Oklahoma's Latest Farm
And Ranch News
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Wednesday, August 31, 2022
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Here is your daily Oklahoma farm and ranch news update.
- OKFB Legal Foundation Praises Supreme Court in Recreational Marijuana Ruling
- Senator Lankford Talks Supply Chain and Energy Cost Impacts to Ag Producers in the State
- OSU's Derrell Peel Sees Tighter Cattle Numbers Translating Into Falling Beef Production
- According to the Ag Census the Number of Female Ag Producers Increased 27% from 2012 to 2017
- Beef Up the Blood Supply Ahead of Labor Day Weekend
- Forrest Hett with Farm Strategy LLC Talks about New Innovative Traits in Wheat Industry and Working with OSU Wheat Team
- Retained Ownership? - Part 3, Beef Quality Grades
- BASF and Corteva Agriscience collaborate to deliver the future of weed control to Soybean Farmers
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OKFB Legal Foundation Praises Supreme Court in Recreational Marijuana Ruling
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The Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled today to uphold the state statutory procedures a state question must follow to advance to the ballot.
Last week, proponents of State Question 820 - a measure to legalize recreational marijuana - filed a petition to circumvent Oklahoma’s state statute for initiative petitions. The Court heard oral arguments on Friday, August 26 from the supporters of SQ 820 and Attorney General John O’Connor, who represented the Oklahoma Secretary of State, the Oklahoma State Election Board and Governor Kevin Stitt, who opposed the petitioners’ request to the court.
The Oklahoma Farm Bureau Legal Foundation joined forces with the State Chamber Research Foundation Legal Center and the Oklahoma Cattlemen’s Association to submit a brief urging the Supreme Court to preserve the integrity of the state statute to ensure a fair and equal process for all state questions, both current and past.
The OKFB Legal Foundation and partners released the following statement after the court’s ruling Tuesday:
The State Chamber Research Foundation Legal Center, the Oklahoma Farm Bureau Legal Foundation and the Oklahoma Cattlemen’s Association are pleased with the Oklahoma Supreme Court’s commonsense decision to uphold the state statute requiring a 10-day challenge period for all state question initiatives before advancing to the ballot. This ensures the vital right of Oklahomans to petition the government through an initiative and maintains the integrity of the rules and procedures that all Oklahomans must play by, regardless of the subject matter.
Our members understand the importance and impact of a state question. We are proud of the Oklahoma Supreme Court for applying the law consistently to all citizens.
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Senator Lankford Talks Supply Chain and Energy Cost Impacts to Ag Producers in the State
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Farm Director, KC Sheperd, had the chance to visit with Senator James Lankford talking about what is impacting businesses in the area and his work to protect the well-being of Oklahomans and those in agriculture.
“Some of the high points are obviously inflation, supply chain issues, and how we are going to continue to be able to deal with energy costs,” Lankford said. “The price of gasoline and diesel is coming down, but it is still very much higher than what it was two years ago, and it is affecting everybody’s budget.”
Businesses in Oklahoma are doing better than many other states, Lankford said, and the Oklahoma unemployment rate is lower than it is in many other areas in the country.
Lankford talked about protecting ag land from foreign purchases.
“This is a big issue to me,” Lankford said. “We have restrictions- what are called CFIUS restrictions- if you wanted to buy a hospital or you want to buy a technology company, you would have to go through some approval process on that as well because you are a foreign entity in that purchasing. There is no USDA piece on this so if you are buying agricultural technology or you are buying agricultural land and you are a foreign entity, USDA does not have a seat at the table to say this is a threat to the local economy.”
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OSU's Derrell Peel Sees Tighter Cattle Numbers Translating Into Falling Beef Production
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In this episode of the Beef Buzz, I am featuring comments from Oklahoma State University Livestock Economist, Dr. Derrell Peel, talking on K-State’s Agriculture Today about higher beef prices ahead.
“On a longer-term trend, one of the things that is pretty clearly built into the futures is the fact that we have got stronger prices ahead,” Peel said. “The really big picture for the next several months to beyond, even, is numbers get tighter, supplies get tighter, the supply fundamentals really become supportive, and that is priced into both feeder and fed cattle or live cattle futures markets at this point as you look out to the different contracts.”
Peel also talked about the stability of current wholesale boxed beef trade markets.
“Boxed beef is operated in a very narrow trading range really back to about April,” Peel said. “I interpret that to be really kind of a sign that beef demand has been sort of capped, or muted if you will, at the consumer level.”
Beef demand is still fundamentally strong, Peel said, but it has been capped a little because there has been some pressure on the consumers. The boxed beef market is operated in a very narrow trading range, Peel added, and we did not see some of the seasonal patterns that we normally expect coming into the summer grilling season.
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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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According to the Ag Census the Number of Female Ag Producers Increased 27% from 2012 to 2017
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In 2017, the United States had 1.2 million female producers, accounting for 36 percent of the country’s 3.4 million producers. Female producers are slightly younger, more likely to be a beginning farmer, and more likely to live on the farm they operate than male producers. More than half of all farms (56 percent) had a female producer. These female-operated farms accounted for 38 percent of U.S. agriculture sales and 43 percent of U.S. farmland.
Number and Location
The 2017 Census of Agriculture revised the demographic data collected to better capture the contributions of all persons involved in agricultural production. In response to detailed questions about farm decision-making, more farms reported multiple individuals involved in farm operations. As a result of the new approach to counting producers, the total number of U.S. producers increased 7 percent between 2012 and 2017. The number of female producers increased 27 percent. The number of farms with female producers increased 23 percent. In 2017, female-operated farms – the 1.1 million farms with one or more female producers responsible for making decisions about the farm’s operation – were 56 percent of total farms. In comparison, 91 percent of farms had one or more male producers.
Producer Characteristics
Female producers are slightly younger on average than male producers (57.1 years versus 57.7 in 2017) and more likely to be a beginning farmer (30 percent of female and 25 percent of male producers had farmed 10 years or fewer). They were more likely to live on the farm they operated and less likely to report farming as their primary occupation. 36% of all US Producers are female.
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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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Sponsor Spotlight
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With leadership events, supporting our state’s agricultural youth and connecting consumers with agriculture, Farm Bureau promotes and sustains Oklahoma agriculture in numerous ways. Join with OKFB today by becoming a member at okfarmbureau.org/join. Together, we are rural Oklahoma.
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Beef Up the Blood Supply Ahead of Labor Day Weekend
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Blood donors who save lives before Labor Day will enjoy a tailgate party at Oklahoma Blood Institute’s donor centers statewide! This year’s Pre-Labor Day blood drive is a two-day event.
On Thursday, September 1 and Friday, September 2, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., donors will receive their choice of an “OSU orange” or “OU crimson” Bedlam t-shirt. The Oklahoma Beef Council is providing all-beef hot dogs as it teams up with the Oklahoma Blood Institute to ‘beef up’ the blood supply for the Labor Day weekend.
Oklahoma Blood Institute has nine donor centers statewide including four in the Oklahoma City metro:
• Central OKC, 901 N. Lincoln Blvd.
• North OKC, 5105 N. Portland Ave.
• Edmond, 3409 S. Broadway, Suite 300
• Norman, 1004 24th Ave., N.W., Suite 101
• Ada, Ardmore, Enid, Lawton and Tulsa (addresses on obi.org)
"Oklahoma’s beef farmers and ranchers care about Oklahomans and are excited to continue this 20-year partnership with the Oklahoma Blood Institute,” said Heather Buckmaster, OBC Executive Director. “We hope everyone takes a moment before their Labor Day activities to help us Beef Up the Blood supply.”
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Forrest Hett with Farm Strategy LLC Talks about New Innovative Traits in Wheat Industry and Working with OSU Wheat Team
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Farm Director, KC Sheperd, had the chance to visit with Forrest Hett, Program Manager with Farm Strategy LLC, talking about meeting consumers’ needs with innovative traits in wheat.
“We test a lot of grain that is out in the countryside, whether it is in a field or a bin or in some sort of elevation somewhere, and we deliver that as an ingredient to large bakeries or mills that are looking for it,” Hett said.
Hett said Farm Strategy looks for the end-use signals of what mills and bakeries want and then tests for those qualities in the countryside to find what the mills and bakeries are looking for so they can move it to them.
“We partner with a lot of grain storage facilities and they do a lot of testing as the wheat comes in with the growers that want to be in that program and so as those grain facilities move that in, we get a good test on what that looks like for baking quality, not just what is done as the truck comes in, but the baking qualities for the end-use they are looking for,” Hett said. “We partner with those guys, and it takes a lot of time to get through all those tests.”
As for gluten extraction that takes place at the gluten plant, Hett said they are most interested in being able to exclude part of the vital wheat gluten used at bakeries to perform to their needs to eventually develop a supply chain of wheat that can exclude part of that to help save money and clean the label up a little.
“BX7 is a trait that Brett Carver and his team developed, and it has what we call stability,” Hett said. “Instead of being in the 8, 9 and 10-minute range, we have even seen it up in the 70-plus minute range and what that means is you can mix the bread longer, and hopefully, in the end, we can exclude some of the vital wheat gluten that is included in that bread recipe, so it is a trait that carries a lot of value once it hits the dough and we want to hopefully be able to bring some of that value back to the growers who are growing it and the people who are helping keep that through the supply chain."
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Retained Ownership? - Part 3, Beef Quality Grades
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Mark Johnson, Oklahoma State University Extension Beef Cattle Breeding Specialist, offers herd health advice as part of the weekly series known as the "Cow Calf Corner" published electronically by Dr. Peel, Mark Johnson, and Paul Beck. Today, Johnson is talking about beef quality grades and retained ownership.
United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Beef Quality Grades assigned to beef carcasses indicate the tenderness, juiciness and flavor of cooked beef. Beef Quality Grades are based on: 1) the degree of marbling a USDA grader finds in the ribeye muscle of a ribbed carcass between the 12th and 13th ribs, and 2) the maturity of the carcass. The “A” Maturity designation means that a hanging beef carcass shows a degree of maturity between 9 - 30 months of age.
Accordingly, if you send lighter calves or long yearlings to the feed yard, after the typical finishing phase of at least 150 days of a high energy, corn-based ration fed ad lib, they should yield an A maturity carcass. Because of this, marbling score is the primary factor determining Quality Grades in A maturity beef carcasses. In conventional beef production, cattle are fed for an amount of time to reach a compositional endpoint with the objective of tapping their full genetic potential to grow and develop marbling.
Marbling is one type of fat we find in the carcass (external fat, seam fat and kidney heart and pelvic fat (KPH) will be discussed next week when we cover Beef Yield Grades). Marbling is commonly referred to as intramuscular fat because of where it is found within the ribeye muscle. As such, marbling can’t be seen in live animals. Therefore, the compositional endpoint to which cattle are fed is based on external finish.
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BASF and Corteva Agriscience Collaborate to Deliver the Future of Weed Control to Soybean Farmers
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Corteva Agriscience and BASF Agricultural Solutions announce their agreement to develop future herbicide-tolerant soybeans and complementing herbicides for farmers in North America and beyond. The collaboration aims to bring competitive alternatives to manage resistant and tough-to-control weeds through innovative trait stacks and durable, long-lasting modes of action. Farmers will benefit from broader weed management options and strong germplasm choices from both BASF and Corteva seed brands.
The strategic cross-licensing agreements include the development of new trait stacks, as well as optimized herbicide options for future weed control needs:
• BASF will license its proprietary PPO (protoporphyrinogen oxidase) gene for herbicide tolerance to Corteva to develop a new herbicide-tolerant trait stack. The stack will include tolerance to BASF’s Liberty® (glufosinate ammonium), Corteva’s Enlist® herbicides (2,4-D choline with Colex-D® technology) and various glyphosate herbicide solutions, as well as BASF’s existing and pipeline PPO inhibiting herbicides, all demonstrating excellent crop safety. BASF PPO inhibiting herbicides include Kixor®, Tirexor® and a new PPO inhibiting herbicide under development by BASF.
• The stack of four herbicide tolerant traits is expected to be available in all Corteva seed brands. Corteva has licensed the stack for use in BASF seed brands.
• Corteva anticipates licensing the new trait stack to independent seed companies in North America.
• Both companies plan to offer exclusive and proprietary germplasm options with the stack, enabling farmers to work with their preferred seed supplier and route to market.
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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 $3.25 and Select Beef was down $3.07 on Tuesday 08/30/2022.
Click on the Button below for the latest report from USDA Market News
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Oklahoma National Stockyards had 7,954 head of cattle on Monday of this week- August 29, 2022.
A reminder- NO Sale at ONSY next week due to Labor Day- their next sale is Monday, September 12th.
Compared to last week: Feeder steers unevenly steady. Feeder heifers steady to 3.00 lower with a light test. Steer calves unevenly steady. Heifer calves steady to 4.00 lower. Demand moderate to good despite the sharp declines in the feeder cattle futures today. Corn futures closing 15-18 higher on Monday pushing feeder futures well over 2.00 lower. Early corn yields are speculated lighter than what is estimated. Quality mostly average.
Click below for the complete closing report.
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OKC West in El Reno had a calf run of 2,500 head on Tuesday, August 30, 2022.
Compared to last week: Steer calves that were long weaned with multiple rounds of shots traded mostly steady, weaned heifers were 2.00- 3.00 lower. Un-weaned bawling steer and heifer calves sold sharply lower instances to 10.00-12.00 lower. Demand moderate for weaned cattle, light for bawling calves
For today- at OKC West- Expecting 4,600 head.
1,800 Feeder Heifers at 9:00am
2,800 Feeder Steers @ 12:00
Click on the button below for details of the trade as compiled by the USDA Market News Service.
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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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Ron Hays, Senior Farm/Ranch Broadcaster and Editor
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