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Oklahoma's
Latest Farm and Ranch News
Your
Update from Ron Hays of RON
Wednesday, September 12,
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Howdy
Neighbors!
Here is your daily Oklahoma farm and ranch
news update.
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Featured Story:
Wheat
Industry Pushes Back on 'Wheat Belly'
Claims
Producers
of the television show The View asked the
National Association of Wheat
Growers for a statement regarding claims
by a guest on the show that changes in wheat
hybrids over the last 50 years have made it less
digestible for humans. NAWG consulted
with several wheat industry leaders,
including OSU Wheat Breeder Dr.Brett
Carver in developing their response
The View aired a segment Tuesday
featuring Dr. Jeffrey Morrison, a certified
nutritional expert. He agreed with claims by Dr.
William Davis, a cardiologist, who has called the
wheat produced today a "chronic poison." In his
book "Wheat Belly," Davis claims modern wheat
varieties bear little resemblance to their
ancestors and that modern-day wheat is a causative
factor in many chronic diseases.
On
Tuesday's show, Morrison asserted that wheat has
been bred over the last 50 years to enhance levels
of the protein gliadin, to enhance shelf life and
yield. Morrison said the increased levels of
gliadin resulted in allergies and
indigestibility.
Here is the NAWG response
which was read during the show:
"Humans
have been growing and eating wheat for thousands
of years, and the assertion that wheat's
nutritional value has been changed is patently
untrue.
"Eliminating wheat foods means
eliminating an important source of healthful
nutrients that are vital to our bodies functioning
properly, like fiber, iron, B vitamins,
antioxidants, and folic acid, which is especially
important to women of childbearing
age."
Dr. Carver says there is so much
disinformation going around about the supposed
perils of eating wheat that he calls it
"glutenoia."
Click here for more of the story
and access a link to an interview we did with Dr.
Carver on this subject earlier in the
year.
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Agriculture
Leaders to Converge on Washington to Rally for
Farm Bill
Passage
Members
of National Farmers Union will be on hand at the
"Farm Bill Now!" rally as legislative
representatives, agricultural leaders and hundreds
of farmers and ranchers come together in chorus on
U.S. Capitol grounds Sept. 12 to encourage
Congress to pass a new, comprehensive, five-year
farm bill before current farm programs expire at
the end of September.
"The sheer magnitude
of the diversified support for this rally is a
testament that, while we may all have wide-ranging
and oftentimes divergent policy priorities, our
primary policy at this critical moment in time is
to see a complete, five-year farm bill passed into
law by the end of September. I'm hopeful that our
unified voice gets heard by Congress loudly and
clearly at Wednesday's rally," said NFU President
Roger Johnson.
The "Farm
Bill Now!" rally, which will take place at Union
Square in front of the Capitol Reflecting Pond,
will feature members from the U.S. Senate and U.S.
House of Representatives addressing the crowd, as
well as leaders from a broad range of farm,
conservation, energy, consumer and nutrition
organizations.
You can read more on the rally by
clicking here.
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Vitamin
A Deficiencies in Cattle Possible Due to Drought,
Selk Says
In
the most recent issue of the Cow-Calf newsletter,
Oklahoma State University Emeritus Extension
Animal Scientist Glenn Selk says
cattle producers need to be aware that drought
condtions can deprive livestock of vitamin A.
Vitamin A is rarely a concern in range
cattle nutritional programs because it is readily
synthesized from carotene that is common in green
growing plants. However, in drought situations
where plants become dead or dormant, the carotene
content becomes practically devoid and may lead to
a deficiency of the precursor to vitamin A.
Carotene is very low in mature, weathered forages,
grains and many crop residues. Carotene will be
lost in stored hay crops over extended periods of
time. Therefore if hay that was stored throughout
all of last fall and winter is to be fed in the
upcoming winter, the vitamin A content will be
considerably less than when that forage was
originally harvested. In addition some scientists
have suggested that high nitrate forages common in
drought years can exaggerate vitamin A
deficiencies. Deficiencies of Vitamin A usually
show up first as weak, blind or stillborn calves.
Other signs are scours, respiratory problems, poor
gains and poor reproduction.
Fortunately,
the liver of cattle is capable of storing vitamin
A for long periods and frequent supplementation is
not necessary. A singular injection of one million
International Units (IU) of vitamin A provides
sufficient vitamin for 2 to 4 months in growing
and breeding cattle.
Click here for more.
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Monsanto
Announces 2013 Release of Genuity Droughtgard
Hybrids in Western Great
Plains
For
the 2013 season, Western Great Plains farmers will
have a new tool to help manage drought conditions
with the stewarded commercial introduction of
Monsanto's Genuity® DroughtGard™ Hybrids. The
DroughtGard Hybrids system combines germplasm
selected for its drought-tolerant characteristics,
the drought-tolerant biotechnology trait and
agronomic recommendations.
The system is
designed to help the corn plant so it can use less
water when drought stress occurs. This improved
hydro-efficiency creates the opportunity to
conserve soil moisture and can help minimize yield
loss from drought conditions. This season
approximately 250 farmers participated in
Monsanto's Ground Breakers? large-scale, on-farm
testing program by planting DroughtGard Hybrids on
their farms to get first-hand experience with the
new product.
"Early results from our Ground
Breakers trials this year are encouraging," said
Mark Edge, DroughtGard Hybrids marketing lead.
"Harvest is just getting started in many areas
throughout the Western Great Plains, and Ground
Breakers farmers in Central Texas and Eastern
Kansas are seeing an up to 6 bushel advantage over
competitor hybrids. We believe DroughtGard Hybrids
will become an important tool for farmers to help
mitigate yield loss caused by drought
stress."
You can read more about Monsanto's
new drought-resistant varieties by clicking
here.
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Controlling
Next Year's Weeds Begins with Fall Inventory
Although
it is too late to spray for most summer pasture
weeds, agricultural producers can act now to
improve their weed control program for next year
by taking a weed inventory.
At this stage
in the growing cycle, weeds are large enough to
see, and most will have seed heads or fruiting
parts that make them easier to identify. "If you
have a lot of weeds in a certain place this year,
you will probably have them again in that place
next year," said Eddie
Funderburg, Ph.D., senior soils and crops
consultant. "Taking a weed inventory allows you to
target the difficult spots, prepare for them and
develop a plan that can save money."
Conducting a weed survey begins by
identifying the species and abundance of each
weed. The abundance rating system can be as simple
as "few," "many," "scattered," or similar
descriptions. Producers should then mark this
information on a field map and highlight areas
where there are hard-to-control weeds or
particularly high numbers of weeds. "Accurately
identifying areas that can be spot-sprayed will
save time and money by not spraying the entire
field," Funderburg said.
For more on this story, please click
here.
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OSU
Professor Examines the Facts Regarding the Safety
of Hormone-Implanted Beef
Dr.
Josh Payne, area animal waste management
specialist with Oklahoma State University, has
written the following article in hopes of shedding
some light on the misunderstood subject of
hormones and beef.
Questions exist in
the public sector regarding the safety of
consuming hormone-implanted beef. In short, the
use of supplemental hormones in beef production
has been scientifically proven as safe for
consumers and is approved by the US Food and Drug
Administration (FDA). For those still in question,
let's further examine the science supporting these
facts.
Hormones are products of living
cells naturally found in both plants and animals
that often stimulate cellular activity. There are
six hormones approved for use in beef production.
Three are natural hormones (testosterone,
estradiol, and progesterone) and three are
chemically similar synthetic hormones
(melengestrol acetate, trenbolone acetate and
zeranol).
Growth hormones in beef are
primarily administered using a small pelleted
implant that is placed under the skin on the back
of the ear. The implants are designed to release
the hormone slowly over time into the bloodstream.
This ensures that hormone concentrations remain
constant and low. Since the ear is discarded at
harvest, the implant does not enter the food
chain. Implants work by increasing the amount of
growth regulating hormones, which are naturally
produced by the animal. This, in turn, increases
feed efficiency, protein deposition and growth
rate. Implanted calves usually result in a 10-20%
increase in average daily gain (growth rate)
compared to non-implanted calves. Moreover,
because of the increased feed efficiency, less
feed is required which decreases production costs
by 5-10%.
Click here for more information from
Dr. Payne.
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This
N That- BQA Session at OSU Still Has a Few
Openings, Petitions Handed Over to Boehner and
Beef Buzz Part Two
The
fall sessions for the Beef Quality Assurance
training in the state will be happening in just a
few weeks- and the late word we get from
Heather Buckmaster of the
Oklahoma Beef Council is that there are still a
few slots available for the second of the two
sessions happening the first full week of October-
that second session will be held October 3rd
through the 5th. For cattle producers and
others in the cattle business- the BQA training
allows for you to better understand the
connections between that bovine critter standing
in your pasture and the resulting piece of beef
sitting in the middle of your plate for dinner.
BQA donnects the dots. For more info- click here for the
full story that we have on our website that will
point you to the online registration that is being
coordinated by the Food and Ag Producers Center at
OSU. It's the best deal out there- no cost
for those that want to attend- as that is being
underwritten by the great folks at the Oklahoma
Beef Council.
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Another
group is pushing hard for the House to
consider the 2012 Farm Bill- and they have elected
to make House Speaker John
Boehner their pressure point. The
Dairy Farmers of America have
submitted petitions to Boehner's demanding
action on the House Ag Committee's Farm Bill here
in September. Click here for more on this
aspect of the September Farm Bill battle.
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Part
two of three parts in this week's special series
being heard on the Beef Buzz is available this
morning- it features comments from Rick
Funston of the University of Nebraska
with his take on replacement heifers- as he
continues to look at low cost- highly effective
methods of bringing those younger females into
your mama cow herd. Click here for part two of this
three part series that is foudn in our Beef Buzz section of our website-
OklahomaFarmReport.Com.
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