Oklahoma's Latest Farm
And Ranch News
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Your Update from Ron Hays of RON
Friday, March 26, 2021
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Here is your daily Oklahoma farm and ranch news update.
- Road to Rural Prosperity with Oklahoma State Rep Trey Caldwell On Rural Healthcare, Education and the State Budget
- Breeding Gilt Show Underway at OYE with 2021 Night of Stars Gilt Sale Set for Sunday at 2 PM
- OSU's Kim Anderson says Hard Red Winter Wheat has Taken a Beating in the Markets Lately
- Research Explains why Cool Cows can Provide more Milk
- Cattle Producers to Finally Receive Payments From First Round of CFAP
- Latest U.S. Drought Monitor Map Shows Oklahoma Mostly Free of Extreme Drought
- New Rural Advocacy Group Opposes HB2078
- #StillFarming Highlights Farmers’ and Ranchers’ Commitment to Safe, Affordable Food
- PETA Planning Billboard to Take on Governor Stitt Over His Support of Oklahoma Meat Producers
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Road to Rural Prosperity with Oklahoma State Rep Trey Caldwell On Rural Healthcare, Education and the State Budget
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Oklahoma State Rep Trey Caldwell has started his second term in the Oklahoma House of Representatives- serving as the Deputy Majority Leader.
He talks with me about his roots in agriculture and why he is serving in State Government. We discuss redistricting, rural healthcare, education and the state budget process that is making good progress here in 2021- despite the year of Pandemic.
Caldwell is a rising star in the Oklahoma Legislature for rural interests- and won the seat in 2018 that was held for 12 years by Don Armes before he termed out.
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Breeding Gilt Show Underway at OYE with 2021 Night of Stars Gilt Sale Set for Sunday at 2 PM
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No signs of PEDv have surfaced thus far at the 2021 Oklahoma Youth Expo- and the hope is that the disease will stay away from the OKC Fairgrounds for the next few days. The 2021 OYE Breeding Gilt show is underway as of Thursday afternoon- and the first 270 gilts- the light colored Crossbred Gilts have been shown. The bulk of the crossbred commercial gilts, about 800, will be shown today with the Supreme Champion Commercial Gilt likely to be chosen late afternoon.
Following the Commercial Gilt Show- the attention will be focused on the Purebred Gilts- some to be shown on Friday evening and the rest on Saturday- with the Supreme Champion Purebred Gilt likely to be picked sometime after lunch on Saturday.
I talked with Blake Kennedy of Kennedy Ventures who is helping coordinate the 2021 Night of Stars Gilt Sale. The 2021 Sale is now a Matinee and set for Sunday afternoon, March 28 at 2:00 PM.
Kennedy tells me that the sale will be a "live on line" sale, which means the gilts will be penned at the OKC Fairgrounds- and that if you are in the area- you are welcome to come and look at the pigs in person. He adds that you will be able to bid online via CCI.auction or he adds that you will be able to bid in person as well. The Night of Stars sale will be held in the Jim Norrick Arena on Sunday afternoon- starting at 2 PM.
The Light Colored Commercial Gilts were shown on Thursday- the top Light Colored Crossbred was shown by Emma Sutton of Kiefer FFA- her gilt will compete against the top Dark Colored Crossbred once that animal is selected Friday afternoon. The number two Light Colored Crossbred gilt was shown by Cauy Craig of the Adair FFA. Twenty gilts were ranked in the Light Color Commercial Gilts- and they will up against the Dark Color Commercial Gilts at the end of that show to make up a group of 60 Commercial Gilts that will be a part of the Night of Stars Gilt Sale.
The complete list of twenty can be seen by clicking on the link below.
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OSU's Kim Anderson says Hard Red Winter Wheat has Taken a Beating in the Markets Lately
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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 talks about the the current grain market prices. Anderson said the wheat prices continue to go down, "You go back to February the 24th, the forward contract price for wheat harvest delivery was $6.50, It's down to about $5.70 now. You look at this time last year, the forward contract price was $4.80, so we might be down from where we were last February. If you go back a year we're significantly lower than we are now. If you look at how it ended up at harvest $4.10 at the 20 harvest, so its $5.70 forward contract now $4.80, for forward contract last February is $4.10, for the actual harvest price in 2020.
Anderson said he's also looking at the price spread between the Hard red winter wheat, and Soft red Winter wheat, "A couple of weeks ago there was about an 18-20 cent difference with hard red winter wheat being below soft red, that spread is down to a minus 40 now with hard red being below soft red winter wheat, so the hard red winter wheat has been taking a beating over the last couple of weeks."
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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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Research Explains why Cool Cows can Provide more Milk
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In an article in the Albany Herald, Allison Fortner with AES news writes on reasons to keep dairy cows cooler.
With increasing global temperatures, dairy cattle face heat stress more frequently throughout the year than in the past. Thanks to cooling technology, dairy cattle can enjoy a better quality of life, but farmers and consumers may wonder if cattle comfort results in more milk.
A study conducted by the University of Georgia researchers determined that dairy cattle cooled with fans and sprinklers respond better to heat stress, produce more milk and have healthier mammary glands.
In a recently published article in the Journal of Dairy Science, UGA scientists determined how evaporative cooling and zinc sources in feed impact mammary glands and heat-shock responses in lactating dairy cattle. The article was authored by Ruth Marisol Orellana Rivas while she completed her doctoral degree in dairy science under the guidance of associate professor Sha Tao and now Professor Emeritus John Bernard in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.
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We invite you to listen to us on great radio stations across the region on the Radio Oklahoma Ag Network weekdays-
if you missed this morning's Farm News - or you are in an area where you can't hear it- click below for this morning's Farm news from Ron Hays and KC Sheperd on RON.
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Cattle Producers to Finally Receive Payments From First Round of CFAP
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Cattle producers hurt the most by the pandemic last spring will finally get some relief as announced this week by USDA Sec. Tom Vilsack.
One year ago, as the pandemic was severely impacting everything from the farm to the fork, the federal government took steps to address the economic losses to cattle producers with the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program.
At that time the USDA chief was Sonny Perdue and he admitted there were not enough funds to help producers who sold cattle after mid-April.
Adjustments were made and Congress eventually passed legislation in late December to address most of the losses.
Fast forward to the Biden Administration and on Wednesday, USDA Ag Sec. Tom Vilsack said payments under that first round of CFAP will be made to about 410,000 cattle producers amounting to $1.1 billion dollars.
Producers do not have to submit a new application.
As an example, lightweight feeder calves, less than 600 pounds, the payment would be $7 per head and feeder cattle weighing more than 600 pounds, the rate would be $25.50 each.
Last month during the NCBA winter policy conference, Ethan Lane, vice president of government affairs for NCBA, explained the process.
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Latest U.S. Drought Monitor Map Shows Oklahoma Mostly Free of Extreme Drought
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Abundant precipitation the past several weeks has all but erased Extreme Drought (D3) from the Oklahoma map.
Only a tiny sliver of D3 exists in far northwest Cimarron County in the Oklahoma Panhandle.
Statewide, more than 63 percent of Oklahoma is drought free, about 12 points better than last week’s 51.95 percent.
Still not as good as one year ago when we stood at 93.64 percent, but it’s headed in the right direction.
North and central Texas also got in on the fun as that area saw 1-3 inches of rainfall.
In addition, small category improvements were made for the Texas Panhandle.
Further north in Colorado, Kansas and Nebraska, a combination of snow and rain has improved drought conditions, especially in southeast Colorado and southwest Kansas.
Meanwhile North Dakota saw expanded drought and widespread Exceptional Drought (D4) persists in southeast New Mexico.
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New Rural Advocacy Group Opposes HB2078
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During a virtual press conference Wednesday by the Rural and Small-Town Round Table of Common Interests, a recently formed advocacy group focusing on rural issues, group chairman Clay Pope voiced opposition to HB2078
The legislation will place greater hardships on rural schools, leading to budget shortfalls, potential teacher layoffs, and in some cases possible consolidation, Pope said.
It’s clear we need to do everything we can to protect our local schools, Pope said.
The bill changes the state funding formula for education, he said.
According to Pope, the measure under consideration, House Bill 2078 authored by Representative Kyle Hilbert of Bristow and Senator Zack Taylor of Seminole, changes the way schools in Oklahoma are funded by taking away from schools the option of using the current three-year enrollment high of students to determine per-pupil state aid and instead requiring that funding for districts to be based on either the current year’s initial enrollment numbers or the previous year’s enrollment.
This means that if a school has lost students due to economic conditions or demographic changes, it has no time to plan for budget cuts and will be forced to lay off teachers and cancel programs immediately.
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#StillFarming Highlights Farmers’ and Ranchers’ Commitment to Safe, Affordable Food
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Launched last March to assure consumers that farmers and ranchers take very seriously their commitment to fill grocery store shelves with safe, affordable food, #StillFarming has reached more than 100 million people in all 50 states and more than 90 countries.
Whether they were prepping the soil for spring planting, tending to newly sprouted crops, harvesting those crops at just the right time, feeding and milking their dairy cows or looking after their cattle, chickens and pigs, farmers and ranchers carried on, day-in and day-out, while much of the world came to a standstill.
Growers of all types of food, fuel and fiber took to Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter to share their #StillFarming stories.
More recently, for farmers in the South and Southwest, like Oklahoma rancher Kyle Glazier, #StillFarming meant battling ice, snow and wind to keep their cattle alive and as comfortable as possible.
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PETA Planning Billboard to Take on Governor Stitt Over His Support of Oklahoma Meat Producers
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The Animal Rights Activist/Vegan Group PETA group has signaled on their website that they don't like Governor Kevin Stitt's Eat Meat Week- and in a news release say-
"Because Gov. Kevin Stitt declared that it’s now “Meat All Week”—a jab at Colorado’s animal- and eco-friendly MeatOut Day—PETA plans to place a billboard near the Oklahoma Capitol that calls out the “meathead” governor for celebrating an industry that kills animals, clogs arteries, and pollutes the planet.
“The governor may wish to flatter the meat industry, but what it sells is inhumane, unhealthy, and an environmental nightmare,” says PETA President Ingrid Newkirk. “PETA’s billboard will encourage savvy Oklahomans to ignore the political pandering and join the vegan revolution.”
My Advice??? Enjoy a great STEAK or Juicy PORK CHOP on this final day of Eat Meat Week- I'm working on a way to send the bill to Ingrid.
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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 $1.61 and Select Beef was up $2.18 on Thursday March 25th
Click on the Button below for the latest report from USDA Market News
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Weekly Cattle Auction Reports
The buttons below allow you to check out the weekly Cattle Auctions in the region that we post on our website and here in our daily email update
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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
KC Sheperd, Associate Farm Director and Editor
Dave Lanning, Markets and Production
Sam Knipp, Farm News Editor
Pam Arterburn, Calendar and Template Manager
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Oklahoma State Rep Trey Caldwell has started his second term in the Oklahoma House of Representatives- serving as the Deputy Majority Leader. He talks with host Ron Hays about his roots in agriculture and why he is serving in State Government. They discuss redistricting, rural healthcare, education and the state budget process that is making good progress here in 2021- despite the year of Pandemic.
Caldwell is a rising star in the Oklahoma Legislature- and won the seat that was held for 12 years by Don Armes before he termed out.
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Radio Oklahoma Ag Network
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