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Okla
Cash Grain:
Daily
Oklahoma Cash Grain Prices- as reported
by the Oklahoma Dept. of Agriculture.
Canola
Prices:
Current
cash price for Canola is $12.25 per bushel at the Northern
Ag elevator in Yukon-
2012
New Crop contracts for Canola are now available at
$12.25 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
Recap:
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
Cattle Summary- as prepared by USDA.
Slaughter
Cattle Recap:
The
National Daily Slaughter Cattle
Summary- as prepared by the USDA.
TCFA
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Finally,
here is the Daily Volume and Price Summary from
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 25,
2012 |
Howdy
Neighbors!
Here is your daily Oklahoma farm and ranch
news update.
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Featured
Story:
Harvest
Continues at Rapid Pace Heading Memorial Day-
Oklahoma now 28% Complete on 2012 Wheat
Harvest
Reports
from three different directions all point to
combines rolling in wheat fields from north Texas
into the southern third of Kansas.
The
report from Mark Hodges with
Plains Grains offers an estimate of 28% harvest
being done in Oklahoma, 31% in Texas and 10%
complete already in Kansas. Hodges reports that
for the state of Oklahoma- "Harvest in far
southwestern Oklahoma is now 90% complete (south
of Hwy 62 from Lawton to Altus) with the eastern
part of that area not progressing as quickly. All
parts of Oklahoma are now in some stage of harvest
including far northwestern Oklahoma and the
Panhandle." Click here for the full report from
Plains Grains, Inc.
Mike
Schulte and Debbie Wedel
with the Oklahoma Wheat Commission have greater
detail of the 2012 Oklahoma harvest in their
Thursday afternoon report- one location that they
mention in southern Oklahoma is Frederick-
"Cassidy Grain in Frederick is 80% complete and
are now taking wheat from local producers who have
just got into the fields this week. The Custom
Crews have headed North. Cassidy has taken in
close to 2 million bushels with test weights
ranging from 50 - 60. Moisture has held in the 9
to 10% range and yields are all over from 25 to 65
bushels per acre with an average of 35."
North
of I-40, Mike Schulte reports that one location
that is rolling and getting great results
is Garber/Covington- "Harvest is just getting
started in this area with good yields being
reported so far. Test weights are averaging 61
lbs. Yields being reported at this point are
showing an average in the mid-40's. One producer
in this region reported a 160 acre field he had to
have made 80 bushels per acre."
Click here for the full report from
the Oklahoma Wheat Commission- sponsor of our
2012 wheat watch over this entire growing-
harvesting cycle.
Finally,
we have day two of the Kansas Wheat Harvest
report- spotlighting Sumner County, right on the
state line and the county you travel into from
Oklahoma when you ride I-35 from Oklahoma
City to Wichita. Sumner is traditionally their
largest wheat producing county in the state.
In Sumner County- "Curt Guinn,
manager at the Farmers Coop Grain Association in
Wellington, says yields early on are excellent,
ranging from 55 to 65 bushels per acre. Test
weights vary from 58 to 63 pounds per bushel and
will likely average the 60 pound per bushel
benchmark. Protein is averaging 11 at the
Wellington location." Click here for the complete Day Two
report from Kansas Wheat.
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Is
Oklahoma in the Midst of Flash Drought
Development?
Associate
State Climatologist Gary McManus
looks at the data from the Oklahoma Mesonet and
asks the question: "Is Oklahoma in the midst of a
flash drought development. Here is his
analysis:
In my opinion, that is exactly
what we are seeing as exceedingly dry, warm and
windy weather continues. A flash drought is
exactly what its name implies -- a more rapid
development of drought (monthly time scale) as
compared to its normal time scale (seasonal). The
distinction is very much akin to the difference
between river flooding and flash flooding ... the
time scale is the key.
The development of
flash droughts normally occurs during the summer
months, but in reality our warmth started early
this year. We are well on our way to seeing the
records for warmest January-May and March-May
(spring) periods absolutely shattered.
All
the necessary ingredients have been added to the
mix for rapid onset of drought: lack of rainfall
mixed with hot weather and lots of sunshine (at a
time when the energy from the sun is nearing its
peak for our part of the world). The impacts of
those ingredients are accelerated by the windy
conditions, the advanced growth of vegetation, as
well as the stress placed on the environment by
last year's devastating drought.
Click here for more of Gary's
analysis with charts from the Oklahoma
Mesonet.
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House
Approves Substantial Bridge Repair Funding
Measures
The
House of Representatives voted recently to
significantly reduce the backlog of bridges
needing repair or replacement in Oklahoma.
"Road and bridge funding is not only a
safety issue, but is also an economic development
issue," said T.W. Shannon, a Lawton Republican who
chairs the House Transportation Committee. "We
have made some progress in this area in the last
seven years, but this is a core service for
Oklahomans that simply cannot wait any longer. I
am very pleased that my colleagues in the House of
Representatives agreed to focus our resources on a
substantial increase in transportation funding so
that our citizens will be safer and our businesses
that rely on shipping goods and services on our
roads can
expand."
House
Bill 2248, by Shannon, would increase road funding
in the coming fiscal year. Current law calls for
an annual increase of $41.7 million in road
funding. Shannon's bill would hike that amount to
$59.7 million, directing an additional $18 million
to the Rebuilding Oklahoma Access and Driver
Safety Fund.
The bill directs that the
fund continue receiving an additional $59.7
million each year until the total increase equals
$575 million.
You can read more about this story by
clicking here.
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Researcher
Upends Global Warming Myths About Livestock With
Solid Data
It
has been one of the most enduring of memes in the
environmentalists' psyops arsenal that raising
livestock contributes unduly to global warming.
Dr. Frank Mitloehner of the University of
California at Davis says the data is not on the
environmentalists' side. He spoke recently at the
Alltech Symposium on the future of agriculture and
shared his research on what the data actually say
about the impact of livestock on global
warming.
"The U.S. numbers for greenhouse
gasses per unit of production are just about the
lowest you can get. And the reason for that is
that we have learned to use all these
efficiencies. So we can produce the largest amount
of product with the fewest inputs and that's what
drives environmental impact. In that respect, we
are probably one of the world's leaders," he
said.
He said there are several factors
that have led to the livestock industry's ability
to lower its carbon footprint.
"We have
learned to optimize our genetics. We have
optimized the nutrition. We gave taken care of
animal health, for example, by reducing parasite
load per animal. We are feeding energy-dense diets
and that is also reducing greenhouse gasses per
steer or cow. And all of that is a concert that
plays this piece of reducing environmental
impact."
Read more or hear more from Dr.
Mitloehner by clicking here.
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Harvest
Updates and Analyses Dominate SUNUP Lineup This
Weekend
The
progress of the 2012 wheat and canola harvests is
the centerpiece of this week's SUNUP program.
Reports include a rundown on the North Central
Research Station Wheat Tour, a wheat harvest
update, a progress report on the canola harvest
with Josh Bushong, and a tour of
the station's wheat variety test plots.
Kim Anderson will have a full
analysis of this week's grain markets and a
discussion of what he learned on the Lahoma tour.
Anderson says wheat prices increased
rapidly this week from $6.10 to $7.30 before
settling into a range of $6.80 to $7.30 as buyers
await more results from the hard red winter wheat
crops around the world. He said ending stocks are
not a big factor at the current time in price
volatility since wheat ending stocks around the
world are slightly above historical averages. He
said he thinks the stocks-to-use ratio is
currently the driving factor in the volatility
we've seen.
Besides Kim Anderson's
commentary- SUNUP has a busy lineup for this
Memorial Day weekend- click here for a chance to review the
full lineup as well as a chance to hear Kim's
commentary right now before the markets close
for the three day weekend.
SUNUP
can be seen Saturday morning at 7:30 on
OETA. |
USDA
Joins Grill Sergeants for Safe Grilling Advice
U.S.
Department of Agriculture experts are sharing
advice on food safety for barbecuing with chefs
from the US Army's "Grill Sergeants" cable TV
program.
Outdoor grilling is a great
tradition for all Americans-in and out of uniform.
And whether you are a chef or a backyard barbecue,
it's important to take precautions to prevent food
borne
illnesses.
Dr.
Elisabeth Hagen, USDA Under Secretary for Food
Safety says warm weather can really be a factor in
the increases in foodborne illness we see during
the summer. That's because we see more moisture,
we see hotter temperatures and bacteria multiply
at higher rates with that warm weather. But there
are some simple steps that people can take to
"grill it safe." They are: Clean,
Separate, Cook and Chill.
Click here for more grilling tips
from the Grill Sergeants.
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Memorial
Day Reminder- and Next Weekend- Kris Black Cream
of the Crop Sale
Coming
This
coming Monday is the first of the the "Big Three"
grilling holidays for the summer season- and the
meat industry is hoping for lots of steaks,
burgers, chops and breasts are on those grills
between now and Monday. The number of Americans
who plan to fire up the grill for Memorial Day is
up 10 percent from last year, according to a
survey by grill manufacturer Weber-Stephen
Products LLC. All told, 71 percent of survey
participants say they plan to grill for Memorial
Day.
Memorial
Day is also a day to remember- and for
being thankful for those who sacrificed their
lives for our freedom to grill and to do
everything else that we do here in this great
country of ours. We are thankful for those who
have died in service to our country- and pray that
we never forget what they died
for.
Finally- on the subject of Memorial
Day- it is a full fledged market and government
holiday- all government offices are closed- as are
all of the equity and futures markets. We will NOT
send you an email update on Monday- our next
report comes Tuesday morning- However- you can
still catch our radio updates on your local Radio
Oklahoma Ag Network station.
Next
Saturday, June 2nd, it will be the Kris
Black Cream of the Crop Sale- The sale will be
held at the ranch, just north of Cheyenne,
Oklahoma on Highway 33.
Featuring 500 head
of fall calving heifers and young cows, plus a
stout set of service age bulls. Click here for more details of this
outstanding offering that may be the right
kind of genetics for your beef cow- calf
operation.
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