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Here's your morning farm news headlines from the Director of Farm Programming for the Radio Oklahoma Network, Ron Hays. We are proud to welcome Big Iron Unreserved Online Auctions as our newest sponsor of the daily Email. Their next auction is Wednesday, September 8- featuring Low Hour, Farmer Owned Equipment. Click here for their website to learn more about their Online Farm Equipment Auctions.

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A professor of animal science at Colorado State University, Grandin said she enjoys helping people - and especially students - better understand animal behavior and best management practices relative to animal handling. "I will be talking about animal welfare, animal auditing, animal measurement, animal behavior, cattle handling and how autism helps with animal behavior," she said.
The division's department of animal science is sponsoring the event. Steve Damron, OSU professor of animal production, is pleased that the seminar will bring one of the most celebrated and influential scientists of this time to campus. "Students, faculty, staff and ranchers will have the opportunity to interact with the person who initiated major paradigm shifts in both animal handling and the world's view of autism and autistics," he said. "What a priceless experience."

There will also be a public announcement about a new endowed chair that be named in Dr. Gandin's honor- which cattle industry interests hope will thrust Oklahoma State Univesrity into the forefront of animal well being teaching and research.

Click on the LINK below for more details about the upcoming seminar with Temple Grandin coming September 15 to the campus of OSU in Stillwater.

Click here for more on the move to Gallagher-Iba for the upcoming Temple Grandin seminar

A good example of dryland cotton prospects comes from Craig Bolton, manager of the Tri-County Gin east of Chattanooga, Ok., in Tillman County. Anticipating top prices, Bolton's farmer clients planted a lot of dryland cotton, approximately 30,000 acres. After planting, wet weather helped the crop to grow well, but when July came along, Bolton said, heat stress lowered their expectations for a top crop. "We hope we will see three-quarter bale cotton to the acre this fall," he said. "Earlier, when we realized there had been 30,000 acres planted around here and with the good growing conditions, we were hoping for 30,000 bales. Now, I think we will gin around 20,000 bales." Bolton stresses with good prices and plenty of acres to harvest, 2010 will still be a good year for his cotton growers.

We have reports from Carnegie and Martha as well on this year's 2010 crop- click on the LINK below to jump to details on how the crop seems to be developing in those locations- all courtesy of Vic Schoonover and the folks at NTOK.

Click here for more on the 2010 Oklahoma Cotton Crop prospects.

"Signs will tell customers exactly how meat animals were raised," said Mackey, adding, "We're rolling out initiatives to help shoppers make healthier, more educated choices about food."

Mackey also told USA Today Whole Foods plans to introduce a private-label line of vegan foods that contain no animal fat, canola or safflower oils and are low in sugar and salt.

Click here to read this extensive Q&A with John Mackey of Whole Foods

The ban, which includes wheat, wheat flour, barley, rye and corn, was intended to last until December 31st. But, Mr. Putin's comments seem to be suggesting that it would go through autumn 2011. Analysts estimate that this year's harvest will fall by roughly a third. Last year, Russia was the world's third largest wheat exporter, behind the United States and Canada.

In Russia, grain prices have been rising even faster than on world markets. In his remarks, Mr. Putin demanded that officials crack down on food speculators, seeking to calm a public that has grown jittery because of rising prices for meat, flour, pasta and other staples. The Kremlin is said to be concerned that discontent over prices could influence the 2012 presidential election.

"As the marketplace continues to evolve, it creates opportunities for new beef cuts to be used as a competitive advantage," says Jim Ethridge, senior director of the Beef Innovations Group for the National Cattlemen's Beef Association, which contracts to manage new product development efforts for the Beef Checkoff Program. "Past work on the chuck subprimal had yielded benefits to all segments of the industry, and the muscles of the round offer the next frontier of innovation and additional value."

The introduction of these value cuts came in Denver in late August- and by the end of this month- it is expected that cutting guides and marketing materials will be available to those interested in moving these cuts into the beef consumption pipeline.

Click here for more on each of these cuts and details about the Beef Innovations Group in charge of these efforts.

The City of Ada has a bunch of surplus construction equipment, tractors, old police cruisers and more included in this week's auction.

Click on the LINK below to jump to the Big Iron website- all sales are final to the highest bidder with no reserves. It's easy to buy on Big Iron and it's also easy to list on Big Iron when it comes to future sales. While you are on their website, check that out as well.

Click here for more on the BIG IRON website and the auction coming to a close as of Wednesday morning.

Michael tells us Monday afternoon late that "Tropical Storm Hermine has formed in the western Gulf of Mexico. It will likely make landfall near Brownsville, TX, then weaken and track northward toward Oklahoma by mid-day Wednesday. There will be a risk of significant flash flooding in parts of the state on Wednesday and Thursday.

Click on the LINK below for our weather links found on our website- which includes links for both News9 and News on 6, as well as the Oklahoma Mesonet and the National Weather Service. The TV station sites will be following Hermine closely and will have more on this storm as it tracks norhward over the next day or so.

Click here for our weather page as found at www.OklahomaFarmReport.Com

We also invite you to check out our website at the link below to check out an archive of these daily emails, audio reports and top farm news story links from around the globe.

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Here are some links we will leave in place on an ongoing basis- Click on the name of the report to go to that link:
Our Daily Market Wrapup from the Radio Oklahoma Network with Ed Richards and Tom Leffler- analyzing the Futures Markets from the previous Day-
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.
Previous Day's Wheat Market Recap- Two Pager From The Kansas City Board of Trade looks at all three US Wheat Futures Exchanges with extra info on Hard Red Winter Wheat and the why of that day's market.
Daily Oklahoma Cash Grain Prices- As Reported by the Oklahoma Dept. of Agriculture. <
The National Daily Feeder & Stocker Cattle Summary- as prepared by USDA.
The National Daily Slaughter Cattle Summary- as prepared by USDA.
Finally, Here is the Daily Volume and Price Summary from the Texas Cattle Feeders Association.