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Friday, July 1, 2022
Heading into the Fourth of July Holiday Weekend- No Email on Monday- See Ya Tuesday 7/5/2022
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Here is your daily Oklahoma farm and ranch news update.
- Allendale's Rich Nelson says Wheat Acreage a Bit of a Surprise on USDA Acreage Report
- Plains Grains Says Harvest Almost Done in South- Texas 83%, Oklahoma 98% and Kansas 75% Complete
- While Oklahoma Sees Minuscule Drought Improvement, Far Southeast and Northeast Corners Abnormally Dry Again
- OSU's Kim Anderson says World Wheat Production is Near Record High
- Telling the Story of Animal Agriculture with Hannah Thompson Weeman
- NCGA and Sorghum Growers Displeased with EPA's Decision on Atrazine
- Oklahoma Farm Bureau Pleased with Supreme Court Redo on McGirt in Oklahoma vs Castro-Huerta
- More Farm News Headlines for Your Holiday Weekend Reading
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Allendale's Rich Nelson says Wheat acreage a Bit of a Surprise on USDA Acreage Report
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On Thursday, USDA released its Acreage and June Quarterly Grain Stocks reports.
In 2022, Farmers planted 89.9 million acres of corn and 88.3 million acres of soybeans. The corn estimate is higher than USDA's March estimate, while soybean acreage is lower. Both are within the range of pre-report estimates.
Farm Director, KC Sheperd spoke with Allendale's Rich Nelson, who said they did see some surprises in the acreage report.
"As far as corn acres, that was revised about 400,000 higher than the March initial survey, so 89.9 million, and that was expected," Nelson said. "Soybean acres did have a good drop of 2.6 million, now at 88.3 million acres. So a little surprising and supportive news."
Nelson said the questions were really around wheat and cotton.
"For wheat, we did see USDA revise yet again, this winter wheat planting number from last fall," Nelson said. "That was lower just over 200,000 acres. The big surprise for us was spring, when instead of dropping 400,000 acres due to those late plantings USDA only dropped 90,000 acres out of that.
For wheat, Nelson said there are a few arguments there. For cotton numbers on today's report, Nelson said they went from 12.2 million back in March to now 12.5 million acres.
Meanwhile- USDA offered state by state numbers- and for Oklahoma- NASS says that cotton farmers were able to work around the end of May and June rains to get 550,000 acres planted- which is the most acres of any spring planted crop in the state in 2022- depending on the planting season- cotton or soybeans are the largest spring planted crop in Oklahoma year in and year out.
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Plains Grains Says Harvest Almost Done in Southern Plains- Texas 83%, Oklahoma 98% and Kansas 75% Complete
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The following are details from Plains Grains and their Executive Director Mark Hodges of harvest progress as of July 1, 2022 in the hard red winter wheat belt.
State Percent Complete:
Texas 83%
Oklahoma 98%
Kansas 75%
The 2022 HRW harvest continues to wind down in Oklahoma/Kansas/Texas. Cutting is now nearing completion in those states. Hot and windy conditions over the last 2 weeks have continued to allow significant progress with harvest. Yield reports continue to range from 20 bu/ac to 30 bu/ac range with some higher exceptions.
Protein is now averaging 13.2% (with isolated reports again this week of over 15%). There are now just short of 200 samples in the lab with no expectation of that pace slowing over next week to 10 days.
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While Oklahoma Sees Minuscule Drought Improvement, Far Southeast and Northeast Corners Abnormally Dry Again
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According to the latest drought monitor, in Oklahoma, exceptional drought is the same as the past two weeks at 1.4 percent with Cimarron County being the only county in the state facing levels of exceptional drought as they wait for some moisture.
Extreme or worse this week is 5.07 percent down a hair from last week's 5.45 percent.
Severe drought or worse is at 14.79 percent, down one percentage point from last week's 15.8 percent.
Moderate drought or worse this week is at 30.7 percent, down from last week's 31.2 percent.
Abnormally dry or worse conditions worsened in the far northeast and southeast corners of the state. This week's abnormally dry conditions are at 45.9 percent, compared to last week's 41 percent.
To view the latest Oklahoma drought numbers, click the drought map above the story.
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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 daily report heard on several of our Radio Stations- It's Called Cotton Talk!
Click on the Button below to listen to our most recent report
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OSU's Kim Anderson says World Wheat Production is Near Record High
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This week on SUNUP is Dr. Kim Anderson, Oklahoma State University Extension grain market economist. During this week's edition, Anderson speaks on where the market may go from here.
The lead in the news right now, Anderson said, is Russian wheat production. Russian wheat production is predicted to be over 3.1 billion bushels this year, which is a record crop, Anderson added.
Russia is predicted to export 1.5 to 1.6 billion bushels of wheat this year, Anderson said, whereas they normally will export around 1.2 to 1.4 billion bushels. Russia held wheat in storage last year, he added, and they are ready to put it out on the market.
"Looking at Ukraine, 700 million bushels is about what they will normally export," Anderson said. "They only exported 370 million last year. This year they are looking at maybe 175 million bushels."
World production is not at the record, Anderson said, but it is near-record at 28.4 billion bushels. The world record, he added, is 28.6 billion bushels.
"We've got a sufficient amount of wheat, we just got to get it out on the market," Anderson said. "I think you have got to look at the world stocks-to-use ratio."
The world stocks-to-use ratio is predicted to be at 19.6 percent, Anderson said. The average, he added, is 23.5 percent.
"In 2016, the year where we had 9.8 billion bushels ending stocks, it (stocks-to-use-ratio) was 24 (percent)," Anderson said.
Anderson says prices may have found a bottom. The war in Russia drove high wheat prices for a while, he added.
"If we will go back to 2008 and look at where wheat prices have been and how much they can change, it will give us an idea of what they can do," Anderson said. "We were at 9 dollars when we came into that crop. We bottomed out at $3.50 within that marketing year or the next marketing year."
Given the uncertainty and looking back at the events of 2008, Anderson recommends that producers stagger their wheat sales in the market, but it depends on how much risk they can take.
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Telling the Story of Animal Agriculture with Hannah Thompson Weeman
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In the agriculture industry, there has never been a more critical time to tell our story to consumers. President and CEO of the Animal Agriculture Alliance, Hannah Thompson Weeman, is a professional when it comes to properly educating the public about production agriculture. In this episode of Beef Buzz, I am talking with Hannah Thompson Weeman about how producers can best go about telling their story to the part of society who can be influenced in a positive way.
"The number one thing we recommend is to be beyond reproach," Weeman said. "We need to be sure that we are following and exceeding guidelines and policies in terms of animal welfare and environmental impact because we can't have there be any vulnerabilities that these organizations would like to come along and exploit."
Producers need to make sure they are doing the right thing no matter who is watching, Weeman said, so they can substantiate that behavior by using things like third-party audits and verification programs. Being involved with customers, reaching out to local media and organizations, and putting a face on animal agriculture, Weeman added, helps give consumers an expert to go to if they have questions or concerns.
While there are extremist groups with agendas to harm animal agriculture, Weeman said there is a high potential for success in educating the middle part of society.
"That's who we need to focus on," Weeman said. "We don't need to waste time telling each other how great we are. We don't need to waste our breath trying to engage with those extremists again."
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NCGA and Sorghum Growers Displeased with EPA's Decision on Atrazine
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced on June 30 that it is revising its registration for atrazine, a well-studied herbicide essential to farming.
The National Corn Growers Association and the National Sorghum Producers both strongly disagree with the EPA's position on the issue.
"We are disappointed by EPA's decision," said Iowa farmer and National Corn Growers Association (NCGA) President Chris Edgington. "We can feed and fuel the world and fight climate change, but we can't do these things without modern farming tools, and atrazine is a tool that is critical to our work."
"This is a tool our farmers cannot stand to lose," NSP CEO Tim Lust said. "Climate-smart agriculture relies on tools like atrazine particularly for sustainable farming practices like conservation tillage and no-till. Some estimations show greenhouse gas emissions associated with farming rise by almost 40 percent without it. This underscores the importance of having a united and vocal showing this summer from our farm community about the importance of this important crop-protection tool."
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Oklahoma Farm Bureau Pleased with Supreme Court Redo on McGirt in Oklahoma vs Castro-Huerta
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The Oklahoma Farm Bureau Legal Foundation is pleased with the Supreme Court of the United States decision in State of Oklahoma v. Victor Manuel Castro-Huerta, announced Wednesday, June 29, nearly two years after the 2020 ruling in Jimcy McGirt v. State of Oklahoma.
The 5-to-4 decision affirmed the state of Oklahoma has concurrent jurisdiction with the federal government to prosecute crimes committed by non-Indians against Indians on Muscogee (Creek), Choctaw, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Seminole or Quapaw reservations in Oklahoma.
"This ruling is a significant legal victory for all Oklahomans and will set the stage for other legal matters stemming from the original McGirt decision," said Rodd Moesel, OKFB president. "Today's decision to affirm Oklahoma's concurrent jurisdiction brings some much-needed clarity to citizens, including farmers and ranchers, in the eastern part of our state. Oklahoma Farm Bureau is committed to continue working alongside state and tribal leaders to forge the best path forward for the future of our state."
The Oklahoma Farm Bureau Legal Foundation submitted an amicus curiae – or "friend of the court" – brief alongside the Environmental Federation of Oklahoma, Oklahoma Cattlemen's Association and the Petroleum Alliance of Oklahoma in support of the state of Oklahoma's position earlier this year.
The Castro-Huerta decision puts to rest many jurisdictional concerns, but the OKFB Legal Foundation continues to have questions about possible tribal assertions over taxes, and regulatory and civil matters on non-Indians in Indian country.
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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 lower- Choice Beef was down 88 cents and Select Beef was down 24 on Friday 06/30/2022.
Click on the Button below for the latest report from USDA Market News
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Weekly Cattle Auction Reports
The buttons below allow you to check out the weekly Cattle Auctions in the region that we post on our website and here in our daily email update.
A Holiday Reminder- Monday Auctions- including Oklahoma National, Joplin and Tulsa are closed due to Fourth of July on Monday- OKC West will not have a Cow/Bull sale on Monday and will sell Calves and Yearlings are in one day on Wednesday.
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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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