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Your Update from Ron
Hays of RON for Monday February 8, 2010 A
service of Johnston Enterprises, P & K Equipment/ P & K Wind
Energy and American Farmers & Ranchers Mutual Insurance
Company!
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-- USDA Gives Up on NAIS- Proposes State and Tribal Decentralized
Concept
-- Cotton Outlook for 2010 Includes Words Like "Recovery" and
"Growth"
-- Speaking of Cotton- More Acres to Cotton in Oklahoma Likely in
2010
-- Tyson Foods Delivers a Profit in the First Quarter of their Fiscal
Year
-- OSU's Derrell Peel Offers His Insights on Oklahoma Cow-Calf and
Stocker Numbers
-- Calendar Loaded- We Got Details!
-- Double Trouble for BRD- RESLFOR GOLD and NUFLOR GOLD
-- Let's Check the Markets!
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USDA Gives Up on NAIS- Proposes State and Tribal Decentralized Concept ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ After spending
millions of dollars trying to assemble a National Animal ID system, the US
Department of Agriculture has tossed in the towel on that effort and
announced plans on Friday to go what they are calling a “bottom up” system
that will be run by the states and federally supported but not federally
led. This system needs to be in place to make sure if we have a disease
outbreak in our livestock herd- we can traceback to find where the disease
originated in less than 48 hours. After the initial case of Mad Cow
disease in the US back in 2003- a national animal ID program has been
contemplated and proposed- but small livestock operations called it Big
Brother overkill and have fought a mandated program. This new “direction”
is decentralized and will only be required of animals going across state
lines in interstate commerce.
Lots of details to come- but USDA says it will look a lot like previous ID programs for some previous animal diseases that have been mostly eliminated from the cattle and hog herds in the US- and it will apparently use low cost simple ear tags that will cost pennies per animal instead of the high tech options of electronic ear tags and readers that could cost several dollars per animal. The National Cattlemen's Beef Association responded to the announcement
from Friday- new President of the group, Steve Foglesong of Illinois, says
"The plan appears to lay the foundation for a flexible approach to animal
disease traceability, including greater state-involvement and choices in
the use of technology. There are a lot of questions- and several folks that join us today on the Beef Buzz raise those questions- and say it will take a long time to sort all of this out- further delaying any chance of having a national animal disease traceback system that works. Click on our link below and you will hear a custom "online" version of the Beef Buzz today with extra audio comments above and beyond what we shared with our Monday radio audience. | |
Cotton Outlook for 2010 Includes Words Like "Recovery" and "Growth" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lingering
effects and uncertainties for the general economy continue to present
challenges for the U.S. cotton industry but data suggest the worst has
been weathered and recent concerns are being replaced with prospects for
recovery and growth, National Cotton Council Economist Dr. Gary Adams
says. Adams, who serves as the NCC's vice president of economics &
policy analysis, shared his insights during the presentation of the NCC's
2010 Economic Outlook on Friday to delegates attending the NCC's 72nd
Annual Meeting in Memphis.
A major reason for optimism, Adams said, is that after seven months of the 2009 marketing year, it is increasingly clear that global cotton stocks will see their first substantial decline since the 2002 marketing year, and the estimated stock reduction of 9.4 million bales would be the largest single-year drawdown since 1986. Projected 2009 global mill use of 114.6 million bales- 3.1 percent higher than 2008, and ending stocks of 51.5 million bales would result in a global stocks-to-use ratio of 45 percent. Click on our link below for more from Gary Adams on the outlook for the cotton industry in the US- and we have a link in our story for his full presentation made in Memphis this past Friday. | |
Speaking of Cotton- More Acres to Cotton in Oklahoma Likely in 2010 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ U.S. cotton
producers intend to plant 10.1 million acres of cotton this spring, up
more than 10 percent from 2009, according to the National Cotton Council's
27th Annual Early Season Planting Intentions Survey. According to the NCC, Oklahoma cotton producers will jump planted acreage from 205,000 acres this past year to 259,000 acres this coming spring for the 2010 growing season. Assuming an average abandonment rate of 11.5 percent, total upland and ELS harvested area would be about 8.9 million acres. Applying state-level yield assumptions to projected harvested acres generates a cotton crop of 15.5 million bales, compared to 2009's total production of 12.4 million bales. Assuming average seed-to-lint ratios, 2010 cottonseed production is projected at 5.2 million tons, up 1 million from last year at 4.2 million. Based on survey results, all four production regions show intended
upland cotton planting increases from last year. The West shows the
largest percentage expansion of 26.6 percent; however, the largest acreage
increase is in the Southwest at 475,000 or up 9.1 percent. The two other
regions, the Southeast and the Mid-South, indicate rises of 12.2 percent
and 8.4 percent, respectively. | |
Tyson Foods Delivers a Profit in the First Quarter of their Fiscal Year ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Tyson Foods
went from a first quarter loss a year ago to being in the black this
fiscal year, based on the report issued Friday morning from Tyson
Headquarters in Springdale, Arkansas. The first quarter 2010 Net Earnings
per share was $0.42, a record for a first fiscal quarter, as compared to
reporting a 27 cent loss per share last year. The 42 cents per share
earnings exceeded analysts expectations for the quarter.
The report from Tyson indicates that all operating segments were
profitable, with three above their normalized ranges. Tyson has major
operations in the poultry, pork and beef markets. Click on the link below for more on the results of the first quarter- as well as the insights provided by Tyson about what they see ahead for the poultry, pork and beef markets in 2010. It makes for good reading. Click here for more on Tyson making money in their first quarter of the new fiscal year. | |
OSU's Derrell Peel Offers His Insights on Oklahoma Cow-Calf and Stocker Numbers ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ As expected,
USDA's annual Cattle report showed that the U.S. beef industry continues
to get smaller. The inventory of all cattle and calves was 93.7 million
head, down 1 percent from last year; down 29 percent from the all-time
high in 1975 and the smallest inventory since 1961. The beef cow herd was
31.4 million head, also down one percent from a year ago and the smallest
since 1964. The total U.S. calf crop in 2009 was 31.8 million head, down
one percent from last year and the smallest since 1950. OSU's Derrell Peel
points out the national trend is not being seen in Oklahoma. In our state,
the beef cattle industry has continued to grow over the past two decades.
The January 1, 2010 Oklahoma beef cow herd was 2.073 million head, up 1.7
percent from last year. In 1988, Oklahoma beef cow numbers reached a 25
year low of 1.8 million head. The Oklahoma beef cow herd has increased by
15 percent since then, with year over year increases 13 of the last 23
years. Oklahoma beef cow numbers are currently at the highest level since
1984 and Oklahoma ranks second among states in beef cow numbers.
The estimated supply of feeder cattle outside of feedlots in Oklahoma on January 1 was 2.37 million head, down slightly from 2.39 million head last year. The 10 year average of the last decade is 2.32 million head of feeder cattle in Oklahoma on January 1. Oklahoma continues to receive a higher share of stocker cattle despite the fact that total feeder supplies in the U.S. are at record low levels. One measure of stocker cattle production by state is to compare the
estimated feeder supply to the calf crop of the previous year. The 2010
ratio of feeder supply to calf crop in Oklahoma was 1.25 indicating that
the state is a significant net importer of stocker cattle. In fact,
Oklahoma had the highest stocker ratio of any state this year. Other
states are significant net exporters of stocker cattle including, for
example, Montana, which had the lowest stocker ratio of any state at 0.42.
The large stocker ratio for Oklahoma illustrates, in part, the importance
of the winter grazing that occurs in the Southern Plains. The USDA
reported an estimated 1.92 million head of cattle grazing small grain
pasture in Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas, up 16 percent from one year ago.
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Calendar Loaded- We Got Details! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The No Til
Oklahoma Conference is slated to be underway today and tomorrow in Norman-
we have not heard any indication that they might defer to the weather- so
we are assuming it is a go.
We have details by clicking here for this important two day
educational event.
Also on the agenda this week- the quarterly board meeting of the Oklahoma Cattlemen's Association, the regular monthly Board meeting of the Oklahoma Wheat Commission, the Kay and Noble County Women in Agriculture Conference on Thursday and the American Farmers & Ranchers Annual Convention this coming Friday and Saturday. Details on all of these events and others for the next several weeks are to be found on our Calendar page at www.OklahomaFarmReport.Com- we have it linked below. Looking into March, we have added a bunch of events in recent days-
including lots of info on the Oklahoma Youth Expo- again available on the
link below. Click here for the Calendar pages found at www.OklahomaFarmReport.Com | |
Double Trouble for BRD- RESLFOR GOLD and NUFLOR GOLD ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Intervet
Schering Plough Animal Health team have just got FDA clearance on two new
products aimed at the beef cattle market. RESFLOR GOLD, with active
ingredients florfenicol and flunixin meglumine, is an antibiotic Plus
Non-Steroidal Anti-Infl ammatory Drug. The second product that has also
been approved by the FDA is NUFLOR GOLD.
Resflor Gold is a fever-reducing, bacteria-killing, fast-acting, one-time treatment for bovine respiratory disease (BRD) It offers simultaneous control of bacterial infection and pyrexia , reduces fever that can cause depression and appetite loss. It also controls bacterial growth that leads to the release of bacterial toxins which cause lung damage. Dr. Joe Roder of Intervet Schering Plough talked with us on the Beef Buzz this past Friday about both RESFLOR GOLD and NUFLOR GOLD now being available to help in the battle against BRD. We did not have the chance to share that with you on Friday in the email update- but wanted to do so this morning. If you have concerns about BRD- and want to get ahead of it this winter and spring in your cattle herd- you may want to click on this Buzz and listen to Dr. Roder, who by the way, is an OSU grad. Click here for more on the advantages of these new procuts in battling BRD. | |
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Let's Check the Markets! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ We've had
requests to include Canola prices for your convenience here- and we will
be doing so on a regular basis. Current cash price for Canola is $7.25 per
bushel, while the 2010 New Crop contracts for Canola are now available are
$7.45 per bushel- delivered to local participating elevators that are
working with PCOM.
Here are some links we will leave in place on an ongoing basis- Click
on the name of the report to go to that link: | |
God Bless! You can reach us at the following: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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