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Okla
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Daily
Oklahoma Cash Grain Prices- as reported
by the Oklahoma Dept. of Agriculture.
Canola
Prices:
Current
cash price for Canola is $13.05 per bushel at the Northern
Ag elevator in Yukon.
2012
New Crop contracts for Canola are now available at
$13.05 per bushel- delivered to local
participating elevators that are working with PCOM.
Futures
Wrap:
Our
Daily Market Wrapup from the Radio
Oklahoma Network with Ed Richards and Tom Leffler-
analyzing the Futures Markets from the previous Day.
KCBT
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Previous Day's Wheat Market Recap-Two
Pager from the Kansas City Board of Trade looks at all
three U.S. Wheat Futures Exchanges with extra info on
Hard Red Winter Wheat and the why of that day's
market.
Feeder
Cattle Recap:
The
National Daily Feeder & Stocker
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Slaughter
Cattle Recap:
The
National Daily Slaughter Cattle
Summary- as prepared by the USDA.
TCFA
Feedlot Recap:
Finally,
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the Texas Cattle Feeders Association.
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Oklahoma's
Latest Farm and Ranch News
Your
Update from Ron Hays of RON
Friday,
May 4,
2012 |
Howdy
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Here is your daily Oklahoma farm and ranch
news update.
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Featured
Story:
Canola
Harvest Has Begun- Swathing Underway of the 2012
Crop
The
2012 winter canola harvest is underway, with
fields in southwest and central Oklahoma being
swathed and getting the canola into windrows which
will be picked up in a matter of days. The
earliest report we have of swathing the crop came
on Sunday, April 29 in the Walters area of Cotton
County. Josh Bushong, OSU
Extension Canola Specialist, told us on Thursday
morning that he had reports of fields in several
locations either already swathed or were ready to
be swathed. Our conversation with Josh can be
found by clicking here.
Traveling
back to the Oklahoma City area from the Lahoma
Canola Field Day, where we talked about harvest
starting up with Bushong, we found one of the
locations he mentioned to us as being ready for
harvest. Three machines had swath heads from
MacDon on them and were running across the field
on the west side of Kilpatrick Turnpike just north
and west of State Highway 3.
There is
a roller being pulled behind the header to
help knock the canola down so the pods will be
lower to the ground and less susceptible to
shatter. We have over 30 pictures of the
process that we encountered in Canadian County-
and you can see them by clicking here for our 2012 Canola set
of photos on Flickr- scroll down to the bottom of
the set of pictures to see those of May 3rd and
the swathing
You
may also want to go back to our Canola TV feature
from just a couple of days ago with Heath Sanders
as he discusses the harvest options for producers
at an April Canola Field Tour Stop- Click here for that Canola TV
episode.
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Kansas
Wheat Crop Predicted to Top 400 Million Bushels in
2012 by Crop
Scouts
The
final estimate for the 2012 Hard Red Winter wheat
tour sponsored by the Wheat Quality Council was
announced today at the Kansas City Board of Trade.
The final participant estimate for the three-day
tour average was a yield of 49.1 bushels per acre,
11.7 bushels higher than the 2011 estimate of 37.4
bushels per acre.
Participants in the
tour made individual estimates on the total size
of the crop, with the weighted average at 403.9
million bushels. Last year's final estimate for
the tour was 256.7 million bushels. Crop scouts on
the tour spent Tuesday, Wednesday and today
surveying Kansas, usually the top U.S. wheat
producing state, trying to assess the production
potential of hard red winter wheat for this
year.
On the first day of the tour,
groups left Manhattan, Kan. and traveled different
routes to Colby, Kan. The crop after the first day
was estimated to be ahead in maturity and well
ahead of average production stages. While the
wheat crop looked good, there was still a
significant amount of disease present in the
eastern third of the state. Stripe rust, barley
yellow dwarf, wheat streak mosaic and smut were
evident in a crop that was tall, adequate in
moisture and mostly in the headed stage. The
estimate for day one of the tour was 53.6 bushels,
compared to 40.0 bushels last year.
Click here to read more about the
Kansas wheat tour and the predictions for the
Kansas crop.
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Oklahomans
Among Winners Taking Top Honors in National Land
and Range Judging Contest
Oklahomans
from two different FFA teams brought home national
championships in range judging in the 61st annual
National Land and Range Judging Contest held near
Oklahoma City.
Dillon
Langley from Fox, Oklahoma, earned the
championship in individual range judging and the
FFA team from Union, Oklahoma, took team range
judging honors. The Union team
was comprised of Brandon Handke, Garrett
Rogers, Andrew Houck, and Trey
Vaughan.
Handke was the reserve
champion in the individual range judging and
teammate Garrett Rogers took tenth
place.
The only other Oklahoman placing was
Jena Kellum from Ft. Towson who
took ninth place in the FFA division of the
homesite evaluation contest.
Click here to read more about the
61st annual National Land and Range Judging
Contest. You will also find a link to
pictures on our Flickr
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Carver
Says Wheat Breeding Has Drawn the Attention of
Lots of Ag Chemical Companies, and Some of Their
Moves Are Very Impressive
Dr.
Brett Carver with the wheat breeding
program at OSU told grain elevator operators and
others at the recent Grain and Feed Association
meeting in Oklahoma City that there are a number
of developments in wheat breeding that could lead
to big changes in the varieties of wheat that will
be available to farmers in the coming years.
Edwards says that a number of companies see profit
potential in wheat breeding and have made moves to
jump into the game.
"There is tremendous
investment in wheat improvement in the public and
in the private sector, especially, that is making
this a very attractive industry in the United
States compared to other places in the world. I'm
excited about what's going on, but I'm also
keeping my eyes wide open."
Bayer has
recently made a run at getting into the industry
in a big way and Carver says the company "is a
very impressive force in the landscape for wheat
improvement." He says the company has varieties
that will be cropping up in numerous trials next
year.
One of the things that Bayer has done
which has him a little concerned is the company's
purchase of wheat breeding programs in the
Ukraine.
"In terms of numbers, it's
probably not that significant, but where the
acquisition took place does raise my eyebrows a
little bit. Because eastern Europe is an area that
we depend on heavily-and not just us, but other
breeding programs across the great plains-depend
on heavily to bring in new germ plasm whether it's
for disease resistance or other agronomic
traits... but as we see more and more of those
kinds of acquisitions, I do get a little bit
nervous. Germ plasm access is so important to what
we do. I think we have the talent to use it, but
if we can't get to it and use it, or access it,
then we're going our hands will be tied behind our
backs."
You can read more or hear our full
interview with Brett Carver by clicking
here.
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Animal
Agriculture Alliance Summit Attendees Learn to
Bridge the Urban-Rural Divide
Nearly
200 leaders representing animal agriculture came
together in Arlington, Virginia, to kick off the
Animal Agriculture Alliance's eleventh annual
Stakeholders Summit. Twelve speakers discussed the
event's theme, "Real Farmers Real Food:
Celebrating Tradition and Technology".
One
of the key topics addressed was the need to bridge
the urban-rural divide to help the average
consumer understand today's agricultural
practices. Chris Herr of PennAg Industries
Association and Mike Platt of Indiana Pork each
shared innovative new ways that their
organizations are working to share the importance
of agriculture with the public.
PennAg
Industries Association's groundbreaking 10,000
square foot exhibit, "Today's Agriculture," put
real-life agricultural practices on display at the
2012 Pennsylvania Farm Show. Visitors came
face-to-face with modern farm practices, often for
the first time, and had the opportunity to get
their questions answered straight from the
farmer.
Click here for more information on
bridging the rural-urban information
divide.
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Crop
Tours in Kansas and Oklahoma Give Grain Markets
Some Food For Thought, Anderson Says
Crop
tours in Kansas and Oklahoma have roiled grain
markets and Dr. Kim Anderson
tells Lyndall Stout in these
weekend's SUNUP that the numbers coming from the
tours could be fueling a decline in
prices.
"Potential record yields in
Oklahoma, near record yields in Kansas. I think
the numbers came out higher than the market
expected and then if you look at production
estimates that are being bandied about by
different analysts, they are relatively high. Corn
is the price setter right now, looking at maybe
14,600,000,000 bushels. Wheat: 2,270,000,000
bushels, somewhere in that vicinity. Large crops.
Increasing ending stocks."
"After the first
day of the tour, prices fell relatively hard.
We've been talking about the Kansas City July
contract at $6.37 price level. That's an extremely
important price support. If busted through, if it
stays below that $6.37 as we go into next week,
then we've got a potential 50 cents down price as
go from now into harvest."
You can hear more from Kim Anderson
and see this weekend's lineup for SUNUP by
clicking here.
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This
N That- 22 Hours A Day- Female Sales and In The
Field with Jeff
Edwards
The
Kansas City Board of Trade
announces the expansion of electronic trading
hours for the KCBT's flagship hard red winter
wheat futures and options contracts. They
are joining the Chicago Board of Trade in
expanding their electronic trading day for grain
and oilseed futures from 17 hours a day to 22
hours a day. Open outcry will remain in its
current time frame which is from 9:30 AM to 1:15
PM central time. The only two hours when the
electronic market will be closed will be from 4 to
6 pm central time daily. Click here for more details of the
Thursday announcement from the KCBT.
We
have a pair of cattle sales to call your attention
to this morning- the first is the Hall
Coyote Hills Ranch Drought Reduction
Female Sale that will be at the ranch west and
south of Chattanooga, Oklahoma on Saturday-
tomorrow- May 5th. Limousin, Lim-Flex and Angus
females will be offered- you can call for last
minute information at 580-597-3006 or click here to read more about their
offering and get access to the on line
catalog.
Also
happening on Saturday is the B and E
Cattle Company's Replacement Female Sale-
to be held at the Chisholm Trail Agri Service
Center, three and half miles east of Duncan,
Oklahoma. They have over 400 cows to sell-
many of them with calves by their side. Click here for more information
and again- a link over to their on line catalog
listing. They will have their sale up in
cyberspace on DV Auctions.
Finally-
a quick reminder to tune in and check out our
Saturday morning visit with Dr. Jeff
Edwards, OSU Extension Wheat Specialist
as we discuss the rapidly approaching 2012 wheat
harvest. Our In the Field
segment is seen Saturday mornings at 6:40 AM on
KWTV News9 in Oklahoma City.
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