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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Oklahoma's latest farm and ranch news
Your Update from Ron Hays of RON for Wednesday December 6,
2006 A
service of Midwest Farm Shows
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-- Disaster Aid out for the count in 2006- It will resurface in
2007.
-- Congressman Lucas back from South America with other House Ag
Committee Leaders.
-- Tulsa Farm Show week has arrived- Three Day run begins
Thursday!
-- Iraq looking to buy wheat for March delivery this week.
-- How often should you go feed those Mama Cows supplement????
-- Early Seed sales in the Midwest suggest up to 8 million more acres
of corn coming in 2007!
-- Paul Jackson of Apache is in our thoughts and prayers.
Howdy Neighbors! Here's your morning farm news headlines from the Director of Farm Programming for the Radio Oklahoma Network, Ron Hays. Our email this morning is a service of Midwest Farm Shows, featuring the Tulsa Farm Show December 7-9, 2006 and the Southern Plains Farm Show in Oklahoma City April 19-21, 2007. Check out details of both of these exciting shows at the official website of Midwest Farm Shows by clicking here. If you have received this by someone forwarding it to you, you are welcome to subscribe and get this weekday update sent to you directly by clicking here. | |
Disaster Aid out for the count in 2006- It will resurface in 2007. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Senate
held a cosmetic vote on a $4.9 billion dollar disaster aid package
yesterday and fell short of the 60 votes needed to invoke cloture and
attach it to the 2007 Ag Appropriations Bill. I called it symbolic in that
the leadership had already indicated that the Ag Appropriations measure
was not going to go forward here in the Lame Duck session- but that
spending bill and eight others will be dumped into the trash can of
history and the process will start over in early 2007 in the new
Democratically controlled Congress. The lawmakers will be passing a
Continuing Resolution that will carry spending at last year's levels over
until Mid February 2007 to give the Democrats a chance to organize
themselves before they work on this year's Budget- and then have to
quickly deal with next year's budget requests later in late winter- early
spring.
Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn was highly critical of the measure as presented by several northern Plains Senators- saying the disaster aid needs to be targeted to those who have really had a loss on their farm or ranch and made some precautions like buying Crop Insurance before the disaster set in. Oklahoma's man on the House Ag Committee, Republican Frank Lucas, tells us that he is confident that this issue will come up quickly in 2007- but he's not certain how the Democrats will deal with how to pay for the disaster help they will likely propose. It's also uncertain if they will have the votes to override a filibuster from members like Senator Coburn on the Senate side of Capitol Hill. | |
Congressman Lucas back from South America with other House Ag Committee Leaders. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The rancher
from Roger Mills County traveled with outgoing Chairman Bob Goodlattee and
incoming Chairman Collin Peterson, as well as with about eight other
lawmakers as they made stops in both Brazil as well as in Argentina. They
talked with industry reps as well as government officials about the
continuing growth of agriculture in those countries.
Congressman Lucas says they talked a lot with Brazil about why they continue to bring what he characterized as "nuisance" legal actions against U.S. farm subsidy programs through the WTO- warning Brazil that there will be a price to pay if they do continue such aggression against our policies. Lucas also told us a key reason he took his time during the Thanksgiving recess was because of his access to spending time with both Goodlatte and Peterson as we prepare to get serious about writing the next farm bill. He expects to stay on the Agriculture Committee- and hopes to stay as the ranking member of a subcommittee that will likely have jurisdiction over Conservation and Energy issues. You can hear a portion of our conversation with Frank Lucas by hitting the link below. Click here to listen to Ron visit with Frank Lucas on his fact finding trip into South America. | |
Tulsa Farm Show week has arrived- Three Day run begins Thursday! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ One of the
things that we are especially excited about when it comes to the 2006
Tulsa Farm Show is the opportunity to get involved with the Livestock
Handling Skills Competition set for this Friday morning during the show.
The Oklahoma Livestock Handling Skills Competition and Scholarship awards
is sponsored by Oklahoma Farmers Union. Before the event at the show, the
contestants will be hosted at a breakfast by Tulsa New Holland, Farm
Credit Services of East Central Oklahoma and the Radio Oklahoma Network.
The Ten FFA Chapters that will have teams involved in the 2006 event include Oktaha, Pawnee, Crescent, Wakita, Dickson, Perkins Tryon, Idabel, Haworth, Ninnekah and Tipton. It should be a dandy of a contest. And we invite you to listen Thursday and Friday mornings at 11:05 am for a special hour remote broadcast from the Tulsa Farm Show on KGGF Radio out of Coffeyville, Ks. We will host that broadcast- and their big 690 AM signal can be heard through a lot of north central and all of northeastern quarter of the state! | |
Iraq looking to buy wheat for March delivery this week. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ That tender
for wheat likely will be filled with either U.S. Hard Red Winter Wheat or
perhaps Canadian hard wheat. One trader reports that it will come down to
one of these two choices. He says that while the Canadians have a lot of
high quality wheat left- the Iraqis like the U.S. quality a little bit
better.
Iraq has already bought 700,000 tons of US HRW wheat, and 300,000 tons of Canadian wheat in recent months- and has yet to take delivery on any of it. They have just begun securing vessels to start moving that wheat in the last week. The violence in Iraq has hindered its ability to do routine business- and that has delayed the wheat already purchased from being moved- and has made some companies cautious in biding for this new 100,000 tones of business with the war torn country. | |
How often should you go feed those Mama Cows supplement???? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ OSU's Dr. Glen
Selk says that while you might feel like you are doing a better job if you
haul supplement every day to your herd- the research suggests it really
does not have to happen that often. It seems like about three times a week
works well, assuming you have adequate forage supplies available to those
cows.
Glen talks with us about this subject of interval feeding and we feature him on our Beef Buzz today on the Radio Oklahoma Network. You can hear his thoughts on this subject by clicking on the link we have provided below. Click here for today's Beef Buzz with Glen Selk of OSU on Interval Feeding. | |
Early Seed sales in the Midwest suggest up to 8 million more acres of corn coming in 2007! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ There are
indications from early bookings for seed corn in states like Illinois,
Iowa and Wisconsin that farmers have made the decision to try to plant
more acres of corn in the coming growing season. With the price of corn
hovering at a ten year high- there is a lot of talk about those prices
"buying" corn acres- lots of corn acres.
Dan Cekander with Fimat says he thinks that we may well see eight million more acres of corn this coming season versus 2006. Seed corn sales are reported to be running 30 days ahead of normal in several areas of the corn belt- and farmers are also committing to applying anhydrous ammonia to their fields- a sign they will NOT plant soybeans, a plant that doesn't need a lot of extra nitrogen fertilizer to get best yields. It's still early- but apparently the continuing build out of dozens and dozens of ethanol plants is helping pull corn prices to a new plateau- and pulling more acres into that crop as a result. Perhaps the folks most concerned about this trend are livestock producers- as they are facing these historic price levels as a real profit robber based on current operating practices. | |
Paul Jackson of Apache is in our thoughts and prayers. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Paul is in the
hospital in Oklahoma City and will likely be there for a few more days.
Paul, of course, is the long time Commissioner on the Oklahoma Wheat
Commission and he and Dosia have served since the inception of the
Oklahoma Ag Leadership Advisory Council, the group that advises OSU on the
operation of the Oklahoma Ag Leadership Program. If you have the time- I
know he would appreciate a card- I wouldn't suggest a visit at this point.
He is in the Mercy Oklahoma Heart Hospital and that address is | |
Our thanks to Midwest Farm Shows for their support of our daily Farm News Update. Go to their website at the link at the top of today's email for more information on either the Tulsa Farm Show or the Southern Plains Farm Show. We also invite you to check out our website at the link below to check out an archive of these daily emails, audio reports and top farm news story links from around the globe. | |
God Bless! You can reach us at the following: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
email: ron@oklahomafarmreport.com
phone: 405-473-6144
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