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Wednesday, October 26, 2022 |
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Here is your daily Oklahoma farm and ranch news update.
- Rainfall Totals Piled Up in Eastern Counties Tuesday
- Courtney Cowley Hopeful for Supply Chain Issues to Ease Up in 2023
- Latest Cattle on Feed Report from USDA Implies Fewer Pounds of Beef Available in 2023
- OKFB and OCA Gubernatorial Candidate Forum on Agriculture Set for Today
- Take Caution, Read Labels when Feeding Failed Crops
- USMEF to Honor Lighthizer, Saunders at Upcoming Conference
- Calls Increase for U.S. Trade Representative to Act on Mexico's Pending Decree on Corn Imports
- OSU'S Dr. Mark Johnson: Seizing Financial and Genetic Opportunity and Culling Bulls
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Rainfall Totals Piled Up in Eastern Counties Tuesday |
One of the best rain making systems of 2022 rolled through at the start of this week- and gradually moved out of Oklahoma on Tuesday- leaving a dozen Oklahoma Mesonet stations with three inches or more of rain in their gauges.
One of those locations was west of I-35- Walters, with an even three inches. The others were in far east central Oklahoma not far from the Arkansas state line- Cookson added more than an inch of rain to the totals we reported yesterday morning- ending up with an even 5 inches of rain.
Check the map above to see more details- and click on it to jump back to the real time three day rainfall totals.
Northwest Oklahoma missed out- for the most part from this rainfall.
But hope springs eternal- and Oklahoma does have more rain in the forecast- in fact Seiling and that general area has a 70% chance of rain Thursday night.
Keep on Praying!
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Courtney Cowley Hopeful for Supply Chain Issues to Ease Up in 2023 |
KC Sheperd, Farm Director, got the chance to visit with senior economist in the Regional Affairs Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Courtney Cowley, talking about the intensification of supply chain issues due to different factors such as the pandemic and the Russia and Ukraine war.
Cowley said conditions are not as poor as they were coming out of the pandemic, and we have rebalanced in some areas.
“Inventories were tight and are still tight, which has kind of exacerbated some of these supply chain issues,” Cowley said.
Challenges this year, such as drought, reduced supplies, and difficulty transporting barges, Cowley said, are starting to send things in the wrong direction.
“We had started to see some abatement, but I am concerned that drought is starting to cause some greater disruptions in the supply chain and difficulty for producers,” Cowley said.
Cowley said that there are low levels on the Mississippi river due to the drought, which has ultimately made barge traffic more difficult. There are reports of backlogs along the river, Cowley said, which ultimately can result in lower local prices upriver for producers for the commodities they are starting to harvest, such as corn and soybeans.
Oklahoma’s economy, Cowley said, is seeing a greater decline in farm income compared to other states, mostly attributed to the drought. Cattle prices increasing has likely helped producers in Oklahoma more recently, Cowley said, but the drought continues to cause disproportionate effects in Oklahoma compared to other areas of the country.
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Latest Cattle on Feed Report from USDA Implies Fewer Pounds of Beef Available in 2023 |
In this episode of Beef Buzz, I caught up with Oklahoma State University Extension Livestock Market Economist, Dr. Derrell Peel, and talked about the heifer numbers within USDA’s latest Cattle on Feed Report released on October 21.
The latest report issued is a quarterly report which includes extra data breakdown on steers and heifers. Peel says this extra data is especially useful in identifying where the United States stands in female herd liquidation.
Due to the drought and increased female liquidation, Peel said there is extra attention being paid to the quarterly breakdown of steers and heifers in feedlots.
“In July, the heifer inventory was up about 2.9 percent over the previous year for October 1 in this latest report,” Peel said. “We are still up about 1.5 percent, so it says that we have continued to keep heifers in there, it is coming down, and it will eventually drop.”
The number of steers in the feedlot is 2 percent less than a year ago, Peel said, and that number was smaller in July.
“There are fewer feeder cattle out there, but the fact that the heifer number has been higher is a testament to what the drought is doing and keeping us from being able to retain any of those heifers for breeding purposes,” Peel said. “They have been showing up in the feedlot chain with obvious implications as we go forward.”
Among those implications are eventually having fewer pounds of beef available into 2023 as fewer females are available to send to slaughter.
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Click on the Button below to listen to our most recent report
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OKFB and OCA Gubernatorial Candidate Forum on Agriculture Set for Today |
Oklahoma Farm Bureau and the Oklahoma Cattlemen’s Association are set to host a gubernatorial candidate forum on agriculture, Oct. 26 from 11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m. at the Comanche County Fairgrounds in Lawton.
The candidate forum will be moderated by Ron Hays, Senior Farm and Ranch Broadcaster for the Radio Oklahoma Ag Network.
OKFB and OCA members are encouraged to attend, and the event is open to the general public.
Michael Kelsey, Executive Vice President for the Oklahoma Cattlemen's Association believes this is a tremendous opportunity for people in rural areas to hear more from the candidates on issues that are most relevant to them- things like drought, rural economic development, medical marijuana grow licenses, rural broadband as well as their view of what the future of agriculture and rural Oklahoma looks like.
Event: OKFB/OCA Gubernatorial Forum on Agriculture
Date: Wednesday, Oct. 26
Time: 11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Location: Prairie Building
Comanche County Fairgrounds
920 SW Sheridan Rd
Lawton, Oklahoma
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Take Caution, Read Labels when Feeding Failed Crops |
Oklahoma ranchers are getting creative with alternative feedstuffs this fall because the drought has drastically reduced normal hay yields.
“It’s been an unusual year, and all summer crops have the potential to be failed out,” said Todd Baughman, Oklahoma State University Extension specialist for row crop weeds. “Producers should make sure they’re clear with their insurance companies and have the ability to turn that crop into a forage or feed value.”
Some producers are choosing to bale up failed summer crops, such as soybeans or cotton. However, not everything that can be swept into windrows and fed as hay is safe for livestock to eat. Individual producers and hay customers should research the chemicals applied to crops before converting a field to feed or forage.
Baughman said most failed crops this year received herbicide treatments but contain lower amounts of fungicides or insecticides.
“The biggest issue is each individual label is different in regard to what you can or can’t do from a feed or forage or hay standpoint,” he said. “Even within that specific label, it may vary between crops. For instance, there may be a seven-day restriction on corn or grain sorghum or a 30-day restriction or you can’t even feed cotton or soybeans.”
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USMEF to Honor Lighthizer, Saunders at Upcoming Conference |
Ambassador Robert Lighthizer, who headed the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative under the Trump administration, has been selected to receive the U.S. Meat Export Federation’s (USMEF) Michael J. Mansfield Award. USMEF established the award in recognition of the U.S. Senate majority leader and ambassador to Japan whose five decades of government service advanced U.S. trade relations throughout the world.
Leann Saunders, co-founder of Where Food Comes From, will receive the USMEF Distinguished Service Award. This award honors outstanding figures in the red meat industry who exemplify the exceptional, individual dedication responsible for the federation’s success. Both awards will be presented Nov. 10 at the USMEF Strategic Planning Conference in Oklahoma City.
“I’m truly honored to receive the Michael J. Mansfield Award,” Lighthizer said. “I’ve known some of the other recipients and they all did a great job for this country. We worked closely with USMEF through several negotiations and hopefully did a good job for the people USMEF represents. I’m grateful for the 20-hour days we get from our farmers and ranchers, and the reality is, when they are successful America is more successful.”
USMEF Distinguished Service Award recipient Leann Saunders is co-founder of Where Food Comes From Inc., a leader in food verification and certification and livestock identification and traceability systems. IMI Global, a division of Where Food Comes From, was instrumental in developing identification, traceability and verification systems that assisted the U.S. beef industry in meeting specific export requirements following the first U.S. case of BSE in 2003. Today the company’s programs enable ranchers, growers, feeders, packers and processors to meet specific export or private brand label requirements related to production practices.
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Calls Increase for U.S. Trade Representative to Act on Mexico's Pending Decree on Corn Imports |
Calls from corn grower leaders are growing louder for the United States Trade Representative to intervene in a trade dispute with Mexico over corn imports.
The response from corn growers comes as Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s promises to enact a decree that would end imports of corn grown using biotech and certain herbicides by 2024. Biotech corn makes up over 90% of U.S. corn crops.
An opinion piece by NCGA President Tom Haag was published over the weekend in The Hill, a newspaper widely read by Congress and other Washington decision-makers, calling on USTR to file a settlement dispute under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement over the matter.
“If the decree is enacted, the negative impact will be felt by farmers in the U.S. and by the people of Mexico,” Haag noted. “We’re now looking to the Biden administration to intervene to ensure that corn exports to Mexico don’t come to a sudden stop.”
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OSU'S Dr. Mark Johnson: Seizing Financial and Genetic Opportunity and Culling Bulls |
Should I Cull My Bulls? (Is It Time to Seize Financial and Genetic Opportunity?)
Bulls are like professional athletes. Once properly developed they reach full servicing capacity and have a prime of several breeding seasons (between the ages of 2 to 5) and after the age of 6, they are on borrowed time. For each Tom Brady, winning Super Bowl Championships past the age of 40, there are hundreds of the likes of Joe Namath, who peaked early winning a Super Bowl at 26 before knee injuries cut his career short and left him ineffective before the age of 30. Bottomline: the life of a herd bull is full of perils. Mounting and breeding cows in all sorts of terrain, working on mud, sand, rocks, snow, potentially fighting with other herd bulls and the natural service of each female could lead to injury of feet, legs and sex organs. Over time, even the soundest and most athletic are going get injured, become more cantankerous and unsafe to have around, or potentially fail a Breeding Soundness Exam (BSE).
Consider:
- If you have a spring calving cow herd, your bull or bulls are currently “off-duty” for the next 6-8 months. If your bull weighs 2,000 pounds and will eat 2% of his body weight in forage dry matter hay each day that is a daily intake of 40 pounds. Over the next 200 days while your bull is “off duty” he will consume about 4 ton, or 8000 pounds of forage dry matter. If his nutritional requirements will be met with hay valued at $200/ton that is $800 in feed cost between now and turn-out next spring.
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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 $3.51 and Select Beef was up $1.74 on Tuesday 10/25/2022.
Click on the Button below for the latest report from USDA Market News
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Oklahoma National Stockyards had a final count of 7,938 head on Monday, October 24th.
Compared to last week: Feeder steers 2.00 -5.00 higher.. Feeder heifers 1.00 - 4.00 higher. Steer calves unevenly steady. Heifers calves 2.00 - 5.00 higher. Demand moderate to good. Last Friday's Cattle on Feed report bullish with less Placements or more Marketing's. Cattle futures reflecting that bullishness and trading in the green today. Supply included several loads of thin fleshed feeders off grass. These sold to excellent demand. Quality average to attractive. Most of the region receiving much needed rainfall and cooler temperatures too follow.
Click below for the complete closing report.
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OKC West in El Reno had a calf run of 2,500 on Tuesday, October 25th.
Compared to last week: Steer and heifer calves that were weaned with multiple rounds of shots sold 2.00-4.00 higher. Demand good. Remainder of the offering traded mostly steady. Demand moderate for un weaned cattle. Much needed moisture fell over much of the trading are and more is in the forecast later in the week.
Meanwhile- OKOC West expects 1,200 feeder heifers and 1,800 feeder steers in their yearling auction today.
Click on the button below for details of the trade as compiled by the USDA Market News Service.
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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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