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We
invite you to listen to us on great radio stations
across the region on the Radio Oklahoma Network
weekdays- if you missed this morning's Farm News - or
you are in an area where you can't hear it- click here for this morning's
Farm news
from Ron Hays on RON.
Let's Check the
Markets!
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.
Okla
Cash Grain:
Daily
Oklahoma Cash Grain Prices- as reported
by the Oklahoma Dept. of Agriculture.
Canola
Prices:
Current
cash price for Canola is $11.42 per bushel-
2012
New Crop contracts for Canola are now available at
$11.64 per bushel- delivered to local
participating elevators that are working with PCOM.
Futures
Wrap:
Our
Daily Market Wrapup from the Radio
Oklahoma Network with Ed Richards and Tom Leffler-
analyzing the Futures Markets from the previous Day.
KCBT
Recap:
Previous Day's Wheat Market Recap-Two
Pager from the Kansas City Board of Trade looks at all
three U.S. Wheat Futures Exchanges with extra info on
Hard Red Winter Wheat and the why of that day's
market.
Feeder
Cattle Recap:
The
National Daily Feeder & Stocker
Cattle Summary- as prepared by USDA.
Slaughter
Cattle Recap:
The
National Daily Slaughter Cattle
Summary- as prepared by the USDA.
TCFA
Feedlot Recap:
Finally,
here is the Daily Volume and Price Summary from
the Texas Cattle Feeders Association.
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Oklahoma's
Latest Farm and Ranch News
Your
Update from Ron Hays of RON
Monday,
January 9, 2012 |
Howdy
Neighbors!
Here is your daily Oklahoma farm and ranch
news update.
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Featured Story:
AFBF
President Bob Stallman Offers State of Agriculture
Speech to American Farm Bureau Convention in
Honolulu
America's
farmers and ranchers are more productive than ever
and are providing a solid economic foundation for
our nation, according to Bob
Stallman, president of the American Farm
Bureau Federation.
Playing
off of the Occupy movement and their contention
that the richest one percent in society owe
everyone else- Stallman opened his speech "We are
the 1 percent that is producing food and fiber for
the other 99 percent," Stallman declared in his
annual address to the approximately 7,000 Farm
Bureau members gathered for AFBF's 93rd Annual
Meeting. Just over a hundred Oklahoma Farm
Bureau members are a part of the meeting in the
middle of the Pacific Ocean this
week.
Farm
and ranch families are growing more food with
fewer resources than ever before, Stallman said.
"Over a 20-year period, corn yields are up
41 percent. Per bushel soil loss has fallen by 70
percent. Water use per bushel of corn is down 27
percent. All major crops show similar trends,"
said Stallman.
American
agriculture's successes have come in the face of
challenges, Stallman said, including droughts, and
doubts about the future of agricultural policy,
floods, and a deluge of government regulatory
actions, storms, and an often tempestuous public
conversation about the farmer's role in feeding
our nation.
Read
more about Bob Stallman's comments from AFBF's
annual convention- and you can also listen to it
as we have the complete audio of the speech in our
webstory- just click here and jump to our top
story for this Monday morning.
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Sponsor
Spotlight
We
are excited to have as one of our sponsors for the
daily email Producers Cooperative Oil Mill,
with 64 years of progress through producer
ownership. Their legacy is crushing cotton seed
for oil, and they have added in recent years
canola. Call Brandon Winters at 405-232-7555 for
more information on the oilseed crops they handle,
including sunflowers and canola- and remember they
post closing market prices for canola and
sunflowers on the PCOM website- go there by
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US
Wheat CEO Alan Tracy Expects Dramatic Marketing
Changes With the End of the CWB in 2012
In
the weekly US Wheat Associates electronic
newsletter- they offered up an opinion piece by
the President of this organization that promotes
US Wheat into the global market. Alan Tracy
writes of the big changes coming this year in
Canada as it relates to the marketing of wheat
produced in that country. Here's a portion
of the analysis offered by Alan:
"A
dramatic change in North American wheat marketing
will take place this year with the end of the
Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) monopoly over sales of
western Canadian wheat and barley. After nearly
three quarters of a century of total control over
milling wheat in the west, CWB's monopoly will end
as of Aug. 1, 2012. Although several lawsuits are
still pending, we expect that change to happen and
are planning for the future.
"Canada's
wheat and barley farmers will now have the freedom
to market their grain to whomever they choose. We
expect the marketing system will evolve quickly to
return to producers the true value of their wheat
and barley. On average, we expect Canadian wheat
prices to increase at the farm gate, although
locational differences will become more important
and farmers may prosper or fail based on the
marketing decisions they make. Some will choose to
continue to pool their wheat, even with a newly
reconstituted CWB, and accept an average price,
while others will embrace the opportunity and
personal responsibility to manage the risk and
capture the potential rewards of individual
pricing schemes."
Click here to read more of what
the demise of the CWB means to US worldwide
marketing efforts- at least in the opinion of Alan
Tracy of US Wheat Associates.
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Monsanto
Claims Progress Across Multiple Platforms This
Past Year
A
diverse group of projects across research and
development (R&D) platforms aimed at making
agriculture more productive and profitable for
farmers, and more sustainable, were highlighted
during Monsanto Company's annual pipeline
update.
Using a combination of the latest
breeding, biotechnology, and agronomic tools and
solutions, Monsanto remains committed to
developing and delivering products that can create
the next wave of yield opportunity for farmers.
"We're excited about the record progress
we've made this year across all of our R&D
platforms, as the projects in our pipeline today
will help us provide an even stronger toolkit of
solutions to meet the needs of farmers in the
future," said Robb Fraley, Monsanto chief
technology officer. "Through the convergence of
innovations in our breeding, biotechnology and
agronomic solutions platforms, we're focused on
providing farmers the total package that can
maximize their yields sustainably."
Click here for a full look at the
multiple fronts where Monsanto claims considerable
progress in over this past year- and our
webstory includes a video that you can watch that
showcases the Pipeline Update.
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Cow
Chow: Video Exploring What Cattle Eat
"Cow
Chow: Exploring What Cattle Eat" is a Beef
Checkoff-funded, interactive game that shows how
proper cattle diets help farmers and ranchers
raise high-quality, great-tasting and nutritious
beef you can feel good about. According to recent
research funded by the checkoff, consumers are
curious about what cattle eat. This subject is
highly personal-people believe what cattle eat
directly translates into the beef they ultimately
eat and serve to their own families.
"Cow
Chow" explores common questions about what cattle
eat, such as "Do grain-finished cattle eat only
corn their entire lives?" As you navigate through
the 10-question game and corresponding videos,
you'll test your knowledge about what cattle eat
from birth to the feedyard. The
first-of-their-kind "Cow Chow" videos were filmed
almost exclusively by cattle in Kansas, South
Dakota, Texas and Florida wearing specially-rigged
GoPro cameras.
Click here for more details and a
link to the game- and we have a YouTube Video
that we share with you that offers a close up of
what various beef cows are chowing down on.
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A
Less Than a 50-50 Chance on Getting a Farm Bill
Through Congress in 2012- So Says Mary Kay
Thatcher of American Farm Bureau
One
of the big jobs ahead for delegates of the
American Farm Bureau who are in Hawaii this week
for their 93rd annual convention will be making
firm decisions on the farm policy stance of the
largest general farm organization in the US. That
process actually starts at the convention on
Tuesday- but the conversation has been going on
for more than a year.
Corn
belt Farm Bureau members want a so called "shallow
loss" program which will help them when they have
relatively small losses compared to normal crop
production- farmers in the plains and the south
are more worried about deep losses caused by wide
swings in the weather- such as the insane weather
we have dealt with across Oklahoma here in
2011.
Mary
Kay Thatcher- long time lobbyist for
AFBF- says one of the options on the table for
Farm Bureau delegates to consider is to take some
of the savings from the elimination of direct farm
program payments and have the government pay for
more of the cost of crop insurance for deep losses
for all crops across the country.
Thatcher
is confident that Farm Bureau delegates will come
together and establish a 2012 farm bill position-
but she is rather pessimistic about Congress
actually finishing a farm bill in 2012- she says
the chances are something less than 50-50 that a
2012 Farm Bill will actually be done in
2012. The key hurdle- lack of time for
members of Congress to do hardly anything as they
focus on the November elections.
Click here for our webstory featuring
comments with Mary Kay Thatcher as well as
from Mike Spradling of Oklahoma
Farm Bureau from the 2012 AFBF meeting in
Honolulu. In that webstory- we have a link that
details the "Systemic Risk Reduction
Program" being touted by Farm Bureau.
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Tree
Seedlings Available from ODAFF
Want
to be a landowner with his or her own forest?
Oklahoma Forestry Services, a division of the
Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food and
Forestry can help. They are officially in the
midst of tree planting season. Didn't know such a
season existed? For Oklahoma trees the season is
typically December through mid-April and you can
get your own forest started by ordering trees and
shrubs from the OFS nursery in Goldsby.
Trees
like to start their lives during the cold winter
months. For OFS the process involves planting seed
one or two years ago, nurturing and growing over
35 species of trees and shrubs into a size that is
ready for you to plant. Then as the New Year kicks
off, OFS staff begin "lifting" the seedlings and
bundling in anticipation of shipping them to your
doorstep for planting.
"The
colder temperature during lifting, packing and
planting is critical to the seedlings survival
because they remain in a dormant state until the
spring temperatures arrive," said State Forester
George Geissler. "This year we were a little
concerned about having enough soil moisture, but
things have improved over much of the state since
we have received some significant rains this
fall."
Click here for more on getting your
very own tree seedlings from the ODAFF.
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This
N That- OGSP, PASS and Judd Capper at
International Livestock Congress
The
Oklahoma Grain and Stocker
Producers welcomes everyone to a
legislative meet-and-greet at the Garfield County
Fairgrounds in Enid on Friday, January
13. The event will be held at 1 p.m. Friday,
January 13, in the conference room on the
northeast corner of the Chisholm Trail Expo
Center, 111 W Purdue Ave., in Enid. Click here for additional
details.
Dr.
Bob Whitson of the Oklahoma State
University Division of Ag has announced a change
in interim leadership for that Plant and Soil
Science Department. Dean Whitson writes in
an email "Dr. Hailin Zhang
will be assuming the duties of acting department
head from Dr. Don Murray beginning January 3, 2012. Dr. Murray
has done a great job as acting department head and
now wants to return to his project
full-time. I want to thank Don for his
leadership over the last six months, and we now
look forward to working with Hailin in the new
year."
Finally-
this past Friday we spotlighted research advanced
by Jude Capper of Washington
State that shows we have an incredible shrinking
carbon footprint when it comes to beef production
in this country. Dr. Capper will be the featured
speaker this week in Denver at the 2012
International Livestock Congress- and we have more
details of that appearance and some info on her
research on modern beef production being very good
for the environment. Click here for our Beef Buzz from
this past Friday that features highlights of Dr.
Capper's December article in the American Journal
of Animal Science.
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