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Oklahoma's
Latest Farm and Ranch News
Your
Update from Ron Hays of RON
Monday,
May 7,
2012 |
Howdy
Neighbors!
Here is your daily Oklahoma farm and ranch
news update.
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Featured
Story:
Harvest
Getting Underway In Southwest, MEANWHILE-Premature
Whitening of Heads Worries Bob Hunger of
OSU
A
southwest Oklahoma elevator has received the first
load of wheat harvested from the 2012 crop. Farmer
Britton Newhouse delivered the load to the load to
the Cassidy Grain elevator in
Frederick Friday morning.
It was cut
Thursday from a field five and a half miles west
of Frederick on the Gottschall Farm. This is the
earliest harvest date anyone in the local area can
remember. Harvest in Frederick usually starts the
week before or just after Memorial Day.
The
moisture content was ten percent. The test weight
was 58.7 pounds per bushel. The variety was Jagger
and the berries were reported to not be
plump.
The yield was estimated to be in the
low thirties.
With
harvest imminent, Dr. Bob Hunger
took a tour of fields in central Oklahoma and
found a couple of issues that could adversely
affect yields. Foliage everywhere was
gone and premature whitening is widespread
Hunger says there is still grain in the heads to
be harvested, however. Also the diagnostic
lab has received samples from northwest
Oklahoma that tested positive
for wheatfield mosaic, High
Plains virus and /or barley yellow dwarf
virus.
Click here for more details from Bob
Hunger's late season tour and for reports from his
colleagues in Arkansas, Kansas and Nebraska.
AND-
if you have harvest pics to share- wheat or
canola- we would love to see them and share with
our OklahomaFarmReport family- email them
to me by clicking here or use the email at the
very bottom of this email update. Thanks in
advance of thinking of us!
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Farm
Bureau Survey Says Oklahoma Ag Producers Remain
Optimistic
Oklahoma
agriculturalists are generally optimistic but
concerned about the economy and burdensome
government regulations. That's the summary of an
Oklahoma Farm Bureau survey answered at the recent
Oklahoma FFA Convention and Southern Plains Farm
Show.
An overwhelming 80 percent of those
surveyed at the FFA convention said they were
optimistic about the future of agriculture. That
number jumped to 100 percent at the farm show.
"You have to be optimistic if you're a
farmer," said Jimmy Kinder, a
Walters, Okla., producer who completed the survey
at the farm show. "You can't farm from behind, you
have to farm from the front!"
When asked
to list the challenges facing agriculture today,
the more popular answers included concerns about
burdensome government regulations, increased
production costs, uncertain weather conditions and
the declining availability of land for
agricultural production.
FFA students who
took the survey said they would like to see more
agriculture-related classes and more promotion of
the "agriculture story."
The results of
the OFB survey are consistent with similar
questionnaires taken in previous years at the same
venues.
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Trent
Loos, a Nebraska rancher, radio
commentator, writer and speaker on farm issues
recently attended the Oklahoma FFA State
Convention in Oklahoma City.
In his
articles, speeches and programs, Loos urges his
audiences to examine the facts and make sound
decisions based on facts, not
misinformation.
We talked with Trent at the
convention and addressed a number issues including
the controversy around Lean Finely Textured Beef
where the market for the product dried up almost
overnight after stories appeared in the media
questioning it.
He
says the only way he knows to resolve the problem
is by fighting disinformation with facts. He has
come up with an image that helps him explain to
people why getting so upset over LFTB that
contains trace amounts of ammonium hydroxide is
nonsensical.
"If you're worried about the
ammonium hydroxide that we use in Lean Finely
Textured Beef, make sure you understand the whole
picture. Because if you were to take a bacon
double cheeseburger and the burger using Lean
Finely Textured Beef, there is three times as much
ammonia in the cheese as there is in the burger.
There's twice as much ammonia in the bun as there
is in the burger. There is more ammonia in the
individual packets of ketchup and mustard and
mayonnaise than there is in the burger and
everybody's worried about what's going on with the
burger."
Click here for more from Trent Loos.
You can read more and hear our full
interview.
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Nation's
Largest 100 Agricultural Co-ops Post Near Record
Sales, Margins
The
nation's 100 largest agriculture cooperatives
reported near-record revenue of $118 billion in
2010, USDA Rural Development Under Secretary
Dallas Tonsager announced. This was an increase of
4 percent over 2009 figures. Net income for the
100 top agriculture co-ops was also up more than
10 percent in 2010, reaching $2.39 billion, up
from $2.16 billion in 2009.
"Farmer and
rancher-owned cooperatives are a mainstay in the
American economy, not only helping members market
and process their crops, milk and livestock and
creating jobs, but also helping producers keep
more of the earnings derived from their products
at home, in rural counties and communities,"
Tonsager said. "The end result is a huge net
benefit for producers, their communities and the
overall rural economy. Farmer co-ops also account
for significant numbers of jobs and economic
activity in many cities."
USDA's top 100 ag
co-op list shows that 23 co-ops had 2010 revenue
of more than $1 billion. Another 47 co-ops had
revenue between $506 million and $1 billion. The
100th ranked co-op had sales of $276
million.
You can read more about how
cooperatives fared financially over the last few
years by clicking here.
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Growth
Energy President Pleased With Vilsack's Support of
E15
Following
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack's public support
of an increased ethanol blend of E15 into
conventional gasoline, Jim
Nussle, president and COO of Growth
Energy released the following statement:
"Growth Energy is pleased to see Secretary
Vilsack continue his full support for E15. His
support of the E15 blend, along with the Renewable
Fuel Standard, is critical to America's goal of
reducing our dependence on foreign oil, while
simultaneously creating jobs and providing energy
security through a domestic, abundant and proven
low carbon fuel source.
"I continue to be
disappointed by the American Petroleum Institute
(API) and their constant rhetoric that is baseless
and false. E15 is the most tested fuel, and has
repeatedly proven its value and on NASCAR tracks
all across this country, as well as in many other
high performance engines. API continues to embrace
the status quo of foreign oil dependence, and
therefore higher gas prices and the exclusion of
low carbon renewable fuels. Not only is this
disappointing, they are taking a stand against the
American economy and the potential to create
hundreds of thousands of new jobs.
"Ethanol represents an immediate,
sustainable and safe solution to our country's
energy needs. Further development of the E15 blend
and the continuation of the Renewable Fuel
Standard are vital components to America's energy
future and economic prosperity. Growth Energy
looks forward to continuing to work with Secretary
Vilsack in achieving these important
goals." |
Certified
Angus Beef Opens New Culinary Center- We Talk with
CAB Board Member and Oklahoma Producer John
Pfeiffer
Certified
Angus Beef has taken another step to
solidify its position as the gold standard in
branded beef programs with the formal opening this
month of an Education and Culinary Center adjacent
to its headquarters in Wooster, Ohio. CAB invited
members of the ag trade media, including yours
truly, as well as Food Writers from several major
consumer markets to take part in the opening
weekend.
Media were taken in the cooler
room which can serve as a teaching point about
beef carcasses, how they are broken down to
primals, subprimals and eventually retail cuts.
CAB professional staff actually took the media
present through taking apart the Loin of a beef
carcass, ending up with key cuts like the Tri-Tip,
the Porterhouse and more on the cutting room
tables.
Joining the staff and media
were several members of the Certified Angus Beef
Board of Directors, which includes John
Pfeiffer of Mulhall, Oklahoma. This
Oklahoma Angus breeder has been on the CAB for
about a year and a half of a three year term, and
was very excited about what the impact this
Education and Culinary Center can mean to the
Angus breed.
Click here for our special digital
version of Beef Buzz which features our
conversation with John Pfeiffer as well as a link
to our Flickr set of photos from the weekend- we
got pics of working on the Loin with a meat
cutting knife, the new cooking area of the
Education and Culinary Center of the CAB as well
as good looking Angus mama cows and calves as seen
on the Chipewa Valley Angus Farm near Wooster.
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Glenn
Selk Explores the Costs and Benefits of Early
Summer Calf De-Worming
Does
the cost of worming spring born calves outweigh
its benefits? What about de-worming both cow and
calf? Oklahoma State University Extension Animal
Scientist Emeritus Glenn Selk
puts a pencil to the problem in this week's
Cow/Calf Corner Newsletter and comes up with some
answers.
For many years, the average
value of a pound of added gain on feeder calves
was considered to be 55 to 60 cents. In today's
marketplace that figure is no longer accurate.
Last week at the Oklahoma City National
Stockyards, the value (for steer calves) of each
pound added between 450 pounds and 575 pounds was
worth approximately $1.18. This is lower than the
average sell price because of the price slide
between lighter and heavier calves. Nonetheless,
this much higher value of added gain means that
management practices that may have been marginal
in profitability in the past now have tremendous
advantages. One such practice is the de-worming of
spring born calves.
Click here to read more about the
potential to add value with spring
de-worming. |
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