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Cash
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on delivery to the Northern AG elevator in Yukon
yesterday. The full listing of cash canola bids at
country points in Oklahoma can now be found in the daily
Oklahoma Cash Grain report- linked above.
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
Friday, September 28,
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Howdy
Neighbors!
Here is your daily Oklahoma farm and ranch
news update.
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Featured
Story:
Rain Comes- Burn Bans
Go
Rainfall
totals have been significant across a lot of
Oklahoma, with just a few locations missing most
of the rain. Most of those locations are in
eastern counties of the state, although the amount
of rain as of early Friday morning has been light
in Alfalfa, Grant and Kay counties in north
central Oklahoma, as well as in Major County in
the northwestern quarter of the state. The
Panhandle has been receiving rain overnight,
helping rainfall totals in those three
counties.
A
large number of Mesonet sites have received at
least an inch of rain in the last 72 hours, and in
central and western Oklahoma- that either will
help "dusted in" wheat or canola take off- or
allow farmers waiting for rain to get into the
fields this coming week and get some planting
done.
As
the rains fell, so did the Burn bans in 22
counties across the state- Governor Fallin making
that call as of yesterday afternoon. Thirty three
counties remain under a State of Oklahoma imposed
Burn Ban while three other counties have a County
Commissioner imposed Burn Ban.
Click here for a chance to look at a
snapshot in time graphic of rainfall as
of 5:30 AM this morning across the state for the
last three days- and we also have the Burn Ban map
in that same story we are sending you to.
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OSU
Entomologist Offers Tips on Controlling
Grasshoppers in Wheat and
Canola
Wheat
and canola planting is underway. Unfortunately,
two years of drought have left parts of the state
with an abundant supply of hungry grasshoppers.
Tom Royer, OSU Extension
Entomologist, says these grasshoppers will eat
until cold weather gives them permanent rest. A
plague of hungry grasshoppers equals potential
damage to newly-emerging wheat and canola. He
suggested the following management options for
grasshoppers in winter wheat and
canola:
Option
1 (For Wheat ONLY): A
non-chemical option for winter wheat (but not
canola) is to double-seed a 60-120 foot strip
around the field
margin.
Option
2: Seed that is treated with
imidacloprid (Gaucho), thiamethoxam (Cruiser), or
clothianidin (Poncho) will reduce feeding damage
from grasshoppers in canola or wheat. Seed
treatments will reduce damage from moderate
grasshopper numbers, but won't hold up under
severe
pressure.
Option
3: Apply an insecticide
(liquid or bait) along the field margins at
seedling emergence. It may require up to a
150-foot wide band to get effective protection and
a second application may be needed in two-three
weeks.
Click here to read more details on
each of these three options.
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Renewable
Fuel Stakeholders Launch National
Campaign
A
large coalition of advanced and traditional
renewable fuel stakeholders today joined forces to
defend America's Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) and
the economic, employment, domestic renewable
energy and national security benefits the RFS
provides. The new coalition, Fuels America, spans
the full spectrum of domestically-grown renewable
fuel, national security, renewable energy and
other stakeholders.
The
coalition also launched an online platform
at FuelsAmerica.org and a
Twitter presence
@FuelsAmerica.
The launch
comes as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
considers a request to "waive" the RFS, a move
that coalition members stressed would have serious
consequences for America's rural communities,
renewable technology innovators and energy
independence.
Click here to read more and see the
list of participating stakeholders.
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Cattle
Feeders Leaning on Heavier Weights, Grid Marketing
with High Corn Prices
Cattle
feeders don't like $7 or $8 corn, but they know
what to do at those higher prices. Most of them
feed cattle longer to heavier weights and sort
them to market on a
grid.
Maybe not all cattle
feeders see it that way, but in the big picture,
that's what is happening, says Shawn Walter,
president of Professional Cattle Consultants
(PCC). He presented "How big can we go?" at last
month's Feeding Quality Forum in Grand Island,
Neb., and Amarillo,
Texas.
"Every few years we
talk about it, can we make carcasses any bigger?
Well, we keep doing it," he said, noting one of
many graphs. "This is never a straight line, but
we've had an upward trend for carcass weights
since the 1960s all the way through the current
year."
You might wonder why,
unless you think about how the market gets what it
pays for. Packers have been paying for more
pounds.
You can read more of this story by
clicking here.
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Anderson
Expects Wheat Planted Acres to Stay Steady, Canola
Acres to Grow
OSU
Small Grains Marketing Specialist Kim
Anderson says planted acres in Oklahoma
are revealing a few surprises. In a preview of his
analysis on this week's SUNUP program, he says
some interesting trends are
developing.
"The chatter in the market is
that the wheat planted acres will be higher this
year and I think that there is no question that in
the soft red winter wheat area we'll have higher
planted acres. Hard red winter wheat planted
acres, that's questionable. Oklahoma will probably
be about the same. You know, we're going to have
an increase in canola planted acres and that's
going to reduce some of our wheat planted acres,
but I still think it's going to be the same as
last year, at least in this location."
Even
though wheat acres will apparently stay steady,
Anderson says he doesn't believe that will hold
true for canola planted acres.
"Well, if
you look at canola, I just visited with a few
people, of course nobody knows the exact number,
but they're talking about a shortage of canola
seed, having a hard time getting it. And, to me,
that implies a lot of producers are going to plant
canola. I know I talked to one producer and he's
going not from a third, a third, and a third, in
other words one-third canola, two-thirds wheat,
he's going 50-50. He really likes
canola."
You can hear Kim Anderson's full
preview and catch the rundown for this weekend's
SUNUP program by clicking here.
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Oklahoman
Wins World Livestock Auctioneer Championship
Qualifier
Brian
Little of Wann, Okla., took top honors in
the second qualifying event for the 2013 World
Livestock Auctioneer Championship (WLAC) Sept. 24.
The event was hosted by Southeast Mississippi
Stockyards, AAL in Hattiesburg, Miss. Little was
the 2012 WLAC Runner-up Champion and is sponsored
by Coffeyville Livestock Market, LLC, Coffeyville,
Kan., and Tulsa Stockyards, Inc., Tulsa,
Okla.
Placing second in the
qualifying event was Brandon Neely of Berkeley
Springs, W.Va. Neely is sponsored by Carroll
County Livestock Sale Barn, Inc., Carrollton, Ga.;
Greenville Livestock Auction, Inc., Greenville,
Ill.; and Alabama Livestock Auction, Inc.,
Uniontown, Ala. Third place went to Brian Curless
of Pittsfield, Ill., sponsored by Fairview Sale
Barn, Inc., Fairview, Ill., and F&T Livestock
Market, Palmyra, Mo.
The top
10 competitors from the qualifying competition
have earned their place in the semi-finals at the
2013 WLAC to be held at Montgomery Stockyards, LLC
in Montgomery, Ala., June 14-15.
Click here to read more.
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Looking
Ahead- Crop Insurance Deadline, McAlester Stock
Cow Sale Saturday and Express Bull Sale Monday
The
official deadline for signing up for Crop
Insurance for the 2013 Hard Red Winter Wheat Crop
across Oklahoma is Sunday, September 30- but since
the deadline falls on a Sunday- you actually have
until the close of business on Monday, October
first. The price that contracts will be figured on
for the 2013 crop is an all time high $8.78 per
bushel. For those that want to read up on
some of the latest thinking by the "guru" on crop
insurance in the HRW wheat belt, Dr. Art
Barnaby of K-State, he has written on his
current thinking about Revenue Protection and Crop
Insurance for the 2013 crop earlier this
week. Click here to jump over and read
up.
The
McAlester Union Stockyards will
be holding a special stock cow sale on Saturday at
12 noon. Consigned are over 1200 head of
Bred Cows, Pairs, Bred Heifers, Open Heifers, and
Bulls- click here for a listing of what
will be up for sale in McAlester on Saturday- take
a look.
Finally,
on Monday, October first, the Express
Ranches will be holding their annual
Ranchers Bull Sale- and this sale is going to be a
dandy. They have on offer 250 Angus Bulls and 250
Commercial Spring-Bred Heifers. Jarold
Callahan tells us that they will be
offering genomic enhance EPDs on the bulls that
will be selling. That means you have
predictors that are the equivalent of knowing the
outcome of their progeny before their first calf
ever hits the ground. Click here for the Express Ranches
website and links for their catalog and video
of many of the bulls that will be selling.
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