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Today's First
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mornings
with cash and futures reviewed- includes where the Cash
Cattle market stands, the latest Feeder Cattle Markets
Etc.
Each afternoon we are posting a recap of that day's
markets as analyzed by Justin Lewis of KIS
Futures- click here for the report
posted Friday afternoon around 3:30 PM.
Okla
Cash Grain:
Futures
Wrap:
Tom
Leffler had Friday afternoon off and was not available
for his regular update- he returns this
morning.
Feeder
Cattle Recap:
Slaughter
Cattle Recap:
TCFA
Feedlot Recap:
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Monday, October
19, 2015 |
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Featured
Story:
School
Land Lease Auctions Begin Today in Beaver County-
Tomorrow in Boise City and Guymon
The
2015 Auctions of five year leases of land
owned by Oklahoma and managed by the
Commissioners of the Land Office
begin this afternoon. Leases in
Beaver County will be auctioned
at the Beaver County Fairgrounds at 2:00 p.m. this
afternoon- October 19th. 21 Tracts of land will be
offered. Cimarron County
leases will be offered at 9:00 a.m. October 20th
at the Cimarron County Fairgrounds in Boise City-
with 35 tracts of land up for bids. Some of
the leases that will be bid on in Boise City
include land that were the subject of the
independent film Lone Man's Land that was released
last year. Bidding for Texas
County leases begins at 2:00 p.m. at the
Texas County Fairgrounds in Guymon, also on
Tuesday, October 20th. Twenty eight tracts of land
will be offered Tuesday afternoon. The
biggest auction of the week happens Wednesday in
Woodward. Leases in Harper, Ellis,
Woodward, Major, Dewey and Woods counties
will be offered on October 21st at 10:00 a.m. at
the High Plains Vo-Tech in Woodward. There will be
84 tracts of land to be leased to the highest
bidder on Wednesday. For more information-
you can call the Commission office at (405)
521-4000 or 1-888-35-LANDS. Details of each tract
being offered can be seen online at the CLO
website- click here to jump
there. About a week ago- we talked with
Harry Birdwell about the legacy
of the School Land and how the money raised is
used for common education (and higher education)
in the state- click here to see our
TV conversation with Harry as well as a chance to
listen to our off camera audio interview as
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OSU
Livestock Market Economist Derrell Peel Believes
the Cattle Market Collapse Is Behind Us
The
cattle market collapse began in the slaughter
cattle markets and the wholesale boxed beef prices
and spread into the yearling and stocker markets
in early August, through September and into the
early days of October. The live cattle and feeder
cattle futures plunged faster than the cash
markets, resulting in the live trades chasing the
futures even lower. That all began to
change about a week ago as the futures changed
course and staged a big rally. The limited cash
cattle trade in the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandle
as reported by the Texas Cattle Feeders
Association was significantly higher the past two
Fridays- up seven dollars October 9th and another
eight dollars higher this past Friday- and the
major auction markets in Oklahoma- the Oklahoma
National Stockyards and OKC West in El Reno have
had big rallies in their yearling and calf trade
in their most recent sales. The plunge
and now the retracing of the cash markets back up
to some degree has a great deal to do with the
currentness of the cattle ready for slaughter.
According to OSU Livestock Market Economist
Dr. Derrell Peel, the feedlots
and packers pulled the overall cattle market over
the proverbial cliff because of beef industry
carcasses that were too heavy and resulted in too
much tonnage- and that killed the slaughter cattle
market, forced live cattle and feeder cattle
futures to plummet and resulted in multiple weeks
where we saw yearling and calf prices drop double
digits. Derrell is our Beef Buzz guest and
you can hear his comments on the collapse and
coming back by clicking here.
By the way- our complete interview with
Dr. Peel from this past week at the American Angus
Boot Camp can be hear by clicking
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Pork
Roast Back on Federal Prison Menus after Iowa
Senator Grassley Makes Them Squeal
After
claiming that multiple years of surveys of
prisoners had culminated in the decision to
eliminate pork from the menus of Federal prisons-
the Bureau of Prisons has reversed that decision
just days after it became public knowledge and
just hours after Senator Charles
Grassley of Iowa wrote a letter demanding
details of those surveys that the Bureau had used
to pull pork from the menus. In his letter dated last Thursday-
Senator Grassley wrote "I am writing to express my
concerns regarding the decision made by the
Federal Bureau of Prisons to remove all pork
products from federal prison menus. Although this
decision apparently was made several months ago,
it was only made public upon the start of the new
fiscal year. "According to a spokesman for
the Bureau of Prisons, the decision was based on a
survey of prisoners' food preferences that
reflected that pork has been the "lowest-rated
food" by inmates for a number of years. "To
corroborate the validity of the claim that
prisoners indicated a lack of interest in pork
products, I am requesting copies of the prisoner
surveys and responses that were used to support
the determination to no longer serve pork in
federal prisons. Additionally, the spokesman
indicated that pork had been the lowest rated
food, "for several years." Please supply the
surveys and responses dating back as far as
prisoners may have indicated their dislike for
pork products. In addition, please provide a line
item description of the costs incurred to conduct
each survey performed." Senator Grassley is
the Chairman of the Judiciary Committee- and has
oversight over the Bureau of Prisons. With
apologies to the Junior Senator from Iowa for
stealing her campaign slogan- it seems that the
Senior Senator from that state made these
bureaucrats squeal. Click here to read
more about the return of the pork roast.
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Willingness
To Pay Declines in Latest OSU Food Demand Survey-
Dr Jayson Lusk Explains
The
October 2015 edition of the Food Demand Survey
(FooDS) is now out. The Food Demand Survey is a
monthly study conducted by Oklahoma State
University's Ag Economics Department- FooDS is
coordinated by Dr. Jayson Lusk
and he offers the following analysis of what the
respondents were saying this
month. "There were sizable declines in
willingness-to-pay (WTP) for all food products;
meat and non-meat alike. At this point, it's
unclear what is driving the decline because other
measures on the survey, such as food expenditures
both at home and away from home remained steady
and slightly increased. In the coming months, I
hope to find time to do some serious analysis on
effects of seasonality and day-of-week effects
given that we now have about two and a half years
of data. "Another notable result from
the survey is a decline in price expectations for
beef, pork, and poultry. In some cases, the
percentage of people anticipating higher prices is
less than half of what it was a year ago at this
time. "Consumers reported hearing more
about antibiotics and less about Salmonella in the
news this month." More about this month's
survey can be read by clicking or tapping
here. In our story- we also have links
back to the details of the October report and
links to previous surveys from Dr.
Lusk. |
Midwest Farm
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all of you who participated in their 2015 Oklahoma
City Farm Show.
The 22nd Annual Tulsa Farm
Show will be held December 10 -
12, 2015. Now is the time to make your
plans to exhibit at this great "end of the year"
event. Contact Ron
Bormaster at (507) 437-7969 for more
details about the Tulsa Farm Show!
Click here for the website
for the show to learn more.
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OSU
Research Suggests Sweet Sorghum Cleaner Than Corn
in the BioFuel Making Process
The
folks at Oklahoma State University have been
working on the idea of initially processing sweet
sorghum right in the field for biofuel- then
shipping the liquid from the field for further
refining. Dr. Rob Whitely
of the OSU School of Chemical Engineering has been
working on a project that shows that sweet sorghum
will not foul up processing equipment like corn
will. His study, "Multi-scale Fouling
Characterization of Fermented/Hydrolyzed Sweet
Sorghum," answers a key question regarding the
economic viability of decentralized production of
sweet sorghum as an energy crop. The amount of
solids in fermented sweet sorghum is approximately
2 weight percent, compared to 20 weight percent in
fermented corn mash. "Based strictly on
solids content, one would expect the fouling
problem using sweet sorghum to be 10 times less
than that of corn," he said. However,
Whiteley and his team have not observed any
significant fouling to date in their farm-scale
Alcohol Separation Unit. This result has been
confirmed in the laboratory, where no significant
fouling was measured in a heat exchanger tube (one
of the most likely deposition locales).
"In fact, our studies showed that fouling
from fermented sweet sorghum was no greater than
that measured for tap water," Whiteley said. "We
attribute this finding to the fact that the sweet
sorghum bioethanol process is essentially
starch-free." These results confirm the
production of bioethanol from sweet sorghum can be
accomplished without the costly downtime and
maintenance associated with
corn-ethanol. More on this research is available here.
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Sir
Fazle Hasan Abed of Bangladesh Named World Food
Prize Laureate
This
past Thursday in Des Moines, the World Food Prize
organization honored Sir Fazle Hasan
Abed of Bangladesh as the World Food
Prize Laureate. As the founder and chairperson of
BRAC, formerly known as the Bangladesh Rural
Advancement Committee, he has grown the
organization into the world's largest
non-governmental organization, enhancing food
security and providing 150 million people with the
opportunity to improve their lives. His approach
to development has addressed the connection
between hunger and poverty, including the
development of food security programs that have
helped more than half of a million farmers gain
access to proven technologies, efficient farming
methods and financial support services. The
scale and impact of BRAC's work in Bangladesh and
10 other countries is unprecedented. Under his
leadership of more than 40 years, BRAC's
agricultural and development innovations have
improved food security for millions and
contributed to a significant decline in poverty
levels through direct impacts to farmers and small
communities across the globe. BRAC has provided
opportunity for nearly150 million people
worldwide. Read more about the work of Sir
Abed by clicking here.
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Rain
Here in the Southern Plains- Maybe- By the End of
the Week
There
seems to be a really good rain event headed for
Oklahoma and Texas the second half of this week-
best chances in southwest Oklahoma are Wednesday
night through Friday- and the forecast map shows
south central and southeastern Oklahoma will be in
on the rainfall by late Thursday into Friday as
well. Some rainfall totals now being
predicted by the Weather gurus exceed four
inches. Here's the latest national rainfall
map for the next seven days- and it looks
encouraging: Thirty to seventy percent
chances of rain being predicted at
this point- mainly in the southern half of
state. Of course- before we get there-
there is high fire danger across
much of the state today- with warm temps, wind and
low humidity all combining to be a potential
problem. |
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