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Here is your daily Oklahoma farm and ranch news update.
- Winter wheat Planted in Oklahoma and Kansas Behind Last Year and the Average Due to Dry Conditions
- State Climatologist Gary McManus Sees No Drought Busters Anytime Soon
- NCBA's Colin Woodall Believes Beef is a Key Part of the Effort in Stamping out Hunger
- Texas Tech Taking Lead in $1.6M Sorghum Project
- Cost-Share Program Proposal Unanimously Approved by the Oklahoma Conservation Commission
- NCBA Urges EPA to Pause WOTUS Rulemaking Following Supreme Court Arguments
- Remembering Former Congressman Bill Brewster
- Elevated Fire Danger Again in Oklahoma This Week
- Express Ranches Bull Sale Tops $1.6 Million
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Winter wheat Planted in Oklahoma and Kansas Behind Last Year and the Average Due to Dry Conditions |
In the Southwest district of Oklahoma, reporters indicated that wheat seeding has slowed due to drier conditions. Corn and soybean harvest both remained slightly behind the average pace last week.
Pasture and Range conditions continue to be awful from Nebraska south thru Kansas and down to Oklahoma- with Arkansas quickly playing catch up on the poor to very poor ratings. Nebraska reclaimed the worse state in the US title with an 89% poor to very poor pasture/range rating- Kansas jumps 7 percentage points to 78% poor to very poor while Oklahoma sheds 3 points and is the third worse state in the pasture/range stats at 72% poor to very poor. Arkansas made a huge percentage jump- as the state went from 34% poor to very poor to 49% in this past week. And Texas did cross the downward Rubicon (thank you Chandler Keys) as they are now at 52% poor to very poor this week- after spending a lot of late August and September actually improving because of the heavy rains they got that missed most of Oklahoma.
Oklahoma:
Winter wheat planted reached 28 percent, down 8 points from the previous year and down 13 points from normal.
Cotton bolls opening reached 85 percent, up 5 points from the previous year and up 18 points from normal. Cotton conditions rated 7 percent good to excellent, 39 percent fair and 54 percent poor to very poor. (Since last week, good to excellent cotton conditions have dropped by 1 percentage point.)
Corn harvested reached 41 percent, down 1 point from the previous year and down 4 points from normal. Corn conditions rated 25 percent good to excellent, 30 percent fair and 45 percent poor to very poor. (Since last week, good to excellent corn conditions have dropped by 2 percentage points.)
Pasture and Range:
Pasture and range conditions rated 3 percent good to excellent, 25 percent fair and 72 percent poor to very poor.
Since last week, good to excellent pasture and range conditions have dropped 3 percentage points poor to very poor conditions have increased by 3 points.
To view the Oklahoma Crop Progress Report, click here.
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State Climatologist Gary McManus Says we Might See Some Slight Rain Events, But No Drought Busters Anytime Soon |
Farm Director, KC Sheperd, caught up with State Climatologist Gary McManus and talked about his presentation at the Emergency Drought Commission’s second meeting this past Friday.
“Just working on another very dry spell across Oklahoma,” McManus said. “We have had several this summer dating back to early June and then here in September into early October, we are now working on more than a month of just very dry conditions and also above normal temperatures, which doesn’t help things either.”
When you look at the U.S. drought monitor report, McManus said the darkest red colors indicate a D4 drought level.
“That is considered a 1 in 50 to 100-year event,” McManus said. “We have a lot of that down from just southeast of Oklahoma City metro down into southeast Oklahoma, into parts of Southern Oklahoma and also up into other parts of the state as well- some smaller areas. So, that doesn’t mean we only see those droughts once every 50 or 100 years, because we have seen those once in 50 or 100 years quite often in the last 10 to 15 years in Oklahoma. It just means that they are supposed to be pretty rare, but that is not how it has been working for us here in the state.”
Now, McManus said, we are no longer in a flash drought, we are just in a regular drought.
“It’s really two droughts in one,” McManus said. “So, we had that flash drought that began in early June, but we also had remnants of that longer-term drought that started back in August of 2021. Much of the state was relieved of that long-term drought when we went through that wet April and May, into the first 10 days of June, but some of that across western Oklahoma and the panhandle was still in place when the flash drought began.”
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NCBA's Colin Woodall Believes Beef is a Key Part of the Solution to Stamping out Hunger |
This past week, the White House held its conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health. One of those attending representing U.S. agriculture was the CEO of the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, Colin Woodall. In this episode of Beef Buzz, I am featuring comments from Woodall as he talks about highlights from the conference concerning the beef industry.
The conference was an all-day event, Woodall said, with about 500 participants.
“We heard from everybody from the President to the Secretary of Agriculture and members of Congress,” Woodall said. “It truly was a star-studded event with not only a lot of political celebrities but celebrity chefs around and it was a focus on what needs to be done now that we find ourselves 50 years past the last conference on hunger and nutrition and what more can be done to stamp out hunger.”
The goal of the president, Woodall said, is to stamp out hunger in the U.S by 2023.
“The good news is, the beef industry is going to play a huge role in achieving that particular goal,” Woodall said.
Woodall said it was important that NCBA and other ag groups were able to be at the conference to represent production agriculture.
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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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Texas Tech Taking Lead in $1.6M Sorghum Project |
Krishna Jagadish, a professor and the Thornton Distinguished Chair in the Department of Plant and Soil Science, received $1.6 million in funding in partnership with Texas A&M University, Kansas State University, the U.S Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service locations in Lubbock and Manhattan, Kansas, and industry partners. Haydee Laza, an assistant professor of plant physiology in the Davis College of Agricultural Sciences & Natural Resources, is a co-investigator on the project as well.
Titled “Transforming grain sorghum’s climatic yield potential and grain quality through trait-based ideotype breeding,” the project is designed to maximize the sorghum crop by determining effective trait combinations for different environments.
“The project brings together major public sorghum improvement programs in the U.S.,” Jagadish said. “The trans-disciplinary team aims to achieve the project goals by integrating agronomy, crop physiology, breeding, machine learning and crop and climate modeling.”
Over the course of the project researchers, led by Jagadish, hope to develop trait-based ideotype sorghum hybrids specifically targeted to thrive in water-deficient areas and in areas considered favorable for growing sorghum.
“For the first time in modern history, we have an opportunity to reimagine the architecture of the plant and how it operates,” USCP CEO Tim Lust said. “From drought tolerance to photosynthetic efficiency, this stellar team of physiology experts will leave no stone unturned in pursuit of a more productive, efficient sorghum plant for our farmers.”
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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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Cost-Share Program Proposal Unanimously Approved by the Oklahoma Conservation Commission |
Oct. 3, 2022, in their regular meeting, Commissioners of the Oklahoma Conservation Commission unanimously approved a program in which emergency drought cost-share funds are being made available to all 77 Oklahoma counties via distribution by local Conservation Districts.
Implementation of the program through the state’s 84 Conservation Districts is set to begin in the upcoming days.
Projects included in the program are water well drilling, pumping facilities, pipeline, pasture tap, watering facilities, heavy use Area protection, cover crop planting, forage and biomass planting (excluding Bermuda grass) and pond clean out.
On Friday, Sep. 30. 2022, the Emergency Drought Commission (EDC) - Blayne Arthur, Julie Cunningham and Trey Lam - met Friday and unanimously approved a program proposed by the OCC which will distribute the $3 million appropriated by the State Legislature and approved by Governor Stitt in House Bill 2959 to Oklahoma ag producers.
The latest U.S. Drought Monitor Report showed just under 100 percent of the state (99.88) in Moderate to Exceptional Drought, including 94 percent in Severe to Exceptional drought.
Gary Crawley is the Area V Commissioner for OCC, the OCC Commission Chair and a producer in Savanna (about 10 miles southwest of McAlester) in Pittsburg County. The bulk of his area is in Extreme to Exceptional drought.
“It started when the hay was short, then the grass was depleted and now the ponds are dry or down to puddles,” Crawley said Monday. “It’s actually a carryover from last fall and winter and then it lingered into spring and really clamped down on us in the summer. The liquidation of the cattle herds is so tough. I’ve got one place that is completely dry, there’s no grass, no nothing, it looks like a desert. Producers are feeling this throughout Oklahoma and we are confident that this program will help bring some short and long-term relief.”
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NCBA Urges EPA to Pause WOTUS Rulemaking Following Supreme Court Arguments |
The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) called on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to pause their “Waters of the United States” (WOTUS) rulemaking following today’s Supreme Court oral arguments in the case Sackett v. EPA, a case that will determine the EPA’s authority to regulate bodies of water under the Clean Water Act.
“Today’s oral arguments highlighted the need for the Supreme Court to put this issue to bed once and for all. Since the passage of the Clean Water Act, cattle producers have experienced the regulatory whiplash of shifting WOTUS definitions—on average, a change every 3.8 years,” said NCBA Natural Resources and Public Lands Council Executive Director Kaitlynn Glover. “NCBA is hopeful that the court will support NCBA’s argument for clear and limited WOTUS definition, but in the meantime, we call on the EPA to suspend their rulemaking until the outcome of the case is clear.”
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Remembering Former Congressman Bill Brewster |
Sad news came on Monday with the word that former Congressman Bill Brewster of Marietta had died in recent days at the age of 80. Congressman Brewster had been battling cancer in the final days of his life.
Our colleague Jerry Bohnen of OK Energy writes "A Democrat, Brewster was considered an active leader in energy issues, first in the state legislature and then in Congress. Before his election to the U.S. House, Brewster served 8 years in the state legislature where he chaired several legislative committees and as Chairman of several outside business organizations including the Southwest Energy Council, the Energy Committee at the National Conference of State Legislature and the Energy Committee at the American Legislative Exchange Council.
Jerry also writes that Brewster, a pharmacist by trade, served in Congress from 1991 after winning the November 1990 election, until 1997. He served on the House Ways and Means Committee where he was part of tax, energy, health care and trade legislation efforts.
He helped found the now largely defunct Blue Dog Coalition.
Congressman Frank Lucas offers a fine tribute to Brewster: “I’m saddened to learn of the passing of my friend and former colleague, Bill Brewster. I had the distinct privilege of serving with Bill in both the Oklahoma House of Representatives and the United States House of Representatives, and in both chambers Bill served with unwavering devotion to Oklahoma.
“Bill lived life with an immeasurable amount of passion and always strived to do better for his community and those he cherished. Throughout out working together in Congress, I could always look to Bill’s principled characteristics and leadership even though we represented different parties in Congress. No one represented Oklahoma as a finer statesman than Bill Brewster."
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Elevated Fire danger will again Develop over most of Oklahoma today and throughout the Week |
Fire Situation Report for October 3, 2022
Statewide Discussion: Warm afternoon temperatures and low afternoon relative humidity values encouraged very receptive fine fuels each day through the weekend and moderate initial attack activity across Oklahoma. Elevated fire danger was developing over most of Oklahoma Monday and will again on Tuesday.
Another frontal boundary is forecasted to move into Oklahoma Thursday night into Friday again offering slight chances of rain. More notable will be the cooler temperatures on the heels of the cold fronts. The seasonal drying of fuels has been accelerated by the warm and dry pattern and the weather system late week may provide, at best, a speed bump, in building fire danger concern.
Burn Bans (Click on the map above for the latest Burn Ban info):
NE Area - 2 Fires Burned 8 Acres (Cause: 2-Incendiary)
EC Area - 2 Fires Burned 15.8 Acres (Cause:1-Debris, 1-Incendiary)
SE Area - 15 Fires Burned 70.9 Acres (Cause: 3-Escaped Debris, 2-Equipment, 10-Incendiary)
Large / Significant Fire Activity within the OFS Protection Area:
• Spare Fire (Delaware County) - 110 Acres / 95% Contained
• Kerns Ranch Fire (Pushmataha County) - 3,350 Acres / 90% Contained
• Solomon’s Grave Fire (Pushmataha County) - 414 Acres / 95% Contained
• Blue Hole Fire (McCurtain County) - 1,153 est. Acres / 95% Contained
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Express Ranches Bull Sale
Tops $1.6 Million
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Express Ranches had another successful fall Bull Sale on Monday- here's some of the highlights as written by James Bessler from the Express Ranches Facebook page:
"On a sunny, early fall Monday morning, commercial cattlemen gathered in Yukon, Oklahoma for the Fall Bull Sale at Express Ranches. The offering that combined desirable phenotype with strong genomics was in excellent demand. The 198 Angus bulls averaged $7,232, and 41 Hereford bulls averaged $4,512. The 239 bulls sold grossed $1,617,000 to average $6,766.
"The excellent set of bulls that led off the sale, were topped by a high marbling, stout son of JET FUEL; Lot # 7, EXAR JET FUEL 1702B sold for $40,000. Another popular bull was the high growth son of ALTERNATIVE that sold as Lot # 26; EXAR ALTERNATIVE 1905B sold for $26,000."
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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 up $2.19 and Select Beef was up $1.18 on Monday 10/03/2022.
Click on the Button below for the latest report from USDA Market News
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Oklahoma National Stockyards had 8,500 head on Monday for the first sale of October, 2022.
Compared to last week: Feeder steers 1.00 to 3.00 lower. Heifers mostly steady. Demand moderate to good for feeder cattle. Quality average to attractive. Steer and heifer calves, most classes unevenly steady. Demand moderate for calves. Many cattle continue to head to market some 4-5 months early due to drought conditions. Extreme drought continues to plague most of the region as cooler temperatures are expected this week with a slight chance of moisture.
Click below for the complete closing report.
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The Joplin Regional Stockyards had a total run of 5,314 head of cattle that sold on Monday, October third.
Compared to last week feeder steers traded steady to 4.00 higher. Feeder heifers traded 2.00-6.00 higher. Supply and demand was moderate.
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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