Oklahoma's Latest Farm
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Here is your daily Oklahoma farm and ranch news update.
- After Last Week's Improvements, Oklahoma Drought Conditions Decline Again
- Oklahoma Pork Council's Kylee Deniz Offers a State of the Pork Industry
- NCBA Chief Veterinarian Kathy Simmons talks about a New Threat to Cattle Producers, the Asian Longhorned Tick
- We talk Medical Marijuana Moratorium and More With Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt
- Grain Prices to Hold Steady According to Crop Marketing Specialist, Kim Anderson
- Certified Angus Beef Market Update with Paul Dykstra "Premium Beef Remains in Fashion"
- Coming Monday, August Area Meetings in El Reno and McAlester for OkFB
- More Stories for Your Weekend Reading
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After Last Week's Improvements, Oklahoma Drought Conditions Decline Again |
According to last week's drought monitor report, Oklahoma drought conditions showed slight improvements with percentages decreasing in the majority of drought categories. In this week's report, those conditions begin to decline once again as the state shows all the signs of flash drought.
According to the latest drought monitor, in Oklahoma, exceptional drought is now at .67 percent, after being at zero for several weeks.
Extreme drought or worse has increased to 48.8 percent, up from last week’s 31.7 percent.
Severe drought or worse has increased slightly to 92.4, up from last week’s 91.72.
Moderate drought or worse is now at 99.3 percent, up a bit from last week’s 99.1 percent.
Abnormally dry or worse conditions continue to be at 100 percent, the same as the last couple of weeks.
The 6-10 day precipitation outlook map shows Oklahoma is leaning above a 40-50 percent chance of rain through August 20th.
Click the Oklahoma Drought Map above the story to see this week's drought numbers for Oklahoma.
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Oklahoma Pork Council's Kylee Deniz Offers a State of the Pork Industry |
After the dust had settled on the 2022 Oklahoma Pork Congress last Friday, I had the chance to visit with the Executive Director of the Oklahoma Pork Council, Kylee Deniz. We talked about the highlights of Pork Congress, state of the industry, and pork’s place in agriculture.
Deniz explained the importance of the Real Pork Campaign and the goal to provide a story for the Oklahoma pork industry and working with communities to put a face on the pork industry.
Having worked at the National Pork Board on the Real Pork campaign, Deniz said it was a natural fit when she came to the Oklahoma Pork Council to take all of the research, and economic impact and put a real face to it.
“My great team at the Oklahoma Pork Council grabbed ahold of that campaign and ran with it,” Deniz said. “It makes sense for a general consumer, it makes sense for an engaged citizen, it makes sense for a legislator to understand what our industry is, what we do, how we care about the community and the ways that we give back.”
Deniz said there are big plans for the campaign in the future including storytelling through video.
“We are doing it in an authentic and real way which I am proud of,” Deniz said.
Deniz said the council has four strategic intentions including the freedom to operate, storytelling, workforce, and foreign animal disease preparedness.
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NCBA Chief Veterinarian Kathy Simmons talks about a New Threat to Cattle Producers, the Asian Longhorned Tick |
In this episode of Beef Buzz, I am visiting with the Chief Veterinary Officer of the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, Dr. Kathy Simmons as she talks about a new tick invading America that is causing problems for cattle producers and other livestock owners.
“The Asian longhorned tick was first identified in the United States in 2017,” Simmons said. “It was found on a sheep in New Jersey.”
While this tick is normally present in Eastern Asia, Simmons said it has become endemic in Australia, New Zealand, and a few other countries on the Pacific Rim. The Asian longhorned tick is different from other ticks in the United States because females can reproduce without a male, she added.
This tick poses an exceptionally dangerous threat to those in the cattle industry, Simmons said, because it carries harmful diseases such as Theileria orientalis Ikeda genotype, which is a disease that is an infectious bovine anemia similar to Anaplasmosis in its clinical signs.
Oklahoma is on the western border to where the tick is found. It has been identified in Washington and Benton Counties in northwest Arkansas on the Oklahoma-Arkansas border.
A webinar is being put together by APHIS of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Dr. Simmons and her team at the NCBA on August 23-24 from 12 p.m. to 3:45 p.m. to provide cattle producers, state animal health officials, veterinarians and other industry stakeholders interested in learning how to identify the Asian longhorned tick information about how to better manage its associated diseases and spread.
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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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On Today's Ag Perspectives Podcast- Ron Hays talks Medical Marijuana Moratorium and More With Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt |
On this edition of our Oklahoma Farm Report Ag Perspectives Podcast, I spent a few minutes on the phone with Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt- talking about the moratorium on medical marijuana grow houses that will be put into place later this month. The Governor also talked about back to school and where his education priorities are as the new school year begins.
The Governor and I also talked about economic development and what he sees the role of rural Oklahoma playing if he wins a second term this November as Governor of the state.
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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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Grain Prices to Hold Steady According to Crop Marketing Specialist, Kim Anderson |
This week on SUNUP is Dr. Kim Anderson, Oklahoma State University Extension grain market economist. During this week's edition, Anderson provides his analysis of the grain markets after recent dramatic shifts and changes in prices.
“Let’s start with what caused the price increase,” Anderson said. “You go back to January of 2020; we had wheat prices down in the $4 range. We came through and here recently we had them up to $13.30.”
The move from around $4 to $8 was because of COVID, Anderson said and was a demand-driven move. Production in 2019 was a record at 28 billion bushels, Anderson said, and wheat used was 27.4 bushels.
“We built stocks that year but when you got to ‘20, you had a 1.3 billion bushel increase in demand and wheat production only increased by 500 million bushels,” Anderson said. “So, you had a shortage and we reduced stocks.”
We have had a slight decline in production this year, Anderson said but we’ve had record use because of hoarding food stocks.
“The last move from $8 to $13 I think was the war,” Anderson said. “Russia and Ukraine shutting the black sea- you took 30 percent of the wheat off the export market and that is going to have an impact. Then, there is inflation. Outside money moves into commodities when there is the fear of inflation and that is what we saw happen on that move up.”
Since mid-May, we have seen a $5 decline in wheat prices. Since that adjustment, Anderson said it is hard to say where prices will go from here.
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Certified Angus Beef Market Update with Paul Dykstra "Premium Beef Remains in Fashion" |
Federally inspected (FI) slaughter last week totaled 651,000 head. That’s 18,000 fewer than the week prior. The lighter volume was a departure in what has been a fairly robust summer season of weekly head count totals, but this week’s projection is 660,000. Large beef cow slaughter numbers continue to skew head counts in the FI weekly sum.
Recent packer profit margin estimates are in the $200 to $250/head range. Fed cattle prices turned around last week with a $1/cwt. average increase across the normal six states. Iowa continues to lead the cash market with a high of $147/cwt. in their market. Nebraska feedlots saw $140 to $145/cwt. while still posting disappointing quality grade results compared to the past two years.
At the other end of the spectrum, Texas spot market pricing was from $135 to $136/cwt. and Kansas was $136 to $138/cwt.
The carcass sales side of the market saw a fairly stable environment last week, with USDA and Urner Barry reporting prices either side of unchanged. The sideways trending price structure for carcass cutout values is as stable and unmoving as we’ve seen in quite some time.
While minimal, we have observed a positive trend since spring. The early May CAB cutout value of $272/cwt. compares to the latest $282/cwt. last week. That’s a 4% increase in a period that has a five-year average price drop of 15%.
Competition for more richly-marbled middle meats has been a driver during the summer market and we anticipate that to continue as long as the grade underperforms through the fourth quarter.
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Monday, August 15th Area Meetings in El Reno and McAlester |
Oklahoma Farm Bureau has passed the halfway point in their series of August area meetings here in 2022.
Meetings have taken place in Guymon and Ardmore on Monday, Tuesday evening in Lawton and Enid and Thursday in Woodward and Kellyville.
These meetings allow members to consider and discuss some of the pressing issues facing agriculture and rural Oklahoma as they prepare for the development of organizational policy for the upcoming year.
Two more meetings are planned for this coming Monday on August 15- The August 15th meetings include the District 3 Meeting at Redlands Community College in El Reno and the District 5 meeting at the Southeast Expo Center in McAlester. Both meetings start at 6 PM.
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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 higher- Choice Beef was down 13 cents and Select Beef was up 38 cents on Thursday 08/11/2022.
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.
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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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Our Oklahoma Farm Report Team!!!!
Ron Hays, Senior Farm/Ranch Broadcaster and Editor
KC Sheperd, Farm Director and Editor
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KC Sheperd visits with Dakota Moss of Livestock Risk Services. When the pandemic hit in 2020 the cattle markets along with the rest of the world suffered. Many farmers and ranchers altered their marketing plans on crops and livestock to try and prevent a loss in the down Covid markets. This led to cattle being held months longer than planned hoping for a better market. Unfortunately for many farmers and ranchers they had no choice but to sell much heavier cattle into a down market. Resulting in a lower $/cwt price and profits lost. Sheperd and Moss discuss some alternative options for producers with the Livestock Risk Protection program.
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