Jimmy Clark talked to Brandon Hickey about the cattle prices at Elk City and Western Oklahoma Livestock sales. Randy Holley and Monty Tucker talked about the donations being made to Oklahoma Farm Bureau Foundation.
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Currently, 51 degrees at Slapout, 54 at Arnett, home of the famous Lori Campbell, 58 at Cheyenne, home of the secret weapon, 62 at Hollis, capital of Harman County, 57 at Bessey, 55 at Alva, and 52 at Lahoma.
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Got a lot going on today.
Brandon Hickey will be on here in the second segment to talk about the sales from Elk City and East Clinton there on I-40, the Western Oklahoma Livestock auction coming up.
Also, I wanted to throw a shout out there to, I had a gentleman call me from the Hobart Stockyards this morning.
They're going to have 24 or 25 five-year-old red angus cows that have been exposed to a bull for 30 days with 250 to 300 pound calves on them.
So if somebody is looking for a really good start up kit from selling out your coal cows, looks like it's going to be a good one.
So anyway, that starts tomorrow at the Hobart Stockyards.
For any questions, just call down there at the Hobart Stockyards.
Anyway, we'll have Brandon on and then coming up third segment, I'll have some ag news.
And then fourth segment, if he's not too busy, that guy's busy, I'm going to have Randy Holley from up Shattuck Way, give me a call.
I'm calling him.
Let me rephrase that.
Calling him.
And I got some news from them just now.
Then I'm going to share with you here in just a few seconds.
But anyway, we're going to get an update on what's going on at Shattuck Engage and up in that area was slapped out with the relief efforts.
I, unlike the national news and some of the state news, I'm not going to just shut up about the fires.
So anyway, you're going to have to listen to me about this for a week, maybe two weeks, because those guys still need help.
AH&N feed store out of Canadian posted on Facebook yesterday.
Somebody was spreading rumors they didn't need more hay.
They call BS on that.
So keep bringing the hay.
Anybody wants to just keep bringing the hay.
They're going to need it, guys.
They don't have nothing out there.
So anyway, also taking fencing donations at all the relief spots.
And I see one person this morning said that he was taking a pallet of protein tubs to I think Gage to the Gage Cattle feed store there, I believe.
But anyway, that's not a bad donation there.
Protein tubs, they can stick them out there and with their cows when they're eating hay because they need more than just hay to eat.
I'm telling you guys, it's good.
In fact, I got an article on it.
If I get time today, I'll kind of share it with you.
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So anyway, first, I got to tell you, I got a phone call from an old friend of mine over here in Custer County.
He donated 200 bales of hay yesterday.
And I want to thank him for that.
And then we had some people, I'll mention all the names later when we get this trip accomplished.
We had some people last night and today donate gift cards to different people.
One farm and one married couple donated $3,000 worth of, well there's three, four people altogether.
I'm sorry, we had another donation earlier.
But anyway, $3,000 worth of gift cards for paying drivers and paying for fuel for delivering hay.
We got truck drivers already lined up.
We got seven or eight dump trailers from four or five semis going to go load that hay up over by Clinton Saturday morning.
And we're taking it north to gauge.
And so anyway, it's just it's awesome.
And then last night on Facebook, I seen where Monster Trucking, there was an outfit.
No use in saying outfit.
Let me just get to their name.
Premier Heavy Hall out of Alaska called Monster Trucking and made donations for trucking products.
Hey, whatever.
Anyway, that's so that's so wonderful of them.
They've seen it on Facebook and they couldn't do anything.
If I remember right, I think Tanner told me that the people that own AK.
Premier Heavy Hall out of Alaska actually are from originally from Amarillo and they couldn't do anything to help.
So they're donating to trucking services around Western Oklahoma in the Texas Panhandle and also Robin Davis and Brian Mike Kaisen.
I hope I said that right from Las Vegas.
Send some more donations to Monster Trucking.
And I know I'm going to miss some people.
I'm sorry.
There's just too many people being kind out there.
Just the ones off my memory.
So that's so awesome.
200 bales of hay, $3,000 worth of gift cards for paying for fuel and the hands that are driving the trucks because the trucking companies are donating the trucks.
And it's just wonderful.
But I just want to let you guys know that, especially in Canadian, do not stop the hay coming.
We'll take hay donations from, they're coming from all over the country.
They need the hay.
These guys are feed.
They don't have nothing out there, but hay to feed them.
And now we were just kind of guessing to take one bale per 25 cows of 25 head of cows per day to feed them.
So if you got a thousand head, that's a lot of hay.
So you know, it's 40 bales a day, 20 bales a day, whatever it takes to feed them.
And anyway, so we were, we need to keep the hay coming.
We need feed.
We need fence and supplies.
This anyway, keep it coming.
You guys are so wonderful with your donations and stuff.
And if anybody needs to know where to donate, I can hook you up with the right places that I know is actually getting to the right places.
So anyway, this is a newsflash for you.
The Oklahoma Farm Bureau, Mutual Insurance and the Oklahoma Farm Bureau Federation delivered $5,000 in fuel cards to Randy Holley and Shaddock this morning to help offset the cost of voluntary hay donations.
We, we that used up their when that's used up, he said, we anyway, when that's used up, another $5,000 can be used.
And thank you, Oklahoma Farm Bureau, Mutual Insurance and the Farm Bureau Federation.
Thank you so much.
And also, here's another thing on the newsflash.
Anyone that would like to make monetary donations, the Oklahoma Farm Bureau Foundation is set up and functioning.
Plus, Farm Bureau Insurance and the Federation will match up to $30,000 to help double your donation.
How about that?
So as soon as I get that, where and how to do that, that's going to be awesome.
So they're going to up to $30,000.
You're going to match it.
You know, basically you're doubling your donation.
How about that?
So anyway, thank you again, Oklahoma Farm Bureau, the foundation and the mutual insurance for making that happen.
And then what else we got here?
Anyway, so with profound sorrow on behalf of the city of Fritch, we announced the passing of Fritch Fire Chief Zep Smith, who bravely responded to a structure fire earlier today.
Chief Smith, a dedicated public servant, was the first on the scene, demonstrating his unwavering commitment and service to the Fritch community.
During the response, Chief Smith faced unforeseen challenges and despite emergency medical assistance and quick transportation to Golden Plains Community Hospital, tragically succumbed to his injuries.
Chief Zep Smith served as the Fritch in Huston County community with selfishness and dedication.
So he Fritches the town and got the whole town got burned up.
So I don't know how many houses are lost, but you've seen that satellite anyway.
Our prayers and thoughts go out to the family of Fire Chief Zip Smith.
That's a tragic deal to happen on today.
So anyway, prayer sent to him.
And let's go ahead and take a break.
It's a Stockmans veterinarian break.
Sorry about that.
We'll take a stock clinic break and come back.
We'll have Brandon Hickey on here from the Ilk City and the Western Oklahoma Livestock Auction.
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This is the Western Oklahoma Livestock Auction Market Report for Monday, March 4th.
2,144 head were sold.
10 head of steers at 424 brought 358.
9 at 600 brought 304.
12 at 737 brought 244.
19 at 827 brought 245.
8 at 877 brought 235.
27 at 896 brought 229.50.
17 at 914 brought 230.
5 head of heifers at 447 brought 293.
12 at 629 brought 250.
13 at 690 brought 236.
17 at 784 brought 228.
22 at 811 brought 217.50.
6 at 850 brought 214.
14 at 853 brought 214.
Butcher cows were 76 to 135.
Butcher bulls brought 123 to 152.50.
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To consign, call Brandon Hickey, 580-497-6095.
Now back to more of Today in Ag with Jimmy Clark.
All right, welcome back.
Lipscomb, Texas.
Here is your ag weather update.
Maybe if it'll come on, there she goes.
Anyway, currently it's 53 degrees, humidity is 46, dew point is 33.
The winds are out of the northeast at 12 miles an hour, wind gust up to 18.
What else is happening?
No rain so far this month, no red flag minutes.
Sub-freezing minutes today was 99.
8 inch soil temperature is 49 degrees.
And before I get Brandon on here, I have to stand corrected.
I guess I've been saying Hollis is the capital of Harman County according to Leslie Kilgore, the mayor.
Vincent is, I stand corrected, sorry.
So anyway, we'll move on from that because I think I probably just got trouble.
Anyway, Brandon Hickey, you just got me in trouble.
Hello.
All right.
I got you in trouble.
Yeah, because you're on the phone.
I always get in trouble when you're on the phone.
So something always happens when you're on the phone.
It's either with the cooks and the ladies at the cafe at Elk City Livestock Barn or I don't know something.
They're always chaos around me, I guess.
Anyway, hey, what about those sales you just had?
You know, a lot of run at Elk City on Friday, a little bit of weather the day before, and you know, just kind of getting to the tail end of the week pasture runs and what not already.
But the market was really good for what we did, what we had, you know, unfortunately, had some cattle come out of the Canadian Texas area that had lost all their grass and cows and bears, red cows and what not that they didn't really intend to be selling, but market was really good on those.
Really nice bits of red cows and bears coming out of there.
And, you know, I hate to see that, but glad to see that some of those went back to good homes and good grass here closer to home.
And then yesterday, Western Oklahoma Livestock office was really, really nice.
We faced a run again, a lot of good home raised cattle again.
For the second week in a row, had a few replacement heifer buyers there.
So really glad to see that.
Yeah, it's good.
Yeah, the one that caught my eye on all of them and they were all a bunch of good ones.
But the one yesterday, the 600 pounders out of Mountain View 304.
Whoa, I'll take that.
Yes, sir.
You bet.
That's good.
Again, on some of them, some good grazing steers that are ready to go right on, straight down and good quality.
And I mean, that's what they're really sought after.
Same thing with those light four weights up there at 377.
I mean, those cattle was high quality and good condition and ready to just go on and grow.
And that's what them buyers are looking for right now.
Do you think it's kind of calming down and everything's stabilizing right now at the price range we're on, give or take a dime or nickel either way?
Well, I think we're seeing a little bit of a level off here just because we're kind of in the middle of our wheat pasture glut that we always see in February and March, and albeit not as near the headcount that we see a lot of times with the lower numbers, but we're still plugging the pipeline just enough that we are seeing a level off.
But I really anticipate that once we get through the next two or three weeks, we get into the month of April, we're liable to see this thing take another little spike just because I think the availability is going to decrease greatly and these feedlots are gonna have to get pretty aggressive to purchase cattle again once we get into the month of April.
I got you.
And the butcher cows and bulls was off the chart as far as I'm concerned.
I mean, up to 133 when the cows and 152 on the bulls.
And why is that?
They haven't slacked off hardly any in what, the last six, nine months.
It just keeps creeping up a penny at a time.
Yeah, you know, and I was a little bit concerned that, you know, that we might see a little bit of a decrease in that this week with the fires out west.
I know that there was a lot of cattle getting hauled, a barn cattle getting hauled to Booker, Texas, to the preferred beef plant there.
And I thought that life slowed things down a little bit, but it really, really hasn't.
So there's still plenty of packing companies that's not getting the amount they need to meet their weekly kill levels.
And so that's keeping this thing really good.
And the same thing should kind of stay that way.
You know, could see a little bit of a level off of some of these cows that are turned out on wheat that guys have been gaining some weight on some of these cows.
If some of those go to all coming at once, you could see a little bit of a level off here.
But I don't really expect any downfall and downturn in the market.
I expect maybe just a little bit of a level off.
But again, I think once we get on into spring, April and May, they're going to have to get aggressive to try to meet their needs.
I just don't think that the cattle are out there that what they're really going to need to meet their weekly kill.
So to me, you tell me if I'm right or wrong, because you're a lot smarter on cattle than me.
What does that tell you that the demand for beef is really high?
The demand for beef is good.
You know, it's actually maybe just a smidgen down from what it was a year ago.
And I think part of that due to just the price level, you know, that they're seeing.
And so, but we're short enough on cattle and beef that, you know, the demand being down is actually almost a necessary deal for the less numbers and meat that we've got available.
You know, the carcass weights are not great big, which means we're staying really current on our kills.
You know, I know the major four packers have tried to slow the chain speed down a little bit to keep the live cattle price, the fat cattle price coming out of the feedlots from getting any higher.
But, and they've been able to do that to a certain extent, but they really have only slowed it down minimally.
You know, like I said, I think the lid on this thing is just when people get to the point that, you know, we just plant that can't afford this beef, we're going to have to buy, you know, some other protein sources that, and we're not there yet.
The demand is still really, really good.
But, you know, that's that's my concern going forward.
You know, at what at what point does that does that happen?
Right.
Yeah, that's me.
Don't get me wrong.
I love high cow cattle prices.
But at some point, like you said, it's got to kind of level off or back down just a hair, not much.
But there's nothing wrong with the prices people are getting right now for their cattle and, you know.
And so we got to get it while we can get it.
But sometime or another, somebody is going to go up there to the grocery store and say, well, let's go to the chicken booth, you know, something like that.
So and we don't want that and we don't want that.
And so anyway, well, Brandon on a subject that we've been following and you have to hear with the big fires and on Oklahoma and the Texas side right here with the amount of loss, cattle loss and stuff.
What do you think that's going to do to our market around here?
Well, I don't really see any long term effects.
You know, it's going to cause a little bit of pullback on some of these grazing cattle.
Obviously, there's not going to be near as much grass in the Texas panhandle to go to this spring as what there would have been before prior to this.
I mean, you know, the good thing about this compared to the fires last year, you know, if there is a good thing, we did have some sub moisture prior to the fires.
And, you know, they got a little bit of moisture on it after, which will rebound a lot quicker than what we did last year after the fires.
But still, yet, I mean, you just can't graze that brand new young tender grass.
It's the same stocking rate that you can, you know, established grass.
So that's going to pull back just a little bit on the number of cattle that's going to be needed to go out to grass in the Texas Panhandle.
You know, a million acres is a lot of acres.
And so that's going to dampen the demand maybe just slightly, but there's still so much good grass in the Osage and Missouri and the Flint Hills and Sandhills that they're still trying to stock.
I think it's going to have a very minimal effect.
It's sure not going to have a long-term effect on it as far as our stocker cattle prices.
Now, you know, long-term down the road, when that grass gets reestablished good, that's going to really up our replacement cow price again because there's going to be a lot of ranges that's going to need to restock.
But we're several months down the road from them guys even being able to think about that.
They got lots of fences to replace and got to get that grass reestablished back where it's not young.
And it's young and tender state where those cows are just going to, you know, graze it right back into the ground.
Well, I know Elk City and Western Oklahoma Livestock Auction are doing their part.
You guys are taking hay at both places or just Elk City?
I know we're taking it at both places.
And, you know, really more than that, which this has been amazing to me, you know, we did this last year during the fires and we really accumulated a lot of hay at both farms and then send it out at truckloads of the time.
But this time, you know, we had a good enough summer that there was enough hay made that we're actually sending loads at a time, you know, picking it right up off the farm and sending it loads at a time out there.
But the amount of hay that has went out there to those people has just been absolutely phenomenal.
And all of my contacts out there are actually right now, I think I've still got 19 plus loads on the books to send out there.
But all of my contacts are saying, Capro, may give us a couple of weeks.
We're actually running out of places.
The fact is, hey, and we're going to need some more, but give us a couple of weeks to get some of this bed up that we've got stacked around.
And that's a really good deal, a phenomenal thing, a phenomenal response from people in Kansas and Oklahoma and New Mexico.
Just flood the hay in there to help those people.
They're so appreciative, but they're actually telling me, can you give us a little bit of time before you send the next load?
Yeah, yeah.
And I think that's where the misunderstanding come, and I think that's why the Canadian AHN store out there yesterday, put out the deal that somebody's saying that they didn't need any more hay.
I think that was misunderstood because we, that's why we're waiting a week to take some more hay, because there's a lot of hay out there, but there's a lot of cattle out there too.
And so they're getting organized and they're feeding, and they're going to need more hay till they get rain.
And this grass ain't just going to pop up in a week and then be back out there to graze.
And this is where we're talking two months down the line at least.
Yeah, minimum.
And even then, you're not going to be able to stock it like what you normally do.
So they've got a long road ahead of them.
And I've gotten calls looking for fence builders, hard to find fence builders, need to reestablish fences and whatnot as well.
But there's lots of need and lots of recovery time happening.
But the hay response has just been unbelievable.
And my biggest deal is finding truckers to haul this stuff because they're all already booked up hauling other hay.
They're all out there already.
But that could all be by design.
I've started contacting a bunch of my people that have donated, that I've got on the books.
Just be patient.
They're still going to need your hay.
But we're going to be a couple of weeks before we start picking up again.
And that's really good.
I mean, I like to say that the response with the hay deal has just been phenomenal and unbelievable, all the people that are so willing to help.
And some of them have been in that situation before and know how hard it is.
And a lot of them, they've never been in that situation and can only imagine and figure that they sure would like to help if it happened to them.
So I'm going down I-40 and I'm going to buy two big Gooseneck trailer loads of hay right now that I just almost guarantee you is headed to somewhere to the Texas Manhandler, Northwest Oklahoma, because it's construction trucks that's hauling this stuff.
You should have seen some of our loads the other day.
It was pretty, I would say it was sketchy.
How's that?
That's a better word for it.
But and then also, I think both the Texas Highway Patrol Department or Highway Patrol Department in the Oklahoma Highway Patrol, they're, you know, they've let off on the overload and over with stuff if we're responding to this fire, because it's hard.
You're not going to pull permits for this hay every day on these over with loads.
I mean, there's just too much going on.
And we want to thank both states for doing that.
Yeah, absolutely.
I haven't, you might know more about this than I do.
I haven't heard official confirmation about it, but I have been told that Texas and Oklahoma both maybe offered some tax credits for some of this donated hay.
That that may be in the works to happen.
Maybe some vouchers or, you know, something to show that you donated some hay that you may be able to get some tax credits there.
Have you heard anything about about that?
No, I have not.
And I've got my lobbyist from the Oklahoma Farm Bureau, Monty Tucker, working on that.
I don't know if I should have said that.
But anyway, anyway, he's not my lobbyist.
But anyway, he's my undercover information that I get.
But anyway, Monty, if Monty didn't enjoy doing cattle raising so much, he would make a great politician for us.
Western Oklahoma.
But I don't know if we're ever going to get him away from them.
Good, pretty black.
I know.
And we need to move him across the county line a mile to the south so we can get him for the South District Senate instead of up there where you guys got it.
All of them.
You got a bunch of good.
See, you need to be running for senator.
Yeah, I've got time for that.
I really like running my livestock.
I know you got a good right hand in that office all the time.
And I'm not talking about Mrs.
Boyett.
I'm talking about your wife.
She's always calm.
It's incredible.
God just puts the matches together sometimes.
We enjoy working together.
We have a great time together.
And I know she gets a little frustrated once in a while when she has to hear some of my stress level come out and the strain of my voice when I'm talking to her.
But all in all, we've got a great partnership and work great together.
And it's been that way for a long time.
And I know how special that is because I hear people all the time talk about how I never could work with my wife.
And we really, really enjoy working together.
And I know that's incredibly special and really, really blessed to have that.
Yeah.
Well, the difference, here's the difference.
I'm going to help you out.
Call me Dr.
Phil today, all right?
Anyway, here's the difference between your operation at Elk City and over at Clinton.
The difference is you don't have a head gate in there.
See, if you had a head gate in there, and every one of those cows had to come through a head gate to get to the show, the cell ring, your wife and you, you'd be saying some choice words like out there when we're actually working cattle.
Well, you say that, but we did that for a lot of years together before we ever loaned a livestock auction, and we still got along pretty darn good.
But we came from similar backgrounds, and we actually started working together for several years before we ever got married.
We started working together way back when we were dating, and that was under the watchful eye of her dad.
So I had to learn how to keep my mouth shut once in a while because I couldn't say anything to her without wondering what he was going to be thinking.
Yeah, and God rest his soul.
I know he passed here a while back.
I heard he was a big old boy.
Is that true?
Well, no, he was really a pretty small guy, but very, very, you know, as far as height, you know, his nickname to his brothers was Short, but he was very, very thick.
And my dad's words to me that right after I come home the first time from meeting Mr.
Parker, and I told dad what division he was in in Vietnam, and my dad said, oh, son, he knows a hundred ways to kill you quietly.
There you go.
That makes a great son-in-law.
Have you got anything coming up Friday or Monday that people need to know about?
I've got two really nice sets of feeder cattle coming in Friday.
Most heavy to the heifer side on the, on a seven weights coming in.
I think about 70 some feeder heifers coming in.
And then I got a home raise deal.
Going to go look at it tomorrow.
A guy coming off a week from upper in the Durham area, them Angus cross calves, black, black baldies.
He thinks they're probably going to be weighing in the nines, but I mean a really fancy deal, but I'm going to go look at them tomorrow because I'm, if these heifers aren't that big, I'm hoping maybe we get a replacement heifer buyer on some of his heifers because they'll be, be ultimate, ultimate good Sim Angus genetics.
Oh, cool.
Well, Brandon, thanks for joining me today.
I got to go to break because I got to get some people on from the fire relief up in Shattuck and Gage Way here shortly and see you Friday.
Good to talk to you, Jimmy.
Thank you.
All right.
Let's take a Stockman's bet break.
When I come back, I'll have your Northwestern Oklahoma ag weather update and we'll continue on with Today in Ag.
Be right back.
Today in Ag with Jimmy Clark.
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They provide bulk feed delivery straight to your farm or for smaller quantities, they offer a variety of feed bags and sacks in different sizes.
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You can buy parts anywhere, but the people at our store are different than people at other stores.
And if they're not, we're gonna make them different.
They should be more knowledgeable, they should be more friendly, they should be more customer oriented, they should be part of the community.
We pride ourselves of doing business with people.
You can buy parts anywhere.
It's the people that make the difference.
We try our best not to tell the customer no, but to find what they need.
Napa Auto Parts of Elk City, 716 West 3rd.
More parts for more cars.
The McIntyre Red Angus Partners in Progress Bulls Sale is Monday, March 25th at 1 p.m.
at Sweetwater.
Featuring 20 registered age advantage and 50 yearling bulls.
Also 20 registered open heifers, 50 commercial Red Angus first calf heifer pairs and 60 commercial Red Angus open heifers.
View the sale online at cci.live.
For sale info, go to mcintyreredangus.com.
A lot of great cattle is for sale near Sweetwater the last Monday in March.
The McIntyre Red Angus Partners in Progress bulls sale Monday, March 25th, 1 p.m.
at Sweetwater.
Everyone around me was drinking coffee and I wanted to be a coffee drinker too.
But everything I tasted was either too bitter or too sweet.
So I tried one more place.
Instead of just ordering, I told them an idea of what I wanted and they crafted a drink just for me.
It tasted fresh like coffee is supposed to.
The brew was mild and the flavor not too sweet.
Exactly what I wanted.
They've done this for lots of people.
They'll do this for you too.
Thanks to Twister's Coffee Company next to Brahms and Elk City, now I'm a coffee drinker every day.
They want you to see them as people and not just a number.
They love when you know their name, when they walk in the door and greet them with a smile.
They love that.
I like to hear people's stories and find out about their lives and get to know them.
We sponsor in the community a lot in the communities and the surrounding communities.
We just really care about people.
I'm Elizabeth Mosley and I help make the difference at First National Bank and Trust of Elk City in Sar.
Member FDIC.
Are you looking to give your livestock the best nutrition possible?
Well, head on over to the Sar farmers co-op.
Sar co-op is an authorized quality liquid feeds dealer.
They handle a variety of QLF, ignite protein and mineral tubs along with their pasture select 20-5 and 35-5 liquid feed.
Short on time, the Sar co-op will supply, deliver and fill your liquid feed tank for you so that you don't have to.
Don't put it off.
Head on over to the Sar co-op at 109 South 6th Street in Sar or give them a call at 928-2664.
Jimmy's all wound up and ready to go.
Here comes more of Today in Ag with Jimmy Clark.
All right, welcome back.
Anyway, here's your Northwestern Oklahoma Ag weather update.
I picked Buffalo, it's 55, dew point is 36, humidity is 48.
The winds are out of the Northeast at 15 miles an hour.
Three day average four inch bare soil temperature, 52 degrees, sunset at 637, decreasing clouds today, 62 for high, North Northeast winds.
Tonight, mostly clear, 33 degrees for low.
Light winds out of the North and the East.
Tomorrow, partly sunny, high 65, Northeast winds to Southeast, uh, switching to Southeast three to 12 miles an hour.
Beautiful day coming up tomorrow.
Anyway, uh, what else got?
Oh, before I got to take another quick break because me and Brandon went a little too long.
But anyway, because I got to get Randy Holley on here after the last break.
Jimmy's bull and female sale calendar.
And I want to thank McIntyre, Red Angus, they become a sponsor of the show on air today.
So thank you very much.
But here is the calendar.
The Davis Angus bull and female sale was last Saturday.
We're super good.
Hopson Angus inaugural bull sale was yesterday.
My bad.
Anyway, Ferris cattle bull sale is March 6th.
That's tomorrow.
Bexler bull sale is March 9th at one o'clock.
The Coyote Hills bull sale is March 9th at one o'clock.
McIntyre Red Angus bull sale will be March 25th at one o'clock.
And the Harris cattle production sale right over there at Arapahoe, Custer County, March 26th at 12 o'clock.
One more thing before we go ahead and take another quick break.
Yeah, Brandon is laughing at me because I texted him what my wife sent me.
Anyway, now I'm just going to read you what my wife said.
Were you listening to your friend?
I really like him.
He had to learn.
Listen to your show.
That's the stuff I get from my wife.
Anyway, Monty Tucker sent me a picture from up there.
I'm guessing that Shattuck, Wayne Cryer from Fort Worth, Texas, truly appreciates the help on fuel donated for the donated hay he delivered from Texas.
Thank you, Wayne, for delivering that.
I think I appreciate your help.
Looks like he got about $526.97 worth of fuel paid for by Gracious Donations.
Let's go ahead and take a stockman's break, a stockman's break, stockman's vet break, and we'll be right back after this.
Today in Ag with Jimmy Clark.
Hey folks, I'm Ken Russ, new owner of Hobart Stockyards.
We want to thank Greg Slamming for the great job and dedication he has done serving the community in Southwestern Oklahoma.
I look forward to continuing working with you cattle producers and marketing your cattle.
We are bringing in multiple independent cattle buyers and along with current buyers to guarantee you get top prices for your cattle.
Give me a call at 580-530-0192.
Here at Hobart Stockyards, we only sell the best.
And remember that Jesus is Lord.
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When she walked through the door, she was obviously upset.
She'd had trouble with her insurance somewhere else and she was really concerned.
Since she was dealing with her medicine, she was right to be concerned.
So she decided to give this place a try.
Even though she was a new customer, Colby recognized her face.
She'd been there before.
And Colby remembered why she'd been there.
She came in with her grandmother several years earlier.
Not a few weeks or a few months before, it had been several years.
But Colby recognized her.
He remembered her coming in with her grandmother to get medicine.
As they talked about that, the cloud she'd been walking through seemed to lift.
The concern on her face was replaced with a smile.
With something as important as your family's medicine, it's nice to shop where they know you and remember you.
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No wonder their customers like them so much.
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He loves talking about farming and ranching.
Here's more of Today in Ag with Jimmy Clark.
Alright, welcome back to the Stockman's Vet Clinic.
Happy hour.
Weather.
Hobart Farm and Garden Ag Weather Update.
It's from, I'm going to pick Eric.
I haven't picked on Eric in a while.
63 degrees there.
The humidity is 38.
Dewpoint 37.
The winds are out in the northeast at 12 miles an hour.
Three day average.
Four inch bare soil temperature.
54 degrees.
Sunset at 638.
Sunny.
66.
Did a good day with winds out of the northeast.
13 to 15 miles an hour.
Tonight mostly clear and 37.
Tomorrow mostly cloudy.
66 degrees.
Northeast winds.
Switching out of the south.
5 to 10 miles an hour.
Well, on the phone with me right now, and I think he has a special guest in there, but we'll start with Randy.
Randy Holley, Mr.
Retired Ag Teacher.
Mr.
Retired Ag Teacher works for Ag Defense now.
And Ben, I just want to take this moment to personally thank you for what you're doing up there on the Oklahoma side of the state line, a chattick with all this hay and feed and all this stuff coming in.
And thank you very much.
And man, you told me the other day that you had been challenged on this insurance deal from the insurance company.
And it sounds like you won.
Can you tell us a little bit about that?
Well, yes.
But first, Jimmy, don't thank me.
Thank all the people that are sending things out here to help our people.
Oh, I have.
I have.
Thank you.
But no.
Well, your buddy, Monty Tucker, and several other Farm Bureau with Foundation, I don't...
I can't already talk, Monty.
You're good.
I've been talking too much on the phone.
But anyway, it's unbelievable the outpouring of help for our farmers, ranchers out in Western Oklahoma.
Unbelievable.
I've been on the phone with the guy from Arkansas this morning, got him titled.
I mean, it's just...
It's overwhelming.
Yes, it is.
It's very overwhelming.
It's moving.
It's overwhelming.
Tell Monty to come up here.
Monty, tell Monty.
Did you call him Monty or money?
Anyway, you're doing a wonderful job up there, and we appreciate it.
I've got a new job, Jimmy.
What is it?
I'm a truck dispatcher.
How are you?
I heard that.
Hey, Monty Tucker.
Monty Tucker's here.
He wants to wrestle you.
Randy is going bear hunting with a BB gun.
Yeah, he's already said he wants me and you to wrestle.
I'm going to tell you, I'm 62 years old.
It takes too long to recover.
You won, Monty.
How's that?
I wrestle to get my britches on in the morning.
Monty, I mentioned it earlier.
Tell everybody what the Oklahoma Farm Bureau has done.
Oklahoma Farm Bureau has a foundation.
It's 501C3, the nonprofit.
That foundation was set up years ago.
We've already been through some wildfire disasters.
So we're not reinventing the wheel when we're trying to direct donations in the right areas.
And Oklahoma Farm Bureau insurance, mutual insurance and the Oklahoma Federation and the foundation are willing to match up to $30,000 of anybody that will donate to the foundation.
So your donation will be doubled if you give it to the foundation.
We're already up here today delivering fuel cards.
We just filled the truck up while it cost $530.
The gentleman out of Fort Worth, he paid for his own fuel.
So that buying his fuel just helps a lot.
So anybody that wants to donate, they need to contact Holley Carroll, Oklahoma Farm Bureau Foundation for Ag, and that's where we can get you set up.
Yeah, and they find that just on the website, right?
Yes.
Yeah.
Okay, cool.
Yeah, because it helps out a lot because just like that gentleman, you just paid for his fuel.
He donated his truck, his time and everything, and he came up here.
And that fuel will go a long ways because I don't think most people realize what one tire costs for one truck.
And what are they?
Five, eight hundred bucks.
And anyway, so he's got wear and tear on that.
And, you know, it's his donation.
That truck was his donation.
So let's help him.
Give me that.
Give me that was the second load coming here.
Oh, really?
Yes.
So how's things looking up there?
What is everything in good shape?
Everything stills running smooth.
But like, I've got a good friend here, standing right here.
Well, he's got several other cows up north.
Name Lani.
Start by keeping my neighbor.
His little brother graduated with me.
He lost all of his grass up there.
I don't think he lost any cows because they got them out of the way.
He doesn't have any fence left, any grass left, any hay left up north.
I mean, he lost everything.
Yeah.
It looks like a bomb went off up there and nothing left.
Yeah, that was the guy yesterday said it perfect.
He said that was a fire storm.
That wasn't a wildfire.
It was a fire storm.
Fire storm.
Anyway, he's got hay.
He's got his cows moving south of the Shattuck.
It's going to take quite a while.
It's going to take him probably, you know, when they say, well, when grass starts growing, greens up, he won't be able to turn in there for like two or three months afterwards.
Right.
Yeah.
It's just like it's starting all over.
It's going to take a lot of hay to get into that place.
Yes.
So is it the same situation on the Oklahoma side as the Texas side?
They're probably asking everybody just to calm down a little bit on the loads, but that's not meaning not to bring them, is let them get through what they've got.
Because I was on both sides of the state line all weekend and them trucks were coming from every direction.
Which we're getting quite a bit of hay in, but what we're going to have, we got to have fences, like, money has no fences up there.
So we have to rebuild fences and we need donations or fence materials.
So it's going to take quite a while to get all this done.
What can people do with the what can people do with the fencing deal?
Can they like, can they deliver it up there to like gauge and up there at Shattuck or can they just like call or call me or whatever?
But if you don't, they want to donate, it'd be great to go through the foundation that way.
There are $200 just became $400.
Yes, that's what I was thinking.
And then and then because we know that the foundation, whether it's the Farm Bureau one or the OCA one, anyway, they're going to buy the right material and they're going to get it to the people that actually need it.
It ain't just going to go out there and set on the side of road.
Come get it.
Hang on a second.
Money.
What money was that?
Put a little input there.
Great, great point, Jimmy.
We Farm Bureau does partner with OCA and we we work together on getting money distributed out so we're not stepping over each other.
Working against each other.
We work together on that.
So either foundation is a great cause.
Yes.
And then you guys will make sure the materials get bought and they get sent to the right people to distribute it to the guys that actually need it.
And this ain't a free for all.
Exactly right.
Yeah.
And if I remember right, I seen where I don't remember if it was a farm girl, the OCA anyway, you guys are taking your time on doing this as far as fencing material because they want to see what the NRC is and the FSA is going to do and they don't want to cause you not to get any of those benefits.
Also, if I remember seeing that, do you know anything about that money?
No, I don't.
I know they do have standards that you have to rebuild to.
Right.
So anyway, so anyway, but fencing material.
And so you guys have got plenty of hay and up there, Randy, and do you need feed?
You need some lick tubs?
Do you guys still need in some of that?
Well, like I said, Jimmy, like Lonnie, he put all his cows on 160 acres.
A good friend is that land that wasn't being used.
So he put them in there.
It's going to take a lot of hay to run.
How many cows are going on 160 acres, Lonnie?
How many cows are on there?
43, 43, 43, 43, 43 cows and bulls and calves on them on the quarter.
So it could take a lot of hay and yeah, lots of protein, lots of everything, right?
And then they got it.
So anyway, so, but I know Randy, you said you didn't want me to, uh, to, uh, uh, thank you.
I got to, because I got to thank you.
I've thanked everybody, but, but people like you and Robin and Todd at the Hitchin Post and over there in Canadian, the people at the AH and Ian, you're keeping it as organized as you can.
And I know Robin real well, I know Robin very well.
Matter of fact, her dad's wrote one of my really good friends.
And so you got, you guys are making it easy for people like us that are bringing hay donations and stuff like that.
So anyway, man, Jimmy, when this fire started the next day, I kind of thought a little bit, you know, I know several people across the country.
I used to, one time I was actually here before I got demoted to soup here, Shattuck, the hill of devotion.
Well, I mean, I loved it.
But anyway, you know, I knew a lot of people across the state of Oklahoma.
I thought, you know, somebody needs to step up and do this or it's not going to get done.
So you know what?
I got the time, I got the resources.
Let's go.
So I just said, I'll do it.
I started making calls.
Well, because of you, like Great Plains, Kubota called.
I just talked to the dealer at Norman.
He's going to get a truck in the hall, a guy named Jake Rochel say from out here by putting people together.
I loved it.
That's why, you know, a few years ago, I had a pretty bad car wreck.
I think the good Lord saved me to do what is help people.
Yep.
And I'm not done yet.
I'm trying to help many people as I can, I don't know, wait until you see me put your phone number on Facebook again today.
Leave a message or send me a text best way.
I need you to hire me a couple of secretaries.
Anyway, anyway, uh, my music's playing.
I got to go.
Monty Tucker, Randy Holley.
We thank you for what you guys are doing from every different direction and uh, tell those gentlemen.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Jimmy Clark.
Well, thank you.
You're welcome.
So anyway, I got to go and we'll talk to you guys later.
Have a good day.
You too.
Heard you right here on Today in Ag with Jimmy Clark.
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Everybody have a great day and God bless.
