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Here is your daily Oklahoma farm and ranch news update.
- Oklahoma Drought Monitor Finally Shows Improvements in Each Drought Category
- Lance Zimmerman Sees Big Cattle Inventory Declines Coming to Impact Beef Demand
- Kim Anderson Hopes for Timely Rains to Push Along This Year’s Wheat Crop
- Cotton Incorporated’s “Blue Jeans Go Green” Program Recycles Denim to Help Communities Thrive
- Merck Animal Health’s Allison Flinn Talks about Results of Consumer Transparency Research Study
- Lankford, Capito, All Republican Senators Formally Challenge Biden WOTUS Rule
- Rogers Mills County Cattlemen's Bull Sale and Messner Hereford Production Sale Set for Tomorrow
- More Stories for Your Weekend Reading
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Oklahoma Drought Monitor Finally Shows Improvements in Each Drought Category |
This week’s drought monitor in Oklahoma is finally showing some improvements overall after recent moisture in parts of the state, but many parts of the state still appear to be in need of some good moisture.
Exceptional drought is at 10.17 percent, down from last week’s 11.7 percent.
Extreme drought or worse is at 55.7 percent, down from last week’s 57.9 percent.
Severe drought or worse has improved by almost two percentage points and is now at 79.2 percent (last week was 81.01 percent.)
Moderate drought or worse is down by about four percentage points and is now at 84.95 percent (last week was at 89.12 percent.)
Abnormally dry or worse conditions saw improvements since last week as they dropped to 94.8 percent from last week’s 97.96 percent.
According to the 6–10-day precipitation outlook map, the majority of Oklahoma, with the exception of a good portion of the northeast corner, is learning above 33 to 40 percent chance of precipitation through February 11. The northeast corner of the state is leaning above a 40 to 50 percent chance of precipitation.
To see this week's drought numbers for Oklahoma, click the drought map above the story.
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The Oklahoma Agriculture Mediation Program knows this is a hard time for farmers and ranchers. We want you to know we are still open, and we are still here for you. The Ag Mediation program is a free service that provides mediation to agriculture producers who may need help with ag-related disputes.
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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Lance Zimmerman Sees Big Cattle Inventory Declines Coming to Impact Beef Demand |
In this episode of Beef Buzz, I am at the 2023 Cattle Industry Convention visiting Lance Zimmerman of Rabobank about the latest cattle inventory report released by the USDA.
“When you look at the pre-report estimates and what came out, it was very much in line with expectations,” Zimmerman said. “Basically, every single top-line number was within a couple of tenths of a percent of where everybody kind of thought. The headline one being the beef cow number down four percent and basically a cowherd that is back at the levels we were at in 2014.”
Among other things, Rabobank tracks the percentage of the cowherd that is in drought, Zimmerman said, and the percentage of the cowherd in drought was similar to the years 2012 and 2013 when the last major liquidation took place.
“It is headlined by Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, and that drags that cowherd down hard with the drought pressures we saw there,” Zimmerman said.
A few things jump out in the latest report, Zimmerman said, starting with large numbers of cattle placed on feed through the course of the year. Cattle on feed supplies, he added, will be adequate through the rest of this quarter and through the first few months of the second quarter, but then the big declines are going to come.
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Kim Anderson Hopes for Timely Rains to Push Along This Year’s Wheat Crop |
This Week on SUNUP is Oklahoma State University Extension grain market economist Kim Anderson. During this week’s edition, Anderson talks about what the commodity markets are looking like one month into the new year.
“In Oklahoma, our wheat is 34 percent poor to very poor, 39 percent fair and good to excellent is only 17 percent, and that is all over the hard red winter wheat area, so our crop conditions are on the bottom side of that limit,” Anderson said.
Anderson said the value of the dollar against other currencies has decreased recently and the price of nitrogen has taken a dramatic drop. Between now and harvest, Anderson said he will be keeping an eye on the value of the dollar, and hopefully, it will continue to come down to help exports.
“Of course, wheat stocks are tight in the United States and they are tight around the world,” Anderson said. “You got the poor crop conditions, so we are going to watch rain.”
It would be great if we could get rid of the drought, Anderson said, but wheat can still be produced well if rain comes at the right time.
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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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Cotton Incorporated’s “Blue Jeans Go Green” Program Recycles Denim to Help Communities Thrive |
With Cotton Incorporated’s “Blue Jeans Go Green” program, you can recycle any denim that you no longer want or need to help communities thrive around the country! Just visit https://bluejeansgogreen.org for more details!
When you recycle your old denim through our program, we help transform it into creative new products, from insulating material for building efforts to pet bed inserts to thermal insulation used in sustainable food and pharmaceutical packaging.
Recycling conserves natural resources, saves energy, and reduces the need for landfill space1, while helping to reduce the approximately 16 million tons of textile waste discarded each year2. For nearly two decades, we’ve been helping reduce textile waste to make a positive impact on our planet.
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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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Merck Animal Health’s Allison Flinn Talks about Results of Consumer Transparency Research Study |
Merck Animal Health announced on January 31, the results of the company’s first-ever consumer transparency research study.
At the 2023 Cattle Industry Convention in New Orleans, I got the chance to visit with the Executive Director of Value Chain & Consumer Affairs at Merck Animal Health and author of the study, Allison Flinn, about the research study.
The consumer transparency study focused on consumers’ growing interest in transparency and its importance in their purchasing decisions and brand trust. The study explored consumer desire for transparency in animal protein, such as meat, fish, eggs and dairy, and their perceptions of industry transparency when it comes to animal welfare and sustainability. It also looked at the interplay of transparency and traceability and consumers’ willingness to pay for transparency label claims.
“Merck Animal Health conducted the transparency in animal health protein consumer research study because we really feel at our company that we have a role to play in improving the health and well-being of animals, empowering farmers and ranchers with the technology and the solutions they need to continue to invest in their business, continue to grow their business and to really provide solutions to unmet needs,” Flinn said. “We know that consumer preferences certainly impact and drive evolution and change within the industry, and because we feel we have a role to play in contributing to animal health and wellbeing, we want to also help connect all of that good work that farmers and ranchers are doing on their operations to building consumer trust in food labels.”
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Lankford, Capito, All Republican Senators Formally Challenge Biden WOTUS Rule through Congressional Review Act |
Senator James Lankford (R-OK) joined Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) and all of their Senate Republican colleagues in introducing a formal challenge to the Biden administration’s Waters of the United States (WOTUS) rule through a Congressional Review Act (CRA) joint resolution of disapproval. The resolution comes after the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the US Army Corps of Engineers announced a new rule in December 2022 repealing the Navigable Waters Protection Rule (NWPR), changing the definition of Waters of the United States in a way that will expand federal regulatory authority.
“President Biden is replacing a clear and predictable Clean Water Act rule with a complex and overreaching Waters of the US rule, which will cost Oklahomans millions of dollars in litigation and plenty of frustration,” said Lankford. “Oklahomans want clean, safe water, but Biden’s extreme WOTUS rule is forcing Oklahoma farmers, ranchers, and developers to spend time and money to try to figure out what the federal government will let them do on their own land. People want the government to set up a fair rule and then leave it alone, but instead Oklahomans are once again forced to pay for Biden’s climate-change extremism. This is ridiculous, and we’re pushing to stop it.”
“With its overreaching navigable waters rule, the Biden administration upended regulatory certainty and placed unnecessary burdens directly on millions of Americans,” Capito said. “This Congressional Review Act resolution of disapproval will give every member of Congress the chance to stand with farmers, ranchers, landowners, and builders, and protect future transportation, infrastructure, and energy projects of all kinds in their states. I appreciate the widespread support we’ve received in both the Senate and House, and across the country, as we fight to place an important check on this misguided overreach from the Biden administration.”
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Rogers Mills County Cattlemen's Bull Sale and Messner Hereford Production Sales Set for Tomorrow 2/4/2023 |
The Roger Mills County Cattlemen's Assoc. 45th Annual All Breed Bull Sale is set for Saturday, February 4, 2023 at 12:15 p.m.
The sale will be held at the Cheyenne Ag Pavilion on the west side of Cheyenne.
Nearly 60 Breeding Age Bulls, Registered and Commercial- Breeds represented include Polled Hereford, Horned Hereford, Red Angus, Black Angus, Black Hereford, Composite, Charolais, Maine Cross, Simm Cross and Shorthorn.
Bulls consigned by the following:
Mike’s Seedstock
Paul Keith
Jenkins Angus LLC
Atkinson Farms
Brookshire Farms
5-D Cattle
Don Moler
Lazy S Ranch
TJ Dorrell
Mollet Angus
Murrow Farms
Lynda Lucas
Bryan Markham
Newman Ranch
Jason Brown
Black Hereford Ranch
Boswell Cattle Co
Beer Cattle Co
Holcomb Hereford
For More Information and/or Catalogs Call
Lynda Lucas – (580) 497-7366
Ashlea Yager – (580) 497-7124
Ryan Long – (580) 339-1919
Click here for the Roger Mills County Facebook Page for more details and pics of the consignments.
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The Messner Ranch 62nd Annual Production Sale will be held on Saturday, February 4, 2023 at 12:30 p.m.
The sale is being held at the Ranch – Located 6 miles South and 11 West of Laverne, OK
The street address for your GPS is 163728 E W 28, Slapout, Oklahoma 73848
This is Oklahoma's Oldest Annual Production Sale!
Included in the offering will be 150 Service Age Hereford & Angus Bulls
75 Hereford and Angus Heifer Pairs & Heavy Breds
Sale Day Phone(Van's Phone): 580-552-1555
Details on the sale and where you can watch on DV Auction is available here.
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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 higher- Choice Beef was up 3 cents and Select Beef was up 88 cents on Thursday 02/02/2023.
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.
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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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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.
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