~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Oklahoma's latest farm and ranch news
Your Update from Ron Hays of RON for Friday April 16, 2010
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service of Producers Cooperative Oil Mill, Midwest Farm Shows and KIS
Futures!
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-- Nowata FFA and Rogers County 4-H Claim Top Team Awards in
Commercial Cattle Grading Contest
-- Watch the Wheat Market Waller as Kim Anderson Offers the Play by
Play
-- Congressman Frank Lucas Fully Expects Another Climate Change Bill
Will Get a Serious Push Yet This Year
-- Wheat Weed Disease Continues to Be Very Light Here in 2010
-- ELAP Back Open for Livestock Producers for Loses in 2008 and
2009
-- R-CALF USA Continuing Efforts to Stop Beef from Brazil Because of
FMD Fears
-- A Closer Look at February Beef Trade Statistics
-- Let's Check the Markets!
-- Reminders from the Calendar!!!!
Howdy Neighbors! Here's your morning farm news headlines from the Director of Farm Programming for the Radio Oklahoma Network, Ron Hays. We are proud to have KIS Futures as a regular sponsor of our daily email update. KIS Futures provides Oklahoma Farmers & Ranchers with futures & options hedging services in the livestock and grain markets- Click here for the free market quote page they provide us for our website or call them at 1-800-256-2555. We are also excited to have as one of our sponsors for the daily email
Producers Cooperative Oil Mill, with 64 years of progress through
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information on the oilseed crops they handle, including sunflowers and
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Nowata FFA and Rogers County 4-H Claim Top Team Awards in Commercial Cattle Grading Contest ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Grading of
Commercial Cattle was the focus of the contest held on Thursday on the
opening day of the Southern Plains Farm Show. A total of $6,300 in
scholarship commitments were handed out to contestants of this event, with
over 260 participating this year. The main sponsor of the Contest is the
American Farmers & Ranchers, with the Rick Jones Memorial Scholarship
sponsored by OKC West Livestock.
The High Individual of the Event- Marco Ortiz from Hulbert FFA received the Rick Jones Memorial Scholarship of $2,000 for his efforts. Top Individual for the 4-H division was claimed by Tyler Compton of Wyandotte 4-H. The top team of the contest was the Rogers County 4-H team, which included Erick Welch, Michaela Branen, Lyndee Branen and Reighly Blakely. Top FFA team was one of the teams from Nowata FFA- team members included Hannah Allen, Katie Bell and John Franke. We have pictures of the highest scoring teams and the top individuals on our website at the link below- we also list the other top placings at the Commercial Cattle Grading Contest. In addition, you can hear a little more about the contest from Terry Detrick , President of the AFR, the major sponsor of the event. Click here for more on the Commercial Cattle Grading at the Southern Plains Farm Show | |
Watch the Wheat Market Waller as Kim Anderson Offers the Play by Play ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ OSU Grain
Marketing Economist Dr. Kim Anderson says that the wheat market is stuck
in a trading range for right now, right at that five dollar level, basis
the July Kansas City wheat contact. He told Clinton Griffiths of OSU's
weekly TV show, SUNUP, that it is wallering around that level- and he
admits he unsure about which direction it will go, up or down, when it
finally breaks out.
He says it's good to see the crop in much better condition this spring than one year ago. We have Kim's comments for us, courtesy of the SUNUP folks, and you can hear them now before you see Kim and the rest of the SUNUP program on Saturday morning on OETA. Click on the link below for the latest on the wheat market with Dr. Anderson, as well as a complete rundown of what you will see on SUNUP this weekend. | |
Congressman Frank Lucas Fully Expects Another Climate Change Bill Will Get a Serious Push Yet This Year ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Cap and trade
as passed by the House is dead, but a bill that would do many of the bad
things that the House bill proposed for the US economy may well be in the
soon to be released proposal of three US Senators on or about the 26th of
April.
This is one of the topics that Oklahoma Congressman Frank Lucas talked to Dustin Mielke of the Oklahoma Farm Bureau about earlier this week when the Oklahoma Farm Bureau Congressional Action Tour was in Washington, DC. Besides Cap and Trade and dealing with the EPA on environmental issues, Lucas also talked with him about the soon to come 2013 Farm Bill hearings this year, as well as the attack on the pot of money that funds the Crop Insurance Program. Click on the link below- and check out this conversation, which we have posted on our website as one of our Ag Perspectives Podcasts. That means if you have an Itunes account, you can go searching in the Podcasts section of their store and find this and download it there- or even subscribe so that anytime we have a new Podcast release- you get it right away. | |
Wheat Weed Disease Continues to Be Very Light Here in 2010 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The news
continues to be good from OSU Plant Pathologist Dr. Bob Hunger, who
traveled in part of the Oklahoma wheat belt earlier this week. Here's his
report that he sent to us via email.
"Brian Olson (A&P, Wheat Pathology) and I traveled different routes between Stillwater and Lahoma stopping at many fields. Wheat was mostly at growth stage 7-8, but an occasional field at GS 6-7 was noted. No rust was observed but we did see light and scattered powdery mildew and septoria along with occasional spots of light to moderate bird cherry-oat aphids. In plots around Stillwater this week, we did find some stripe rust on Jagalene again and have sent samples to Washington State for identification. In some plots (usually earlier planted) powdery mildew is moderate to severe on lower leaves, but is absent in other plots. Still no leaf rust detected." The disease pressure south of us in Texas seems to be worse- Here's the
report that Dr. Hunger included in his email that comes from Dr. Amir
Ibrahim, Wheat Breeder, Texas A&M: | |
ELAP Back Open for Livestock Producers for Loses in 2008 and 2009 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Changes have
been made in eligibility provisions for the Emergency Assistance for
Livestock, Honeybees, and Farm-Raised Fish program. These changes make it
possible for producers who experienced losses that took place in calendar
years 2008 and 2009 to sign-up, even though the original sign-up period
has passed. Producers now have through May 5, 2010 to sign-up for the
program. Check with your local FSA office if you have questions about this
new window of opportunity to access this program.
ELAP provides emergency assistance to eligible producers of livestock, honeybees and farm-raised fish that have losses due to disease, adverse weather or other conditions, including losses due to blizzards and wildfires. ELAP assistance is for losses not covered under other Supplemental Agricultural Disaster Assistance programs, specifically the Livestock Forage Disaster Program, the Livestock Indemnity Program and the Supplemental Revenue Assistance Payments Program. ELAP modifications include allowing producers who did not replace their honeybees or fish that were lost due to a natural disaster to be eligible for ELAP payments based on the fair market value of the honeybees or fish that were lost. In addition, the requirements to document losses for honeybee producers who suffered losses due to Colony Collapse Disorder were modified to allow documentation by an independent third party for losses in 2010 through Sept. 31, 2011. Producers can self certify losses due to CCD for 2008 and 2009. Click here for the full release from USDA on this reopening of the ELAP program. | |
R-CALF USA Continuing Efforts to Stop Beef from Brazil Because of FMD Fears ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ R-CALF USA is
continuing efforts to put a stop to an agreement to recognize the
Brazilian state of Santa Catarina, as free of foot-and-mouth disease,
rinderpest, classical swine fever, African swine fever, and swine
vesicular disease. USDA's proposed rule is to be published in the Federal
Register today. R-CALF USA calls the lifting of foot-and-mouth disease
restrictions in Santa Catarina inaccurate and unscientific.
R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard says USDA has a 100 percent failure rate in its attempts to regionalize, or carve out regions, within FMD-affected countries that export meat to the United States. Bullard cites information from the World Organization for Animal Health that shows the state of Parana continued to have new outbreaks of FMD into 2006, just four years ago. And the proposed rule fails to mention the 669 cases of FMD within the past five years in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, which borders Parana and is in close proximity to Santa Catarina. Bullard believes it is time for Congress to rein this agency in before USDA causes the introduction of FMD in the United States. According to Bullard, we've already had too many near misses because of USDA's unrealistic, inaccurate and unscientific evaluation of the true risks of FMD, which is the most contagious disease known to cattle. R-CALF USA encourages producers and consumers to urge their members of Congress to take steps to stop USDA from lifting essential FMD protections. | |
A Closer Look at February Beef Trade Statistics ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dr. Greg Doud,
Chief Economist of the NCBA, provides us with an interesting look at the
most recent beef export figures that we reported earlier this week from
USDA and USMEF.
"The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) February trade statistics came out this week and indicated that February beef exports were up 15 percent in value and nine percent in volume compared to February 2009. Through the first two months of 2010, beef and beef variety meat exports were up nine percent in volume and 11 percent in value ($481 million or $501 million if processed beef products are included). However, when looking at these percentages, we have to keep in mind that during this period last year the world economy was still in shock from the meltdown of late 2008 and the U.S. dollar was very strong when compared to most currencies around the world. "Through the first two months of 2010, the top ten markets for U.S. beef are Mexico (down 30 percent in value versus the same period in 2009), Canada (+31 percent), Japan (+34%), South Korea (unchanged), Vietnam (+2%), Taiwan (more than double 2009), Hong Kong (more than triple 2009), EU (double 2009), the Caribbean (+44%), and Egypt (+36%). Number 11 on this list would be Russia at $11 million compared to just under $3 million in trade during January and February 2009. These eleven markets accounted for 98 percent of the total value of U.S. beef and beef variety meat exports through February. As you can see from these percentage changes, there are two distinct trends emerging thus far in 2010. The first is the continuation of the decline in demand for U.S. beef in our top export market. It's quite shocking to see that Jan.-Feb. U.S. beef and beef variety meat exports to Mexico are 43 percent lower than the first two months of 2008 and these comparisons to 2008 (versus 2009) are probably a better way to measure the trend. A closer look indicates that Jan.-Feb. 2008 variety meat exports to Mexico were $93 million compared to only $25 million in 2010. This continuing free-fall in variety meat exports accounts for three-quarters of the difference in sales to our top market versus 2009." | |
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Let's Check the Markets! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ We've had
requests to include Canola prices for your convenience here- and we will
be doing so on a regular basis. Current cash price for Canola is $7.60 per
bushel, while the 2010 New Crop contracts for Canola are now available are
$7.80 per bushel- delivered to local participating elevators that are
working with PCOM.
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: | |
Reminders from the Calendar!!!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The
Southern Plains Farm Show Continues through Saturday afternoon at the
State Fair Park in Oklahoma City. Come by and see us at our booth in the
Cox Building and sign up for the Prefiert 40 Foot Round Pen that is being
used in the Horse Training Sessions with Scott Daily.
The First Annual Southeastern Oklahoma Yard & Garden Expo is being held at the Pushmataha County Fairgrounds today, Friday, April 16 and Saturday, April 17. Experts will discuss soil fertility, beekeeping, organic gardening, production of small fruits and tree fruit, fire ant control, sustainable agriculture, turf insects and diseases, and other topics related to lawns and gardens. | |
God Bless! You can reach us at the following: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
email: ron@oklahomafarmreport.com
phone: 405-473-6144
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