|
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Oklahoma's latest farm and ranch news
Your Update from Ron Hays of RON for Tuesday November 25,
2008! A
service of Johnston Enterprises, KIS Futures and American Farmers &
Ranchers!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-- Final Weekly Crop Weather Update of the Season Shows Wheat Crop
and Pasture Conditions in Fair to Good Shape
-- Oklahoma State Senate Committee Chairs Named by Republicans
-- What to Expect from the Obama Administration- Jim Wiesemeyer
Weighs In
-- Revolution: The 2008 Oklahoma Wind Power Expo Blows into Oklahoma
City Next Week
-- Wheat Grower Leaders Just Back from China- Compliments of
Monsanto
-- On the Road Again- To Taloga!
-- In West Central Oklahoma- a Great Way to Hear Ron and Ed on RON is
the Coyote- 95.5 FM
-- Looking at our Agricultural Markets...
Howdy Neighbors! Here's your morning farm news headlines from the Director of Farm Programming for the Radio Oklahoma Network, Ron Hays. We are proud to have American Farmers & Ranchers Mutual Insurance Company as a regular sponsor of our daily update- click here to go to their AFR web site to learn more about their efforts to serve rural America! We are also pleased to have as a regular sponsor on our daily email
Johnston Enterprises- proud to have served agriculture across
Oklahoma and around the world since 1893. For more on Johnston
Enterprises- click
here for their website! 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. | |
Final Weekly Crop Weather Update of the Season Shows Wheat Crop and Pasture Conditions in Fair to Good Shape ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ It is the
final weekly Crop Weather Update of the year for the NASS office in
Oklahoma City- and they report the 2009 Hard Red Winter Wheat Crop as
being in 12% excellent condition, 51% good condition, 31% fair and only 6%
in poor to very poor shape. We have a 75% fair to good condition read on
the pasture and ranges of the state- with 19% of the pastures being rated
in poor to very poor condition.
As far as harvest goes- Producers were able to increase the harvest pace with the past week's dry weather conditions. Sixty-nine percent of the sorghum in the State was harvested by the end of the week, a 15 point increase from the previous week but 14 points behind normal. Ninety-one percent of soybeans had been harvested by week's end, a 13 point increase from the previous week and three points ahead of the five-year average. Virtually all of the peanuts were harvested by week's end, increasing five percentage points from the week prior and up three points from the five-year average. Cotton harvested reached 56 percent by week's end, up 12 points from the previous week but 12 points behind the five-year average. Cotton conditions remained mostly in the good to fair range. We have the full report linked below- it is noted in this final weekly report of the season that they will begin the monthly reports on Oklahoma crop conditions January 5, 2009. Click here for the final weekly crop weather update for Oklahoma in 2008. | |
Oklahoma State Senate Committee Chairs Named by Republicans ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Oklahoma State
Senate President Pro Tempore Designate Glenn Coffee, R-Oklahoma
City, announced Monday that he is reducing the number of Senate committees
and subcommittees by two, from 22 to 20. Coffee also named the Senate's
new committee chairs on Monday.Changes to the Senate's committee structure include: 1. The elimination of the Criminal Jurisprudence Committee. 2. Combining two Appropriations subcommittees - Health and Social Services, and Human Services - into a single Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services. Nineteen Republican senators who each served as a committee co-chair
the past two years will serve as chairmen in the GOP-controlled Senate.
One new senator - former OSU president Jim Halligan, R-Stillwater -
is being tapped to chair the Appropriations subcommittee on Education.
Coffee plans to announce committee vice-chairs and other committee members
within the next two weeks. The Agriculture and Rural Development Committee will be chaired by Senator Ron Justice of Chickasha while the Tourism and Wildlife Committee will have Senator Mike Schulz of Altus as its Chairman. We have the full news release and the full list of Chairman linked below. Click here for the news release detailing Senate Committee chairs for the coming Legislative Session | |
What to Expect from the Obama Administration- Jim Wiesemeyer Weighs In ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ It may well be
a battle royale over the most vulnerable part of the 2008 Farm Law's
Commodity Title- and that is the pot of money know as Direct Payments. It
is a total of just over $5 Billion annually- and Jim Wiesemeyer, Vice
President of farm and trade policy at Informa Economics, believes that the
almost inevitable Budget Reconciliation coming in 2009 or at the latest in
2010 will give farm bill foes the perfect chance to take away at least
some of the Direct Payment funding as "agriculture's contribution" to pay
for these huge bailouts and stimulus packages that President Elect Obama
is saying will be needed to "jolt" the economy back to life.
Wiesemeyer talked about how a deal may come about regarding the paring back of Direct Payments in the coming year- as well as speculating on who might be the next Secretary of Agriculture- and his anticipation that we will see the antagonism towards trade with Cuba washed away with the Obama tsunami headed for Washington January 20. We have the link to this story on our website- and we invite you to check out our audio overview of Wiesemeyer's comments that he offered in Jonesboro, Arkansas at the end of this past week- that link is below. Click here for more on the Wiesemayer take on Obama and Agriculture. | |
Revolution: The 2008 Oklahoma Wind Power Expo Blows into Oklahoma City Next Week ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A
wind-inspired revolution is taking place in Oklahoma and to help everyone
in the state better understand the multitude of challenges and
possibilities of this exciting new industry, Oklahoma's Secretaries of
Energy and Environment will present REVOLUTION: The Oklahoma Wind Energy
Conference, December 2 and 3, 2008, at the Cox Convention Center in
Oklahoma City. "Wind projects are emerging across our state," said David
Fleischaker, Oklahoma Secretary of Energy. "Clean, sustainable and
affordable, wind is at the forefront of America's new energy plan. At the
same time, we need to move forward with wind in a conscientious,
deliberate and balanced manner. There are a number of issues that need to
be thought about and discussed, which is the whole intent of Oklahoma's
first-ever wind energy conference."
The Oklahoma Wind Energy Conference's two keynote speakers illustrate Secretary Fleischaker's point. The luncheon keynote speaker on December 2 is T. Boone Pickens, the author of "The Pickens Plan" and undoubtedly America's most outspoken advocate for America's wind energy future. The luncheon keynote speaker on the second day is Mark Tercek, CEO of The Nature Conservancy. While Pickens will discuss the critical need for America to remain committed to wind energy solutions, Tercek will provide a perspective on wind energy development that emphasizes the importance of environmental stewardship. This 2008 Wind Energy Conference is one of several events happening the first couple of weeks in December before activity winds down for the Christmas holidays. We have more details in our calendar section of our website- WWW.OklahomaFarmReport.Com. We have the info on this conference linked below- check it out. Click here for our calendar info on the Oklahoma Wind Energy Conference in Oklahoma City. | |
Wheat Grower Leaders Just Back from China- Compliments of Monsanto ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ NAWG President
David Cleavinger and CEO Daren Coppock returned last weekend from a
two-week study mission in China as part of Monsanto's Grower Advisory
Council (GAC). The GAC includes elected and staff leaders from national
commodity organizations for soybeans, corn, cotton and wheat as well as
representatives of the American Farm Bureau. It meets three times annually
with Monsanto representatives to exchange information and provide
feedback.
The China study mission marked the second overseas study mission of the GAC in its seven-year existence. The group's travel itinerary included visits in and around Shanghai, Beijing, and Nanning and Guilin in southern China's Guangxi Province, with goals of assessing economic growth and conditions; trends in the agriculture and food industries; and the status of biotechnology research and commercialization in China. Coppock and Cleavinger came away with a lot of "take home messages" but
here are a few of their impressions: | |
On the Road Again- To Taloga! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ We are
planning on heading up the Northwest Passageway into Dewey County and
catch up with Oklahoma Conservation officials who will be doing "show and
tell" this morning with Oklahoma Congressman Frank Lucas.
Clay Pope with the Oklahoma Association of Conservation Districts hopes to show the Third District lawmaker areas of Dewey County still recovering from severe flood damage in 2007 and 2008. The idea is to focus on the needs of the National Resource and Conservation Service watershed dam program and its funding needs at the federal level. Lucas has served when the Republicans were in control of the House as the Subcommittee Chair of the Conservation Subcommittee of the full House Ag Committee- he helped from that position in the writing of the 2002 Farm Law- then in 2008 as the ranking member of the same subcommittee- he once again had a hand in drafting language within the Conservation title of the 2008 Farm Law. | |
In West Central Oklahoma- a Great Way to Hear Ron and Ed on RON is the Coyote- 95.5 FM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ KWEY AM and FM
are a couple of the most listened to radio stations in western
Oklahoma-and the Radio Oklahoma Network is pleased to be heard at 95.5 FM
and 1590 AM daily in Coyote Country!
You can hear our agricultural news and market reports ten times a day on KWEY- and we are proud to have Wright Wradio as a part of our RON team. We also salute owner Harold Wright for his willingness to step forward and make a run for the state legislature in 2008- and Harold will be filling the slot vacated by James Covey who term limited out this year. We have details on the times you can hear our RON reports on KWEY-
complete with links to their website and to the coverage maps of both the
AM and the FM signal- all linked below and found on our website. We
continue to develop our full list of stations with all of these links on
our site and will be spotlighting our stations in the weeks ahead to
remind you where you can hear Ed and Ron on RON! Click here for more on the Coyote- KWEY AM and FM in Clinton/Weatherford. | |
Our thanks to KIS Futures, American Farmers & Ranchers and Johnston Enterprises for their support of our daily Farm News Update. For your convenience, we have our sponsors' websites linked at the top of the email- check them out and let these folks know you appreciate the support of this daily email, as their sponsorship helps us keep this arriving in your inbox on a regular basis! 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. | |
Looking at our Agricultural Markets... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ At the
Oklahoma National Stockyards- it was another down day for feeder cattle
and calves with an estimated 5, 500 being sold. The Market reporter tells
us "Feeder steers and heifers 2.00-4.00 lower. Steer and heifer calves
3.00-5.00 lower. Demand mostly moderate but improved some towards the end
of the sale as buyers were filling out loads. This late demand forced some
improvement in prices as well. Monday price levels were mostly comparable
to last weeks late auctions around the state that saw sharp down trends.
Light run due to the holiday week, next Monday expected to be large
again." To
check on the Monday prices in Oklahoma City- click here.
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: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
email: ron@oklahomafarmreport.com
phone: 405-473-6144
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
