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Oklahoma's
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Your
Update from Ron Hays of RON
Monday, December 15,
2014 |
Howdy
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Here is your daily Oklahoma farm and ranch
news update.
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Featured
Story:
All American Beef
Battalion Fund Raiser Set for 10 AM Today at the
Oklahoma National
Stockyards
National
Livestock Credit Corporation and
affiliated companies are planning to offer for the
fifth year a special calf auction to support the
All American Beef Battalion. The
auction of a donated calf will take place during
the regular Monday auction of the Oklahoma
National Stockyards in Oklahoma City on December
15th at approximately 10 AM.
In 2013,
the auction and re-auction multiple times of a
single calf resulted in over $43,000 being raised
for the Battalion. National's involvement over the
past four years has helped raise over $160,000
from the annual auction of a calf each
December.
The 2015 calf to be auctioned
is being donated by 3C Cattle
Feeders and the Clyde Runyan
family of Mill Creek, OKlahoma. National Livestock
Credit Corporation will invoice buyers and collect
checks.
Our
friend Robert York has been the
driving force behind this fund raising effort and
is once again involved in pulling together this
highly successful fund raiser that will end up
providing an American ribeye steak dinner to the
troops that return home from deployment as a small
thank you for their service to our country.
Anyone
may support this effort by calling 800-310-0220
and speaking with Debbie Wedel.
If you are unable to attend but would like to
support the cause, you can call Debbie for your
proxy bid (or pledge after the fact!) or you may
also visit the All American Beef Battalion website
by clicking here and make your
donation by PayPal. I suspect that someone
will be in the office by a little after seven am
central time to take your pledge.
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Doak
Says Insurance Outlook
Improving
Milder
weather conditions and a stronger economy are
welcomed by Oklahoma's insurance industry. The
past few years the state has battled widespread
drought, wildfires and destructive tornadoes.
Oklahoma State Insurance Commissioner John
Doak said this past year was the best
weather-related year for Oklahoma in the past 15
years. He said that will have a long term impact
because there were a lot of claims in the last
five years, which was the most catastrophic
weather period in the state's history. That's good
news for insurance companies like American Farmers
and Ranchers and Oklahoma Farm Bureau as well
farmers and ranchers who are buying
policies.
Doak also shared how
the outlook for insurance companies has improved.
One the top priorities of the agency is to ensure
insurance companies have the financial solvency to
pay claims. Doak said the financial outlook of
companies has improved and few companies have left
the state. Oklahoma is also attracting new
companies with new insurance legislation for
workers' compensation.
The Oklahoma
Department of Insurance is one of several state
agencies participating in the Tulsa Farm
Show. Doak said the agency aims to
connect with consumers to help them understand
their insurance policy. Doak said they educate
Oklahomans on having the right farm and ranch
policy, ensuring the public understands their
insurance coverage for automobile or home coverage
in case there is an disaster in the state. Doak
also finished a tour all 77 counties across the
state on Thursday.
I
caught up with Doak at the Tulsa Farm Show.
Click here to listen to the full
interview.
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House
Speaker Announces Committee Leadership for 55th
Legislature
House
Speaker Jeff Hickman of Fairview
announced Friday the chairs and vice chairs for
the standing House committees and appropriation
subcommittees of the 55th Oklahoma
Legislature.
"I am truly grateful for
our members who are willing to serve in leadership
roles for our committees," said Hickman. "We are
blessed with very talented members in the House,
and I am confident those I have asked to serve as
chairs and vice chairs will use their varied
experiences in the private sector to help move
Oklahoma forward."
State
Representative John Enns of Enid
will be the Chairman of the House Agriculture and
Rural Development Committee, while Scott
Biggs of Chickasha will be Vice
Chair.
The
subcommittee that will hold the purse strings for
agricultural related spending- the Appropriations
and Budget Natural Resources & Regulatory
Services Subcommittee will be chaired by
Leslie Osborn of Mustang while freshman
lawmaker John Pfeiffer of Mulhall
will be the Vice Chair.
Click here for the full list of
House committee leadership chairs.
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USDA
Seeks Public Comment on New EQIP
Rule
The
U.S. Department of Agriculture is
publishing a rule that outlines how it will
improve the Environmental Quality
Incentives Program (EQIP), one of USDA's
largest conservation programs. The interim final
rule includes program changes authorized by
Congress in the 2014 Farm Bill. USDA
has established a 60-day comment period for the
rule. The rule is expected to be available in the
Federal Register and regulations.gov on Friday,
Dec. 12. Beginning Friday, public comments can be
submitted through regulations.gov or by mailing
them. Comments are due by February 10,
2015. Full details are in the Federal
Register notice, by clicking here.
"This
interim final rule provides a roadmap to help
streamline and simplify EQIP for farmers and
ranchers," Agriculture Secretary Tom
Vilsack said. "We strongly encourage
agricultural producers, private forest landowners
and stakeholders to provide comments on our
implementation processes. This feedback will help
us improve our operation and deliver technical and
financial assistance more efficiently to our
nation's agricultural producers and forest
landowners."
The changes are intended
to simplify the EQIP regulation regarding
conservation practice scheduling, payment
limitations and other administrative actions.
Vilsack said USDA has enhanced EQIP by
streamlining the delivery of technical and
financial assistance to agricultural producers and
forest landowners nationwide. Click here for more about the
program changes in this
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Are
you cows ready for colder weather? Making sure
your cowherd has adequate body condition is one of
the best ways for your cow's to be ready for
weather changes. Kansas State University Extension
Beef Specialist Dr. Sandy Johnson said trying to
add body condition to a cow in this day and age
can be increasingly difficult and expensive.
That's why she said it's important producers know
their cow's body condition score. She said
recording condition changes in a cow can save a
producer big time in the long term.
"It's often when you are closest to
things that you don't see some of the changes that
are occurring and the changes typically will be
rather slow and if we make a concerted effort to
just take a few moments score those cows when we
are checking them," Johnson said.
A
body condition score describes the relative
fatness or body condition of a cow. Cows are given
a body condition score from one to nine. A score
of one means a cow is very thin and a score of
nine indicates that cow is extremely fat and
obese. Johnson hopes producers don't have many
cows that are given a score of 1, 2, 8, or 9. The
ideal score is a five, which indicates the cow is
in average flesh. I featured Johnson on the
Beef Buzz feature. Click here to listen how
frequently cow's body condition should be
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Senate
Passes $1.1 Trillion CRomnibus- Still to Come- Tax
Extenders
The
Senate has passed a combination continuing
resolution and omnibus spending bill that will
fund the federal government for the 2015 fiscal
year, after the House passed the same legislation
earlier this week. Informally dubbed the
"CRomnibus," the bill designates funding for 11
individual spending bills, including the
agriculture appropriations legislation.
At
least a couple of ag related groups cranked out
reaction Saturday night after the passage of the
funding of the government- the American Soybean
Association and the National Cattlemen's Beef
Association.
The
Soybean folks called the measure a "mixed bag" for
agriculture. They liked the increase in funding
that the bill provides for the Agriculture and
Food Research Initiative, which was given a three
percent boost in funding. Additionally, ASA is
very supportive of language in the bill that would
withdraw the Environmental Protection Agency's
interpretive rule on the Waters of the United
States.
In the area of conservation, ASA is
disappointed in the bill's further cuts to
conservation programs on working lands like the
voluntary Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP)
and Environmental Quality Incentive Program
(EQIP), as these programs have been proven
effective in improving soil and water health.
Click or tap here to read the
full reaction offered by the ASA over the
weekend.
Meanwhile,
the National Cattlemen's Beef
Association offered a combined reaction
with the Public Lands Council, calling the
CRomnibus a "clear message of support" for the
cattle industry.
In
particular, they are loving on the language
regarding the Interpretive Rule that was put into
place earlier this year as a basis for WOTUS
proposed rule from EPA. "The bill made a
major step in addressing over-burdensome
regulation from the EPA by withdrawing the
Interpretative Rule as part of the Waters of the
United States proposed regulation. The rule, which
attempts to clarify farming and ranching
provisions under the Clean Water, adds uncertainty
rather than explanation for landowners and
threatens fines of up to $37,500 per day. While
not a complete fix, this is a critical step in
addressing the strong concerns farmers and
ranchers have with this regulation. "
Click here to read their full
reaction.
STILL
TO COME- the Senate will meet for at
least a couple of days this week- and it appears
that Senator Harry Reid will
allow a vote on the Tax Extenders package as one
of the last actions of this lame duck Congress.
Included in that package is the likely extension
for all of 2014 the so called Section 179
provision- which dramatically ups the deduction a
businessman is allowed to take on big ticket items
before December 31st. Republicans are
pushing to get the last votes done and adjourn,
wanting to minimize the number of judicial
appointments that the Democrats may be able to get
done before they lose the majority.
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Pawnee
FFA Chapter Wins Tulsa Farm Show Livestock
Handling Skills Contest
The
team representing the Pawnee FFA Chapter easily
won the 2014 Tulsa Farm Show Livestock Handling
Skills Contest at the Tulsa State Fairgrounds on
Friday. The team received the top placing from all
three judges and outscored the second place team
by 26 points. Team members included (in the order
seen on the front row of the picture here)
Bethany Piotrowski, Erin
Caldwell and John
Barger.
After the awards were
presented on Friday afternoon, Bethany talked with
me about their Championship, saying they had
prepared for the contest by having local ranchers
allow them to work their cattle through a chute-
practicing their skills in putting implants into a
calf, checking the temperature of the calf,
putting in an ear tag and more. The link
below includes our audio conversation with this
Pawnee FFA award winner.
Click here to see how the other eight
teams in the contest placed- plus have a
chance to jump over to the FLICKR page to see
pictures of the teams receiving their awards from
Terry Detrick and a couple of his
board members of American Farmers and Ranchers on
Friday afternoon. Also congratulating the winners
on Friday were Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner
John Doak and Amanda
Riddle, also with the Oklahoma Insurance
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