~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Oklahoma's latest farm and ranch news
Your Update from Ron Hays of RON for Thursday October 2,
2008! A
service of Johnston Enterprises, National Livestock Credit and American
Farmers & Ranchers!
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-- NFU's Tom Buis Calls For NO Tolerance on Cattle That are Born,
Raised and Processed in the USA
-- Steve Dittmer Calls Ideas of Stricter Enforcement of COOL a
potential disaster.
-- From the Southwest Stocker Conference- The Beef Market View with
Derrell Peel
-- Clearly NO Love Lost Between Drew and Rick- Chicken Poop is Flying
All Over.
-- Wanna Give a Buck to the FFA? You Can and It's NOT Your
Buck!
-- Tulsa State Fair Junior Livestock Show and More.
-- Express Ranch Invites You to Their Fall Bull Sale and Commercial
Female Sale
-- Looking at our Agricultural Markets...
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NFU's Tom Buis Calls For NO Tolerance on Cattle That are Born, Raised and Processed in the USA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The President
of the National Farmers Union, Tom Buis, says he has lost his patience and
will demand that Congress remove any flexibility that is now in the COOL
law for meat packers to be able to be able to label USA born and raised
livestock as a mixed origin. He told reporters on Wednesday that he was in
the closed door negotiations over a year ago when compromise language was
developed- and that he believes the packers talking about wide spread use
of the mixed origin label is a clear violation of the agreement that was
assembled by the groups at the request of House Ag Committee Chairman
Colin Peterson.
Buis sees no premium for beef that is labeled as USA born and raised, but adds that consumers want that information and that they deserve it. He fully expects that the major three beef packers will all opt for the mixed origin label- and that will account for as much as 85% of the beef found in the retail meat counters. He does commend the pork industry for heading the opposite direction, as he believes all of the major pork packers will follow the lead of Smithfield and their intentions to label all of their pork as a USA product. We have comments from Tom Buis and others in our lead story as we begin
this Thursday morning as found on our website, WWW.OklahomaFarmReport.Com.
Click on the link below to jump there. Click here for the latest on COOL as found on the OklahomaFarmReport.Com | |
Steve Dittmer Calls Ideas of Stricter Enforcement of COOL a potential disaster. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ It's ironic
that on the first day of COOL implemented that I received in my email
inbox one of the regular "rants" from Steve Dittmer who helps run the
Agribusiness Freedom Foundation- this just after we had posted on our
website the story you found just above about NFU and the Consumers
Federation of America crying foul over how packers may well use the mixed
origin label for much of the beef muscle cuts that will be found in the
supermarkets in the days to come.
Dittmer writes "Friday, Sept. 26, USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service
(AMS) spooked everything by issuing a sentence in a guidance document that
instantly changed what livestock feeders and packers had been assuming for
months. " "Both the law and the interim rule clearly specified that U.S.-origin cattle could be included in the Multiple Origin category. " Dittmer says at the very last moment, USDA blinked over the outcry and claims that while that is how the law is written, those who negotiated the deal, did not mean it that way. He adds "Congressmen, radical farm groups and activists have railed
that USDA's regulations didn't follow the law and that packers are
planning to flout the "intent of the law." So after six years, the intent
isn't in the language? The problem is, do-gooders often have no
understanding of how the systems they are "fixing" actually work, no
concept of cost and no perception of the penalties in reputation, fines
and operational disruptions if a business runs afoul of federal food
labeling regulations." | |
From the Southwest Stocker Conference- The Beef Market View with Derrell Peel ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Extension
Livestock Marketing Specialist Dr. Derrell Peel was the opening speaker at
the 2008 Southwest Stocker Conference in Lawton this week. Dr. Peel talked
with cattle producers about the financial markets and the impact on
agriculture and the cattle industry- he worries about the availability of
credit and its cost in the days ahead; he also talked with producers about
where the cattle market is here at this point in 2008.
After his presentation, we sat down with him to run the gamut of beef market topics- and we have that interview linked below for you to listen to you. Click on the link to our website and get caught up on some valuable marketing information, even though you may have missed his presentation at the Conference in Lawton. Our coverage from the Southwest Stocker Conference is a service of our Cattle events sponsor, Hudson Livestock Supplements. | |
Clearly NO Love Lost Between Drew and Rick- Chicken Poop is Flying All Over. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The local
Tahlequah paper had some marvelous comments from several of the figures
involved in the poultry litter issue in the Illinois River watershed that
got publicity this week as Federal judge Gregory Frizzell told the
Oklahoma Attorney general "no" on an injunction to stop the spreading of
chicken litter in the million acre watershed for fertilizer.
The writer quoted the Attorney General who said the underlying lawsuit
will continue because of the dangers of poultry litter. They also quoted
the President of STIR- the Save the Illinois River group who also worries
about the contamination of the River. Finally, they they turned to Rick Stubblefield, who is one of the
Commissioners of the Oklahoma Scenic Rivers Commission, who took aim and
fired at the AG. "Ultimately, the court believed the professionals who
work for water quality agencies for the state of Oklahoma," said
Stubblefield. "In promoting his multimillion-dollar, hired gunslinger
witnesses, Edmondson was forced to attack the expert work of practically
everyone who works for the state of Oklahoma - and the court obviously
does not believe everyone who works for the state of Oklahoma is a
liar." | |
Wanna Give a Buck to the FFA? You Can and It's NOT Your Buck! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ We are talking
about a campaign developed by Campbell Soups that is offering a dollar
every time a person goes to a special website that they opened up as of
this past Monday. It's called HelpGrowYourSoup.Com and we have the link to
it below. When I clicked on their barn on the website Wednesday night, I
was number 4,353 of people who had come and clicked to donate a dollar to
the National FFA organization.
On the Campbell's site that you can link to- they are saying "As part of our corporate mission to nourish people's lives everywhere, every day, Campbell Soup Company is committed to supporting the farmers that have provided the wholesome ingredients for Campbell's condensed soups for more than 110 years. Through a partnership with the National FFA Organization, which is dedicated to developing our next generation of leaders through agricultural education, Campbell has committed a quarter of a million dollars to help support the future of American farming." MY CHALLENGE TO YOU THIS MORNING IS SIMPLE. Take about thirty seconds to go to the link below- click through and get to the small red barn and click it. I know we have some of the best FFA supporters in the entire world in Oklahoma- and I am convinced that we could and should get a thousand hits on this Thursday. Please go to the link below, click on through- and know you have played a part in getting FFA another buck to get the Blue and Gold shining bright! | |
Tulsa State Fair Junior Livestock Show and More. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ If you go to
our calendar page of our website, WWW.OklahomaFarmReport.Com, you will see
a bunch of events up and coming here in the month of October. For the
balance of this week, the major events center around the Tulsa State Fair
and their Junior Livestock show events- including the Premium Sale of the
top animals on Friday morning at 11:00 AM. This is the second largest
junior livestock premium auction in the state after the Oklahoma Youth
expo.
The state of Oklahoma is sponsoring a big American Angus Association Conference and Tour this coming week- it should be a most interesting meeting of some of the sharpest people in the seedstock business gathering for that event. Later in the month, on tap are a group of Cow-Calf Survival meetings
planned by OSU extension in the northeastern part of the state, as well as
the National FFA Convention, which we will be covering as we travel to
Indianapolis. Click here for the Calendar page on WWW.OklahomaFarmReport.Com | |
Express Ranch Invites You to Their Fall Bull Sale and Commercial Female Sale ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Coming up
Monday, October 6 at twelve noon- Express Ranches invites you to Yukon,
Oklahoma to improve the genetics of your herd here in 2008. In the sale
catalog, Bob Funk and Jarold Callahan remind cattle producers that "Our
objective is to produce balanced trait, problem-free cattle that have
moderate birth weights with excellent growth, moderate milk and superior
carcass with regard to both marbling and ribeye."
Featured at this sale on October sixth will be 200 plus Angus bulls
including 40 select Fall Yearling bulls We have the Express Ranches website linked below- on the right hand side of the page you will see the link that will take you to the sale catalog right on your computer- review the offering and then make plans to be at the Express Ranches Fall Bull Sale and Commercial Female Sale Monday October 6- twelve noon is the start time of the auction. Click here for more information on the Express Ranches Fall Bull Sale October 6 in Yukon. | |
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Looking at our Agricultural Markets... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The move lower
on our feeder cattle markets continue with the latest evidence provided in
the Wednesday trade at OKC West in El Reno. They sold 4,413 cattle, with
yearlings and calves called $4 to $6 lower than a week ago. The market
reporter on the scene wrote that some buying interests were sitting on
their hands and out of the market- with the "recent bad financial news"
helping push prices lower. Five weight steers brought from $95 to $113,
while seven to eight hundred pound steers crossing the scales and bringing
from $103.25 to $107.50. For the complete OKC West El Reno report, click
here.
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: | |
God Bless! You can reach us at the following: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
email: ron@oklahomafarmreport.com
phone: 405-473-6144
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