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Your Update from Ron Hays of RON
Friday, July 24, 2020
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Here is your daily Oklahoma farm and ranch news update.
- Dr. Barry Pollard Named Annual Agriculture Hall of Fame Inductee
- Parts of Oklahoma See Drought Expansion in Latest U.S. Drought Monitor
- 2020/21 U.S. Wheat Associates Officer Team Includes Michael Peters of Okarche, Oklahoma
- Derrell Peel Previews Today's Cattle on Feed And Cattle Inventory Reports
- OSU's Kim Anderson Talks Wheat Prices at the Beginning Versus the End of Harvest
- If You Got Rain Recently- 2020 Cotton Looking Good
- This Weeks Ag in the Classroom, Christmas in July with Oklahoma Christmas Tree Farmers
- Wheat Harvest Tracks Northward- Plains Grains Updates
- Check Our MarketLinks Further Down in the Email- Including Links to Our Cattle Auction Reports of this Week
- AND FINALLY- Take a Listen to Our Conversation with Frank Lucas on the USDA Investigation Results on Beef and Cattle Prices
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Dr. Barry Pollard Named Annual Agriculture Hall of Fame Inductee
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Set to be honored at the 1st General Session of the Oklahoma Cattlemen’s Convention, Sec. of Agriculture,
Blayne Arthur
is proud to announce
Dr. Barry Pollard
as the recipient of the Governor’s Outstanding Achievement Award in Agriculture. The Waukomis rancher will become the 23rd inductee into the Oklahoma Agriculture Hall of Fame, the state’s most prestigious agriculture award.
Neurosurgeon by day and farmer by night, Dr. Barry Pollard has held many roles, but passion for agriculture runs deep.
Growing up in the rural town of Hennessey, he is no stranger to the agriculture industry.
“I was always actively involved in 4-H and FFA,” said Pollard. “We showed hogs pigs cattle – county fair state fair you name it. I really cherished my agriculture background and I never envisioned myself being a big-city doctor. I wanted to come home and be around the people I grew up with and live the agriculture life I experienced as a child.”
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The
Oklahoma Agriculture Mediation Program knows this is a hard time for farmers and ranchers. We want you to know we are still open, and we are still here for you. The Ag Mediation program is a free service that provides mediation to agriculture producers who may need help with ag-related disputes.
At Oklahoma Ag Mediation, we have been helping people in agriculture resolve conflicts since 1987. We know firsthand about working together to resolve conflicts, so you don’t have to go through the court systems. Let our professional mediators help you. Mediation is allowed for lease issues, farmer/neighbor disputes, family farm transitions, and more. These services are available at no cost for Oklahoma farmers and ranchers in all 77 counties. For more information, you can go to
ok.gov/mediation, or give us a call at 800 248 5465.
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Cimarron County Sees Reduction In Extreme Drought While Other Parts of Oklahoma See Drought Expansion in Latest U.S. Drought Monitor Update
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Cimarron County, in the far western Oklahoma Panhandle, finally received a much-needed reduction in the deadly Extreme Drought (D3) category this past week after storms dropped two to locally over five inches across parts of the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandle areas.
However, it was another dry week across much of Texas to eastern Oklahoma where abnormally dry, moderate to severe drought expanded in other parts of Texas, with pockets of extreme drought added to southwestern Teas and southwestern Oklahoma.
In addition, areas of two plus inches of rain were widespread across Kansas with locally over five inches in northeast Kansas.
Drought contracted where the beneficial rains fell, including southeast Colorado and western Kansas.
Specifically, for Oklahoma, about 65 percent of the state is experiencing some form of drought, an increase of about four points from last week 60.92 percent coverage. More than one million Oklahomans are experiencing some form of drought this week.
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2020/21 U.S. Wheat Associates Officer Team Includes Michael Peters of Okarche, Oklahoma
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The U.S. Wheat Associates (USW) Board of Directors seated new officers at a virtual annual meeting July 17, 2020. USW is the export market development organization representing U.S. wheat farmers.
USW officers for 2020/21 are: Chairman Darren Padget of Grass Valley, Ore.; Vice Chairperson Rhonda Larson of East Grand Forks, Minn.;
Secretary-Treasurer Michael Peters of Okarche,
Okla.; and Past Chairman Doug Goyings of Paulding, Ohio. USW officers were elected to these one-year positions at the January 2020 board of directors meeting in Washington, D.C.
“We are all very disappointed that we could not hold our meeting as originally planned in Cincinnati, Ohio, so we could all thank Doug Goyings, his family and the team from the Ohio Small Grains Marketing Board for their dedicated leadership this past year,” Chairman Padget said. “Doug has done a wonderful job as Chairman and I can only hope to meet his example with his help.”
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Derrell Peel and
Katelyn McCullock Preview Cattle on Feed And Cattle Inventory Reports
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Uncertainty Surrounds July 24 Cattle on Feed And Cattle Inventory ReportsPreviewing the USDA monthly Cattle on Feed and the twice-a-year Cattle Inventory reports ahead of the July 24 release,
Dr. Derrell Peel, OSU Extension livestock market economist, said there is a lot of uncertainty surrounding the reports and interpreting the numbers will take some deeper analysis.
I think we are getting back to normal, but we still have a lot of cattle on feed delayed in marketing, over 120 to 150 days, Peel said.
"We’re beginning to chip away at the backlog, which is estimated at around 100,000 head."
From January through May the total placements were down about one million head from a year ago, he said.
On the midyear cattle inventory report-
Katelyn McCullock
, director and senior agricultural economist for the Livestock Marketing Information Center says abnormal times might mask reality.
Normally if beef cow slaughter is up, we would expect the beef cow herd number to be smaller, she said.
I am expecting the beef cow herd to be slightly smaller than a year ago but because of market disruptions and other factors the July 1 number could be “hiding” some of what’s actually going on, added McCullock.
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OSU's Kim Anderson Talks about the Wheat Prices at the Beginning of Harvest, Versus the End of Harvest
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Oklahoma State University Extension Grains Market Analyst
Dr. Kim Anderson talks about what is going on in the Wheat Markets weekly on SUNUP.
This week Dr. Anderson is talking about the price of wheat at the start of harvest, Versus what happened to wheat prices at the end of Harvest, "I think what happened was One, we had relatively high yields, and we had relatively low protein. Coming into harvest, expectations were a little better than that. When the market saw we didn't have the protein, then I think they took prices down relatively fast."
To see the complete lineup for this week's Sunup click the listen Bar below.
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"Cotton Showers" Current Conditions, Field Surveys, and Growing Degree Days all part of this Edition of Cotton Comments
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In the latest issue of the Cotton Comments,
Jerry Goodson,
Extension Assistant give us an update on the current crop. He writes, "Current Situation “Cotton showers” continue across the region. A term I learned from N.B Thomas Oklahoma State university first cotton specialist. The term means a rain can occur on one field and a mile away sun is shining. A very frustrating situation for the ones not receiving rainfall.
The fields that received rain are doing excellent with exceptional growth and fruit retention. Plant growth regulator (PGRS) applications are continuing across the state. Each field and variety needs to be evaluated separately. One again I urge to consult your seed representative for his/her advice on this matter. Little to no insect pressure has occurred so far this season. Please keep scouting fields however. Two different situation has occurred where a sporadic pest has appeared. Yellow stripe armyworms were discovered in one and a hatch of Beet armyworms was observed in another. After emergence scouting of the field must start and continue on a weekly basis until termination of the crop.
Little to no insect pressure has occurred so far this season. Please keep scouting fields however. Two different situation has occurred where a sporadic pest has appeared. Yellow stripe armyworms were discovered in one and a hatch of Beet armyworms was observed in another. After emergence scouting of the field must start and continue on a weekly basis until termination of the crop."
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This Weeks Ag in the Classroom, Christmas in July with Oklahoma Christmas Tree Farmers
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Summertime is here and the kiddos are out of school with many parents are at home with their kiddos, wondering, "What do we do now?" Oklahoma Ag in the Classroom has come up with some excellent daily activities you can do with your kids and family.
Today we are featuring Christmas in July! Did you know that Christmas tree farmers are working around the clock all year long to make sure we have trees for Christmas? There are close to 15,000 farms growing Christmas trees in the US and over 100,000 people are employed full or part-time in the industry. In the US there about 1 million acres dedicated to tree farming.
Each acre provides enough oxygen for 18 people. On a well-managed Christmas tree farm, 90 percent of the land is occupied by vigorously growing tree crops at all times. With an average tree production cycle of ten years, counted from the time a seedling is planted, this ensures the farmer a regular annual crop ready for harvest. Scotch pine and Virginia pine are the two most common species grown for Christmas trees in Oklahoma.
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Hard Red Winter Wheat Harvest Has Stretched All the Way to the Northern Parts of the HRW Belt
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HRW wheat harvest continued at a rapid pace this week in the central US and is starting to wind down in most areas south of South Dakota which is now 51% complete. South Dakota continues to report exceptionally good yields, high test weights and high protein, a very unusual combination, having all 3 high within the same crop. Colorado (99%) and Nebraska (89%) will be wrapping up harvest in the next few days with mainly irrigated fields left to be cut. Wyoming is (81%) harvested and is winding down. Like Colorado and Nebraska, Wyoming has mainly irrigated fields left to be harvested.
Click on the LINK BELOW to see the full report- with lots of details of the test results of the 2020 crop in the southern half of the HRW Belt.
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Congressman Frank Lucas Talks with Us About the USDA Report on Beef and Cattle Price Spreads
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USDA released an analysis on Wednesday of market conditions in the context of the ongoing beef market investigation.
That report spotlighted the price spread between boxed beef and fed cattle that occurred after the Tyson’s plant fire in August of 2019 and during the COVID-19 shutdowns. I talked on Thursday afternoon with the former Chairman of the US House Ag Committee and current Third District Congressman from Oklahoma,
Frank Lucas
, about the USDA report- and what he sees as possible actions that are in some cases, already underway in Congress or may need to be started.
Our conversation is being featured in the next couple of Beef Buzzes- but wanted you to have the chance today to hear the entire Q&A that we had with the Roger Mills County cattleman/Lawmaker about this report- and about the next couple of reports that are still to come on possible criminal wrongdoing by the meat processing industry. Hit the link below to take a listen- Congressman Lucas has been a leader on working with his colleagues on several pieces of legislation already- with more possibly to come based on the reports that have yet to be released.
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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 continue to show weakness- Choice Beef was down $2 on Thursday to $205 while Select Beef was also lower- Click on the Button below for the latest report from USDA Market News
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The Links Below will allow you to check out the
Cattle Auction reports
from various feeder and stocker weekly markets that we post weekly reports from- Take a Look!
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Each afternoon we are posting a recap of that day's markets as analyzed by
Justin Lewis of KIS futures
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click below
for the latest update on the Livestock and Grain Futures Trade..
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Okla Cash Grain:
Daily Oklahom
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Cash Grain Prices- as reported by the Oklahoma Dept. of Agriculture
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The report available after the close of the Futures Trade for that day.
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