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Oklahoma's
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Your
Update from Ron Hays of RON
Wednesday, September 26,
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Here is your daily Oklahoma farm and ranch
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Featured Story:
Livestock
Producers Join Regional Food Bank in Beef for
Backpacks Program
Oklahoma
livestock producers are joining the
Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma
and other groups focused on feeding hungry
Oklahoma children with a new project, Beef for
Backpacks. The project will use donated cattle to
produce beef sticks for the Food Bank's Food for
Kids Backpack Program.
The project was
launched during a news conference with Oklahoma
Lt. Gov. Todd Lamb at the state capitol
yesterday.
The Beef for Backpacks program
is a collaboration among the Oklahoma Farming and
Ranching Foundation, Oklahoma Farm Bureau,
Oklahoma Beef Council, Oklahoma State University
Food and Agricultural Products Center and the
Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma.
"We
currently provide thousands of chronically hungry
children with a backpack of kid-friendly,
nutritious food every weekend and school holiday
throughout the year," said Rodney
Bivens, executive director of the
Regional Food Bank. "These beef sticks add to the
nutritional content, and we are confident the kids
will love them."
We spoke at length
with Bivens and Tom Buchanan with
the Oklahoma Farming and Ranching Foundation about
the program. You can hear our conversation by clicking here.
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We
are delighted to have the Oklahoma
Cattlemen's Association as a part of our
great lineup of email sponsors. They do
a tremendous job of representing cattle producers
at the state capitol as well as in our nation's
capitol. They seek to educate OCA members on
the latest production techniques for maximum
profitabilty and to communicate with the
public on issues of importance to
the beef industry. Click here for their website to
learn more about the OCA.
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Lawmakers
Seek Court Order to Block State's Funding of Youth
Expo
State
Representatives Mike Ritze and
Mike Reynolds have filed a motion
for a temporary injunction as part of their
lawsuit in the Oklahoma County District Court to
block the state Department of Agriculture from
transferring $2 million in public funds to the
Oklahoma Youth Expo Show, a private livestock show
held in Oklahoma City each
year.
The injunction seeks to
preserve the public funds until the court
eventually rules on whether the intended
expenditure is
unconstitutional.
Rep. Ritze
said the funding was not included in the fiscal
year 2013 state budget agreement and contends that
even if it were a line item in the budget the
transfer of public monies to a private institution
is unconstitutional.
"The
state simply has no authority to transfer public
funds to private organizations or individuals,"
said Ritze, R-Broken Arrow. "Since 2002, we have
discovered the Department of Agriculture has
transferred nearly two-and-a-half million dollars
in taxpayer money to the Youth Expo. They know it
is illegal, but they do it anyway. We mean to put
a stop to it and protect the taxpayers from these
types of backroom deals."
Click here to read more.
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OACD
Applauds $2 Million EPA Award to Oklahoma Water
Quality Projects
The
recent decision by the Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) to provide over $2 million in
additional funds for water quality work in
Oklahoma is a welcome one according to Joe
Parker, President of the Oklahoma
Association of Conservation Districts (OACD).
Parker said this recent decision by EPA shows
recognition of the water quality work going on in
Oklahoma.
"We are very
happy with this recent development in our ongoing
dialogue with EPA," Parker said. "This new
injection of funding for water quality efforts in
Oklahoma recognizes the outstanding work that is
taking place on the ground in our state to address
non-point source pollution through voluntary
conservation practices. This new money recognizes
the hard work that is being done in Oklahoma to
protect our water. It's nice to have a chance to
find agreement on this issue that is so important
to us all."
The action singled
out by Parker for praise was the redirecting of
over $2 million in EPA clean water act section 319
funds to Oklahoma from the surrounding states in
EPA region 6 for voluntary, cooperative
conservation work.
You can read more about the projects
on which the funds will be spent by clicking
here.
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Apache
Farmers Co-op Readies New Risk Management Services
for Roll Out
Apache
Farmers Co-op finance manager Davey
Jones has been studying the agricultural
finance landscape for a long time. What he's
learned over the years has allowed his co-op to
create a bundle of risk-management tools and
services they are preparing to offer their
members. If they benefit the membership of the
co-op, Jones says they may be coming to a co-op
near you.
We recently
spoke with Jones about the evolution of their risk
management process and what it offers producers.
He says the project has
developed organically as the needs of producers
have developed.
"It's been a
process as agriculture has changed and as,
specifically, the input costs in agriculture have
changed. It's become a much riskier way of life.
As we've watched that unfold, we've noticed that
there are certain things that, looking backwards,
if our producers had taken certain steps, then
they really could have negated a lot of the
negative consequences of these risks when they do
play out to their
disadvantage.
"So, we
began to look at some things, as a co-op, that we
might do, services we might provide that would
help them plan ahead and manage those risks a
little better.
Click here to read more or to listen
to our interview with Davey Jones.
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Maximizing
Forage Usage Crucial to Maintaining Herd Size,
Lalman Says
With
drought conditions persisting across most of the
state, OSU Extension Beef Specialist Dr.
Dave Lalman says a lot of cow-calf
producers are currently taking stock of their
operations.
He says
producers may have a little culling left to do as
they preg check cows for the spring calving season
and as they take stock of available forage. With
cow numbers as low as they are, he says we may see
some decreases, but he is not expecting a large
drop.
"My sense is, of course
if we think about the big picture, in 2010 we had
just over two million cows. The 2011 drought
causes us to go down to 1.7 million cows,
approximately. And so we're still very low in cow
numbers which turned out to be a good thing this
year because of the severe drought conditions. So
I don't think there's a lot of major adjustments
that need to take
place.
"Fortunately, in the
central and western part of the state, apparently
there was a lot of cool season forage hay
harvested this year mostly because there was no
carryover. People recognized there was no
carryover and we needed hay, so they baled a lot
of that. So that's going to be a resource that
helps us out a lot. I suspect that the appearance
of wheat pasture will determine how deep some
people have to cull."
Dr. Lalman joins us for the current
Beef Buzz. You can catch our full
conversation by clicking here.
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Angus
Foundation Funds Genomic Sequencing of Angus Sires
Through University of
Missouri
At
its September 2012 meeting, the Angus Foundation
Board of Directors approved funding for a research
project at the University of Missouri, Columbia,
for genomic sequencing of Angus bulls. This
sequencing is meant to enhance the understanding
and genetic prediction of Angus cattle
performance.
The $50,500
research study was recommended for funding to the
Board by the American Angus Association Research
Priorities Committee and will be awarded to the
University of Missouri's Wurdack Chair of Animal
Genomics and Curators' Professor of Genetics and
Animal Sciences, Dr. Jerry
Taylor.
Taylor says
the Angus Foundation dollars will be used in
tandem with funding provided by the United States
Department of Agriculture's National Institute of
Food and Agriculture (USDA NIFA), to deep sequence
the genomes of high-impact Angus bulls to identify
variation in growth, carcass quality, feed intake,
disease resistance and early embryonic
loss.
Click here for more on this Angus
genomic research grant.
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This
N That- Rainfall Predicted in Latest Graphic,
Russian Ban and Twitter Spurned
The
three day rainfall forecast model looks really
good for west central Oklahoma up into northwest
and north central counties- and eastward into the
northern part of Green Country. We have the graphic up on our website
this morning- click here to check it
out. We also have had scattered showers
that have given some rainfall to locations largely
south of I-40 overnight, with the largest amounts
captured by the Oklahoma Mesonet found in Hinton
with 1.19 inches of rain and Hobart with .98
inches of rainfall.
Rainfall
chances remain in the forecast in most locations
across the state right into Saturday- put the
Rally Hat on and bring it on in!
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The
British newspaper DailyMail has an online article
about a Russian ban of genetically modified corn
from the US. "
Russia
has suspended the import and use of an American GM
corn following a study suggesting a link to breast
cancer and organ damage.
"Separately,
the European Food Safety Authority(EFSA), has
ordered its own review in to the research, which
was conducted at a French university." This
is a Monsanto variety that has
been targeted by this French research- click here to read the full
article.
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Twitter
is not for everybody- and that includes the
leadership of the House Ag Committee. The
Hill reports that "Fifty-five members of Congress
have not joined Twitter, the social media platform
that has become a force in politics." One of
the members they profile is retiring Oklahoma
Congressman Dan Boren. "I'm not
big on jumping on something that doesn't allow you
to have time to think it through," he told The
Hill. "Too many people I've seen have sent tweets
out that get them into trouble." However, he
acknowledged that he probably would have jumped on
board if he had decided to run for another term in
the House.
Click here for the article that
lists those lawmakers that are not a part of the
Twitter scene- and those included in that
list are both the Chairman of the House Ag
Committee Frank Lucas and the
Ranking Minority member Collin
Peterson. While Lucas is not on there-
his House Ag Committee staff on the majority side
do have a presence on the social media tool- so
the Rogers Mills County rancher does have some
exposure to the 140 character messages that go
tweet tweet.
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