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Daily
Oklahoma Cash Grain Prices- as reported
by the Oklahoma Dept. of Agriculture.
Canola
Prices:
Current
cash price for Canola is $12.32 per bushel at the Northern
Ag elevator in Yukon-
2012
New Crop contracts for Canola are now available at
$12.32 per bushel- delivered to local
participating elevators that are working with PCOM.
Futures
Wrap:
Our
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analyzing the Futures Markets from the previous Day.
KCBT
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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,
May 23,
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Howdy
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Here is your daily Oklahoma farm and ranch
news update.
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Featured Story:
Double-Cropping
Looks to be a Good Bet This
Year
With
harvest well underway weeks ahead of normal, and
mild, wet weather continuing, quite a few wheat
producers are eyeing the possibility of a second
crop this year.
Dr. Chad
Godsey, cropping systems specialist at
Oklahoma State University, spoke with us at the
recent Lahoma Field Day about the prospects of
successful double-cropping.
"Two things
that really favor double cropping this year. In a
lot of areas we have a good soil moisture profile
built up and the second thing is the earliness of
the wheat and the canola crop. We're going to be
able to plant double crops in the time frame you
would normally plant a full season crop so our
yield potential is higher than it is in a normal
year."
There are a number of factors that
go into a solid double-cropping decision, Godsey
says, and the two biggest ones appear to be
favoring the practice.
"Really it comes
down to date of harvest, so that's going to be
early this year. The second thing, and probably
most important every year, is probably soil
moisture profile. Not only looking at what you
have, but your ability to store that moisture, so
topsoil depth, texture, things like that. You need
to know the amount of inches you have stored
currently after wheat harvest and then your
potential to capture more rainfall early in that
growing season."
Click here for more from Chad Godsey
in the interview posted on our webpage.
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Canola
TV--PCOM's Neuens Says Interest In Canola Soaring;
Expects More Acres Next
Year
With
the growing number of canola growers across the
state more elevators are handling the growing
volume of canola.
Gene
Neuens of Producers Cooperative Oil Mill
says that farmers have a number of options in
marketing their canola crop. He says farmers can
choose their elevators and elevators, as well,
have options in their marketing choices as well.
He says with infrastructure now in place,
marketing canola for the producer is now very much
like marketing a wheat crop.
He says prices
at the local elevators can varying about a dollar
a bushel from southern Oklahoma where the current
price is in the $12 per bushel range, to northern
Oklahoma where the price is closer to $13.
Neuens says he's seen a lot of interest
from producers in adding canola to their cropping
plans for next year.
Catch the latest edition of PCOM's
Canola TV by clicking here.
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Beef
Marketing Group CEO Sees Significant Opportunities
for Verifiable Beef Standards
We
caught up with John Butler, CEO
of the Beef Marketing Group at the Alltech
International Symposium in Lexington Kentucky. The
Beef Marketing Group represents feedlots in Kansas
and Nebraska.
Butler said his organization
has completed a research project encompassing
2,000 consumers about their understanding and
attitudes about beef. He said his group has
learned a lot that will help them more effectively
market their product which, consumers said, is not
cattle, it's beef.
"I think that that's one
thing that we as an entire industry have to
accept: we are accountable to a consumer. And the
consumer, for the most part, doesn't understand
cattle, they understand beef. And so we have a
responsibility and a commitment to be focused on
what they need, what they are asking for, and what
we can produce for them to satisfy their
expectations."
Butler said he was
particularly interested in the opinions and ideas
of current beef consumers and focusing on
unfulfilled expectations that they had. He said
they found there were several things the beef
industry could do in the areas of consistency,
verification of food safety, animal care and
sustainability.
Butler
goes into the details of a program of
verifiable standards for beef that will increase
value to consumers. Click here for more in the Beef
Buzz.
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Is
Social Media Dead in the Food and Farming
Discussion?
The
tumble in Facebook stock the day after its IPO
debut had some pundits questioning whether this
was a harbinger that the social media are due for
a decline.
With many ag advocates relying
on social media to get their messages out via
Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Pinterest, the
question becomes "Is social media dead in the food
and farming discussion."
"No!" says
Michelle Payn-Knoper, an
agriculture social media advocate. "However,
because of information overload, because of the
vast amounts of center pivots-as Iike to say--of
information that people have flying at them every
day, it's a real challenge for us to try to figure
out how to get through all the marketing
messages."
She spoke at the Alltech
International Symposium in Lexington, Kentucky.
She says there certainly is a lot of clutter
across all media platforms now, and the trick is
to cut through the clutter and get the right
messages to the right people at the right
times.
"I think at the end of the day it
boils down to relationships, it boils down to
people who are innovative enough to be able to
aggregate content, form those relationships and
develop a community around that."
Click here to read and hear more
about using the social media for ag
advocacy.
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Certified
Weed-Free Forage Offers New Opportunities
Forage
and mulch often contain non-native weeds that can
cause infestations which adversely impact
agriculture, forest, recreational, and other lands
when these materials are transported. There is a
growing demand for certified weed-free forage and
mulch as a preventative program to reduce the
spread of noxious weeds. Certified weed-free
forage is required in many states and on federal
lands managed by the US Forest Service, Bureau of
Land Management, national parks, military, fish
and wildlife refuges and tribes. State and federal
agencies require certified weed-free mulch for
highway, right-of-way, restoration and reclamation
projects.
Weed-free
forage is of special interest to those who use
pack and saddle stock, such as horse owners,
outfitters, ranchers with grazing permits,
hunters, and contractors. Starting in June 2005,
visitors to national forests and national
grasslands in the Rocky Mountain Region must
comply with a weed-free forage order. The order
covers all national forests and national
grasslands in Colorado, Wyoming, South Dakota,
Nebraska, and Kansas. It requires that all hay,
cubed hay, straw, mulch and other products be
certified as weed-free by a sanctioned
certification
program. Oklahoma's
certified weed-free forage and mulch program
offers many advantages. It provides an opportunity
for Oklahoma producers to market certified forage
and mulch as value-added products. The program
helps meet the demand for products that comply
with contract requirements and provides forage and
mulch buyers a marketable and transportable
product.
Read more about weed-free forage
certification by clicking here.
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Farmers
See Economic and Environmental Benefits from
Biotech Crops
Farmers
using improved seeds and biotech crop varieties
continue to see significant economic and on-farm
environmental benefits, according to the seventh
annual report on crop biotechnology impacts
prepared by UK-based PG Economics.
According to Graham
Brookes, director of PG Economics and
co-author of the report, a majority (55 percent)
of the 2010 farm income gains went to farmers in
developing countries. Ninety percent of these are
resource poor on small farms.
"The
advantages of advanced seed technology for farmers
in developing countries come at a time when food
availability is becoming more of an issue around
the world," says Dr. Cathleen Enright, executive
vice president for food and agriculture for the
Biotechnology Industry Organization
(BIO).
"The population continues to grow,
but for many farmers, their ability to produce
food remains stuck in the past. In order to double
food production by 2050 to meet demand, new seed
technologies must be utilized."
You can read more about this report
by clicking here.
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Harvest
Notes- Green Seeker to the Rescue, Canola
Reports and We Want to Hear From
You!
Our
thanks to Brent Rendel from
northeastern Oklahoma- he gives us a look into
harvest in Green Country- Brent writes "We started
wheat harvest Monday and could have started last
week, but needed to finish getting some early
soybeans planted before diverting our attention to
the wheat. Many fields in this area are
experiencing heavier than normal lodging.
Most are 15-25% lodged but I've seen some easily
in the 50-75% lodged category. The most
probable cause is putting on too much
nitrogen. I use the GreenSeeker
system on all my wheat ground, so my
topdress application was much lower than
typical. On average, I only applied 40
lbs of actual N/ac in February on top of the
25 lbs/ac of N I applied at planting.
As a direct result, my lodging is minimal.
"It
was a pretty slow start on our first harvest day
with only around 100 acres in the bin, but yields
and quality are OUTSTANDING for this area.
This is Everest wheat with yields averaging
60 bu/ac and test weight is 62."
We
also heard via Facebook from Drake
Gard who raised canola this year in the
Cheyenne Valley in Major County- tells a couple of
his canola fields did really well- one at 1600
pounds per acre and the second at 1925 pounds per
acre.
There
is no harvest update from the Oklahoma Wheat
Commission today- I suspect we will have one
later in the day on Wednesday- plus our own Jim
Apel will be making some calls later in the day to
see how various locations are getting along. We do
need your harvest reports and pictures-send them to me via
email by clicking here or go the email you see
on the bottom of this email- and click on
it. We can either report your update with or
without your name attached- will just give a
general location- would love to know the yield,
test weight, variety and any other details you
might be able to provide- both for canola and for
wheat.
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