Oklahoma's Latest Farm
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Your Update from Ron Hays of RON
Tuesday, February 2, 2021
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Here is your daily Oklahoma farm and ranch news update.
- Governor Kevin Stitt Hails Cattlemens Congress for a Fifty Million Dollar Economic Impact During His State of the State
- OKFB President Rodd Moesel Talks About The Schedule of Virtual Events For Farm Bureau Leadership Week
- January Cattle Inventory Report Shows Stability Depsite Pandemic says OSU's Dr. Derrell Peel
- Oklahoma State forestry researcher awarded national grant to study Cross Timbers region
- OWRB seeks Panhandle & NW Oklahoma water well owners to help with Ogallala aquifer study
- Statement from Growth Energy, U.S. Grains Council, and the Renewable Fuels Association on U.S. Ethanol Appeal Outcome in Peru
- Oklahoma Wheat Crop Looking Better Than Kansas or Texas Mid Winter
- Tom Vilsack Nomination to Advance Today
- Farm Stress - Help and Hope
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Governor Kevin Stitt Hails Cattlemen's Congress for a Fifty Million Dollar Economic Impact During His State of the State |
A new tradition has been started in OKC with the Cattlemen’s Congress. And the Governor of the state of Oklahoma, Kevin Stitt offered a shout out during his State of the State Address on Monday at the State Capitol- Click on the LISTEN BAR below to hear his comments followed by one of the loudest ovations of the day by lawmakers.
In Oklahoma Governor, Kevin Stitt’s State of the State address he announced due to Oklahoma state being open for business, it was able to bring cattlemen and women from across North America to Oklahoma bringing a $50 million impact to the state’s economy.
“A few weeks ago, I was at the Cattlemen’s Congress at the fairgrounds,” Governor Kevin Stitt said. “The folks in Denver turned their back on the Ag industry. They wouldn’t let them have their major national cattle show because they insisted on keeping their state locked down.
“That put the stability of the U.S. beef industry in danger. So we started a new tradition here in Oklahoma City, and the Cattlemen’s Congress brought $50 million to our economy,” he said.
More than 2,700 exhibitors from 41 states and 3 Canadian provinces brought more than 9,600 head of cattle to Oklahoma January 1 – 17.
“The vision our states’ leaders and Governor Kevin Stitt had was ambitious when launching the Cattlemen’s Congress here in Oklahoma City,” Cattlemen’s Congress board member, Jarold Callahan said. “We are grateful for leaders who look at the facts of the situation, and are thankful they stand with those who feed and clothe the world.
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OKFB President Rodd Moesel Talks About The Schedule of Virtual Events For Farm Bureau Leadership Week |
This is Farm Bureau Leadership Week and Rodd Moesel, president of Oklahoma Farm Bureau, is enthusiastic about the new virtual sessions planned for OKFB members.
Moesel was recently interviewed by Radio Oklahoma Agriculture Network Associate Farm Director and Editor KC Sheperd.
The farm group has one virtual program a day including three days, Tuesday-Thursday, featuring state and federal elected officials.
Tuesday will be a video session with House and Senate leadership, Speaker Charles McCall and Senate Pro Tem Greg Treat.
Each one will go about 30 minutes and Moesel said they will each give their views of what we will be facing this year.
The Governor’s State-of-the-State on Monday was all about the budget.
Thankfully they addressed much of the budget challenges last session, so the pain was less this year, Moesel said.
He (Gov. Stitt) wants to make a real effort to reduce rules and regulations to stimulate growth on our farms and ranches, Moesel said.
Wednesday will feature the mayors of Tulsa and Oklahoma City discussing property taxes.
This is our most controversial program, Moesel said.
This is a good discussion for the leaders of our two major cities to learn something about us and vice versa, Moesel said.
We had a long visit about all the different interrelationships between rural and urban and how we really do count on each other, Moesel said.
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January Cattle Inventory Report Shows Stability Despite Pandemic says OSU's Dr. Derrell Peel |
There were no big surprises in the latest USDA Cattle Inventory Report released Jan. 29, said Dr. Derrell Peel, OSU Extension livestock market economist.
There’s a lot of numbers in this report as it gives us an idea of where we stand with our country’s cow herds at the end of January.
This report was pretty much as expected and overall, it shows stable to slightly lower cattle numbers for most of the categories, Peel said.
The all cattle inventory was essentially unchanged, down two tenths of one percent, he said.
The calf crop for 2020 came in down 1.3 percent and they actually lowered last year’s estimate so that was a little smaller than most people expected, Peel said.
There’s no big changes or surprises, he said.
The one big thing that stands out is the fact the industry held stable despite the pandemic.
Peel also revealed that Cattle inventories are drifting slightly slower, The inventory of all cattle and calves in the U.S. was 93.6 million head on January 1, 2021, down fractionally from 93.8 million head one year ago. In the current cattle cycle, the all cattle inventory increased from a low of 88.2 million head in 2014 to a peak of 94.8 million head in 2019 and has declined a total of 1.3 percent in the last two years.
The beef cow inventory was 31.16 million head on January 1, down 0.6 percent year over year. The inventory of beef replacement heifers was unchanged from last year at 5.81 million head. The number of beef replacement heifers expected to calve is estimated at 3.55 million head, up 1.3 percent from one year ago. Both the inventory of beef replacement heifers, at 18.7 percent of the beef cow herd, and the number of heifers calving are at a level that does not indicate either herd liquidation or expansion, though the levels could support limited herd expansion in the coming year. The number of dairy cows totaled 9.44 million head, up 1.1 percent year over year. Dairy replacement heifers totaled 4.61 million head, down 1.7 percent from one year ago. The 2020 calf crop was 35.14 million head, down 1.3 percent year over year.
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For our farmers who have either- always have had cotton on their farms- or those who have more recently have added the fiber crop to their operations- we have a new daily report starting to be heard on several of our Radio Stations- It's Called Cotton Talk- and we appreciate the Oklahoma Cotton Council for their support in making this a reality.
Click on the Button below to listen to our most recent report
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Oklahoma State forestry researcher awarded national grant to study Cross Timbers region |
A researcher with Oklahoma State University’s Division of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources has been awarded a $499,317 National Institute of Food and Agriculture grant involving the economics of forest management in the Cross Timbers region of the southern Great Plains.
In Oklahoma, the region is significant: all of Seminole, Pottawatomie and Okfuskee counties; large parts of Osage, Lincoln, Creek, Oklahoma, Cleveland, Pontotoc, Hughes, McIntosh and Okmulgee counties; and smaller parts of Logan, Garvin, Murray, Pawnee, Tulsa, Wagoner and Washington counties.
“Despite its ecological significance and importance to people living within the Cross Timbers, there is little information about the dynamics of the mostly privately owned forested areas and the social factors that motivate individual owners for their management,” said Omkar Joshi, an assistant professor of forest economics in the OSU Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management “Basically, the region starts in southeastern Kansas and cuts through Oklahoma down to the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex in Texas.”
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OWRB seeks Panhandle & NW Oklahoma water well owners to help with Ogallala aquifer study |
The Oklahoma Water Resources Board (OWRB) is conducting research for an upcoming study on the Ogallala aquifer in Oklahoma, and is seeking assistance from local water well owners throughout the area.
The purpose of the research is to determine the current groundwater availability for current and future groundwater use. The study will also provide a new groundwater flow model for both the Ogallala-Panhandle and Ogallala-Northwest aquifers in Oklahoma.
A critical part of this study is collecting water level measurements from a wide array of well sites located throughout area. OWRB scientists are seeking local water well owners that would allow agency staff to collect water-level measurements at their well site throughout March 2021.
OWRB staff welcomes landowners to observe the entire well sampling process which is very simple which takes less than ten minutes once the OWRB staff is at the well site location. After an instrument is lowered into the well that indicates when the probe has touched water, the test is concluded. The water measurement can be taken from most kinds of groundwater wells - domestic, irrigation, mining, or livestock wells.
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Statement from Growth Energy, U.S. Grains Council, and the Renewable Fuels Association on U.S. Ethanol Appeal Outcome in Peru |
The Peruvian National Institute for the Defense of Free Competition and the Protection of Intellectual Property (INDECOPI) Tribunal announced on January 29, 2021 that the U.S. ethanol industry and the U.S. government won an appeal on a countervailing duty case brought against U.S. ethanol in Peru, reversing a previous decision handed down by Peruvian authorities that applied a 15-cent per gallon duty on U.S. ethanol and resulted in loss of market access in the country.
Growth Energy, the U.S. Grains Council (USGC), and the Renewable Fuels Association (RFA) participated extensively in this case, arguing at hearings in both the initial investigation and the appeal in Peru on behalf of the U.S. ethanol industry.
The following is a joint statement on the decision from:
Emily Skor, CEO, Growth Energy
Ryan LeGrand, President and CEO, U.S. Grains Council
Geoff Cooper, President and CEO, Renewable Fuels Association
“We appreciate the thoroughness of the Competition Tribunal’s analysis, and the careful review process followed in Peru. This is a welcome development for our U.S. ethanol producers and our valued customers in Peru.
“We are pleased that Peruvian authorities reached the right result, and we look forward to continuing our close work with Peru to further enhance our mutually beneficial trade relationship development efforts, including urging them to increase their blend rate beyond 7.8 percent. Doing so would also help Peru to meet its Paris Agreement commitments and lead to opening more global trade of ethanol.
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Oklahoma Wheat Crop Looking Better Than Kansas or Texas Mid Winter |
The Oklahoma winter wheat crop is rated 61 percent in the good to excellent category according to the latest USDA Crop Progress report issued the end of January.
The balance of the Oklahoma crop is rated 34 percent fair and 5 percent poor to very poor.
Slightly more than half of the wheat crop is currently grazed, while rye fields grazed reached 22 percent and oats grazed reached 28 percent.
Meanwhile- the Kansas wheat crop is 43 percent in good to excellent shape, while the Texas Crop checks as of February first at just 31 percent in good to excellent condition.
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Tom Vilsack Nomination to Advance Today |
The word has come from the Senate Ag Committee that they plan on voting on the confirmation of USDA Secretary nominee Tom Vilsack at some point today.
The media advisory says "U.S. Senators Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), incoming Chairwoman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, and John Boozman (R-Ark.), incoming Ranking Member, today announced the Committee will hold a business meeting to vote on the nomination of Tom Vilsack to be Secretary of Agriculture."
There's actually more verbiage abut the social distancing plan for the Senators than about the actual reason for the meeting.
Since Secretary Vilsack is a known quantity- having served as Secretary of Ag for President Obama during both of his terms- no opposition is anticipated either at the Committee level or in the full Senate.
One early task that Vilsack may undertake is to shift CCC funds to a program that will please his boss, Joe Biden. That would be a Carbon Bank to pay farmers for farm/ranch practices that sequester carbon into the soil.
President Joe Biden's stimulus plan also identified the CCC as a means to provide economic relief for restaurants suffering during the pandemic.
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Farm Stress - Help and Hope |
IN the latest issue of the Plains Cotton Cooperative Assocation Whitney Curry Talks about Farm Stress.
The past year has been a whirlwind of uncertainty, which adds to the mounting challenges farmers continue to face in this new crop year. Feelings of stress and isolation can lead to depression, substance abuse and suicide. Plains Cotton Cooperative Association, Plains Cotton Growers, and experts at Texas Tech have teamed up to provide information about how to get help and have hope.
PCCA has created a page on their website called "Farm Stress - Help and Hope" with resources and facts about mental health crisis. According to the American Farm Bureau Federation, 91% believe that financial stress or fear of losing the family farm impacts mental health.
Resources include (but are not limited to): · National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, 1-800-273-8255. The call is free and confidential, and they will connect the caller to a counselor in their area. · Crisis Text Line - text HOME to 741741 to be connected to a trained counselor 24/7. · Farm Aid Farmer Hotline, 1-800-327-6243. Staff will answer calls Monday through Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Eastern time.
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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 go higher- Choice Beef was up $1.82 and Select Beef was up $2.98 at Midday Monday- the Monday afternoon report was experiencing technical woes- and will be released sometime later this morning.
Click on the Button below for the latest report from USDA Market News
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Oklahoma National Stockyards had 10,500 head on Monday, February first.
Compared to last week: Feeder steers 1.00-3.00 lower. feeder heifers 1.00-2.00 lower. Demand very uneven for feeder cattle causing large spreads in some of the price spreads Steer and heifer calves 2.00-4.00 higher. Demand moderate to good for calves. Quality plain thru attractive. Rain occurred across most of the state over the weekend.
Click below for the complete closing report.
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The Joplin Regional Stockyards had a total run of 4.016- lighter than normal due to mud in the region.
Compared to last week, steers under 700 lbs. traded 1.00-7.00 higher, over 700 lbs. traded steady. Heifers under 600 lbs. traded 3.00-7.00 higher. Over 600 lbs. traded steady. Very muddy conditions caused the supply to be light. Demand was good.
Click on the button below for details of the trade as compiled by the USDA Market News Service.
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Each afternoon we are posting a recap of that day's markets as analyzed by Justin Lewis of KIS futures - click below for the latest update on the Livestock and Grain Futures Trade..
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Okla Cash Grain:
Daily Oklahoma Cash Grain Prices- as reported by the Oklahoma Dept. of Agriculture- The report available after the close of the Futures Trade for that day.
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Our Oklahoma Farm Report Team!!!!
Ron Hays, Senior Farm Director and Editor
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