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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Oklahoma's latest farm and ranch news
Your Update from Ron Hays of RON for Thursday January 24,
2008! A
service of American Farmers & Ranchers Mutual Insurance, KIS Futures
& Midwest Farm Shows
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-- Frank Lucas Says His Gut Tells Him Farm Bill Extension will be
Final Result...
-- Senator Chuck Grassley is not buying the Peterson Plan of
Permanent Law being okay...
-- The Bush Administration Adds Two Countries to the List of "Fully
Reopened" to US Beef.
-- A Vision for Rural Oklahoma- Courtesy of the Republican Rural
Caucus in the State Senate...
-- Gravity Grabs the Grain, Oilseed and Cotton Markets on
Wednesday.
-- Rural Development Honcho's Visit this month to Oklahoma
spotlighted.
-- KOKC- one of 35 Great Choices Across the State to Listen to Ron on
RON!
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Frank Lucas Says His Gut Tells Him Farm Bill Extension will be Final Result... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The number
three Republican on the House Ag Committee, Frank Lucas of Oklahoma's
Third District says there seems to be three options for how the farm bill
debate will play out here in 2008. Option one that everyone is saying is
their preference is to cut a compromise from what the House and Senate
have done to this point and get a new farm bill passed and signed by the
President. The biggest fly in that ointment remains the Administration
demanding the Senate and House to abandon what their bills say and go with
the what the Administration says should be the farm bill priorities-
spending much less on the Commodity Title and paying for the overall bill
with no new taxes.
The second option, according to Congressman Lucas, is what Chairman of the House Ag Committee Colin Peterson says is his preference if no deal is cut- allowing Permanent Law to kick in. Lucas says that no one else that he knows agrees that is a realistic solution. The third option that Lucas sees as the most likely outcome in the short term is a one or two year extension of the 2002 farm law which would keep our commodity programs as they are from the last five years- not perfect- but leaving something of a safety net in place. The western Oklahoma politician and rancher when he's home in Roger
Mills County adds that Peterson's comments about wanting an open process
comes only after he has tried writing a farm bill himself in the
"preconference" setting. Lucas says that the only hope is to get all
involved- from both the House and Senate and from both sides of the aisle
to come up with a measure that will easily pass both bodies and can be
veto proof. Click here to listen to Ron and Congressman Lucas talk about the current farm bill status. | |
Senator Chuck Grassley is not buying the Peterson Plan of Permanent Law being okay... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Add Senator
Charles Grassley of Iowa to the list of those that rejects allowing the
law of 1949- the so called Permanent Farm Law to be implemented here in
2008. Senator Grassley, in talking with fellow farm broadcaster Ken Root
of WHO Radio in Des Moines, Iowa says that is a non starter.
Senator Grassley says that House Ag Committee Colin Peterson is in a very difficult spot as he has spent his Christmas recess in Washington trying to work with the Administration, the Senate and Nancy Pelosi to come up with some sort of a deal that will fly with all concerned. Senator Grassley believes that the calls by Peterson to go with
Permanent Law is the frustration that the Chairman has after weeks of
discussions have gone nowhere. He doubts that these calls for a return to
the 1949 Law are really where Peterson stands on the subject. Click here for the 2007 Farm Bill page at our website, WWW.OklahomaFarmReport.Com | |
The Bush Administration Adds Two Countries to the List of "Fully Reopened" to US Beef. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On Wednesday
the countries of Indonesia and Barbados gave full market access to U.S.
beef and beef products of all ages. These decisions comply with
international health guidelines. "Indonesia is setting a standard for
other Asian nations by agreeing to import U.S. beef and beef products
consistent with World Organization for Animal Health guidelines," acting
Agriculture Secretary Chuck Conner says. "Much like our recent agreement
with the Philippines in November, this agreement with Indonesia emphasizes
that we will continue to press for full market access for U.S. beef and
beef products of all ages throughout the Pacific Rim."
Conner was also pleased with the move by the Barbados minister of
agriculture to open the nation to U.S. beef. According to Conner, Barbados
is one of the strongest economies in the Caribbean with large per capita
incomes and more than half of their gross domestic product coming from
tourism. Of course what the Acting Secretary did not say was the message he wants to send to South Korea, China and Japan- other countries are willing to accept the OIE standards as they relate to BSE- when are you coming out of the dark ages and getting on board? The Acting Secretary told us at the AFBF meeting in New Orleans earlier this month that the Administration doesn't want a step by step deal that is likely to find us short of the OIE guidelines for years to come- but rather wants to hold and get the whole standard agreed to when a deal is finally struck. That's why the Japanese and South Korean deals have been stuck in the mud since the OIE ruling last May that says that US Beef of any age- boneless or bone-in - is safe as long as the SRMs are removed. | |
A Vision for Rural Oklahoma- Courtesy of the Republican Rural Caucus in the State Senate... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Members of the
Oklahoma State Senate's Republican Rural Caucus have released this week
their policy agenda for the 2008 legislative session, which includes their
"Vision for Improving the Quality of Life in Rural Oklahoma." The
Republican Rural Caucus' agenda calls for more funding for county roads
and bridges, opposing forced school consolidation, attracting and keeping
physicians in rural Oklahoma, among others.
"As senators who represent a number of rural communities, we understand the significance tied to rural Oklahoma," said Senator Ron Justice, R- Chickasha, Republican Rural Caucus Chairman. "The success and livelihood of rural Oklahoma directly affects our entire state. Our vision for the 2008 legislative session echoes this thought and aims to bring support to rural families and businesses." "We as rural senators experience first hand the quality of Oklahoma's resources," said Senator Owen Laughlin, Republican Floor Leader. "Water is a necessary resource. We must find ways to increase the amount and quality of water." The Republican Rural Caucus vision includes: | |
Gravity Grabs the Grain, Oilseed and Cotton Markets on Wednesday. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ It was mostly
limit down on the crop futures on Wednesday in Chicago, New York and
Kansas City as fears of a recession continued to roil the commodity
markets as well as the equity marketplace. It was an incredible day for
the Dow Jones, down 325 points just before noon our time- before a
reversal sat in and erased the losses of the day and ended up pushing the
Dow Jones Industrials 299 points up on the day.
The market watchers seemed to agree that speculative long liquidation fueled the limit drops of thirty cents a bushel in Kansas City wheat, twenty cent a bushel in Chicago corn, fifty cents a bushel in soybeans and three hundred points (three cents a pound) in New York Cotton. The overnight electronic trade as of 6 am this morning is showing that
there is a little bit of bounceback in the grains and oilseed trade after
the washout of yesterday. Click here for the Listen to Ron page on WWW.OklahomaFarmReport.Com | |
Rural Development Honcho's Visit this month to Oklahoma spotlighted. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The regular
newsletter, the Oklahoma Outlook, produced by the Oklahoma state office of
the USDA Rural Development agency- features a look at a visit by a key
USDA official to the state earlier this month.
Jim Andrews, National Administrator for USDA Rural Development's Rural Utilities programs paid a visit to Oklahoma in January. During his stay, Mr. Andrews kept an aggressive schedule meeting with the Oklahoma Association of Electric Coops, the Oklahoma Rural Water Association and also spent time in Stroud meeting with officials in this Turnpike community has gotten a multi million dollar loan from USDA to develop better cellular service. We have the full newsletter linked on our website- and that link is also at the bottom of this story. Click and take a look at some of the other things that Brent Kisling and his team are up to in the Rural Development Agency of USDA. CLick here for the December-January Newsletter of the Oklahoma USDA Rural Development Agency | |
KOKC- one of 35 Great Choices Across the State to Listen to Ron on RON! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ KOKC, the
fifty thousand watt AM Radio Station that so many across the western part
of the United States grew up with when the call letters were still KOMA,
is still cranking out great programming. Now, instead of the rock and roll
hits of the 1960s, it's great talk show programming here in the new
century.
And they have a great commitment to local news, weather with News9 Meteorologist Gary England and his team- AND farm and ranch news! KOKC is on the AM dial at 1520 AM- and you can hear Ron Hays and Ed
Richards three times daily on KOKC. Ron's morning farm news is heard at
about 6:35 AM weekdays, his midday farm news update is right after Paul
Harvey midday news at 12:26 PM, while you can hear Ed Richards with a
market closing report at 2:31 PM. In addition, check out Sam Knipp from
the Oklahoma Farm Bureau weekday mornings at 6:57 AM on KOKC. | |
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