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Your
Update from Ron Hays of RON
Wednesday, October 24,
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Featured
Story:
Marty
Jones Advances in Quest to Become a National FFA
Officer- and We Introduce You to Garrett Yerigan-
the Next Superstar in Rodeo
Announcing!
Good
News for Oklahoma FFA and the many supporters of
the FFA came Tuesday evening as Marty Jones heard
his name called as one of 20 candidates that is
still in the running for a National Office for
2012-2013. Jones, a student now at OSU-
hopes to hear his name called Saturday afternoon
from the stage of the final general session of the
85th Convention of the FFA here in Indy- because
if he does- that means he has achieved his dream
and become one of six National Officers for the
coming year. We talk about that- as well as an
overview of some of the other things on tap today
in a morning audio overview from Indy- click here for that report.
We
remind you that our coverage of the 2012 National
FFA Convention on radio, web, Twitter, Flickr and
here in our email is a service of the Oklahoma FFA
Alumni Association and the Oklahoma FFA
Association. Click here for the FFA website
for Oklahoma to learn more about this powerful
youth organization.
Meanwhile,
Garrett Yerigan of the Pryor,
Oklahoma, FFA Chapter has been traveling the rodeo
circuit all his life and has become enamored with
the role of the announcer. Yerigan is in
Indianapolis this week and is one of 20 different
Oklahoma FFA members who are finalists in the
Proficiency Award categories. He will be
judged as one of the top four finalists in the
entrepreneurship-placement category of
agricultural communications on Thursday. He
hopes to hear his name announced on Friday as one
of the winners.
Win
or lose, Yerigan will return to his business,
Lightning G Announcing and Sound. He offers
his services to rodeos and other agricultural
shows. In addition to working on his communication
skills as an announcer, he's also developed
marketing strategies ensuring that his business
gains new customers throughout North America.
He spoke with me before he headed to
Indianapolis, and you can listen to our conversation by
clicking here.
You'll also find pictures from the
FFA National Convention on our Flikr page by
clicking here.
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Trail's
End Sow Farm Demonstrates Good Stewardship,
Community
Concern
The
famous songwriters Rodgers and Hammerstein come to
mind whenever one mentions Oklahoma. And when you
visit Trail's End Sow Farm No. 2 outside of rural
Ames, Okla., it really lives up to the soaring
lyrics of the state's official song. It truly is a
grand place in terms of its unique vistas and
abundant wildlife amid the sandy, low hills of
this hidden farm site.
"We are off the main
path for sure," said Jeff Mencke,
production manager for Roberts Ranch of Oklahoma,
the business that operates several sow farms as
part of Hanor in the Ames area. "I'm the closest
neighbor to the farm and that's a half-mile away,
so we're really isolated."
The transplanted
Nebraskan knows that the farm's isolation helps
protect the farm's 10,500 sows and their litters
from a biosecurity standpoint. Having the barns
surrounded by 560 acres of farm land doesn't hurt
either in terms of pig health and neighbor
relations. However, the farm can certainly hold
its own in terms of showcasing the sustainable
nature of modern agriculture.
You can read more by clicking
here.
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Wheat
Pasture Prospects Questionable Without Much-Needed
Rains
Wheat
pasture prospects are not looking too great at the
moment across Oklahoma, but OSU Extension
Livestock Marketing Economist Derrell
Peel says a little rain could change that
picture.
"There's not much wheat pasture
yet. There's a few spots that are in better shape
than others. There are some areas that are still
very dry. I think the key here is that most areas
have very little deep moisture to work with so
we're very reliant on the continued arrival of
timely rains. If we get it, I think we have
potential for significant wheat pasture, but I
think it is somewhat risky this year."
He
says demand for pasture calves will be anemic and
dependent upon rain. Areas which get rain will see
higher demand; areas with less rain will have less
demand. He says these potential areas of demand
will develop slowly over the next couple of
months.
Derrell joins me on the latest Beef
Buzz and also talks about increases in carcass
weights. Click here to hear
more.
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Farm
Bureau Leader Appointed to DEQ
Board
Southwestern
Oklahoma farmer Jimmy Wayne
Kinder has been appointed by Gov. Mary
Fallin to serve a five-year term on the
Environmental Quality Board of Directors. Kinder
currently serves on the OFB Board of Directors
representing Farm Bureau members in OFB District 4
comprised of nine counties in southern
Oklahoma.
The Oklahoma Legislature
established the Environmental Quality Board
comprised of Oklahoma citizens to provide guidance
to the Department of Environmental
Quality. Board members have a
variety of backgrounds in manufacturing, hazardous
waste management, solid waste management,
petroleum industry, agriculture, recreation,
conservation, rural water systems, and statewide
environmental groups. Responsibilities of the
board are the appointment of the DEQ's Executive
Director and the adoption of rules that determine
operation of the Department.
Jimmy Wayne
and his wife Margaret Ann operate a diversified
family farm near Walters. Commodities produced on
the Kinder farm include wheat, canola, grain
sorghum, sesame and beef
cattle.
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Analyst
Invents Index to Measure Certified Angus Beef
Demand
The
Angus brand has increased the number of pounds
sold every year since 2005, but does that mean
demand is soaring?
CattleFax analyst
Lance Zimmerman says yes. He
invented a Certified Angus Beef brand demand index
while he was at Kansas State to answer that
question.
"What we found was that
Certified Angus Beef brand products compared to
choice gave a lot higher demand increase over 2002
essentially compared to choice. You basically
compare 2002 as the base year for each program
whether that base year said that CAB was higher
than choice or choice was higher than CAB. We
can't really tell that from the research, but what
we can tell is that since 2002 demand for CAB
outpaced choice."
The index points to a
70-percent increase CAB demand over those nine
years with choice up 15 percent.
You can check out a video version of
this story by clicking
here.
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Oklahoma
ACRE Payments Pile Up
We
talked last week and did a couple of stories on
payments from the ACRE program being triggered for
several Oklahoma crops from back in 2011- a year
that saw us produce a very poor wheat crop and
half or less of normal spring planted crops in the
state.
To
review what we reported last week- click here for our conversation
with Dr. Jody Campiche of OSU on
this subject. Crops that she mentioned had
triggered included winter wheat, soybeans, grain
sorghum and corn (irrigated and non
irrigated).
Then
last Friday- we talked with Francie
Tolle, our state FSA Director, who told
us at that point that the state had just received
word that irrigated and non irrigated cotton had
been triggered as well- and those payments for any
acres that were in the ACRE program would be
substantial. At that point- Francie told us
that about $15 million dollars had been sent out
from FSA to Oklahoma farmers as ACRE payments for
2011 to that point.
Yesterday-
Francie offered an update on that number- we are
now up to $19 million in ACRE payments and she
believes we may top out in the mid twenties on
ACRE payments when it is all said and done.
About one fourth of the crop acreage in the state
has been signed up to the ACRE program since 2009-
that was the year where we had a chance to KNOW in
advance of signing up that a HUGE wheat crop
payment would very likely be made to Oklahoma
wheat farmers who made the leap over to this new
element of the 2008 farm law.
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More
from Indy- National President Becomes Stagehand-
and a Trivia Update
Last
year- Riley Pagett was always
seen in his official dress everywhere he went in
Indianapolis- he was the official "leader" of the
organization as he served as the President of the
National FFA in 2010-2011. Pagett, a FFA member
from Woodward, finished his career in the youth
organization on stage in Indianapolis last
October- but his time on stage continues one year
later here at the 2012 edition of their national
convention. Only, this year he is helping set the
stage and reset the stage and reset the stage
again as one of the stagehands for the general
sessions at the Bankers Life Fieldhouse here in
Indianapolis.
After
practice was done- we chatted for a few minutes
with Riley- and you can hear that conversation by
clicking here- he offers some good insights
about what FFA has meant to him personally and
professionally as he hopes to enter Law School in
the near future.
Yesterday-
we asked a couple of questions about previous
national officers of the FFA from the state of
Oklahoma- and several got the name of the earlier
National Officer that hailed from Owasso- the
officer from days gone by from Owasso was
Dee Sokolosky. Nick
Sokolosky who works for Farm Credit in
Broken Arrow named his elder Sokolosky, as did
James Pruett, David Holloway who
is with BancFirst in Chattanooga and Glen
Shoulders in Tulsa. Shoulders and
Holloway also named two other chapters that
already can brag they have had two national
officers from down through the years- Glen named
Noble and Guthrie and David named Noble and
Mooreland- and they are both right!
Shawn Jeffcoat also chimed in on
the chapter question and he named Noble and
Guthrie. If Marty Jones hears his name on
Saturday- that will actually make Owasso the
FOURTH Oklahoma Chapter with two national officers
as a part of its heritage. Shawn
Jeffcoat added one other note that is so true of
so many Oklahoma rural families- he was busy
yesterday getting his son to school to load the
bus to head for Indy- the fourth generation of a
Jeffcoat man that has traveled to a national FFA
Convention. If you want to see a full list
of the National FFA Officers from down thru the
years from Oklahoma- click here.
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