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Here's your morning farm news headlines from the Director of Farm Programming for the Radio Oklahoma Network, Ron Hays. We are proud to welcome KIS Futures as a regular sponsor of our daily E-Mail. KIS Futures provides Oklahoma Farmers & Ranchers with futures & options hedging services in the livestock and grain markets- Click here for their website or call them at 1-800-256-2555.

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Most places of business remain open- and that will include our livestock auction markets.

We have a shortened version of our daily email for you today- and will be back to a full sized edition on Tuesday.

The beauty of this research is that the technology licensed by OSU can be utilized by just about any biomaterials, can be cheaply produced (about $1.25 per gallon), offers great net energy return (OSU says more than 3 to 1 and Coskata thinks they can take that up to a 7 to 1 ratio) and the process uses a gallon or less of water per gallon of ethanol produced- it has answers to about every question raised by the naysayers about ethanol out there!!!

We have the video clip with Dr. Huhnke linked on the front page of our website, WWW.OklahomaFarmReport.Com- and it's also linked below so you can jump there from our email. We also have a couple of articles on this story linked on our front page as well- just scroll down and take a look after going to the link on our site.

Click here for the In the Field Segment from KWTV News9 with Ray Huhnke of OSU.

NAWG says "The farm bill pace in Washington is moving, but its rate of speed is similar to that of molasses flowing in January. NAWG First Vice President David Cleavinger was in town this week for a series of appointments on the legislation and, while the path forward is beginning to take shape, the details remain murky and there are some serious obstacles in the way.

"The major issue holding up serious work is funding sources. Both the Senate and House bills included provisions to raise additional funds for farm bill programs; without them, there would have been no way to provide increases for conservation, nutrition and specialty crops without making substantial cuts somewhere else."

The NAWG article goes on to say "The bottom line on the revenue provisions is that the Senate won't accept what the House did, and the House won't accept what the Senate did. Until the Senate Finance Committee and the House Ways and Means Committee can come to an agreement on the revenue issue, Agriculture Committee Senators and Representatives cannot make much progress on titles for commodities, conservation, nutrition or energy. This also means the fight to protect direct payments isn't over. NAWG continues to defend the direct payment as the most weather-resistant, World Trade Organization- friendly farm program tool in the toolbox."
They also talk about he multiple lines in the sand drawn by the Administration and the fact that "winter wheat farmers planted without a safety net, and now spring croppers are lining up their inputs and seeding plans without any clear knowledge of the program provisions. It's time to get this bill finished."

Here's a link to the full article on where the NAWG sees the farm bill as we hit MLK day.

He adds that the costs of inputs for all the commodities have placed a new floor under the crops. He says that he sees a new "floor" price for corn at around $3.00- that under that, the cost of inputs will dictate that acres of production will diminish. He adds that the same is true in other crops as well.

We also asked about technology in the years to come- will annual yield increases in a crop like corn allow us to eventually produce ourselves into a surplus of this grain once again? He says he thinks that may well happen in a couple of years down the road- adding that we have an uncanny ability to meet supply needs and always go past those goals. You can hear our interview with Dr. Young by clicking on our link below- it's a good overview of where we are in growing grains and oilseeds in this country.

Click here to listen to Ron, Randy and Bob talk Commodities.

They have 72 bulls consigned- and you can get information on those consignments by calling either Lynda Lucas at 580-497-7366 or Earl Bottom at 580- 831-0633 for details.

This is the second year that Ben Elliott, the Editor of this Almanack designed specifically for Oklahoma has published this handy little book. Elliott is located in Norman- and has a website, which we have linked for you below in case you don't email us and win a copy- and you might like to buy one.

Things like all the official holidays as designated by the Oklahoma Legislature are noted- the planting dates are calculated with Oklahoma's climate in mind- and sunrise and sunset times are based for folks here in our state. If you enjoy having an Almanack around, it's a fun publication to have handy.

Click here for the Oklahoma Almanack Website.

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.

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