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Oklahoma's
Latest Farm and Ranch News
Your
Update from Ron Hays of RON
Monday,
April 9,
2012 |
Howdy
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Here is your daily Oklahoma farm and ranch
news update.
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Featured Story:
Duster
Surpasses Endurance as Top Wheat
Variety
Duster
became the number one wheat variety in Oklahoma
for the 2012 crop year, sown on 22.2 percent of
wheat seeded acres, according to the Oklahoma
Wheat Variety report issued today by the USDA-NASS
Oklahoma Field Office. Endurance,
at 16.5 percent of wheat seeded acres, dropped to
the second most common variety after holding the
top position for two years.
Both
wheat varieties were developed by Oklahoma State
University's wheat breeding program. Acres seeded
to Jagger continued to decline, amounting to 7.6
percent of the state's wheat sown. NASS summarized
wheat variety acres seeded in Oklahoma by state,
district and grain shed levels. This survey was
conducted by the USDA-NASS Oklahoma Field Office
and funded by the Oklahoma Wheat Commission in
cooperation with the Department of Plant and Soil
Sciences at Oklahoma State University. Results
were based on reports from Oklahoma wheat growers.
The entire Oklahoma report can be
viewed online by clicking here and then looking
under "Recent Reports." The national database,
Quick Stats, and all USDA-NASS reports are
available on the agency's web site:
www.nass.usda.gov. For more information on NASS
surveys and reports, call the USDA-NASS Oklahoma
Field Office at
800-525-9226.
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USDA
Makes Farmers Market Promotion Program Grants
Available
Agriculture
Deputy Secretary Kathleen
Merrigan announced that the U.S.
Department of Agriculture (USDA) is seeking grant
applicants for the 2012 Farmers Market Promotion
Program.
Approximately $10 million is
available for marketing operations such as farmers
markets, community supported agriculture and
road-side stands. The grants, which are
administered by USDA's Agricultural Marketing
Service (AMS), are available through a competitive
application process on www.grants.gov. The grants
aim to increase the availability of local
agricultural products in communities throughout
the county. They will also help strengthen
farmer-to-consumer marketing
efforts."
These grants will put resources
into rural and urban economies, and help
strengthen efforts to provide access to nutritious
and affordable foods," said Agriculture Deputy
Secretary Kathleen Merrigan. "This program not
only supports the health and well-being of local
communities but also the economic health of their
farms and businesses."
Click here for more information and
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Heather
Buckmaster Talks LFTB and How Cattle Producers Can
Help Battle the
Misconceptions
In
a recent conversation, Heather
Buckmaster executive director of the
Oklahoma Beef Council spoke about several issues
and activities that are of immediate concern to
cattle producers. Chief among those due to its
negative effects on the industry is the continued
flap over lean finely textured beef. Buckmaster
says they are aggressively addressing that
concern, but aren't losing sight of other programs
and positive promotions coming up this spring.
She says the LFTB problem probably won't
go away soon, but persistent efforts at educating
the public and key constituencies is the
cornerstone of current efforts.
"I've been
working for the beef industry for 15 years now and
it's been the toughest issue I've seen to deal
with, but part of our core efforts has been to
educate those key influencers to provide them
science-based, accurate information on the
process. Specifically from a local level we've
distributed information to school nutrition
directors, to school administrators, retail food
and trade service associations as well as reaching
out to key opinion leaders for their third-party
engagement on the process."
She says that
everyone in the beef industry can play a part in
educating the public even if it's nothing more
than getting on Facebook and Twitter and
encouraging people to go to beefisbeef.com.
To read more about turning the tide
in the LFTB battle as well as to learn about
upcoming Beef Council events, click here.
AND-
if you missed our chat with Heather on News9
Saturday morning, click here to watch our In the
Field segment with her when we also talked about
LFTB and the Back to Basics Workshops.
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OSU
Workshops Teach Participants Composting
Techniques, Water Harvesting
Improving
soil quality and finding ways to increase water
supply will be the subject of four workshops being
held in western Oklahoma this spring. The
workshops, organized by Oklahoma State University
in conjunction with the Oklahoma Conservation
Commission, Langston University, Anichini-Moore
Ranch and Farm and Trail Creek Ranch will provide
participants information on a variety of
techniques for composting and rainwater
harvesting. In addition the workshops will help
participants develop a risk management
plan.
"The workshops are designed for a
diverse audience from backyard gardeners to
municipalities," said Jeri
Fleming, OSU program manager. "We want
people who are interested in learning more about
the techniques we will be discussing, both on a
large scale and those who want to incorporate
these practices in their yards."
The first
workshop will be held at the Dewey County
Fairgrounds in Taloga, Okla. on Saturday April 14.
Additional workshops will be held in Okeene on
April 28, Woodward on May 12, and Clinton on June
2. Workshops will begin at 8:30 a.m. and include
lunch. In the afternoon participants will travel
to two demonstration sites, Trail Creek Ranch and
Anichini-Moore Ranch and Farm to see the
composting and rainwater harvesting techniques
discussed in the workshop in use.
The workshops are free and you can
get more information by clicking
here.
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Alltech
Symposium to Navigate Regulatory Landscape
As
if feeding 9 billion people by 2050 were not
enough of a challenge for the food industry,
ever-evolving regulations can create confusion and
significantly impede progress. Meanwhile, when
news of food safety issues go viral, families who
are already far-removed from the farm become wary
of the entire supply chain and the organizations
safeguarding it. The regulatory landscape presents
a challenging dichotomy for any farmer or food
producer, also facing the formidable foes of
economic woes and unpredictable weather
patterns.
Alltech's 28th Annual
International Symposium, held May 20 - 23 in
Lexington, Ky., will address these challenges
through its dedicated regulatory session,
featuring expert speakers from leading regulatory
organizations and influencers.
"Agriculture is at a crossroad between
competitiveness, trade, safety and sustainability.
Minimum standards of feed safety are often not
enough. Businesses are going beyond these minimum
standards for several reasons including strict
retailer procurement policies, brand/reputation
management and consumer demand. This regulatory
session will address both feed safety and trade
against the backdrop of these competing demands,"
said Jean Kennedy, European regulatory affairs
manager for Alltech.
To read more of this story, click
here.
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Jeff
Edwards Discusses Management Practices for Lodged
Wheat
Recent
storms have resulted in lodged wheat around the
state of Oklahoma. In this article Small Grains
Extension Specialist Dr. Jeff
Edwards provides a few pointers on
determining yield potential and management of
downed wheat. He also addresses questions about
physiological leaf speckling.
Lodged
wheat
I
have been getting several call and emails about
lodged wheat. Wheat can lodge for several reasons
including disease, insects, freeze injury, and
excess fertility. Most of the lodging that has
occurred this year is due to our warm winter
combined with ample residual soil fertility caused
by failed crops in 2011. The crop is thick with 3
- 4 times the normal number of tillers and is more
susceptible to lodging from wind and/or pounding
rain.
Will the lodged crop stand back
up?
Maybe.
It depends on the severity of the lodging. Wheat
that is completely flat on the ground with a
broken stem will generally not recover. The plant
will attempt to go ahead and fill grain, but will
not be very successful. Wheat that is partially
lodged prior to grain fill will generally make an
attempt to "straighten up" and make some grain.
There will be a yield penalty, but the crop will
generally still make grain in the tillers that
stand back up. Wheat that is simply leaning will
still have full yield potential.
Read more about lodged wheat
management and physiological wheat speckling by
clicking here.
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No
Problems Yet- Wheat Disease Update with Dr. Bob
Hunger of OSU
Disease
pressure continues to be very low in Oklahoma
wheat fields, even as the weather has swung around
and become milder as we go through Easter weekend,
with the prospect that this coming week will bring
more of the same type of weather. OSU Extension
Plant Pathologist Dr. Bob Hunger
provides us his latest wheat disease report as of
Saturday morning, April 7:
Thursday
and Friday (05-06 Apr) I visited variety
trials/demos or fields at Kingfisher (50 miles
west and 20 miles south of Stillwater), Minco (40
miles south of Kingfisher), Apache (25 miles north
of Lawton), Lawton, Snyder (35 miles west of
Lawton), multiple fields east and west of
Frederick/Manitou area (20 miles south of Snyder),
Altus, Granite (30 miles north of Altus), and
multiple fields located 20 miles north of Clinton.
Wheat was mostly in the heading to flowering range
with the exception of the fields north of Clinton,
which were in the boot to just heading range
(mostly later planted).
Dr.
Hunger reports that he saw little leaf rust, no
powdery mildew, an occasional patch of barley
yellow dwarf and just a small amount of strip rust
at virtually every stop he made. However, the
strip rust had shut down back when we had the hot
temps of a couple of weeks ago- but it appeared
the disease was starting to regenerate a bit with
the cooler, wet conditions as we headed for this
past weekend.
All
in all- we would judge Dr. Hunger's observations
as generally a good news report- there simply is
not that much disease pressure out there- at least
not yet. Click here for his full report-
some additional observations from Gary
Strickland from Jackson County as well as
out of state updates.
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Flickr
Photos Updated- New WheatWatch Pics as well as
Photos of 2012 Canola Crop
On Saturday, we checked out several
wheat and canola fields- as both crops continue to
be well ahead of last year and for wheat-
the five year average.
The
Canola field we saw was almost in full bloom-
seemed to be just a little thin- but still a very
pretty field all decked out in its bright yellow
blooms. Click here to see the photo set
on Flickr of the pics we took on April 7- as well
as a few earlier Canola shots as well from March
6..
As for our 2012
WheatWatch photos- we continue to
add to this set- we took pics of three fields on
Saturday- including one that we have photographed
multiple times this season. Every field we
saw on Saturday- and we passed dozens- was either
fuilly headed out or in the process of getting
there. The wheat we saw looked healthy and
with the heads already there at the end of the
first week of April- the question becomes- when in
May will we see harvest?
Judge for
yourself- click here to see our full photo
set of 2012 WheatWatch, presented by the Oklahoma Wheat Commission,
working hard for the Oklahoma Wheat Producer.
Scroll down to the bottom of the set to see the
pictures we took on Saturday of three different
fields.
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