Oklahoma's Latest Farm
And Ranch News
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Your Update from Ron Hays of RON
Thursday, October 1, 2020
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Here is your daily Oklahoma farm and ranch news update.
- OSU's Dr. Amy Hagerman Explains the Differences in CFAP1 and CFAP2 for Producers
- USDA Reports Include Final Numbers on 2020 Winter Wheat Crop- Oklahoma Produces 104 Million Bushels
- Express Ranches President Jarold Callahan Says This Has Been a Challenging Year But They Expect Good Demand For Their Oct. 5 Fall Bull Sale
- Texas Tech Researcher Receives Additional Funding for Cattle Antimicrobial Resistance Research
- USDA grants American Farmland Trust $2.6 million to improve Soil Health Practice Adoption on farms from Coast to Coast.
- NCBA Announces Dynamic Line Up of Speakers for Virtual Stockmanship & Stewardship Event
- Congressman Frank Lucas Joining in as Sponsor of the Price Act Later Today
- CR Passes Senate- President Trump Signs and Government has Money Thru December 11th
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OSU's Dr. Amy Hagerman Explains the Differences in CFAP1 and CFAP2 for Producers |
Dr. Amy Hagerman, Assistant Professor in Agriculture and Food Policy at Oklahoma State University, explained how the second round is different during a recent interview with Radio Oklahoma Ag Network Associate Farm Director KC Sheperd.
It is different from CFAP 1 that ended Sept. 11, said Hagerman.
It was focused on price triggers based on marketing's between January and April. Round two includes flat rate and sales commodities.
For me, that’s the first big difference, Hagerman said.
CFAP 2 really opened the door on other commodities, she said.
The first big difference under the price triggers is all wheat classes are now eligible, including winter wheat, she said.
This time the cattle are inventory based on non-breeding animals only, she said.
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USDA Reports Include Final Numbers on 2020 Winter Wheat Crop- Oklahoma Produces 104 Million Bushels |
On Wednesday, the USDA issued their annual Small Grains 2020 summary. According to the agency, "All wheat production totaled 1.83 billion bushels in 2020, down 5 percent from the revised 2019 total of 1.93 billion bushels.
The summary includes the final numbers for the 2020 winter wheat crop- including a final number for the Oklahoma crop of 104 million bushels. That made the 2020 crop in Oklahoma the third largest winter wheat crop in the US- after Kansas and Washington. The 2020 production was five percent under the 110 million bushels produced in 2019.
For the second year in a row, the Oklahoma crop averaged forty bushels per acre- with final harvested acres totalling 2.6 million. (Oklahoma farmers planted 4.25 million acres last fall)
Also on Wednesday- USDA released their quarterly Grain Stocks Report- the report shows old crop corn stocks on hand as of September 1, 2020, totaled 2.0 billion bushels, down ten percent from a year ago. Old crop soybeans stored in all positions were down 42 percent, and all wheat stocks were down eight percent from a year earlier. Released by the Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service, the report found that of the total corn stocks, 751 million bushels were stored on farms, down eight percent from a year earlier. Off-farm stocks, at 1.24 billion bushels, were down 12 percent from a year ago.
Old crop soybeans stored in all positions totaled 523 million bushels. Soybean stocks stored on farms totaled 141 million bushels, down 47 percent, and off-farm stocks, at 382 million bushels, were down 41 percent.
All wheat stored in all positions totaled 2.16 billion bushels. On-farm stocks were estimated at 705 million bushels, down four percent, and off-farm stocks were down ten percent at 1.45 billion bushels.
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Express Ranches President Jarold Callahan Says 2020 has been Challenging But They Expect Good Demand For Their Oct. 5 Fall Bull Sale |
The impact of COVID-19 has been felt across all sectors of the agricultural economy, including the cattle seed-stock industry. Jarold Callahan, president of Express Ranches, recently visited with me at the ranch about how his business is coping with the pandemic.
This has been a tough year for cattle seed stock producers as people are not traveling as much, Callahan said.
Callahan and his staff are preparing for their fall bull sale Oct. 5.
Certainly, it’s been a challenging year, but every year has its challenges, he said.
You have a lot of inputs and you don’t control Mother Nature, he noted, as drought has made it difficult for some producers in the trade territory.
The market has suffered as packers have dealt with pandemic-induced labor challenges.
There has been some good news as the domestic and international demand for beef has been good, Callahan said.
We’ve sold more cattle online and we use Superior Livestock video as producers have turned to that avenue to purchase cattle, he said.
We video all the cattle so you can go online to view the cattle before the sale, he said.
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Each Weekday- Listen to Cotton Talk!
For our farmers who have either- always have had cotton on their farms- or those who have more recently have added the fiber crop to their operations- we have a new daily report starting to be heard on several of our Radio Stations- It's Called Cotton Talk- and we appreciate the Oklahoma Cotton Council for their support in making this a reality.
Click on the Button below to listen to our most recent report
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Texas Tech Researcher Receives Additional Funding for Cattle Antimicrobial Resistance Research |
Kristin Hales has been awarded a grant from the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association.
In the span of about two months, College of Agricultural Sciences & Natural Resources researcher Kristin Hales has taken the lead in the study of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in high-risk cattle.
In June, Hales, the Thornton Distinguished Chair and associate professor in the Department of Animal & Food Sciences at Texas Tech University received a nearly $1 million grant from the United States Department of Agriculture-National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA-NIFA) for a project on this subject. Now, the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) is contributing to her work as well.
The NCBA has awarded Hales a grant for $225,000 for her project that will evaluate the distribution of AMR genes and the occurrence of potential horizontal gene transfer in high-risk cattle. This grant will expand and enhance the USDA-NIFA grant, and the research will be conducted on the same set of cattle.
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We invite you to listen to us on great radio stations across the region on the Radio Oklahoma Ag Network weekdays-
if you missed this morning's Farm News - or you are in an area where you can't hear it- click below for this morning's Farm news from Ron Hays and KC Sheperd on RON.
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USDA grants American Farmland Trust $2.6 million to improve Soil Health Practice Adoption on farms from Coast to Coast. |
Today, American Farmland Trust announces it has received a $2.6-million grant through the USDA’s Natural Resource Conservation Service On-Farm Conservation Innovation Trials, a component of the Conservation Innovation Grants program to fund its “Conquering Cover Crop Challenges Coast to Coast” project. Through 20 on-farm demonstration trials across the nation and a comprehensive soil, economic, and social evaluation system, AFT will test innovative solutions and generate five years of results that will help overcome regional and crop-specific barriers to cover crop adoption.
Specifically, the demonstration project will:
• Address cover crop establishment challenges in water-limited, dryland wheat systems in Washington and Oregon by coupling cover cropping, livestock integration, and/or crop rotation diversification;
• Address cover crop establishment challenges unique to high value, high-input specialty crops, and high disturbance vegetable row cropping in water-limited valleys in California by demonstrating the benefits of cover crop and compost adoption;
• Diversify the traditional corn-soybean rotation and enhance soil health in Kentucky by converting from a typical corn-bean system to a diversified rotation of corn-rye-soybeans-cover crop; the rye will be no-till planted into corn residue, with most farms already using conservation tillage;
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NCBA Announces Dynamic Line Up of Speakers for Virtual Stockmanship & Stewardship Event |
The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, a contractor to the Beef Checkoff, is announcing an exciting slate of speakers and topics for their renowned Stockmanship and Stewardship program. With the COVID-19 pandemic causing industry meetings to shift how they meet and learn, the Stockmanshp and Stewardship program will be going virtual this fall. This shift to an online platform allows for a high-quality experience of one of NCBA’s educational events for all attendees, even if they are attending from the comfort of their home or office.
On November 11-12 virtual attendees will have the chance to engage in a number of sessions that address current and future issues for the cattle industry. Both days will allow virtual attendees to still have the chance to participate in the valuable low-stress cattle handling demonstrations the Stockmanship and Stewardship program has become known for.
Day one of the event will have an interesting lineup of educational program tracks including sessions that take an in-depth look at Beef Quality Assurance (BQA) topics. Jason Nickell, DVM, PhD, DACVPM, Merck Animal Health will present on Individual Management Technologies and Diagnostics. A robust business track will be offered that will cover everything from risk management and cattle marketing to how consumers have shifted their buying habits during the pandemic and beyond. With just one week past the 2020 Presidential Election, NCBA’s policy team will provide an informative election reaction. In this session, the policy team will discuss what issues the U.S. cattle and beef industry will be tackling in Washington, D.C. Finally, day one of the event will conclude with a keynote presentation from Frank Mitloehner, PhD, University of California – Davis on recent industry happenings on the topic of Sustainability.
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Congressman Frank Lucas Joining in as Sponsor of the Price Act Later Today |
There is yet another piece of legislation that is being rolled out by lawmakers that are supporters of the cattle industry. Congressman Frank Lucas is joining with Dusty Johnson of South Dakota and a few others to introduce the Price Act later today.
In a nutshell- the PRICE Act combines several new ideas in addition to existing bipartisan proposals to create consensus legislation that will eliminate regulatory barriers, improve market signals, and support small meat processors.
According to Congressman Johnson's office- this measure has the support of the National Cattlemen's Beef Association.
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CR Passes Senate- President Trump Signs and Government has Money Thru December 11th |
On Wednesday, the US Senate approved the latest Continuing Resolution to continue to fund the Federal Government until December 11th.
After that vote- the President signed the measure to keep the government open.
Included in the CR was money to replenish the CCC - which is the pot of money that is used to pay for federal farm safety net programs and more.
After that actions of the Senate and the President- the National Corn Growers quickly jumped out with a statement thanking one and all.
Their President, Kevin Ross, said "Farmers have worked with Congress for years to develop and implement effective risk management tools that ensure a stable feed, fuel, and food supply even during the tough times many are facing today.
"NCGA thanks members of the House and Senate from both sides of the aisle who fought to ensure USDA has the budget flexibility necessary to deliver on the farm bill’s commitments and support America’s farmers and ranchers."
Oklahoma's Senators voted for the CR- but Senator James Lankford, who is no fan of the "kicking the can down the road" budget approach- offered the following statement:
“Funding the government by continuing resolution is never ideal because it doesn’t give Congress the ability to make necessary funding adjustments through the regular, albeit broken, budget and spending process. We do not need to put the country through the threat of yet another costly and needless shutdown, but we must get a federal spending process in place that actually addresses our debt and deficit and doesn’t just pass off the tough spending decisions until some future day. We can stop government shutdowns forever if we put in place my solution, the Prevent Government Shutdowns Act. It would simply prevent Members of Congress from leaving Washington until the work to fund the government is done. We can and should pass 12 fiscally responsible appropriations bills in an orderly way without the Washington theatrics.”
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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 were pennies higher on Wednesday- Choice Beef was up 58 cents while Select Beef was 55 cents higher.
Click on the Button below for the latest report from USDA Market News
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OKC West in El Reno had 5,164 head of cattle in their sales of this week.
Compared to last week: Feeder steers 1.00-4.00 higher, with several high quality lots on offer. Feeder heifers mostly steady with few trades 2.00 higher. Demand good. Steer and heifer calves sold steady to weak. Demand moderate.
Click below to check the full report.
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Each afternoon we are posting a recap of that day's markets as analyzed by Justin Lewis of KIS futures - click below for the latest update on the Livestock and Grain Futures Trade..
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Okla Cash Grain:
Daily Oklahoma Cash Grain Prices- as reported by the Oklahoma Dept. of Agriculture- The report available after the close of the Futures Trade for that day.
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