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Here is your daily Oklahoma farm and ranch news update.
- Oklahoma Drought Monitor Shows Substantial Decrease in Exceptional and Extreme Drought
- Implement Soil Health Practices Now to Increase Forage Production when Rains Come
- Tuttle FFA Wins National Championship in Livestock Judging in Indy at FFA
- Korean Journalists Visit A U.S. Wheat Industry Open For Business
- No Big Moves in Commodity Markets This Week, but Talk of Low Diesel Storage
- AFR Announces a Second Rural Issues Gubernatorial Forum- Set for Tulsa
- Red River Angus Bull and Female Sale in Vernon, TX
- More Stories for Your Weekend Reading
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Oklahoma Drought Monitor Shows Substantial Decrease in Exceptional Drought and Extreme Drought or Worse Since Last Week |
After recent rainfalls, significant improvements have been seen in both exceptional drought and extreme drought categories. According to the Oklahoma Mesonet, another big storm system is predicted to move in from the west next week across the Southern Plains.
In Oklahoma, exceptional drought is at 21 percent, down from last week’s 29.7 percent.
Extreme drought or worse is now at 70.2 percent, down over 10 percentage points from last week’s 82.2 percent.
Severe drought or worse is unchanged from last week at 99.8 percent.
Moderate drought or worse and abnormally dry or worse conditions remain unchanged from last week at 100 percent.
According to the 6-10-day precipitation map for Oklahoma through November 5, all but the Southeastern corner of the state is likely above 50 to 60 percent of precipitation. The Southeastern part of the state shows is leaning above a 40 to 50 percent chance of rain.
To view the Oklahoma drought numbers for this week, click the Oklahoma drought map above the story.
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Implement Soil Health Practices Now to Increase Forage Production when Rains Come |
The Noble Research Institute continues its work to emphasize regenerative ranching, and that includes utilizing soil health principles. In this episode of Beef Buzz, I am featuring comments from the Noble Research Institute’s Director of Producer Relations, Hugh Aljoe, about drought and soil health. Hugh talked earlier this week with KC Sheperd.
Utilizing soil health principles on rangelands, Aljoe said, will improve water retention rates on those soils, which is valuable during drought conditions periodically on the Southern Plains.
“The management we do now will determine how well and how rapidly we can recover after the drought,” Aljoe said.
Soils managed well and protected during the drought, Aljoe said, will have the ability to infiltrate and store more water when the rain comes.
Being proactive and managing pastures well before and during drought, Aljoe said, can improve overall forage production by 30 to 50 percent in some areas. Another benefit to taking care of those pastures, Aljoe said, is that improving water retention rates will help prepare for the winter season.
Maintaining live grass plants over the winter and through the drought, Aljoe said, will be beneficial when spring rains come and help more forage grow. The key, Aljoe said, is to have a plan in place before drought occurs.
“The best time to plan for drought is when you have rain and the best time to plan for rain is when you have drought,” Aljoe said.
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Tuttle FFA Wins National Championship in Livestock Judging in Indy at FFA |
Oklahoma has had a strong history at the National FFA in the Livestock Judging contest- and here in 2022 at the 95th National FFA Convention and Expo- more history was made as Oklahoma claimed the National Championship and the high individual of the Livestock Evaluation Career Development Event.
The Oklahoma team from Tuttle FFA are the National Champions at the National FFA Convention in 2022- team members include Brody Scroggins, Laney Harriman, Destyn Emerson, & Chyann Emerson. Their advisor is C. L. McGill.
High individual of the contest overall was Destyn Emerson of Tuttle.
It was also a National Championship kind of a day for several other Oklahoma FFA members-
Raigan McKee of the Oologah FFA Chapter in Oklahoma has spent three years researching the use of specific treatments to improve biosecurity measures taken by livestock producers. She won the National Title in the Proficiency Awards category- Agriscience- Animal Systems.
Luke Gallagher of the Altus FFA Chapter in Oklahoma began his supervised agricultural experience by purchasing 15 cows and two bulls, raising the calves and selling them. He applied to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Beginning Farmer Program in 2021, helping him purchase 320 acres and 361 backgrounded stocker-steers.Luke won the National title in the Beef Production - Entrepreneurship Proficiency category.
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Also on Thursday- the National FFA Organization announced the 2022 National FFA Agriscience Fair winners for animal and environmental services and natural resource systems. Two of the National winners are from the Stillwater FFA Chapter
Food Products and Processing Systems: Division 1
Esther VanOverbeke of the Stillwater FFA Chapter in Oklahoma
Food Products and Processing Systems: Division 4
Trinity Blocsh and Aubrie McEndoo of the Stillwater FFA Chapter in Oklahoma
We will be adding stories today and into the weekend on our FFA/4-H page- the Blue Green Gazette. Check there from time to time.
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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!
Click on the Button below to listen to our most recent report
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The Tulsa Farm Show is set to begin December 8th and run through December 10th at Expo Square in Tulsa.
As has been the case in recent years- the Tulsa Farm Show is once again sponsored by the Oklahoma Farm Bureau.
There are a few booth spaces left- and this is the perfect place to get your story in front of thousands of farmers, ranchers and rural folks from Oklahoma, Kansas, Arkansas and Missouri.
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Korean Journalists Visit A U.S. Wheat Industry Open For Business |
By USW Vice President of Communications Steve Mercer
It was an unusually calm morning at Blown Away Ranch outside Ione, Oregon. Dozens of wind turbines surrounding Deacon and Erin Heideman’s farm operation were still as we pulled up to their tidy, welcoming homestead. A mastiff dog named Duke greeted us first. He was as big as a calf, but quickly let us know we were welcome.
I was traveling in the Pacific Northwest (PNW) with two Korean journalists doing research for an article on how U.S. wheat is developed, grown and transported to flour mills, bakeries and consumers in South Korea. U.S. Wheat Associates (USW) and the wheat commissions in Washington, Idaho and Oregon welcomed the opportunity to show these reporters the wholesome, reliable nature of our export supply system.
South Korean flour millers have imported U.S. wheat for more than 50 years. Over the past 10 years, the average import volume is almost 1.3 million metric tons (MMT) per year including soft white (SW) and Western White, hard red spring (HRS), and hard red winter (HRW).
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if you missed this morning's Farm News - or you are in an area where you can't hear it- click below for this morning's Farm news from Ron Hays and KC Sheperd on RON.
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No Big Moves in Commodity Markets This Week, but Talk of Low Diesel Storage |
This Week on SUNUP is Oklahoma State University Extension grain market economist Kim Anderson. During this week's edition, Anderson talks about the commodity markets, factors influencing prices and more.
Anderson said this week there have not been any big moves in the markets.
The wheat market is continually moving lower, Anderson said and is around 9 dollars now. Looking at the corn market, Anderson said prices are moving sideways.
Soybeans are moving sideways as well, Anderson said, as soybean prices have ranged from 14 dollars to $13.30 in the past month.
“Those prices, again, are just moving sideways, and that just tells you not much movement in the market,” Anderson said. “Now with cotton, you go back two months, we had $1.18 cotton, we are down to around 76 cents now. You go back a week; we were around 85 (cents) and dropped off- came up just a little bit.”
43 percent of U.S. cotton acres are predicted to be abandoned, Anderson said, and cotton production is estimated to decline by 21 percent.
“But if you look at the world cotton production, it is right at average, so we have cotton in the world- we just don’t have it in the United States,” Anderson said.
This week, Anderson said there has been talk of a diesel shortage in the markets.
“They are talking about the levels of diesel in storage haven’t been this low since 2008,” Anderson said. “The reason for that is we were importing Russian oil that was coming into the gulf refineries, and they were refining diesel. That oil has been cut off, so we have less diesel being refined, and we are running into a diesel shortage.”
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AFR Announces a Second Rural Issues Gubernatorial Forum- Set for Tulsa |
American Farmers & Ranchers (AFR) Cooperative will host a gubernatorial candidate forum Wednesday, Nov. 2, at 2 p.m. at the Tulsa Stockyards. The event will focus on Oklahoma’s agriculture and rural communities.
Democratic candidate Superintendent Joy Hofmeister is confirmed for the event. Republican incumbent candidate Gov. Kevin Stitt is invited, but not yet confirmed.
The event will be free and open to the public.
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Red River Angus Bull and Female Sale in Vernon, TX |
Get ready for the Red River Red Angus Bull and Female sale coming up tomorrow, October 29th at the Vernon Livestock Auction in Vernon, Texas!
They’ll be selling Registered Bred Cows and 2021 Bred Heifers along with 100 commercial AI Bred Heifers. They will also be featuring Registered Red Angus bulls and 100 AI Bred spring calving Cows.
The Red River Red Angus Sale will be at 1 p.m. tomorrow, October 29th in Vernon Texas. You won’t want to miss it!
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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 $1.63 and Select Beef was up $3.31on Thursday 10/27/2022.
Click on the Button below for the latest report from USDA Market News
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Weekly Cattle Auction Reports
The buttons below allow you to check out the weekly Cattle Auctions in the region that we post on our website and here in our daily email update.
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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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KC Sheperd shares the story of Joey Carter, a hard-working farmer who was widely regarded as a model citizen in a rural North Carolina town. Carter is the focus of a movie coming out in October called Hog Farmer- the Trials of Joey Carter.
He was not the type of person who ever expected to find himself caught up in the middle of a federal lawsuit involving some of the nation’s most ruthless trial lawyers and one of the world’s largest food companies.
But that’s exactly what happened when Joey’s family farm became the focal point in a series of nuisance trials that attracted national and international media attention. While his neighbors leveled charges of environmental racism in hopes of winning multi-million-dollar verdicts, Joey was left wondering how this could happen to a man who has always taken pride in playing by the rules.
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