Oklahoma's Latest Farm
And Ranch News
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Your Update from Ron Hays of RON
Monday, July 27, 2020
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Here is your daily Oklahoma farm and ranch news update.
- Cattlemen Call for More State Meat Inspectors During the Policy Session at the 2020 OCA Convention
- Cattle on Feed and Cattle Inventory Reports Both Line Up With Pre Report Expectations- So Says Dr. Derrell Peel
- Cong. Lucas Says This Week's USDA Report on Boxed Beef And Fed Cattle Price Spread Investigation is The First of Multiple Investigations
- The US Safety Net, Crop Profitability, and a Floor on Cost of Production
- Virtual Fly-In Gives Growers Opportunity to Meet with Members of Congress
- Chuck Coffee Named Cattleman of the Year at OCA Convention- Two Lawmakers Honored as Well
- Farm Bureau and Pork Producers Keep Fighting California's Prop 12
- Superior Livestock Kicks Offer Weeklong Video Royale
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Cattlemen Call for More State Meat Inspectors During the Policy Session at the 2020 OCA Convention
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The 2020 Oklahoma Cattlemen's Association Convention is now in the record books. While many other meetings went virtual or were cancelled altogether since the start of the pandemic- the OCA leadership made a commitment to meet face to face and were able to make that happen. It took a change of venue along the way as the meeting moved from Norman to Tulsa- but there were lots of smiling faces, the shaking of hands and an abundance of networking that never happens in a Zoom setting. OCA President Mike Weeks explained the effort of getting a live, in person meeting in place at the start of the convention-
click here
for our earlier story to hear his explanation of that process.
Policy sessions were held on both Friday and Saturday during the meeting- and after the Saturday business meeting, Radio Oklahoma Ag Network Associate Farm Director KC Sheperd talked with OCA Executive Vice President Michael Kelsey about the work done by cattle producer members who showed up to make policy decisions.
Kelsey says at the top of the list was a call by the group to increase the number of state meat inspectors. "We passed a pretty strong policy suggesting that we need to be very supportive of increasing funding for ODAFF, the Department of Agriculture, where our meat inspectors are housed so that we can increase the overall number of inspectors. We think if we do that- that's going to give some of these smaller processors the opportunity to expand what they do which will then help ranchers as they bring cattle into those plants.
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Cattle on Feed and Cattle Inventory Reports Both Line Up With Pre-Report Expectations- So Says Dr. Derrell Peel
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On Friday, USDA released a monthly US Cattle on Feed Report, aquarterly Cattle on Feed numbers as well as the mid year Cattle Inventory Report.
The monthly On Feed Report showed Cattle and calves on feed for the slaughter market in the United States for feedlots with capacity of 1,000 or more head totaled 11.4 million head on July 1, 2020. The inventory was slightly below July 1, 2019. This is the second highest July 1 inventory since the series began in 1996. The inventory included 7.03 million steers and steer calves, up slightly from the previous year. This group accounted for 61 percent of the total inventory. Heifers and heifer calves accounted for 4.41 million head, down 1 percent from 2019.
Placements in feedlots during June totaled 1.80 million head, 2 percent above 2019. Net placements were 1.74 million head. During June, placements of cattle and calves weighing less than 600 pounds were 430,000 head, 600-699 pounds were 310,000 head, 700-799 pounds were 360,000 head, 800-899 pounds were 413,000 head, 900-999 pounds were 200,000 head, and 1,000 pounds and greater were 85,000 head.
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Cong. Lucas Says This Week's USDA Report on Boxed Beef And Fed Cattle Price Spread Investigation is The First of Multiple Investigations
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The much-anticipated USDA report on boxed beef and fed cattle price spread investigation is just the first step in a series of multiple reports on the controversial market manipulation concerns. On Today’s Beef Buzz U.S. Rep. Frank Lucas (R-OK) talks with me about the USDA report.
This is the first of a multiple stage process, Lucas said.
This analysis studied how the market reacted to the Tyson plant fire in Kansas last August and the COVID-19 outbreak.
In addition, there are two more investigations ongoing, Lucas said.
The USDA is looking at whether the regulated entities violated the Packers and Stockyards Act, and the Department of Justice is investigating if any of the entities violated the Sherman Act or the Clayton Anti-Trust Act, both of which have been on the books for more than 100 years.
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The US Safety Net, Crop Profitability, and a Floor on Cost of Production
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Taking a look at the latest issue of the
farm doc daily from Illinois University,
Carl Zulauf Department of Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics Ohio State University,
Gary Schnitkey Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics University of Illinois,
Michael Langemeier Center for Commercial Agriculture Purdue University write in the Gardner Policy Series on The US Safety Net, Crop Profitability, and a Floor on Cost of Production.
Since 1980, the US crop safety net has been countercyclical to aggregate net return for the 9 crops that USDA (US Department of Agriculture) reports cost of production (hereafter, COP). Payments have risen (declined) as aggregate market return fell below (rose above) aggregate COP for the 9 crops. The safety net thus creates a floor under aggregate cost of producing these crops, explaining why cash land rents have not declined despite the large decline in crop prices and returns since 2012.
Background
Measuring the farm safety net’s impact on crop profitability is not straightforward. Many commodity programs, including ARC (Agriculture Risk Coverage) and PLC (Price Loss Coverage), pay on past, not current, acres planted to a program crop. Moreover, a farm does not have to plant the crop receiving a payment. Payment is thus to a farm, not a crop. However, past and current acres planted to program crops overlap notably. Using data from USDA FSA (Farm Service Agency) (2020c) and USDA NASS (National Agricultural Statistical Service) (2020), during the 2014 Farm Bill 85% of all acres planted to program crops were planted on historical base acres,
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Virtual Fly-In Gives Growers Opportunity to Meet with Members of Congress
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The National Corn Growers Association remains hard at work to help improve the economic situation for corn growers amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
On the heels of NCGA’s first Virtual Corn Congress, the organization hosted a virtual fly-in to Capitol Hill July 22-23. NCGA typically hosts a fly-in for corn growers in Washington, D.C., in conjunction with Corn Congress each July.
NCGA’s fly-ins allow growers to provide members of Congress and their staffs, including that outside of the corn belt, first-hand accounts of how policies from Washington impact their farms. Even though coronavirus restrictions prevented growers from traveling to Capitol Hill this year, the virtual fly-in gave members the opportunity to share their stories and weigh in on ongoing policy discussions.
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Chuck Coffey Named Cattleman of the Year at OCA Convention- Two Lawmakers Honored as Well
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At the Saturday evening Awards Banquet that served as the grand finale for the 2020 Oklahoma Cattlemen's Association Convention- the organization honored
Chuck Coffey
as their 2020 Cattleman of the year.
Chuck and his wife Ruth live and ranch in Springer, Oklahoma. Their family cattle operation , the Double C Cattle Company, includes a commercial cow/calf herd along with grazing stocker cattle.
Chuck is a fifth generation cattle rancher and is proud that his children are the sixth and raising the seventh generation. Chuck received both his Bachelor and Master’s Degree in Rangeland Science from Texas A&M University.
Chuck has served many, many leadership positions in the cattle industry and in his community. Chuck has testified before Congressional Committee on behalf of the cattle industry. He has traveled to foreign countries sharing the great story of the US cattle producer. Most recently, Chuck completed his service to the Cattlemen’s Beef Board highlighted by his term as Chairman.
Also honored on Saturday night
by the OCA were two members of the Oklahoma Legislature. For the past two legislative sessions, OCA prioritized legislation that would make labeling of alternative meat products more transparent and accurate for consumers. Leading that legislative charge in both legislative sessions were two friends of OCA that the group honored with their 2020 Legislative Appreciation Award.
First, let’s begin with the House. Representative
Toni Hasenbeck
from the 65
th
House district in Southwest Oklahoma grew up in agriculture. She and her husband Hank are still deeply involved in the beef industry in Elgin, Oklahoma. Before being elected to the House in 2018, Representative Hasenbeck was an elementary teacher in the Elgin school district.
Senator
Micheal Bergstrom
was elected to represent the first Senate district in 2016. He was recently re-elected to that seat winning his primary race on June 30
th
. Before being elected to the Senate, Senator Bergstrom was a teacher in the Bluejacket school district. Senator Bergstrom and his wife Robin live in Adair.
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Farm Bureau and Pork Producers Keep Fighting California's Prop 12
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Back in 2018, California voters passed Proposition 12, which is scheduled to go into effect on January 1 of 2022. A Protect the Harvest release says the bill increases regulations on the egg, pork, and veal producers both in the state of California as well as any out-of-state producers that want to sell products in the state.
Proposition 12 was written, funded, and marketed by the Humane Society of the United States and their “Prevent Cruelty California” coalition. Right now, just one percent of pork producers comply with the housing requirements of Prop 12. When it goes into effect in 2022, a majority of the nation’s pork farmers won’t be allowed to sell their products in California.
The American Farm Bureau and the National Pork Producers Council have jointly filed an appeal with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to ask that Prop 12 be ruled invalid. The appeal says that Prop 12 is unconstitutional and seeks to allow California to regulate states outside its governance by requiring producers to abide by the state’s own regulations to do business there.
Protect the Harvest says it is “extremely hopeful” that the NPPC and the Farm Bureau are successful in their appeal.
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Superior Livestock Kicks Offer Weeklong Video Royale
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The weeklong Video Royale of Superior Livestock kicks off this morning at 10 AM Central Time- 195,000 head of cattle will sell today through Friday.
Calves and Yearlings from our part of the country sell today and tomorrow.
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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.
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Wholesale Boxed Beef Prices continue to show weakness- Choice Beef was down 49 cents on Friday to $201.77 while Select Beef was also lower- Click on the Button below for the latest report from USDA Market News
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Each afternoon we are posting a recap of that day's markets as analyzed by
Justin Lewis of KIS futures
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click below
for the latest update on the Livestock and Grain Futures Trade..
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Okla Cash Grain:
Daily Oklahom
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Cash Grain Prices- as reported by the Oklahoma Dept. of Agriculture
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The report available after the close of the Futures Trade for that day.
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In Episode 42,
KC Sheperd
goes on ZOOM to talk with three Oklahoma Elementary Educators about their experiences with the Oklahoma Ag in the Classroom Program-
Johnnie Keel, Lori Newmark and Jocelyn Puckett.
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