Howdy Neighbors!

Here's your morning farm news headlines from the Director of Farm Programming for the Radio Oklahoma Network, Ron Hays. We are excited to have as one of our new sponsors for the daily email Producers Cooperative Oil Mill, with 64 years of progress through producer ownership. Call Brandon Winters at 405-232-7555 for more information about rotating some of your winter wheat acres into winter canola this year- and check out the full story on PCOM on their website by clicking here.

It's also great to have the Farm Credit Associations of Oklahoma with us regularly as an Email Sponsor- Financing Oklahoma is their business! Check out their website which shows their locations statewide by clicking here!
And our email this morning is also a service of Midwest Farm Shows, producer of the annual Tulsa Farm Show held each December, as well as the springtime Southern Plains Farm Show in Oklahoma City. Check out details of both of these exciting shows at the official website of Midwest Farm Shows by clicking here.

If you have received this by someone forwarding it to you, you are welcome to subscribe and get this weekday update sent to you directly by clicking here.

We talked with Gary England about Ike, as well as some cold Canadian air that he thinks could bring at least one morning of freezing temps to the upper midwest by early next week. Our conversation with Gary is linked below and found on our website, WWW.OklahomaFarmReport.Com.

Click here for Gary Engtland's take on Ike and what he may bring to Oklahoma.

He did address the Renewable Fuel Standard- says he is strongly in favor of it- which is contrasted with the Republican position at their convention of saying federal mandates on renewable fuels should end and that the market should determine the direction to go in biofuel production.

He also talked in general terms about improving rural infrastructure and then hurried on. We have the transcript of what was said by the Senator as provided to us by the NFU office in Washington- it's linked below on our website.

Click here for more on Senator Obama's comments to NFU

Results of the weekly survey show Texas cotton conditions at 31 percent good, 32 percent fair, 18 percent poor and nine percent in very poor condition. Oklahoma's crop is in similar condition with 34 percent good, 38 percent fair, 13 percent poor and four percent in very poor condition. Kansas' cotton crop shows 50 percent in good condition, 25 percent in fair condition, 10 percent poor and five percent in very poor condition. At the same time of year in 2007, 10 percent of the Texas cotton was reported to be excellent, 39 percent in good condition, 28 percent fair, 14 percent poor and six percent in very poor condition.

USDA estimates for the 2008-09 cotton crop are 35,000 harvested acres in Kansas, 170,000 harvested Oklahoma acres and 3,400,000 harvested acres in Texas. Average yield in harvested pounds of lint per acre for the 2008 crop are estimated to be 603 pounds in Kansas, 819 pounds in Oklahoma and 734 pounds in Texas, according to the USDA-NASS August, 2008, crop production report. These numbers will be revised tomorrow morning when we have a chance to see the September Crop Production estimates at 7:30 AM central time.
(Our thanks to NTOK for providing this perspective on these cotton numbers from across the three states.)

Oklahoma Beef Quality Assurance (OBQA) is part of a national program that provides guidelines for beef cattle production. The program raises consumer confidence through offering proper management techniques and a commitment to quality within every segment of the beef industry.

Beyond the BQA training- Derrell Peel, OSU Cooperative Extension livestock marketing specialist, will lead the opening session. Peel will discuss the current market situation and outlook, focusing on wheat pasture cattle and detailing how supply, demand, export markets and weather are affecting the potential profitability of wheat-stocker operations.
Dave Lalman, OSU Cooperative Extension beef cattle specialist, will then help participants examine how they might best manage stocker enterprises on wheat given high wheat prices, high fertilizer inputs and high value of gain for cattle.
Check with your local OSU Extension office for more details- or go to our calendar page and scroll down to September 30 for more information about the Southwest Stocker Conference.

Click here for more on the Southwest Stocker Conference from our Calendar section of WWW.OklahomaFarmReport.Com

"He realized that to "test-out" would require his herd to remain under quarantine for at least 12 months and it would have been very difficult to operate under those conditions in the spring and summer," Cook says. "He also realized it would cause problems with the herds that had fence-line contact with his herd."

As a result the State of Wyoming will keep its Brucellosis-Free status, however if another herd is found with brucellosis in the next two years, Wyoming will likely lose that status.
Their neighboring state, Montana, has already lost that status- blaming Brucellosis that is found in the wildlife population of that state as the source of infection found in the cattle population of the state.

Despite the evidence that cash-strapped consumers are opting for cheaper protein alternatives, demand for live cattle and live hogs rose in the same period, buoyed by strong exports and smaller imports. In the weekly Cattle and Hog Outlook reports, the economists said January-July demand for live hogs jumped 8.9 percent beyond last year, while demand for live cattle rose 1.5 percent in the January-July period. The report noted that net beef imports as a percentage of production declined to 3.6 percent from 7.9 percent during the same period last year.

The economists said current cattle futures prices are probably overly optimistic, noting the beef supply in the first half of 2009 is expected to be down 1 percent to 2 percent, which would mean demand would have to increase 4 percent to 5 percent to achieve current futures prices. "It is possible, but probably not the most likely with the weak general economy," the economists wrote.

The date set is November 12 and 13- with the conference staying in downtown Oklahoma City- but moving over to the Hilton Skirvin Hotel. The speakers listed for the 2008 conference include everybody from rancher Yates Adcock to Texas A&M's Joe Outlaw to speakers from OSU, OU and the Noble Foundation and a lot more.

For more information and early registration info- we have the link to their website below- check it out.

Click here for more info on the Oklahoma GROW Conference 2008.

We also invite you to check out our website at the link below to check out an archive of these daily emails, audio reports and top farm news story links from around the globe.

Click here to check out WWW.OklahomaFarmReport.Com

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:
Our Daily Market Wrapup from the Radio Oklahoma Network with Ed Richards and Tom Leffler- analyzing the Futures Markets from the previous Day-
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.
Previous Day's Wheat Market Recap- One Pager From Country Hedging- looks at all three US Wheat Futures Exchanges and the why of that day's market.
Daily Oklahoma Cash Grain Prices- As Reported by the Oklahoma Dept. of Agriculture. <
The National Daily Feeder & Stocker Cattle Summary- as prepared by USDA.
The National Daily Slaughter Cattle Summary- as prepared by USDA.
Finally, Here is the Daily Volume and Price Summary from the Texas Cattle Feeders Association.