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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 $12.05 per bushel-
2012
New Crop contracts for Canola are now available at
$12.50 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
Wednesday, February
22,
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Howdy
Neighbors!
Here is your daily Oklahoma farm and ranch
news update.
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Featured Story:
Talking
Irish Beef Cattle Production with Cathal McCormack
of Alltech
They
are one of the largest animal health companies
that many people have never heard about- and they
are the biggest one that is privately owned. The
company is Alltech Animal Health- and Alltech
welcomed Class XV of the Oklahoma Agricultural
Leadership Program to their European Headquarters
in Dunboyne, Ireland on Tuesday. One of the
officials that talked with OALP was Cathal
McCormack, who leads beef cattle
marketing efforts in Ireland for the
company.
McCormack told us that he was
raised on a beef cattle farm in eastern Ireland,
and has worked within the beef cattle industry
most of his life. He described Ireland as a
significant player in the beef export marketplace-
number five internationally in the sales of beef
to other countries. What we call beef cows in the
United States are referred to as "suckler cows" in
Ireland- and McCormack says there are a little
over a million head of these suckler cows in the
country, along with a significant number of dairy
cows in the southern counties of the country.
Click here to read more about our
visit with McCormack- and a chance to hear our
full conversation with him about Irish beef
production, which is a grass beef system with some
grain fed at the very end of the production
cycle. We also have a video at this link
from the Alltech folks that offers some further
insights to how they interact with the beef cattle
business.
AND-
remember we have all of our stories to date from
the International Travel Experience of the OALP in
Scotland and now Ireland on our website in one
location- click here to get
there.
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New
Highly Erodible Cropland Initiative Announced for
Conservation Reserve
Program
Agriculture
Secretary Tom Vilsack has
announced a new conservation initiative to protect
up to 750,000 acres of the nation's most highly
erodible croplands. Vilsack made the announcement
via video to attendees of the National Pheasant
Fest and Quail Classic, held Feb. 17-19 in Kansas
City, Mo. The new initiative will assist producers
with targeting their most highly erodible cropland
(land with an erodibility index of 20 or greater)
by enabling them to plant wildlife-friendly,
long-term cover through the Conservation Reserve
Program (CRP).
Producers can enroll land
on a continuous basis beginning this summer at
their local Farm Service Agency (FSA) county
office. With the use of soil survey and geographic
information system data, local FSA staff can
quickly determine a producer's eligibility for the
initiative.
"This announcement will
strengthen CRP by focusing on protecting the most
environmentally sensitive land. It targets limited
resources where they can make the most difference
for farmers, ranchers and to drive economic
growth. I urge landowners who have highly erodible
land to visit their county office to learn more
about this program," Vilsack said.
To read more about the new
conservation initiative, click here.
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NCBA
Keeps Up Pressure On EPA Over Proposed CAFO Rule
The
comment period for the Environmental Protection
Agency's proposed rule that would require all
Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations to submit
operational information has closed, but not before
the National Cattlemen's Beef Association weighed
in.
Ashley Lyon, the
deputy environmental counsel for the NCBA said her
organization's members opposed the proposed rule
on two grounds.
"One of which is that they
are beyond their authority," she said. "The EPA
has gone beyond their Clean Water Act authority in
requiring this information from all CAFOs across
the country instead of following what the Fifth
Circuit said last March that the EPA and the Clean
Water Act only have authority over CAFOs that
actually discharge and it goes no further than
that."
While legal and Constitutional
issues are huge, Lyon said NCBA members have more
immediate concerns.
"Probably the biggest
concern for our owners and operators is the
privacy issue and that the information they are
requesting and requiring of these owners and
operators like the latitude and longitude of the
production area, the number of acres available for
manure application, number and type of head."
Click here to read more of Lyon's
comments or to hear her full
conversation with Ron Hays.
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Peanut
Expo Promises Recipe For Success After Year of
Records
After
a year of record-setting weather and
record-setting markets, peanut producers are
making production plans for 2012.
For many
producers there is no better way to start than by
attending the Oklahoma Peanut Expo. This year's
expo is coming up on March 16th at Quartz Mountain
Resort.
The expo will be preceded by the
67th Annual TX/OK Seed Quality Meeting.
This year's program promises to be timely
and the topics addressed reflect issues bound to
affect operations statewide.
U.S. Senator
Jim Inhofe will be one of the program's
highlights. As ranking member of the Environment
and Public Works Committee, Senator Inhofe will
bring a "front-line" perspective on the EPA's
apparent warzone mentality towards
agriculture.
For more information on this year's
Peanut Expo or registration contacts, click
here.
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Senate
Committee Hearing Explores Strengthening
Conservation in the 2012 Farm
Bill
Senator
Debbie Stabenow, Chairwoman of
the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture,
Nutrition and Forestry, will convene a Committee
hearing on Tuesday, February 28 at 10:00 a.m. in
room 216 of the Hart Senate Office Building.
The hearing, Strengthening Conservation
through the 2012 Farm Bill, will explore the
Conservation Title's investment in America through
policies that help farmers maintain soil health,
keep our water clean and available, our food
abundant and safe, and our wildlife plentiful - so
as to protect the basic principles of farming and
our way of life for future generations.
Administrator Bruce Nelson, of the Farm Service
Agency, and Chief David White, of the Natural
Resources Conservation Service, will testify.
Additional witnesses are detailed below.
The hearing will convene on Tuesday,
February 28 at 9:00 a.m. CST in room 216 of the
Hart Senate Office Building. A live webcast of the
hearing can be viewed on the Committee's website
at http://ag.senate.gov.
You can see the list
of witnesses scheduled to testify by clicking
here.
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Bingman
Says Revenue Increase Should Result in Tax Cuts,
Smaller, Simpler Government
Oklahoma
Senate President Pro Tempore Brian
Bingman issued the following statement
after Tuesday's State Equalization Board
meeting. According to the final
certification, $6.5 billion in revenue will be
available for state budgeting in fiscal year 2013,
which represents an increase of $47.2
million.
"Oklahoma's
economy continues to heal from the impact of our
national recession. An increase in certified
revenue is a testament to the common-sense of
Oklahomans during tough times-our families and
communities have buckled down, and we're just
beginning to see all the good our forward-thinking
jobs agenda is doing for the state. We have every
reason to look to the future with optimism.
"We must be good stewards of what we've
received. We simply cannot afford to celebrate our
success by making government bigger. Instead, we
should seize our momentum to cut taxes for
hardworking Oklahomans while redoubling our
efforts to thoughtfully target what we must spend
on essential services: improving teaching in the
classroom, fixing our broken roads, and making our
communities safe places to live and raise our
families. Let's pursue government that is smaller,
simpler, and smarter, for the sake of Oklahoma's
continued
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More
Pics from OALP in Ireland- and a Reminder About
the Pollard Sale on Saturday
The
second full day in Ireland proved to be a busy one
for class members of the Oklahoma Ag
Leadership Program- as the young
agricutural leaders found themselves in traffic,
driving on the "correct" side of the road
(accordindg to our bus driver) to appointments
with US Embassy staff, researchers with Alltech's
European Headquarters in Dunboyne, Ireland, a wee
bit of lunch in the tiny community of Dunboyne and
stops back in Dublin at St. Patrick's Cathedral
and the number one user of grain in Ireland, the
Guinness Brewery.
We
have posted another batch of pictures of all of
these activities from the OALP travels- including
some interesting shots of a small family butcher
shop that we spent a few minutes in on Tuesday- click here for those pics and all of
the others to date from the 2012 International
Travel Experience.
The
Pollard Farms Performace Genetics
13th Annual Bull and Commercial Female Sale is
scheduled for Saturday, February 25, 2012 at
Pollard Farms, Waukomis, Oklahoma. The sale begins
at 12:30pm selling - 80 Home Raised Service Age
Angus Bulls 140 Commercial Females, about 100
Commercial Spring Calving First-Time
Heifers About 40 Mature Cows, half fall calvers
and half spring calvers. Click here for more details about the
sale- and a chance to jump over to their
website to view the catalog of the production
sale.
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