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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 $11.74 per bushel-
2012
New Crop contracts for Canola are now available at
$12.14 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
Friday,
February 17, 2012 |
Howdy
Neighbors!
Here is your daily Oklahoma farm and ranch
news update.
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Featured
Story:
Oklahoma
Ag Leaders Visit Scottish Beef Cattle
Operation
It
was a damp afternoon as Class XV of the Oklahoma
Ag Leadership Program began its ten days in
Scotland and Ireland on Thursday- the afternoon
stop at the Hartwood Home Farm as operated by the
James Hutton Institute was especially interesting
to the group.
The group found George
Corsar, Farm Manager for the operation, engaging
and very open to discussing a variety of questions
during the ninety minute visit to this research
operation. Corsar was proud of their beef cow herd
of mostly Luing Cattle. Corsar says they are
currently running about 200 beef cows on their 500
acre farm, which is used for a variety of research
projects.
Besides the cattle, Hartwood
also has a substantial sheep operation, with 500
ewes giving them a sizable number of lambs to sell
mostly as finished fat lambs.
Corsar told
the group about the Luing cattle breed. The Luing
breed was evolved by the Cadzow brothers on the
Island of Luing in Argyll off the west coast of
Scotland. Admiring the outstanding complementary
qualities of two beef breeds from this part of the
world - the Beef Shorthorn with its fleshing
qualities and the Highlander with its ruggedness
and hardiness, in 1947 they selected some of the
best first cross Shorthorn/Highland heifers that
could be procured. Corsaw told us that while the
gene pool is fairly small- the carcass
characterists of the animals is good- and their
maternal traits are excellent.
To read more about Class XV and
their international travels and to
listen to Ron's conversation with George Corsar-
click here.
For our
latest pictures from the trip- click here for our FLICKR set of
pics for the OALP to Scotland and
Ireland.
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European
Union and United States Agree to Partnership on
Organic Trade
The
European Union and the United States announced
today that beginning June 1, 2012, organic
products certified in Europe or in the United
States may be sold as organic in either region.
This partnership between the two largest
organic-producers in the world will establish a
strong foundation from which to promote organic
agriculture, benefiting the growing organic
industry and supporting jobs and businesses on a
global scale.
The organics sector in the
United States and European Union is valued at more
than $50 billion combined, and rising every year.
Formal letters creating this partnership
were signed on February 15th in Nuremberg,
Germany, by Dacian Ciolos, European Commissioner
for Agriculture and Rural Development; Kathleen
Merrigan, U.S. Agriculture Deputy Secretary; and
Ambassador Isi Siddiqui, U.S. Trade Representative
Chief Agricultural Negotiator. The signing took
place at the BioFach World Organic Fair, the
largest trade show for organic products in the
world.
"This partnership connects organic
farmers and companies on both sides of the
Atlantic with a wide range of new market
opportunities," said U.S Deputy Agriculture
Secretary Merrigan. "This partnership will open
new markets for American farmers and ranchers,
create more opportunities for small businesses,
and result in good jobs for Americans who package,
ship, and market organic products."
Click here to read more about the
European and U.S. organic trade partnership.
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Farmers
Bid Land Values To Record Highs In Fourth Quarter
Robust
bidding by farmers spurred record high Tenth
District land values in the fourth quarter, which
enticed more landowners to place farmland up for
auction, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of
Kansas City's quarterly Survey of Agricultural
Credit Conditions.
Nonirrigated cropland
values in the District jumped almost 9 percent
during the last three months of 2011 and were 25
percent higher than year-ago levels. District
bankers noted an increasing number of absentee
landowners were putting their farms up for sale
and attributed much of the auction activity to
landowners seeking top-dollar prices.
Farmers were the main buyers, and the
share of land purchases by farmers has grown
during the past few years. Still, outside investor
interest in farmland for rental income or capital
gains remained high, with farmland sales for
recreational or development use dwindling. About a
third of survey respondents expected both the
price and the amount of farmland offered for sale
to rise further in 2012.
To read more about record land values
and projections from the KC Fed, click
here.
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First
Hollow Stem Stage Important For Grazers In
Maximizing Grain Production
It's
mid-February and OSU Small Grains Extension
Specialist Jeff Edwards says it's time for farmers
with cattle on wheat pasture to start checking for
first hollow stem. Dr. Edwards believes that the
effective date to pull cattle off wheat pasture
this year will be slightly earlier than normal-
closer to the first of March instead of mid
March.
First hollow stem is the stage just
prior to jointing when the wheat is transitioning
from vegetative growth to reproductive
growth. It is important in
determining the optimal time to remove cattle from
wheat pasture.
Wheat leaves are like solar
panels that fuel the plant factory. Grazing
removes leaves and reduces the size of the solar
collector. Wheat leaves are also a reservoir of
nitrogen and other nutrients. Time is needed to
replace leaf area lost to grazing. That's why it
is important to remove cattle at this stage so
that the plant can regenerate leaves to collect
maximum energy for reproductive growth.
You can read more about checking for
first hollow stem as well as see Edwards' video
presentation on the topic by clicking
here.
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Oklahoma
House Committee Approves Stronger Poaching
Penalties
Legislation
approved unanimously by a House committee would
deter poaching by increasing the fine and
mandating that repeat poachers lose their hunting
and fishing licenses.
That's the hope of
the bill's author, State Representative Pat
Ownbey. House Bill 2573 would make the penalty for
a first offense a fine of $500 to $1,500. The
legislation makes the penalty for a second offense
a fine of $1,500 to 2,500, six months in county
jail or both and mandates the loss of the
poacher's hunting and fishing licenses for 1 to 10
years.
"The
current minimum fine of $50 will not deter
poachers and there is no special penalty for
repeat offenders," said Ownbey (R-Ardmore). "A
traffic ticket costs more money and we all know
how many people speed. I decided to set the fine
to match current trespassing penalties. We simply
need a penalty that matches the crime and deters
people from this illegal
activity."
House
Bill 2573 was approved by the House Agriculture,
Wildlife and Environment Committee and now
proceeds to the House floor for
consideration.
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Kim
Anderson: Wheat Price Declines Don't Mean We're In
a Declining Market--Yet
Wheat
price breaks of about 60 cents in the last week
have some concerned the market is establishing a
downward trend, but OSU's Kim Anderson doesn't
think that is the case. He says we have another 20
or 30 cents to go before that trend would be
established. He thinks March futures contracts
would have to break the $6.35 mark and July
contracts would have to break $6.50 before he
would call a downward trend.
A lot of
factors are making the markets nervous this week,
Anderson says. There's a lot going on in Greece
and with the Euro. Dr. Anderson's comments were
made with Lyndall Stout of SUNUP.
"One day
you can make payments, the next day you can't. One
day a bailout package is ready, the next day it's
not."
That impacts the value of the dollar
which, when it goes up, makes American wheat more
expensive on the export market.
He says
planted acres are up 5.6 percent this year and
ending stocks are expected to be up about 100
million bushels next year as well.
"You're
looking at relatively higher production and
increasing stocks in the world. There's just a lot
of negatives out there for wheat prices," he
says.
You can read more of Kim Anderson's
analysis, or listen to his complete interview by
clicking here.
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SUNUP,
News9 Goes to Chickasha and Thots from Scotland
One
other note from our Kim Anderson story above- as
we normally do- we have the SUNUP lineup for this
weekend listed along with the conversation that
Lyndall had with Kim- click here to jump over and check out
what Lyndall Stout and her team have
cooking this Saturday on OETA during the SUNUP
half hour.
In
the case of In the Field for this Saturday
morning, we are pleased to have as our guest
Tyler Norvell of the Oklahoma Youth
Expo. It's hard to believe- but the
OYE will be starting in about three weeks.
One thing that always happens in advance of the
state show are the many District Shows around the
state- and our colleague Darren Brown was at the
Southwest District Livestock Show in Chickasha-
and did a nice video piece on the show- click here to take a look.
BACK to Tyler, be watching this Saturday morning
at around 6:40 AM on KWTV News9 for our
conversation with him about the preparations for
the 2012 Oklahoma Youth Expo.
Finally-
a couple of notes from the road here in Scotland.
One thing that our group learned quickly- the
folks here in the United Kingdom drive- as our
tour guide described it- on the "correct"
side of the road. I was behind one of the
class members as we walked up to our tour bus- and
she pushed the button for the door on the right
hand side of the bus- and found herslf staring at
the driver's seat! We laughed and went
around to the other side of the bus to climb
in. Once on the bus, our tour guide Margot
provided us with bottled water- one of the
"brands" offered to us of100% crisp British spring
water was "Drench!" In this
land of sheep, that took me back to my youth and
one of our periodic jobs of rounding up the sheep-
and "drenching" them with a dewormer. I think I
enjoyed the water more than the sheep enjoyed the
treat I had for them all those years ago.
Day
two in Scotland is underway as you read
this- we will be spending time with the Royal
Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland-
they put on one of the legendary cattle shows in
the world- the Royal Highland Show- should be
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