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Your Update from Ron Hays of RON
Friday, December 10, 2021
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Here is your daily Oklahoma farm and ranch news update.
- Highlights from the First Day of The 2021 Tulsa Farm Show
- Rich Nelson of Allendale on December WASDE- Not Much to Discuss
- Drought Monitor Report Shows More Than 90% of Oklahoma Abnormally Dry or Worse
- AFBF's Zippy Duvall Remembers Senator Bob Dole
- Lucas' Cattle Contract Library Act Passes House
- Katelyn McCullock says Fourth Quarter Cattle Prices are Contraseasonal
- OSU's Kim Anderson on How February Weather will Affect Winter Wheat Production
- AND- We Have Bonus Story Links for Your Weekend Reading
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Highlights from the First Day of The 2021 Tulsa Farm Show |
Yesterday was the opening day of the Tulsa Farm Show! In the middle of 400,000 square feet of exhibits sit the folks with the Oklahoma Farm Bureau. This year, OKFB is the premier sponsor of the TFS. Radio Oklahoma’s own KC Sheperd was at the show yesterday and visited with Gage Milliman, northeast field representative for OKFB.
“The (TFS) is something we have always taken part in,” Milliman said. “It is an opportunity for our members to come by and visit with us. You know how farmers and ranchers are; they do not always run into town and when they do, they get in and out really quick.”
OKFB staff members on the federation and the insurance side will be at the booth the duration of the show, Milliman said.
“We have refreshments for our members if they want to come by and get something cool to drink and have a place to sit down,” Milliman said.
Sheperd also visited with a familiar face at the annual show: Mary Creder. Creder represents Watkins, a company that has been around since 1968 and produces fine extracts, flavors, spices, bitters and more. Creder has been with the company since the 1980s.
“I love servicing the people … and I love the products,” Creder said. “Vanilla, pepper, cinnamon - you cannot beat ‘em.”
Mary said you cannot beat the friendliness of the people that show up to the Tulsa Farm Show!
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Rich Nelson of Allendale on December WASDE- Not Much to Discuss |
The November WASDE report from the USDA featured minor adjustments to the grains and oilseeds as well as to cotton. After the reports were released midday Thursday, we spoke with Rich Nelson of Allendale who said as far as corn and soybeans go, there is not too much to discuss. He did say there were more numbers being adjusted internationally by USDA compared to the domestic stocks stats.
Nelson also talked about the political issues swirling around the Winter Olympics in China and how they might impact U.S. agriculture exports to the Asian giant.
Nelson also covered what may lie ahead in the competition over 2022 acres in the coming weeks and months, with the wild card now being the price of fertilizer.
The outlook for 2021/22 U.S. wheat this month is for slightly lower supplies, unchanged domestic use, reduced exports and higher ending stocks. The projected season-average farm price (SAFP) is raised $0.15 per bushel to $7.05 on NASS prices reported to date and expectations for cash and futures prices for the remainder of 2021/22. This would be the highest SAFP since 2012/13.
As for cotton- we did see an updated production number from NASS- and in Oklahoma- the expected crop was lowered by 10,000 bales to 750,000 bales here in 2021. That's still 19% bigger than the crop we raised in 2020.
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Drought Monitor Report Shows More Than 90% of Oklahoma Abnormally Dry or Worse |
According to data as of Dec. 2 to Dec. 7, 2021, drought conditions in Oklahoma have further deteriorated. As of Dec. 7, 92.6% of the state is experiencing abnormally dry conditions or worse. Moderate drought conditions or worse changed from 60.7% to 81.9%. Severe drought conditions or worse changed from 15.9% to 28.7%. Extreme drought conditions changed from 2.2% to 4.4%. (Click on the Oklahoma Map above to see more Oklahoma drought details)
According to the Mesonet, no recordable precipitation has fallen west of I-35 in the last 30 days.
Nearly all of Cimarron County is classified as in extreme drought. Extreme drought conditions are also reported in Beaver, Beckham, Greer, Harmon, Harper and Woods counties. Severe drought conditions remain in the Panhandle, much of the western part of the state, the southeastern part of the state and the Tulsa area.
The 6-to-10-day precipitation outlook map shows Oklahoma is likely to receive normal-to-higher precipitation levels. The 6-to-10-day temperature outlook map shows higher-than-normal temperatures are very likely.
While conditions remain dry in Oklahoma, wildfire danger looms.
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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 daily report 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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AFBF's Zippy Duvall Remembers Senator Bob Dole |
American Farm Bureau Federation President Zippy Duvall commented on the passing of Senator Bob Dole as he lies in state at the U.S. Capitol Rotunda in honor of his service.
“I first met Senator Dole 35 years ago when I visited Washington, D.C., as committee chair for Young Farmers & Ranchers. Although he wasn’t originally scheduled to meet with us, when presented with the opportunity he was gracious enough to visit with our committee for three hours in the Capitol.
“For more than three decades, he worked to ensure vibrant rural economies, including through effective farm bills. He is credited with lifting millions of people out of poverty through his work on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and creation of the McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program.
“There is a good lesson for today in how Sen. Dole went about his work. Despite strong political convictions, he was a master at building bipartisan support and working across the aisle to get things done. America’s farmers and ranchers will forever be grateful for his tireless work on their behalf and on behalf of this great nation. Bob Dole embodied servant leadership.”
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Lucas' Cattle Contract Library Act Passes House |
Earlier this week, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 5609 - the Cattle Contract Library Act. Introduced by Representatives Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.), Henry Cuellar (D-TX) and Frank Lucas (R-OK), the bipartisan bill would direct the United State Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agriculture Marketing Service (AMS) to establish a contract library for cattle producers, ensuring more transparency in the cattle market for producers. Congressman Frank Lucas released the following statement praising the passage of the Cattle Contract Library Act:
“Market strains have highlighted the vulnerabilities our cattlemen and women face day in-and-day out. For far too long, cattle producers have operated under volatile market conditions, forced to accept declining prices for live cattle while the cost of beef goes up at the grocery store. In order to guarantee greater competition, price discovery, and transparency, producers must be able to leverage marketing data while negotiating the price of cattle- and the Cattle Contract Library Act does just that,” Congressman Frank Lucas said. “I thank my House colleagues for passing the Cattle Contract Library Act, which will help America’s cattlemen and women better negotiate higher prices for their cattle. As Oklahoma’s farmers and ranchers know, data drives marketing decisions and the Cattle Contract Library Act will improve transparency and give more leverage to Oklahoma’s cattle producers. I thank Congressman Johnson and Congressman Cuellar for their leadership on this issue, and I look forward to working with our Senate colleagues to move this legislation forward.”
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Katelyn McCullock says Fourth Quarter Cattle Prices are Contraseasonal |
Last week, cash, fed-cattle prices averaged $140 in the U.S., which happens to be the second-highest average price per head in history, behind prices in 2014. In the Southern Plains, prices reached $141. This great news has been a long time coming and cattle feeders are rejoicing.
Cash markets took a positive turn the second week of Nov., gaining a little more than $10 per one-hundred weight since. Now, folks in all corners of the cattle industry are waiting to see what will happen next. Katelyn McCullock, director and senior economist for the Livestock Marketing Information Center, told us that based on history, she could guess what markets will do, but the last quarter of the year has been contraseasonal.
“I could tell you want normally happens, but I do not know if this is going to be a normal situation,” McCullock said. “Usually, you do not see Dec. hit such a high point. Usually, you would see the April quarter take out anything that had happened in that fourth quarter.”
McCullock said she is waiting to see how Dec. averages. With the way things are going in the last quarter, a potentially large price spread makes her wonder what market patterns will look like moving forward, she added.
“Normally, you would see a very strong first half of the year,” McCullock said. “I no longer want to guess.”
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OSU's Kim Anderson on How February Weather will Affect Winter Wheat Production |
This week on SUNUP, Oklahoma State University Grain Marketing Specialist Kim Anderson talks about supply and demand affecting wheat prices and why wheat producers should pay attention to long-term weather forecasts.
“Demand this year has been above expectations and supply is relatively tight,” Anderson said. “World stocks are tight and U.S. wheat stocks are really tight - both for all wheat and hard red winter wheat.”
Anderson said you have to go back to 2012 and 2013 to see wheat stocks this low.
“I think we need to look at that long-range weather forecast … it looks like February may be a colder and wetter month than December and January,” Anderson said. “This (is important) because of high nitrogen costs.”
When it comes time to top-dress winter wheat in February and March, farmers will be looking at how dry their wheat fields are, according to Anderson.
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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 Choice Beef was up 44 cents and Select Beef was down $1.14 on Thursday 12/09/2021.
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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