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Friday, December 30, 2022
Thank you for a great 2022! We return with our next email on Tuesday, January 3, 2023
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Here is your daily Oklahoma farm and ranch news update.
- Improving the Carbon Levels in Your Soil and More with Jimmy Emmons
- Oklahoma Drought Conditions Unchanged from Last Week
- Cattlemen’s Congress Stands-Out for Catering to Cattle Exhibitors
- Dale Moore and Larry Wooten to Receive Top AFBF Honors
- Seed Varieties Continue to Evolve to Support Conservation Agriculture
- CHS Provides Tools to Empower Farmers to Make Successful Decisions
- Gelbvieh and Balancer Shows and Kick off on New Year's Day- National Sale on Monday
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Improving the Carbon Levels in Your Soil and More with Jimmy Emmons |
The Road to Rural Prosperity is here to tell stories about rural America, for rural America. And our most recent Podcast in this series is all about Regenerative Ag and Ranching as we talk with Soil Health Guru Jimmy Emmons.
I sat down recently and talked regenerative agriculture and ranching with Jimmy Emmons. Jimmy is a long time resident of Leedey, OK. He is the third generation on the family farm in Dewey County. He and his wife Ginger have been farming and ranching together since 1980. They have a diverse 2000 acre cropping operation growing wheat, soybeans, sesame, sunflowers, irrigated dairy alfalfa hay, canola, grain sorghum and several cover crops for seed.
Jimmy has been monitoring soil health with soil testing since 2011 utilizing cover crops to enhance soil health.
Jimmy and Ginger also have a 250 cow/calf herd and take in yearling cattle for custom grazing on the nearly 6000 acres of native range. Ginger is the primary cattle manager in the operation. The Emmons’ utilize an adaptive multi-paddock grazing system on their range and forages grown on crop ground. They use the system to keep the native grasses and soils healthy, maximize biological diversity and optimize animal health.
As Jimmy Says- Long Live the Soil!
Our Podcast is posted on SoundCloud or can be found where ever you access your Podcasts.
We have also posted our conversation with Jimmy on our Ag Perspectives Podcast Platform- which can also be found on your favorite Podcast provider.
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National Livestock was founded in 1932 in Oklahoma City. National’s Marketing Division offers cattle for sale weekly at the Oklahoma National Stockyards in Oklahoma City. The Finance Division lends money to ranchers across several states for cattle production. The Grazing Division works with producers to place cattle for grazing on wheat or grass pastures.
National also owns and operates other livestock marketing subsidiaries including Southern Oklahoma Livestock Auction in Ada, Oklahoma, OKC West Livestock Market in El Reno, Oklahoma, and the nation’s premier livestock video sale, Superior Livestock Auction. National offers customers many services custom made for today’s producer. To learn more, click here for the website or call the Oklahoma City office at 1-800-310-0220.
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Oklahoma Drought Conditions Unchanged from Last Week |
Drought conditions are at a standstill in Oklahoma this week compared to last week’s numbers. Each drought category remains the same as last week’s percentages.
Exceptional drought- 11.65 percent
Extreme drought or worse- 56.13 percent
Severe drought or worse- 80.92 percent
Moderate drought or worse- 89.73 percent
Abnormally dry or worse- 98.18 percent
At the start of the calendar year, 95.08 percent of the state was in abnormally dry conditions or worse. Since that period, conditions have increased by at least three percentage points.
According to the 6–10-day precipitation outlook map, the majority of Oklahoma stands at a “near normal” percent chance of precipitation through January 7. The far western edge of the panhandle is leaning above a 33-40 percent chance of rain, and the southwest part of the state is leaning below a 33-40 percent chance of precipitation.
To view this week's drought numbers for Oklahoma, click the drought map above the story.
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Cattlemen’s Congress Stands-Out for Catering to Cattle Exhibitors |
In this episode of Beef Buzz, I am back visiting with the Oklahoma Secretary of Agriculture, Blayne Arthur, about the upcoming national cattle show, Cattlemen’s Congress, from the perspective of those in the show cattle industry.
Aside from being Secretary of Agriculture for Oklahoma, Arthur is also a “show mom.”
“My kids are both very active in exhibiting cattle and really like it,” Arthur said. “My husband is, of course too, and we do get the chance to travel to what we consider all the big shows.”
Arthur said having the chance to travel with her family and compete at many national shows such as Kansas City, Louisville, and Denver has made them even more proud of Cattlemen’s Congress.
“We feel like we have had a chance to go to a lot of those national shows and see what they do well and see the caliber of exhibitors and animals that exhibit there, and we know that Cattlemen’s Congress is top tier,” Arthur said. “People bring out their best stuff.”
Many people in the show cattle industry, Arthur said, will be bringing their best to Cattlemen’s Congress.
Our comments in today's Beef Buzz can be heard by clicking on the blue button below- you can hear our full conversation with Blayne in our Podcast series Cattlemen's Congress Conversation by clicking here.
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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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Dale Moore and Larry Wooten to Receive Top AFBF Honors |
The American Farm Bureau Federation will present its highest honors, the Distinguished Service Award and the Farm Bureau Founders Award, to former AFBF Executive Vice President Dale Moore and former North Carolina Farm Bureau President Larry Wooten, respectively, during the 2023 American Farm Bureau Convention, Jan. 6-11 in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
AFBF established the Distinguished Service Award in 1928 to honor individuals who have devoted their careers to serving the national interest of American agriculture. Established in January 2017, the American Farm Bureau Federation’s Founders Award for exemplary leadership, service or contributions to Farm Bureau is presented in recognition of outstanding achievements and work in the interest of Farm Bureau.
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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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At Oklahoma Ag Mediation, we have been helping people in agriculture resolve conflicts since 1987. We know firsthand about working together to resolve conflicts, so you don’t have to go through the court systems. Let our professional mediators help you. Mediation is allowed for lease issues, farmer/neighbor disputes, family farm transitions, and more. These services are available at no cost for Oklahoma farmers and ranchers in all 77 counties. For more information, you can go to ok.gov/mediation, or give us a call at 800 248 5465.
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Seed Varieties Continue to Evolve to Support Conservation Agriculture |
At the American Seed Trade Association’s booth at the National Association of Farm Broadcaster’s convention in Kansas City, Farm Director, KC Sheperd, got the chance to visit with Eric Woofter, CEO of Star Seed, about new innovations in the seed industry going forward.
Woofter said Star Seed is known for its cover crops, native grasses, and farm seed.
“Anything that is a niche seed, Star Seed handles,” Woofter said. “The big thing we look for right now is making sure we are doing a great job supplying quality seed that is noxious weed free.”
Conservation agriculture has improved significantly over the years, Woofter said, so it is exciting to see the way farming is changing.
“Most of our producers, farmers, and ranchers right now- they are great stewards of the land, and they are changing,” Woofter said. “That is what makes this a good thing to be in.”
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CHS Provides Tools to Empower Farmers to Make Successful Decisions |
Radio Oklahoma Ag Network Intern, Cheyenne Leach, got the chance to visit with Sales and Development Manager at CHS Inc., Tim Swanson, at the National Association of Farm Broadcasters Convention in Kansas City. Leach and Swanson talk about Swanson’s role within CHS, and services CHS can provide to producers.
“We really take pride in working with the growers,” Swanson said. “We are a farmer-owned company. Just all aspects. We have different energy divisions, grain divisions- I am on the agronomy division.”
Swanson said he recently moved over the wholesale side of CHS, but he still interacts with growers often to bring them the best products to help them succeed in all that they do. One way that Swanson says CHS provides farmers with tools to help them do better each year, he said is Agellum– a full-farm planning and management solution from CHS.
Agellum integrates, aggregates, and activates a farm’s unique data from machinery apps, equipment, and more to empower better agronomic and economic decisions through planning, analysis, and collaboration.
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Gelbvieh and Balancer Shows and Kick off on New Year's Day- National Sale on Monday January Second |
One of early breeds showing and having a National Sale at the 2023 Cattlemen's Congress is the Gelbvieh breed- and their 2023 National Gelbvieh and Balancer sale is set for Monday, January second at 6 PM at the Super Barn Sale Arena on the OKC Fairgrounds.
The sale will feature 26 lots- including 7 Bull Lots, 10 Open Heifer Lots, 2 Bred Heifer Lots, 3 Embryo Lots and 5 Flush Lots.
You can attend the sale in person at Cattlemen's Congress or watch and participate on LiveAuction.TV- available here.
Sale manager is Matt Sims of Matt C Sims Auction- you can call Matt with questions about the sale at 405-641-6081.
The Gelbvieh show starts on Sunday with the National Gelbvieh and Balancer Junior Female Show at 10 AM- their Futurity Show follows that afternoon at 3 PM and their Cattlemen's Ball starts New Year's Night at 5 PM at The Heritage Place.
The Pen Show for the breed is 10 AM on January second, while the National Bull Show is Tuesday morning at 8 AM- followed by the Female show at 1 PM.
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OKC West is our Market Links Sponsor- they sell cattle three days a week- Cows on Mondays, Stockers on Tuesday and Feeders on Wednesday- Call 405-262-8800 to learn more.
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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 mixed- Choice Beef was down 55 cents and Select Beef was up $3.42 on Thursday 12/29/2022
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.
These are all the final markets held by the respective markets in 2022.
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In this position- we normally have Oklahoma Cash Grain Bids as released by USDA Market News and compiled by the Oklahoma Department of Ag- they have indicated on their website that the report won't be released over the holidays with the next release date set for January 2, 2023. Click here for the page that explains details of the report. |
Our Oklahoma Farm Report Team!!!!
Ron Hays, Senior Farm/Ranch Broadcaster and Editor
KC Sheperd, Farm Director and Editor
Dave Lanning, Markets and Production
Reagan Calk, Farm News and Email Editor
Pam Arterburn, Calendar and Template Manager
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Rural Oklahoma is full of some of the greatest success stories throughout the entire state and is a big reason why Oklahoma is on track to become a top 10 state.
The Road to Rural Prosperity dives into these stories, bringing you stories covering rural life, agriculture, energy, healthcare, tourism, and politics affecting rural America.
The Road to Rural Prosperity is here to tell stories about rural America, for rural America.
Oklahoma Farm Report's Ron Hays talks regenerative agriculture and ranching with Jimmy Emmons. Jimmy is a long time resident of Leedey, OK. He is the third generation on the family farm in Dewey County. He and his wife Ginger have been farming and ranching together since 1980. They have a diverse 2000 acre cropping operation growing wheat, soybeans, sesame, sunflowers, irrigated dairy alfalfa hay, canola, grain sorghum and several cover crops for seed.
Jimmy has been monitoring soil health with soil testing since 2011 utilizing cover crops to enhance soil health.
Jimmy and Ginger also have a 250 cow/calf herd and take in yearling cattle for custom grazing on the nearly 6000 acres of native range. Ginger is the primary cattle manager in the operation. The Emmons’ utilize an adaptive multi-paddock grazing system on their range and forages grown on crop ground. They use the system to keep the native grasses and soils healthy, maximize biological diversity and optimize animal health.
As Jimmy Says- Long Live the Soil!
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Radio Oklahoma Ag Network
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Radio Oklahoma Ag Network
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