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Your Update from Ron Hays of RON
Monday, December 20, 2021
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Here is your daily Oklahoma farm and ranch news update.
- As Inflation Soars, Lankford and Inhofe Join Colleagues Calling on Lenders to Work with Farmers and Ranchers
- Animal Activist Groups Blame Animal Agriculture for Climate Change and Pandemics
- OSU's Kim Anderson Says $7 Wheat Prices are Great Compared to This Time Last Year
- Corn Growers to Mosaic: Stop Engaging in Irresponsible Corporate Behavior and End Fertilizer Tariffs
- New Southern Plains Perspective Blog Post Explores Current Weather Trends
- ASI and NCBA Awarded USDA/APHIS Grant to Develop Guidance for Livestock Grazing on Public Lands During a Foreign Animal Disease Outbreak
- All Policy Travels Through West Virginia- Senator Manchin Says No- Is Build Back Better Done?
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As Inflation Soars, Lankford and Inhofe Join Colleagues in Calling on Lenders to Work With Farmers and Ranchers |
Senator James Lankford (R-OK) joined Senators John Thune (R-SD), a longtime member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, and John Boozman (R-AR), ranking member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, and several of their colleagues to send a letter urging federal financial regulators to provide community banks, credit unions, and Farm Credit institutions with the regulatory flexibility they need to responsibly work with their agriculture clients as the profit margins of farmers and ranchers shrink from higher input costs. The Senators are also requesting that federal financial regulators monitor how inflation and inflationary-related pressures are affecting the agriculture industry and, in turn, the community financial institutions that serve it.
“The destructive impact of inflation has already affected individuals, families, and businesses across the nation, and no one is immune from these price increases,” the Senators wrote.
Lankford, Thune, and Boozman were joined in sending the letter by Senators John Barrasso (R-WY), Mike Braun (R-IN), Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Bill Hagerty (R-TN), Jim Inhofe (R-OK), John Kennedy (R-LA), Jim Risch (R-ID), Tim Scott (R-SC), and Thom Tillis (R-NC).
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Oklahoma Farm Bureau is a grassroots organization working to improve the lives of all Oklahomans by supporting our state’s agriculture community. As Oklahoma’s largest general farm organization, OKFB advocates for farmers and ranchers at the state Capitol and in Washington, D.C., to ensure our way of life continues for generations to come. With leadership events, supporting our state’s agricultural youth and connecting consumers with agriculture, Farm Bureau promotes and sustains Oklahoma agriculture in numerous ways. Join with OKFB today by becoming a member at okfarmbureau.org/join. Together, we are rural Oklahoma.
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Animal Activist Groups Blame Animal Agriculture for Climate Change and Pandemics |
Animal rights extremist groups are citing sustainability issues in their fight against animal agriculture. We pick up the conversation with Hannah Thompson-Weeman, director of development and communications strategy for Animal Agriculture Alliance, where we left off Thursday. If you missed Thursday’s conversation, check it out here.
“Sustainability has taken up more of our time at the alliance than anything else over the past year,” Weeman said. “Really, animal welfare has been our bread and butter since we got started in the late 80s.
"Saying ‘go vegan’ for decades did not work, targeting animal welfare has not worked, so now they are turning to the climate conversation. (They) are saying, ‘if you care about your environmental impact, the number-one thing you need to do is go vegan,’ even though that does not have support in sound science.”
In response to the baseless claims by animal rights extremist groups, the beef community, including the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association and the Beef Checkoff, have stepped up to educate consumers. Weeman said the climate conversation is going to continue to dominate the news and the agriculture community has to do everything it can to set the record straight.
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OSU's Kim Anderson Says $7 Wheat Prices are Great Compared to This Time Last Year |
This past weekend on SUNUP, Oklahoma State University Grain Marketing Specialist Kim Anderson talked about high prices seen in the wheat market right now.
“Just before Thanksgiving, we had $8.46 wheat in northern Oklahoma and $8.33 wheat in southern Oklahoma,” Anderson said. “Currently, $7.73 in northern Oklahoma and $7.56 in southern Oklahoma.”
Although the price difference is about 75 cents, which is important to wheat producers, the situation is much better than this time last year, Anderson said.
“This time last year, we had $4.90 wheat,” Anderson said. “The average wheat price from 2009 to now is about $5.50.”
Contracts into 2022 for $7.65 in northern Oklahoma and $7.55 in southern Oklahoma are relatively good prices, he added.
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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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Corn Growers to Mosaic: Stop Engaging in Irresponsible Corporate Behavior and End Fertilizer Tariffs |
One of the nation’s leading fertilizer companies has erected an insurmountable tariff barrier to keep its top competitors out of the U.S. market at the expense of America’s farmers, according to a letter released this week by the National Corn Growers Association.
Leaders from NCGA and its state affiliates signed the letter, which was sent to executives at Mosaic Co., one of the nation’s largest fertilizer producers. The letter takes Mosaic to task for the tariffs that were imposed in March by the U.S. International Trade Commission at the fertilizer company’s behest. Fertilizer prices have since skyrocketed.
“Mosaic’s posture to date has been a masterpiece of irresponsible corporate social responsibility,” the letter says.
The letter highlighted the stranglehold Mosaic has placed on its customers and suggested the company’s monopoly is creating serious problems for farmers.
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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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New Southern Plains Perspective Blog Post Explores Current Weather Trends |
In this blog post Clay Pope talks about how the wind really came sweepin' down the plains on Wednesday. More and more we are having these crazy weather events. Are you taking any time to prepare for them? See this blog on the Southern Plains Perspective website by clicking or tapping here.
Around here people joke that if the wind ever quits blowing, everything will fall down.
The wind does tend to blow in these parts. Even so, you would be hard pressed to find any event that compares to what we saw this past Wednesday, especially in December.
Over a million people without power across the Midwest; over 400 thousand acres burned by wildfires in Kansas alone; “snownados” (I guess they really are a thing) and the first ever December Tornado recorded in Minnesota. One source with the National Weather Service told news outlets that, “It’s an unprecedented event. We have people who’ve been working for us for 30-plus years, and they had not seen something like this before.”
It was a crazy day.
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ASI and NCBA Awarded USDA/APHIS Grant to Develop Guidance for Livestock Grazing on Public Lands During a Foreign Animal Disease Outbreak |
USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is providing more than $200,000 dollars in Farm Bill funding to support the American Sheep Industry Association (ASI) and the National Cattlemen's Beef Association (NCBA) in developing movement decision criteria for sheep and cattle grazing public land allotments during a potential foreign animal disease (FAD) outbreak. There are several agencies involved in issuing public land grazing permits in 14 states for 22,000 ranchers. These are not the same agencies responsible for FAD response. This funding will allow collaboration among the agencies, states, and industry partners, like the Public Lands Council. Guidance documents created through group discussion will be exercised. The project is expected to take two years to complete.
This effort will better prepare sheep and cattle producers, whose livestock graze public lands, to voluntarily prepare before an FAD outbreak. It will provide information and actions needed during an FAD outbreak to protect their flocks and herds and meet movement criteria. It will provide state and federal decision makers with a better understanding of the management practices, capabilities, and limitations of grazing sheep and cattle on public lands.
“The preparedness and response activities we are funding today will enhance our ability to address the animal disease issues of tomorrow. They arm us with the best science available to retain international markets and feed both our own families and the world.” said Jenny Lester Moffitt, Under Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs.
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All Policy Travels Through West Virginia- Senator Manchin Says No- Is Build Back Better Done? |
Democratic Senator Joe Manchin said Sunday he cannot back his party’s signature $2 trillion social and environment bill, dealing a potentially fatal blow to President Joe Biden’s leading domestic initiative heading into an election year when Democrats’ narrow hold on Congress was already in peril.
Manchin told “Fox News Sunday” that after five-and-half months of negotiations among Democrats in which he was his party’s chief obstacle to passage, “I cannot vote to continue with this piece of legislation. I just can’t. I’ve tried everything humanly possible. I can’t get there.”
Manchin would be the 50th vote in favor if Democrats could win him over- and using the Reconciliation rules on a budget bill- which theoretically can be used in the Senate once a year- would allow the Democrats to have VP Harris to cast a tie breaker and get their $2 trillion deal through- but the single defection by Manchin or any other Democrat apparently dooms the deal.
While agriculture likes portions of the massive spending bill- especially more money for Conservation- those same groups are very concerned about the size of the package and the inflationary worries that are raised with the social spending that is get in place.
Pundits believe that Manchin can still be persuaded to vote for a smaller version of Build Back Better- but this pushes the negotiations and the possible vote for the bill into 2022- which is an election year that puts any sort of spending that requires raising taxes under the microscope.
A few days ago- we reported on the tax debate that has swirled around Build Back Better- and Ethan Lane with NCBA says that the tax proposals that they worry the most about are currently not in the package that passed the House- but that the cattlemen and others in the farm community worry some of those items that they object to might find their way back in- click here to listen to that conversation with Ethan from earlier in December.
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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 up Friday. Choice Beef was up 4 cents and Select Beef was up 14 cents on Friday 12/17/2021.
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.
These markets have wrapped up their sales for 2021- they all return the first full week of January, 2022.
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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
Pam Arterburn, Calendar and Template Manager
Chelsea Stanfield, Farm News and Email Editor
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