agronomist Bob Woods
who is located in the Muskogee office and works with producers in the
northeastern quarter of the state of Oklahoma. Woods told those producers
attending the 2008 Southern Plains Beef Symposium that "introduced"
pastures (like Bermuda) have a significant pricetag attached to them if
you elect to fertilize them to try to produce more pounds of forage per
acre during the growing season.
In fact, Woods says that it looks like the current price of fertilizer could end up costing $300 per mama cow on an annual basis- if you are applying N,P and K for optimum production. Woods is our guest today on our regular Beef Buzz- as heard daily on great radio stations around the state on the Radio Oklahoma Network- and also a part of our website, www.OklahomaFarmReport.Com. We have today's report linked below for your consideration- and remember- you can also subscribe and receive your dose of the Buzz via Itunes! (for free!) Click here for the latest Beef Buzz- featuring Ron with Bob Woods of OSU | |
Permanent Disaster Program Deadline Just a Month Away ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Growers are
reminded that September 16th is their deadline to sign up for the new
permanent disaster program. To qualify, the 2008 farm bill requires
producers to have crop insurance or non-insured crop disaster assistance
coverage for the land for which assistance is being requested, and for all
farms in all counties in which they have an interest.
Because this law was enacted after the application periods had closed for those programs, a waiver was authorized that allows producers to pay a fee, called a "buy-in" fee, to be eligible for this new disaster assistance. The "buy-in" fees will allow growers to be eligible for benefits for losses under Supplemental Revenue Assistance Program Payments and the Livestock Forage Disaster Program, among others. Please note also that September 30 is the deadline for growers to sign
up for the 2008 Direct and Counter- cyclical Payment Program, which helps
deliver certainty for the crop year and the option of a timely advance
payment. | |
Calendar Remains Busy ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lots of events
continue this week- Congressional Town Hall Meetings, Regional Water
Meetings, Farm Bureau District Meetings and more. We have them all
detailed with links in many cases for more information on our website's
Calendar page- which we have linked below for you. Check it out!
Click here for the Calendar of Events at WWW.OklahomaFarmReport.Com | |
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Looking at our Agricultural Markets... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Yearling
cattle were steady to two dollars higher on Monday at the Oklahoma
National Stockyards- with the late sales mostly steady with last week as
orders were satisfied for cattle. The market reporter in Oklahoma City
wrote of yesterday's sale "Heavy rains last night and this morning
improving interest for calves." The total estimate for Monday was 8500
cattle- and we have the full
report linked by clicking here.
Here are some links we will leave in place on an ongoing basis- Click
on the name of the report to go to that link: | |
God Bless! You can reach us at the following: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
email: ron@oklahomafarmreport.com
phone: 405-473-6144
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