Oklahoma's Latest Farm
And Ranch News
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Thursday, September 1, 2022 |
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Here is your daily Oklahoma farm and ranch news update.
- USDA Designates Nine Oklahoma Counties as Primary Natural Disaster Areas
- Open for Business: Cowboy Meats Opens Retail Store at FAPC
- NCBA Supportive of Cattle Electronic ID System to Aid in Disease Traceability
- US Producers Report Lower Yields for Corn and Soybeans
- Beekeeping for Beginners with OSU's Courtney Bir
- Latest Hay Report Shows Hay is getting Tighter Across the State
- USDA Announces $21.9 Million in Grants Awarded to Further Strengthen Meat and Poultry Supply Chains
- ICYMI- Oklahoma Water Center Aims to Conserve Water through Cover Crops
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USDA Designates Nine Oklahoma Counties as Primary Natural Disaster Areas |
This Secretarial natural disaster designation allows the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) to extend much-needed emergency credit to producers recovering from natural disasters through emergency loans. Emergency loans can be used to meet various recovery needs including the replacement of essential items such as equipment or livestock, the reorganization of a farming operation or the refinance of certain debts. FSA will review the loans based on the extent of losses, security available and repayment ability.
According to the U.S. Drought Monitor, these counties suffered from a drought intensity value during the growing season of 1) D2 Drought-Severe for 8 or more consecutive weeks or 2) D3 Drought-Extreme or D4 Drought-Exceptional.
Impacted Area: Oklahoma
Triggering Disaster: Drought
Application Deadline: April 3, 2023
Primary Counties Eligible: Adair, Haskell, Muskogee, Cherokee, Latimer, Okfuskee, Delaware, McIntosh, Ottawa
Contiguous Counties Also Eligible: Oklahoma: Craig, Le Flore, Okmulgee, Pushmataha, Sequoyah, Creek, Lincoln, Pittsburg, Seminole, Wagoner, Hughes, Mayes, Pottawatomie
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Open for Business: Cowboy Meats Opens Retail Store at FAPC |
When Joel Jackson was hired as the meat pilot plant manager at the Robert M. Kerr Food and Agricultural Products Center, his goal was to open a Cowboy Meats Retail Store. Available to the public, the Cowboy Meats Retail Store is now open 1-5 p.m. every Friday at FAPC.
“We had a great opening day at the Cowboy Meats Retail Store,” Jackson said. “I was excited to meet many of the new customers and hear about their connection to the university and FAPC. While being new to Stillwater, I’ve noticed the Oklahoma State University community, alumni and the city of Stillwater support the activities, programs and events at the university.”
Special orders are welcomed by Cowboy Meats throughout the week, and Cowboy Meats is now taking orders for beef sides and quarters, in addition to whole and half lambs.
The retail store sells a variety of local meat including ribeye steaks, filets, ground beef and beef brisket. Three flavors of smoked sausage, including smoked pork, no sage and cheddar jalapeno, are among the featured local products available for purchase.
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NCBA Supportive of Cattle Electronic ID System to Aid in Disease Traceability |
In this episode of Beef Buzz, I am visiting with the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association’s Director of Animal Health and Food Safety Policy, Chase DeCoite, to talk about a possible mandatory electronic ID system for cattle in the future.
“A few years ago, during the Trump administration, USDA APHS, rolled out a policy change that would have moved mandatory identification to an electronic ID system,” DeCoite said. “Rather than the current system that is underway, it would have mandated official ID tags that are necessary for interstate movements of animals over 18 months of age and those classes currently under mandatory ID transition to electronic ID.”
The idea of an electronic ID system, DeCoite said, was met with some resistance in the form of lawsuits and such, so instead the agency rolled back that policy change and decided to approach it from a rulemaking process.
“So, we have been awaiting a proposed rule that would transition the mandatory disease traceability identification to an electronic ID,” DeCoite said. “We have seen some movement in Washington on this. We are aware that this proposed rule is currently with the office of management and budget and that means its next step will be to become a proposed rule and announced in the federal register.”
DeCoite said NCBA expects it to become a proposed rule sometime between now and the end of the year.
“NCBA, through our grassroots policy, is supportive of electronic ID and one of the reasons we are is to reduce the amount of time that it takes to do a disease traceback,” DeCoite said. “That is vitally important because, in an event of a foreign animal disease or a disease that occurs every day within the cattle industry, the amount of time that it takes to do that traceback is critical. It means that we could return to commerce faster in the event of a foreign animal disease outbreak.”
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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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US Producers Report Lower Yields for Corn and Soybeans |
Allendale, Inc. a Chicago area agricultural commodity brokerage and analysis firm projected the US corn crop at 14.108 billion bushels and a soybean crop of 4.435 billion bushels.
The 33rd annual Nationwide Producer Yield Survey was conducted from August 15 – 28. The surveys were conducted direct by our brokers as well as via our website and social media platforms.
These estimates were based on producer calculated yields in 26 states. Ample surveys gave us the numbers needed to project yields in 12 states. This covers 86% of corn production and 83% of soybean production. For this survey, the smaller states were assumed using USDA’s August 12 estimates. Harvested acres were assumed using USDA’s August 12 estimates.
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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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Beekeeping for Beginners with OSU's Courtney Bir |
Farm Director, KC Sheperd, visited with OSU Extension Specialist, Courtney Bir, about how to start your own beekeeping operation.
“We have a really great fact sheet that is available online that goes through all of the items and the average costs,” Bir said. “There are some really great kits that can help you get started that have everything that you need, but really it is a deep box that has the frames, some wax, a hive tool, a bee-keeping suit of course so you don’t get stung, a smoker if you choose, the bees, some feeders and sugar water- there is a lot of different options.”
There are a lot of items that are optional depending on your preference, Bir said, so taking a look at that fact sheet and finding out what works for you and your finances and how you want to raise bees is a great place to start.
It is also important to make sure that your Home Owner Association does not have any restrictions on bees, Bir said, and that you are a courteous neighbor and keep your beehive off of your neighbor’s fence and let them know what you are doing.
There are three different registration levels, Bir said.
“There is a free sensitivity one which means they are not going to come to spray if the city sprays,” Bir said. “The typical registration you need is ten dollars and then that puts you on the sensitivity list and if you decide in the future to sell at a farmers’ market, they may require that. If you are a farmer that has other livestock and other items and you are already working with the FSA, if you ever have to apply for ELAP, you have to have that hive registered, so with that 10-dollar registration, you give yourself a lot of flexibility.”
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Latest Hay Report Shows Hay is getting Tighter Across the State |
Hay is getting tighter. Farmers and hay producers are beginning to get creative with baling up their milo, soybeans, and corn stalks. The rain did come across the parts of the state which brought cooler temperatures and which we might possibly receive a second cutting. Through the Oklahoma Mesonet, we are in the forecast of receiving some rain.
The Drought Monitor shows that 99.98% are in abnormally dry conditions, 98.64% are in moderate drought conditions, 89.68% are in severe drought conditions, 48.60% are in extreme drought conditions, and 2.19% exceptional drought conditions.
*** The next report release will be on September 9th ***
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USDA Announces $21.9 Million in Grants Awarded to Further Strengthen Meat and Poultry Supply Chains |
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) today announced an additional $21.9 million of funding is being awarded to 111 grant projects through the Meat and Poultry Inspection Readiness Grant Program (MPIRG), bringing total funding to $54.6 million. This year’s awards will fund projects in 37 states. The funding will help strengthen and develop new market opportunities for meat and poultry processors throughout the United States. To further these efforts, AMS is also encouraging MPIRG awardees and eligible participants in USDA’s Meat and Poultry Supply Chain initiatives to request assistance through the Meat and Poultry Processing Capacity Technical Assistance Program (MPPTA). Launched in March 2022, MPPTA connects participants to a nationwide network of resources and expertise.
“The Meat and Poultry Inspection Readiness Grants will help meat and poultry processors make necessary facility improvements, expand their businesses, and strengthen the nation’s food supply chain,” said Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack. “These grants are one part of USDA’s Meat and Poultry Supply Chain initiatives and will contribute to our efforts to transform our food system.”
“USDA continues to build capacity and increase economic opportunity for small and midsized meat and poultry producers across the country,” added Under Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs Jenny Lester Moffitt.
Examples of projects funded this round include:
• Homegrown LG OK, a small processing plant in Locust Grove, Okla., will use MPIRG funding to modernize, expand, and comply with Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) protocols. The funding will allow the plant to purchase new machines to increase weekly production in a rural and low access area.
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ICYMI- Oklahoma Water Center Aims to Conserve Water through Cover Crops |
The Oklahoma Water Resources Center at Oklahoma State University is teaming up with Texas A&M University for a $1.7 million project to study the benefits of regenerative agriculture in Oklahoma and Texas.
“The water center’s involvement was sparked from discussions on how implementing soil health practices would help achieve Oklahoma’s Water for 2060 goal of consuming no more fresh water in 2060 than was consumed in 2010,” said Kevin Wagner, OWRC director. “There is evidence that practices to improve soil health will also help reach this goal, but there is a need for more research in the Southern Plains.”
Project partners are conducting field research evaluating how the use of cover crops, no till farming and grazing of cover crops effect soil health, soil carbon, nutrient cycling, greenhouse gases emissions, and water quality and quantity. The field research findings will then be used to develop river basin scale models to evaluate the effects of regenerative agricultural practices at a regional scale. Output from these models will be integrated with economic models to show the potential economic impacts on individual producers and surrounding communities.
Although cover crops have been heavily researched in midwestern states, less research has been done in the drier environment of the Southern Plains, according to Wagner, who said part of the project will be studying using wheat as a cover crop for cotton in the Oklahoma panhandle and southwestern regions. Researchers want to understand how cover crops perform in a semi-arid environment with less rainfall and determine the barriers to adoption.
“The focus of this research is cotton as an essential cash crop for southwestern Oklahoma,” Wagner said. “Although cotton provides certain advantages over corn, such as higher tolerance for salinity and lower need for moisture and irrigation, it also has disadvantages, such as leaving very little cover for the soil after harvest.”
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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 $1.45 and Select Beef was down $1.94 on Wednesday 08/31/2022.
Click on the Button below for the latest report from USDA Market News
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OKC West in El Reno had 7,128 on the final sale days of August this week.
According to USDA Markets News- Compared to last week- Feeder steers sold 1.00-3.00 lower. Feeder heifers traded steady to 1.00 higher. Demand moderate. 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.
Meanwhile- Manager Bill Barnhart offers these comments on the OKC West Facebook Page- "As August comes to a end, the markets this week were softer on most weights and classes. The quality of the offering is waning as fall approaches. The market has been excellent all summer but now seems like it is taking a breather. Feedyards are relatively full. Fat cattle have yet to trade in the south this week. Choice boxes printed lower today. No cow sale Monday because of Labor Day. We will have our regular Tuesday/Wednesday auctions and will be receiving cattle 24/7 as usual.
Click below for the complete closing 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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Our Oklahoma Farm Report Team!!!!
Ron Hays, Senior Farm/Ranch Broadcaster 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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