Oklahoma's Latest Farm
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Your Update from Ron Hays of RON
Friday, May 14, 2021
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Here is your daily Oklahoma farm and ranch news update.
- Governor Stitt Enjoys Grilling Hamburgers Beneath PETA Billboard Calling Him a Meathead
- Oklahoma Ag Secretary Blayne Arthur Says There is a Positive Dynamic in The Oklahoma Ag Industry Today
- Kansas Wheat Alliance President Daryl Strouts Says Kansas Crop is in Good Shape
- Dallas, San Antonio and Oklahoma City to face 'nasty' Severe Weather
- Latest U.S. Drought Monitor Shows Some Improvement in Many Areas of The Country, Except For The Southwest
- OSU's Kim Anderson Analyzes the May WASDE Report
- USDA-NIFA, CDC and Cooperative Extension Team Up for Vaccine Education in Rural America
- Lahoma Wheat Field Day is Today- Here are Links to Watch on YouTube
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Gov. Stitt Enjoys Grilling Hamburgers Beneath Peta Billboard Calling Him a Meathead |
Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt is a strong supporter of Oklahoma animal agriculture. To celebrate Ag Day earlier this year he declared Eat Meat Week to highlight meat consumption.
The anti-animal agriculture crowd pushed back and recently put up a billboard in Oklahoma City declaring Gov. Stitt a “meathead.”
The governor saw the humor and joined with farmers and ranchers this week to hold a billboard burger bash where they cooked hot dogs and hamburgers beneath the billboard.
Radio Oklahoma Ag Network Associate Farm Director and Editor KC Sheperd was there and interviewed several of the participants including Gov. Stitt.
We’re supporting our agriculture community, Gov. Stitt said.
Agriculture is a huge part of our state, Gov. Stitt said.
OCA Executive Director Michael Kelsey chimed in praising the governor for his strong support of animal agriculture.
We have a governor that understands this is a family business and shows up, Kelsey said.
Kelsey, who was helping grill the hamburgers, thanked Wheeler Farms for donating the beef and helping showcase Oklahoma beef.
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Oklahoma Ag Secretary Blayne Arthur Says There is a Positive Dynamic in The Oklahoma Ag Industry Today |
During this week’s “billboard burger bash” Oklahoma Agriculture Secretary Blayne Arthur talked with Radio Oklahoma Ag Network Associate Farm Director and Editor KC Sheperd about several current issues including an update on the grants given to Oklahoma small packing plants.
We’ve had tremendous progress with some of those facilities, Arthur said.
We have one facility on the western side of the state that is a ground-up construction that is close to being done, Arthur said.
We’re seeing job creation in those rural areas and that’s great, she added.
When you combine the value-added programs, such as Oklahoma Certified Beef and OCA’s branded hamburger (Oklahoma Prairie Beef Solutions), all that is more dollars for our producers, Arthur said.
We saw last year consumers really care where their food comes from and they want to buy from local producers, she said.
Arthur said increased vocational training for the meat packing industry is also having a positive impact.
Once students have that certification, they immediately have a job, Arthur said.
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Kansas Wheat Alliance President Daryl Strouts Says Kansas Crop is in Good Shape |
The Kansas and Oklahoma wheat crops are running neck and neck in overall condition as harvest approaches.
During the OSU Extension wheat field tour at Lahoma this week, Daryl Strouts, president and CEO of Kansas Wheat Alliance, talked with Radio Oklahoma Ag Network Associate Farm Director and Editor KC Sheperd about the current Kansas wheat crop.
We’re dry in the big wheat growing areas in south central Kansas and we’ve got a little freeze damage and stripe rust showing up but generally, I think it looks pretty good, he said.
Extreme western Kansas is very dry and there is a little wheat streak mosaic, he said.
Strouts said many of the K-State wheat varieties are looking and he singled out Monument as a popular variety, Strouts said.
One of my concerns is quality as a lot of farmers are managing for only 40-bushel (per acre) range when many of these varieties are capable of 60 bushels and what that means is they are just not fertilizing enough and we come up short on protein, Strouts said.
That’s been one of our big pushes to educate farmers that these varieties are real racehorses, he said.
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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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Dallas, San Antonio and Oklahoma City to face 'nasty' Severe Weather |
AccuWeather meteorologists are monitoring the potential for rounds of flooding rainfall and severe weather that are expected to erupt across portions of the Plains this weekend into early next week. After a below-average number of tornadoes in the month of April 2021, conditions are coming together for an active severe weather pattern in mid-May.
There were just 73 tornadoes
reported across the United States in April, well short of the three-year average for the month of 224, according to the Storm Prediction Center. May has already produced more than 100 tornado reports.
Violent thunderstorms ravaged portions of southern Louisiana late Tuesday night into early Wednesday morning, bringing down trees and power lines across much of the Uptown portion of New Orleans. Farther west, flooding downpours and high winds wreaked havoc on eastern Texas where a wind gust of 48 mph was recorded in Huntsville, Texas, located about 70 miles north of Houston.
Experts say more rounds of flooding downpours and severe weather are expected this weekend and into early next week. However, the area being targeted will be centered over portions of the southern Plains rather than the Southeast.
This will come as a relief to residents in waterlogged portions of the Southeast as a broad area of high pressure centered over the Great Lakes will allow portions of the region to start the process of drying out.
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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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Latest U.S. Drought Monitor Shows Some Improvement in Many Areas of The Country, Except For The Southwest |
Adequate rainfall across much of the western and northwestern parts of the U.S. during the past week reduced drought conditions according to the latest U.S. Drought Monitor map.
Unfortunately, the rainfall amounts were not enough to significantly ease drought concerns for California where snowpack runoff is forecast to be below normal and storage levels at their two largest reservoirs are below 50 percent.
It gets even worse in the southwest as Lake Powell is at 35 percent and Lake Meade is at 38 percent and the entire Lower Colorado system is just 43 percent.
In the High Plains, portions of eastern Colorado and Wyoming saw improvements to drought conditions from recent rain events.
In Oklahoma, the updated drought map shows about a 7 percent increase in the overall drought coverage during the past week as 50.82 percent of the drought is drought free compared to 57.13 percent last week.
Just a short three months ago, 72.70 percent of Oklahoma was drought free.
Looking ahead to next week, a very wet and cool period is in store for Oklahoma and much of the High Plains.
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OSU's Kim Anderson Analyzes the May WASDE Report |
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 gives us an update on the May WASDE report, "You Look at wheat, and I think it's relatively good news. It left a lot of uncertainly in the market but you look at all wheat production, the market was expecting 1.877 billion bushels it came out 1.872 So you wouldn't expect much change from that. Of course we had 1.82 billion bushels last year. Hard red winter wheat for 20, we poduced 659 million bushels, came out and 731 million for this year. The average guess prior to that was a 711, not much change there. You look at the world, 28.5 billion bushels this year, the market was projected 28.8 It came out at 29 Even so, that was slightly bearish."
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USDA-NIFA, CDC and Cooperative Extension Team Up for Vaccine Education in Rural America |
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently provided $9.95 million in funding to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) to support an innovative approach to community education and partnerships to advance adult immunization. This is the two agencies’ first concentrated vaccine education effort in rural America.
NIFA will use this funding, provided in an interagency agreement, to support Land-grant Universities and the Cooperative Extension System in delivering immunization education to the communities they serve to improve vaccine confidence. Extension will also work with local partners, including healthcare providers, to make COVID-19 and other adult vaccines more accessible for rural, medically under-served and other harder-to-reach communities.
“Cooperative Extension agents are recognized and trusted messengers in their communities and can help deliver fact-based information on the COVID-19 vaccine and other adult vaccines,” said Dr. Jay Butler, CDC’s Deputy Director for Infectious Diseases. “We know vaccination rates overall are lagging in rural communities, and Extension agents can play an important role in building COVID-19 vaccine confidence and increasing vaccine access within the communities they serve.”
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Lahoma Wheat Field Day is Today- Here are Links to Watch on YouTube
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The annual Lahoma Wheat Field Day is set for today- Friday May 14th- and you can attend live if you preregister before you go- click or tap here to register for the program that starts at 8:45 AM.
If you cannot get there this morning- you can watch real time and live on YouTube- here are the times and links for each of the presentations-
9:15 - Wheat Varieties - Amanda Silva, Small Grains Extension Specialist
10:00 - Integrated Weed Management - Misha Manuchehri, Weed Science Extension Specialist
10:45 - Wheat Breeding and Disease Update - Brett Carver, Wheat Breeder and Bob Hunger, Extension Wheat Pathologist
Also, all of these will be available live at the SUNUP YouTube Channel- available by clicking here.www.Youtube.com/sunuptv
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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 were mixed on Thursday May13th- Choice Beef was up $1.70 while Select Beef was down $1.25.
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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Tim West
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Radio Oklahoma Ag Network
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405.317.6361
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Director of Farm Programming
Radio Oklahoma Ag Network
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