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Check the Markets!
Today's
First Look:
mornings
with cash and futures reviewed- includes where the Cash
Cattle market stands, the latest Feeder Cattle Markets
Etc.
Each afternoon we are posting a recap of that day's
markets as analyzed by Justin Lewis of KIS
futures- click here for the report
posted yesterday afternoon around 3:30 PM.
Okla
Cash Grain:
Daily
Oklahoma Cash Grain
Prices - as reported by the Oklahoma Dept. of
Agriculture. (including Canola prices
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Futures
Wrap:
Feeder
Cattle Recap:
Slaughter
Cattle Recap:
TCFA
Feedlot Recap:
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Monday, October 5,
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Featured
Story:
Politico
has just tweeted that the TPP Deal is Done-
details will be forthcoming later today from
Atlanta- Here is the story we wrote just a couple
of hours ago before news came in of the deal being
finalized:
Trade ministers from 12 Pacific Rim
nations, including the United States, were inching
towards an agreement late on Sunday night,
but last-minute jitters among several countries
over market access issues were holding up a
conclusion.
Negotiators extended the talks in
Atlanta first into Friday, then Saturday and then
Sunday as they tried to hammer out the final
details, with New Zealand apparently making a
last-ditch push to secure better dairy
quotas in the United States and
Canada. According to a story overnight in the
Australian Financial Review- "New Zealand
Trade
Minister Tim Groser was
locked in discussions with USTR Michael
Froman over dairy tariffs and quotas.
"Kiwi dairy industry sources were
desperate to improve a modest US offer of
lowering barriers for butter, cheese and milk
powder that comprise almost 30 per cent
of the New Zealand's exports." Meanwhile,
the US Beef Cattle Industry continues to hope for
a quick conclusion- to make sure earlier promises
made by the Japanese to lower tariffs against US
beef remain in place. Japan is currently
the top export market for U.S. beef, totaling $1.6
billion in 2014, even with a 38.5 percent tariff
rate. One of the leading competitors for Japanese
consumers is Australia. Last year
Australia and Japan signed the Japan-Australia
Economic Partnership Agreement that phases down
the tariff on beef imports over 15 years and
removes a 50 percent snapback tariff on Australian
beef. This agreement gives Australia a competitive
advantage and as a result Australia is taking
market share away from U.S. beef. The
National Cattlemen's Beef Association contends the
Trans-Pacific Partnership will put U.S. beef
producers on a level playing field with Australian
beef producers. Our story of last week on
the beef industry position is available
here.Another good summary of the
negotiations that continued over the weekend comes
from The Guardian- click here for that
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The
national beef checkoff's plans and programs are
determined by beef producers on an annual basis.
Oklahoma Beef Council Chairman and cattle producer
Clay Burtrum of Stillwater is one of two Oklahoma
cattlemen that are a part of the Beef Promotion Operating
Committee. (Dairy producer Brett
Morris of Ninnekah currently serves as
the Secretary-Treasurer of the Cattlemen's Beef
Board and has a seat on the Operating Committee as
well.) In setting out a plan for 2016, the
committee met in Denver in September. The group of
beef producers spent a full day listening to
proposals, Burtrum said committee members reviewed
and scored each proposal. The committee consists
of ten members of the Federation of State Beef
Councils and ten members from the Cattlemen's Beef
Board that are elected each year at the Cattle
Industry Convention. Burtrum said those members
decide how the half dollar sent to the CBB by each
state is spent each year on behalf of cattle
producers across the United States.
In
recent years- As the U.S. beef herd shrank due to
the ongoing drought, so did the funding to the
nation's beef checkoff. For fiscal year 2016, the
beef checkoff will spend $42 million dollars, an
uptick in spending of $3 million dollars from last
year. All beef checkoff funded programs are
centered on research, education and
promotion.
In recent years, the beef
checkoff has changed its promotion efforts, in
switching from traditional media to a digital
platform. The shift has come in reaching a younger
demographic.
"Our audience has changed,
we're in a millennial generation in the social
media age," Burtrum said. "People aren't planning
meals for a week now, they are planning a meal at
4:30 in the afternoon. So, we have to be in that
social media environment, Twitter, Instagram,
Facebook and those areas right now. So we've
really upped the campaign to a digital media
platform."
We talked with Clay at the end
of this past week- both On Camera and Off Camera-
you can both see our visit with him "In the Field"
and listen to our off camera interview- plus be
able to read the breakdown of the budget plans for
2016 that has come out of the Operating Committee-
all that is available by
CLICKING
HERE.
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One
Year In- Additional Texas Beef Checkoff Called a
Success
A
little over a year ago- the Texas Beef Industry
put into place a secondary state checkoff as an
additional levy on cattle owners above and beyond
the federal dollar which has been collected since
the late 1980s. The Oklahoma cattle industry is
working to put into place a similar checkoff- with
a petition drive now underway to get signatures of
cattle producers that would like to have a
referendum on having a secondary state beef
checkoff in Oklahoma. The goal is to get 5,500
signatures of cattle owners by the end of the year
in order to get a possible vote on an Oklahoma
checkoff late next spring.
For
those that might wonder how the new Texas beef
checkoff is doing, Richard Thorpe
III, who is an officer with the Texas and
Southwestern Cattle Raisers, offers his opinion
after the accessment has been in place for about a
year:
"Texas
cattlemen and women voted in a referendum in June
2014 to establish a state-level beef checkoff
program to promote my personal favorite food
product - beef. The Texas and Southwestern Cattle
Raisers Association (TSCRA) supported passage of
the referendum and it was overwhelmingly approved
with 66.79 percent of producers voting in favor of
creating the Texas Beef Checkoff.
Collections
from the checkoff began in October of 2014, and
it's encouraging to see how much the program has
accomplished in a short amount of time.
Since Oct. 1, 2014, more than $7.2 million has
been collected from the checkoff. Click here to read
more.
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Food
Groups Call on FDA to Stop Wasting Eggs in Wake of
Avian Flu Shortages
This
year's outbreak of highly pathogenic avian
influenza (HPAI) in the United States and
resulting egg price increases have caused the food
industry to closely examine a current policy that
forces broiler chicken producers to destroy
perfectly acceptable and safe shell eggs. The
National Chicken Council,
Grocery Manufacturers Association
and the Association for Dressings and
Sauces this week petitioned FDA to
reverse or modify this policy.
"In
light of the strain the HPAI outbreak is putting
on the nation's egg supply, FDA should revisit the
use of the surplus of affordable, quality eggs
available in the United States for use by egg
breakers and their customers, rather than seeking
costly imports of foreign eggs," the groups wrote.
"Already faced with egg shortages,
food producers and consumers might be hit even
harder in their wallets as we head into the annual
holiday baking season, unless FDA allows us to
stop throwing away these eggs," noted
Ashley Peterson, Ph.D., NCC
senior vice president of scientific and regulatory
affairs.
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AFR-OFU
Announces Plans for 71st Annual Speech Contest
This November-
December
American
Farmers & Ranchers/Oklahoma Farmers Union
(AFR/OFU) kicks off its 71st annual fall speech
contest series November 5th in Enid. Each year,
the contest engages young Oklahomans from across
the state, with more than 500 students competing
in the contest's five districts. At
each district contest, students grades 4-12
compete in five categories-American Farmers &
Ranchers, Natural Resources, Student
Organizations, Agribusiness and Agriscience. The
district contests result in more than 160
finalists advancing to the state contest held on
the Oklahoma State University campus in
Stillwater. "Over the years, our
speech contests have been an AFR/OFU priority
activity for the youth of Oklahoma," said AFR/OFU
President Terry Detrick. "The
opportunity these young people have to better
their leadership skills and hone their ability to
speak publically makes every participant a winner.
We encourage every teacher, parent and grandparent
to introduce their young people to this
opportunity and to encourage their participation.
They will not regret it." We have been told
that one topic many young people may be speaking
on this year is the need for State
Question 777 to be passed. This
ballot initiative that is known as Right to Farm
will be on the November 2016 General Election
ballot. Details of the District Contests
and more are available by clicking
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Meat
Industry Makes Strides in Food Safety, Dr.
Brashears Says More Work Still Needed
Mindy
Brashears began her career as a meat
scientist at the University of Nebraska in the
late 1990's, where she was at the forefront of
early work on E. coli 0157. She came up with a
protocol that has reduced the incidence of E. coli
in live animals and in the final meat product.
Today, Dr. Brashears' work continues at
Texas Tech University, as the
Director of the International Center for Food
Industry Excellence. On Tuesday, she testified
before the House Ag Committee on
Food Safety Research efforts. In partnering with
other faculty, she said they have conducted
several feeding studies to determine if a cattle
pro-biotic controlled pathogens in the feedlot.
Brashears' probiotic product proved to
work.
"After several studies, we found
E. coli can be reduced up to 50 percent in live
animals, thus reducing the risk of product
contamination," Brashears said. "This product has
been commercialized and is used in many feedyards
across the United States."
The beef
industry has also used other strategies to improve
food safety. This includes implementation of the
Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) and
the use of antimicrobial intervention. Brashears
said the government's investment in food safety
research over the past 20 years has saved
lives.
"In the early 1990's, we were
scrambling for solutions to control E. coli, but
federal investment in translational research
delivered effective controls," Brashears said.
"The FSIS testing shows that ground beef
contamination has fallen more than 90 percent and
the CDC reports that the human incidence has been
cut in half."
In
testifying before House Ag Sub-Committee members,
Dr. Brashears told lawmakers while a lot of good
things have already happened, there's still a lot
of work to be done. Click here to read
more or to listen to this feature.
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This
N That- Express Bull Sale at Noon Today, OSU
Animal Science Folks Partner With Superior and A
Monday Dog Story
Express
Ranches will offering some industry leading Angus
and Hereford Genetics in their annual Ranchers
Bull Sale that gets underway at 12 noon
today. 293 Angus and 21 Hereford Bulls
headline the sale- which will also include some
top notch commercial females as well.
Details
are to be found on the Express Website- click here to get to the links to
the Sale Book and Videos of the Bulls on offer.
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Speaking
of our friends at Superior- they are partnering
with the Oklahoma State University Animal Science
Alums to have a special Internet Cattle Auction on
October 16th.
Details are here- and
the deadline to consign cattle for this special
sale is October 13th.
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The
last weekend in September found our Leslie Smith
at the Heart of America Farm and Home Show- where
she caught up with dog trainer
Bufford Barrett of Sapulpa.
They talked about Buford's Border Collies
and how he practices what is becoming a lost art-
training pups to become stock dogs. If you
enjoy watching Border Collie stock dogs work their
magic with livestock- click here to read
this feature- and a chance to hear Leslie's
conversation with Barrett.
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