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- 2022 Kansas Wheat Scouts Predict Higher Abandonment- See Crop at 261 Million Bushels- Off 28% from 2021
- Drought Monitor in Latest Week Shows Drought Free Expanding in Central/Eastern Oklahoma
- OSU's Kim Anderson Sees Wheat Prices to Stay High for the Next 2 to 3 Years
- Dustin Hilliary Appointed to the State Regents For Higher Ed
- OSU's Misha Manuchehri Outlines Different Ways to Prevent Weeds in a Wheat Crop
- Kent Bacus says NCBA is Committed to Promoting Trade to Benefit US Cattle Producers
- Oklahoma FFA Member named to 58th Class of U.S. Presidential Scholars
- More Weekend Reading to Check Out From OklahomaFarmReport.Com at Bottom of Email
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2022 Kansas Wheat Scouts Predict Higher Abandonment- See Crop at 261 Million Bushels- Off 28% from 2021 |
Wheat Quality Council’s 2022 Hard Winter Wheat Tour across Kansas wrapped up on May 19. During the three days of wheat scouting, tour participants traveled six routes from Manhattan to Colby to Wichita and back to Manhattan. This year's tour hosted people from 24 U.S. states plus Mexico and Canada in 20 vehicles while traveling across the state.
The three-day average yield for the fields that were calculated was 39.7 bushels per acre. While an estimated 7.4 million acres of wheat were planted in the fall, the Kansas wheat crop varies in condition based on planting date and amount of moisture received. What Mother Nature has in plan for the wheat crop still remains to be seen, but the tour captures a moment in time for the yield potential for fields across the state.
The official tour projection for total production of wheat to be harvested in Kansas is 261 million bushels, indicating that tour participants thought abandonment might be higher than normal at 11%. This number is the average of estimated predictions from tour participants who gathered information from 550 fields across the state. That level of abandonment could mean 6.586 million acres would actually have a combine pull in for the 2022 harvest, well under the 6.9 million acres predicted by USDA earlier in the month.
Based on May 1 conditions, NASS predicted the crop to be higher at 271 million bushels, with a yield of 39 bushels per acre and abandonment at only 6%.
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The Oklahoma Cattlemen's Association is the trusted voice of the Oklahoma Cattle Industry. With headquarters in Oklahoma City, the OCA has a regular presence at the State Capitol to protect and defend the interests of cattlemen and cattlewomen.
Their Vision Statement explains the highest priority of the organization- "Leadership that serves, strengthens and advocates for the Oklahoma cattle industry."
To learn more about the OCA and how you can be a part of this forward-looking group of cattle producers, click here for their website. For more information- call 405-235-4391.
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Drought Monitor in Latest Week Shows Drought Free Expanding in Central/Eastern Oklahoma |
In Oklahoma, 1,038,915 people are affected by drought. Exceptional drought is 10.5% (last week was 10.4% and last month was 8.9%) with Cimarron, Texas, Greer, Jackson, and Harmon counties almost completely affected by exceptional drought. Beaver, Woods, Major, Woodward, Ellis, Dewey, Beckham, Kiowa, and Tillman counties are affected to some degree by exceptional drought.
35.9% of the state is in extreme drought this week, which is down from last week at 39.4%.
44.9% of the state is in severe drought this week (last week this number was 55.3%).
Down significantly from last week is moderate drought at 53.5%, down more than 10 points from last week’s 65.3%.
Abnormally dry or worse dropped from last week’s 77.2% to this week’s 60.3%.
We currently have 66 counties with USDA disaster designations, and this is the 36th driest year to date over the past 128 years.
Friday, Oklahoma will see a pretty strong cold front that should drop temperatures into the 60s and 70s for highs and 40s and 50s for lows. For those in the western panhandle, lows could possibly reach the 30s. Next week should be somewhat cooler before returning to summer heat.
Click the photo above the story to see the Oklahoma Drought Map and data.
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OSU's Kim Anderson Sees Wheat Prices to Stay High for the Next 2 to 3 Years |
This week on SUNUP is Dr. Kim Anderson, Oklahoma State University Extension grain market economist talks at the Lahoma Field Day. During this week’s edition, Anderson speaks on U.S. and world wheat production and future wheat prices.
In the World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report that came out recently, Anderson said U.S. wheat production came in at 1,730,000,000 bushels compared to last year’s 1,650,000,000. So, he added, about 100 million more bushels of U.S. wheat production ahead of last year.
“However, hard red winter wheat was 590 million bushels compared to 750 last year,” Anderson said. “So, hard red winter wheat stocks that were already tight are going to get tighter.”
Looking at Oklahoma production, Anderson said they came out at 60 million on the report. The crop tour’s estimate, he added, was 58 million and last year’s production in Oklahoma was 115 million bushels.
“I think wheat prices can stay high for 2 to 3 years,” Anderson said. “The joker in the deck is Russia and Ukraine. Russia is coming out with a record crop this year of about 3.2, to 3.3 billion bushels compared to 2.8 last year.”
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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!
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Dustin Hilliary Appointed to the State Regents for Higher Ed |
Dustin J. Hilliary, Lawton, was recently appointed by Gov. Kevin Stitt to serve a nine-year term as a member of the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education. Hilliary’s appointment was confirmed by both the Senate Education Committee and the full Senate. His term will expire in May 2031.
"As we focus on strengthening Oklahoma’s workforce pipeline, Regent Hilliary brings a strong business background and extensive leadership experiences to the board," said Chancellor Allison D. Garrett. "His expertise will benefit our public colleges and universities and our students. We look forward to his service as a State Regent."
Hilliary serves as Co-CEO of Hilliary Communications, which provides telephone and broadband service to more than 15,000 customers in Oklahoma, Texas and Iowa and has 135 full-time employees. He has been a leader for the growth and financial planning of all Hilliary-owned companies and a major part of the transition from a traditional telecommunications company to a multi-faceted provider of telephone, broadband and video services. Under Hilliary’s leadership, Hilliary Communications has been awarded more than $110 million in federal broadband loans and grants from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Federal Communications Commission.
He also serves as Co-Publisher of the Hilliary Media Group, a media holding company that operates two newspapers, the Oklahoma Farm Report and other radio and website outlets.
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OSU's Misha Manuchehri Outlines Different Ways to Prevent Weeds in a Wheat Crop |
At the Lahoma Wheat Plot Tour, Farm Director KC Sheperd sat down with Misha Manuchehri, the small grains wheat extension specialist at OSU. Manuchehri talked about different ways producers can prevent weeds in their crops.
“It is amazing when you don’t have a healthy actively growing crop, how our weeds are going to fill in,” Manuchehri said. “I always say one of the best cultural practices we can do is just taking care of our crop.”
This year, unfortunately, Manuchehri said the moisture was out of our hands, but it is a good reminder that when we do have moisture, to plant the right variety and make sure we fertilize because that will help immensely with weed control.
In a year where we are really investing in our wheat crop, Manuchehri said she gets a lot of calls on harvest aids asking what producers can do to take care of the greens and get their combines in the field.
“I don’t know how many I’ll get this year just because the crop doesn’t look that great,” Manuchehri said. “Just a reminder with harvest aids, they are expensive, so think about if that investment makes sense for you. You are not really controlling the weeds that are there. You are kind of suppressing them.”
Identifying what species of weeds a producer has at harvest will help to come up with a plan for next season, Manuchehri said.
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Kent Bacus says NCBA is Committed to Promoting Trade to Benefit US Cattle Producers |
In today’s Beef Buzz, I featured comments with Kent Bacus, the Senior Director of International Trade and Market Access for the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association about expectations for U.S. trade partners.
While the Biden administration is still getting their arms around any fresh trade negotiations, they continue to enforce existing trade deals that have already been done by the Trump administration and even as far back as the Obama administration.
Bacus believes the key for the cattle industry to receive open trade is rules that are easy to understand and easy to follow.
The United States is one of the most open markets in the world Bacus said, which means a lot of countries are able to sell their goods in the U.S. Meat is one of those items, Bacus added, where it is much more restricted because the sanitary and phytosanitary standards are so high.
“For any country to gain access to the U.S., it takes years for them to be able to do that,” Bacus said. “So, that is why we only import meat from a handful of countries. Traditionally that has been Mexico, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
In recent years, Bacus said Brazil has entered into the mix, which has caused a bit of worry among cattle producers here in the U.S.
“It’s not because we are worried about the competition, Bacus said. “We are worried about their reputation.”
Brazil’s reputation for not reporting animal health diseases in a timely manner, and the food safety issues they have been known to have are the reason they have been shut down in the past.
“NCBA has been actively engaged in making sure that our government holds all of our trade partners, including Brazil, at the same standard that we have,” Bacus said. “It has to be that high standard.”
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Oklahoma FFA Member Named to 58th Class of U.S. Presidential Scholars |
Four FFA members were recently named U.S. Presidential Scholars-one of the nation's highest honors for high school students-for their accomplishments in academics, the arts, and career and technical education. Each year, up to 161 students receive this honor.
The FFA members named as scholars are:
Karen Netto, MOT Charter FFA, Delaware
Kayla McKenzie Moore, East Rutherford FFA, North Carolina
Brighton E. Snow, Washington FFA, Oklahoma
Cameron David Pokorny, Waupun FFA, Wisconsin
Established in 1964 by executive order of President Lyndon B. Johnson, the U.S. Presidential Scholars program was created to recognize the nation's most distinguished high school graduating seniors. In 2015, the program was expanded to recognize students who demonstrate ability and accomplishment in career and technical education.
The 2022 U.S. Presidential Scholars are comprised of two students from each state, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico and U.S. families living abroad, as well as 15 chosen at-large. There are also 20 scholars in the arts and 20 scholars in career and technical education.
Overseen by the Commission on Presidential Scholars, the program is administered by staff at the U.S. Department of Education. The commission selects honored scholars annually based on their academic success, artistic excellence, essays, school evaluations and transcripts, as well as evidence of community service and leadership.
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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 $1.23 cents and Select Beef was up 4 cents on Thursday 05/19/2022.
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Weekly Cattle Auction Reports
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Each afternoon we are posting a recap of that day's markets as analyzed by Justin Lewis of KIS futures - click below for the latest update on the Livestock and Grain Futures Trade..
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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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