Annie Switzer and Jimmy Emmons talked with Jimmy Clark about the bull sale live from Quartermaster Creek Ranch HQ. Jimmy Clark also talked about the wildfires in the Texas Panhandle and Western Oklahoma.
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Hey, good day to all you great stewards of the land.
It's Today in Ag with Jimmy Clark, brought to you by the First National Bank and Trust of Elk City and Sayre, Oklahoma.
I'm broadcasting live from Leedy, Oklahoma.
I'm actually in Roger Mills County now that I know that from Mike Switzer.
But anyway, we're at the Quartermaster Creek Bull sale.
The bull sale's getting ready to start here in about 15 minutes, and I got a couple great guests that'll be on here shortly.
Jimmy Emmons from up here at Leedy.
Well known conservationist will be on the show with me in the second segment.
And then Annie Switzer, Mike's wife, the boss here, will be on the third segment.
And then in the fourth segment, we're gonna have the, we're gonna do the first two bulls coming through the sale barn.
We're gonna have them arena, let me rephrase that, the sale ring, how's that?
They're gonna, we're gonna broadcast that live so you guys can hear what a great bull sale sounds like on today.
But first, let's get in with some temperatures.
Currently, it's slap out, it's 41 degrees, 39 degrees at Freedom.
41 at Elk City, 39 at Hollis, and 39 at Mangum.
Let's see here, I wanna, it was a bad day, day before and yesterday for fires in the Panhandle of Texas and Western Oklahoma and parts of the Oklahoma Panhandle.
And I'm gonna go through and update you guys on some stuff and help you out.
I know on Facebook on a couple pages, people are wanting to help and it's gonna happen.
I talked to, let's see here, sorry, let me get her name up real quick.
I talked to Kristen Baldy, if I said that right, with the Texas AgriLife Center in Wheeler, Texas.
And then I've also talked to some other people.
Actually, there's a fireman here at the sale right now that was out all night up by gauge.
And then I just got a text message from a fireman, oh, RH, from down there around Delhi.
He is, where'd you say, he's at Pampa and it's just black every direction you look.
So, they're devastating fires.
They're gonna get through things today and probably tomorrow.
And I want people to know that Today in Ag and all my friends and all the people we know, we're going to be ready to help people with hay, grass.
JD Dameron called me this morning, his feedlot there at Sayre, he's got it opened up for taking cattle and stuff.
But we really need to get through today and let them access the damage that's going on.
Kristen told me from Wheeler that they're taking, I know CUD and TTS out of Elk City is taking some Gatorade and water, two pallets of water and all the Gatorade they can find out there to the Wheeler AgriLife Center.
That's where the drop off is there at Wheeler.
And there's more drop offs than I'm sorry, I don't have knowledge of all those right now, but the devastation is bad.
I've just seen the report that over 500,000 acres alone in the Texas Panhandle has burnt.
And I'm looking here on the Forestry Services, Oklahoma Forestry Services page right now.
The, the cats, the Katesby, however you say that, sorry, I don't know that, the Nellis County is 30,000 acres.
The Slapout Fire that was in Beaver County is 76,800 acres.
And there's numerous other ones in Oklahoma, small ones.
There was the Marsh Fire in Dewey County, but they got it knocked down and it was only 550 acres.
Sand Creek Fire in Harper County was 2,385 acres.
And the Smokehouse Road Fire, the Texas A&M Forest Service, 250,000 plus.
I just looked that up and it's over a half a million acres in the Texas Panhandle alone.
Canadian, there was a lot of structures on the outer perimeter of the city of Canadian damage.
There's a lot of livestock lost, a lot of buildings burned.
I think there was an injury with a fireman up somewhere in Oklahoma or in Texas, I'm sorry.
I don't have any information on it, so I'm not gonna talk anymore about that one.
But guys, round two is coming again this weekend, especially Sunday.
And here's what I got to tell you guys.
If you have cattle and you know you had loss on the Oklahoma side, I've seen a post last night with the FSA offices, I think Brian Pritchard posted this, that get a count, get pictures, call your FSA office, and they might be able to help with those losses, and which is a great deal.
And then we got, Kristen told me there at Wheeler County, there's a lot of people lost everything, clothes and everything.
They don't want any of that stuff brought to the AgriLife Center there in Wheeler yet.
Just hang on, pay attention to what's going on, and then donations can start be coming in for personal items.
And if they take any, money's the best way.
And so that way it gets distributed, so people can just go buy what fits, and et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
So if you, there's two Facebook pages that you guys need to follow.
And that is the Western Oklahoma Firefighters, or Fire, oh, let me get to it.
Sorry, went on.
On the radio, I get kind of cloudy minded.
And pray for the Panhandle, pray for Panhandle.
That's on the Texas side.
Get on there, there's people posting all kinds of stuff on there.
They got grass available, pastures available, trailers available, hay available, all that good stuff.
I would say just everybody just keep it down low today.
They're still fighting the fires.
So let all the assessments get going and they'll know what they do.
But I think the Texas A&M AgriLife and probably OSU in the county offices on the Oklahoma side, I think them are gonna be your best places.
But I would say just leave it alone for today.
And if you guys, the fire departments, here's our biggest deal, the fire departments, they need everything.
They need donations.
They need Gatorade.
They need water.
They need perishable items to eat while they're fighting fire.
Them guys, they're not done today and there's another round coming.
They probably have repairs to do and we'll get more into what's happening with the fuel stuff as we go along with whichever, like Harper County and Ellis County.
I'm sure they're supplying all that fuel right now.
And but let's just leave it alone for today.
But the fire departments, they need what they can get.
Wheeler County AgriLife Center is one drop off.
I don't know whereabouts in Canadian, but I'm sure at the, just call your fire department.
Call your local fire department wherever you're from and say, what do I need to do?
Do I need to donate you some money?
Do you guys need Gatorade?
Do you need this?
Just call them, call firemen that you know, and find out and that'll be the best way to do that.
That's just, you know, that's just, just I don't know what else to say.
I'm pretty shook up by it all.
It's a bad deal.
And so I've got trucks already lined up, people donate hay, and put when we find out where they need to go.
And man, I'm surprised, I'm not surprised, Western Oklahoma and Texas Panhandle got a bunch of great people in it.
So they're coming to the needs today, but I just say, let's just keep her cool today and let these guys get things wound up, mopped up, because there's, I can see it from here.
There's still a lot of smoke rolling up north of here in Oklahoma Panhandle and that Harper County, Ellis County dealer still fighting, put out hot spots, but there's a lot of smoke rolling on there.
I just want you guys to imagine a half a million acres on fire at once, because all those fires, I think, if I watched it right, they just came together and just, it was, and then the wind shifted.
I mean, man, it's crazy.
And you know, I think of all the coverages I've seen myself, this is the most cities I've seen evacuated at one time.
I've counted 14, there's probably more, but Kelton, Pampa, Canadian, Moabiti, Shattuck, RNN, I can't even name them off now.
Kelton last night, they evacuated parts of Amarillo even, and they shut down I-40 because the smoke was so bad.
And I know I missed some towns in there and I apologize, but it's a bad deal.
But you know what, we're tough.
We'll recap.
As a matter of fact, when Mr.
Emmons comes on here in the second segment coming up here pretty shortly, we'll talk to him about the damage the fire's doing, has done to the Great Panhandle of Texas and Western Oklahoma and parts of the Oklahoma Panhandle.
So anyway, we're gonna take, today is the Taylor Ranch Happy Hour, and I forgot my Taylor Rich read, so we're gonna wing it here in a little bit, see how that goes.
But anyway, let's go ahead and take a Taylor Ranch break and we'll be right back after this.
Yes.
A Day in Ag with Jimmy Clark.
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Oh, Jimmy's all wound up and ready to go.
Here comes more of Today in Ag with Jimmy Clark.
All right, welcome back to Today in Ag with Jimmy Clark.
Podcast live from Hills County Ranch Headquarters here at Quartermaster Creek, Quartermaster Creek Ranch.
Mike and Annie Switzer on it.
I'm gonna give you a forecast for Woodward, Oklahoma, your ag weather update real quick.
I don't have the Texas Mesonet up here, so I apologize.
Currently, Woodward is 38 degrees, dew point seven, humidity's 27, the winds are calming down.
West, Northwest, three miles an hour.
Three day average, four inch bare soil temperature, 54 degrees.
Sunset is at, my screen's not big enough on this computer, 630.
Sunny and 49 degrees today, mostly clear.
South winds, 30 degrees tonight.
And then a slight chance of rain and snow tomorrow, 48 degrees, 20% chance of rain or snow tomorrow, with south winds 12 to 21 miles an hour.
Well, I have a big privilege of having Mr.
Jimmy Emmons in here with me on this segment coming up.
Hey, how's it going, Jimmy?
It's going great, the Jimmy Jimmy Show.
It is, once again.
I got Jimmy Taylor, Jimmy music and Jimmy Emmons.
So we're Jimmy Jimmies.
So anyway, welcome to the show.
I know you've been busy.
I actually haven't had you on the show since you went off on your new expedition with Farm Journal.
How's that going?
That's good, it's been a year this week.
So I went to work for Farm Journal in their Trust and Food division, where I run three programs for them.
So it's been quite a year.
Yeah, cause I follow you on Facebook and you're always gone.
And you're doing, you're probably one of the most knowledgeable guys on regenerative farming, conservation.
I could go on for a day on what you're good at, but anyway, so.
I've been everywhere.
I've done a big field day in the Salinas Valley with the bilingual field day there where I had the translator.
I was in downtown Baltimore in an urban ag setting there with farmers in the Baltimore downtown area.
So it's been a very rewarding, but very busy year with three programs.
I got a $40 million climate smart grant from USDA that we're getting ready to put on the ground in 19 states.
And then I run trust in beef and we're going to be doing a big ranch tours tour.
And I'll talk more about that as it's coming up here with you, probably in a show in a month or so.
America could have about a $7 million opportunity there.
So a lot's been going on in the last year.
So what event in the last year as you think has people out here listening right now, what one event do you think sticks out in your mind that everybody needs to be involved in or is involved in?
Well, I think what we got to get to now is understanding what the consumer really is starting to demand and talk about sustainability.
I know a lot of people don't like that.
It has.
And these Scope 3 emissions for companies reporting, I think we all need as ranchers and farmers need to start figuring out and learn more about that and use our data that we have on the ranch to make that more profitable as we share information from the ranch gate.
Can you explain a little bit about that?
So Scope emissions are emissions that say a company like, I'm just going to throw this out, McDonald's has where they're sourcing beef in this area, say for instance.
Their one and two Scope emissions is their operations at the plants where they process their meat, buy their meat, and then the electricity and travel and trucking and all.
Scope 3 is at the ranch gate.
So, they can't figure out how to report on that, Jimmy, if they don't know you, they don't own your ranch, they don't control your ranch, how are they going to report emissions from your ranch?
Our opportunity in agriculture is to say, well, this is what I do on my ranch and my farm, and this is my footprint, and if you need that data, I will share it with you for a fee.
And I think there's opportunity there.
I got you.
And so that would go a long ways.
Yeah, they're going to have to do it.
So we just want to take the opportunity and try to figure out how to make this some ROI for us.
On our terms?
That's right.
Don't give your data away, it's your data.
So how many of these bull cells have you been to up here?
Because I know you and Mike are buddies.
Today I've got to leave, I've got to be traveling, but Ginger is always here and we always try to support and buy some things that we need here.
Great quality bulls at QC Ranch.
Mike and Annie do a wonderful job.
Oh yeah, and I'm going to have the boss lady on here in a little bit because Annie hasn't been on my show yet.
I think Mike's getting a little flack about that.
And so we're going to, and I hadn't personally met her.
I've seen her, but I hadn't personally met her till this morning.
What a wonderful woman.
Mike's a lucky man.
He is, you know, behind every one of us there's a good woman.
That's right.
Well, you heard me, we talked a little earlier and then you heard me here on the first segment.
Man, what a devastation.
I mean, I'm just calculating 600, 650,000 acres that we know of.
And that's a lot of burnt ground sitting out there and you being the good conservation, the conservationist that you are, what's it look like down the road?
Well, you know, it all depends on how quick we get some more moisture back in and how much winds we endure because a lot of that country is really sandy.
Yes.
We could have blowing soot and dust with days like yesterday again.
What we found out in 18 though is if we can get just a little dab of moisture here pretty quick, that we'll start green up.
At least we're now here in pre-green up.
And so if we can keep it from blowing away before green up starts, that's going to be the challenge.
But there's really nothing to do other than be patient.
We've been through several of these or two of these ourselves.
And then I've helped others in, you know, that farm ground that burnt residues, tubble off of.
If you can get in and get something planted like oats or a spring, something relatively quick to keep that from blowing.
Yeah, because I noticed, well, right here, you know, in Woodward, you know, the bare soil temperature is already up to 54 degrees.
So that's a plus.
It is.
We'll see a little dip after last night and tonight of that soil temperature.
It'll cool off a little, but it's gonna rebound pretty quickly here as we start getting back up.
There are a little chance of some moisture this week.
So if you got farm ground that's bare, the quicker we can get something in there and get it covered in the short term to keep it from blowing will be the key.
I haven't heard any stories about any wheat pasture yesterday or rye or anything green growing out there.
I remember in 18, you know, we were in a drought and it was dry that winter.
And that thing, it was burning that green wheat just like it was grass.
Yeah, of course, you know, I'm all no till.
So we had quite a bit of residue in that wheat and it burned it just like dry grass.
So it was very challenging then.
And I would probably assume if you had stubble fields or no till wheat, it may have done that yesterday as well.
And I actually, I heard this morning from Drovers Magazine that them numbers were more like seven to 800,000 acres total from all the fires.
Yes.
That may not be correct, but I know it's...
It probably is because, you know, they haven't even got the assessments at all.
It's all a guess right now, but they're outlining.
And I've seen somebody on social media last night said they'd be glad to come out there with their drone and do some measuring.
And some firefighter got it back on there, says don't even get that drone because they got planes flying.
Yeah.
You know, they'll, satellite imagery will be up today as we got clear weather.
We'll have a pretty good idea here within 24 hours.
I got a Snapchat on the way up here.
Guy's showing three of the helicopters coming from Oklahoma coming out to kind of help put out some hotspots and taper anything down.
It was really getting it.
Yeah, today they can fly and do a lot of good.
Last day, I mean, nobody could fly in that type of weather.
I wouldn't want to.
No, you just can't do that, that low altitude and that heat inversion going on.
So, man, when they started talking about evacuating Canadian Texas, I was like, wow, this is, I mean, this is, I've been in some of these fires, but that one yesterday just seemed like it was taking everything over the.
A lot of prayers need to go out.
We lost, I know one firefighter, a couple of other firefighters rolled a truck over and they've been metaflighted out.
So, and I heard a report this morning, there was still a lady missing from Pampa that had to be evacuated, but hadn't been located yet.
So a lot of prayers need to go out.
And a lot of families lost, not only all their livestock or most of their livestock, but lost their homes and equipment and everything.
So when you have nothing this morning, it's pretty devastating.
Yeah, it's a pretty bad day.
And like I said, you guys just, as Jimmy said here, we need to pray for these people because we, they're getting a good look at it right now, but we have no clue what the real damage is.
So anyway, like I said, everybody, the fire department, call your favorite fireman, call him, see how you can donate.
They need money, they need drinks, they need Gatorade, they need perishable stuff because it's far from over.
And like I said, we got another round coming in.
Peak of it, according to the Oklahoma Forestry Department, it is gonna be Sunday when it's gonna be the worst condition, but I don't see the winds we had yesterday, but 30, 40 mile an hour is just as bad than the 50 and 60 like we had yesterday.
It don't matter, fire's fire.
So anyway, we're gonna take another Taylor Ranch break.
When I come back, I'll have Miss Annie Switzer on here, or Mrs.
Annie Switzer.
Anyway, Jimmy, thanks for coming on.
Thank you, Jimmy, I appreciate it every time.
Make sure you call me when that deal comes through so you can come on the show.
I will.
We'll be right back after this.
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We're broadcasting live from Quartermaster Creek Ranch headquarters.
The bull sale is getting ready to fire up here in just a few minutes.
They're all in there eating and feeding their faces.
And I'm out here starving and smelling steaks and all kinds of stuff.
But first, before we get to our special guest, I want to give you Ag weather update for Camargo.
42 degrees, feels like 39, dew points at nine, humidity is 26.
Winds are out of the north at four miles an hour.
Turned out to be a great day for the bull sale here.
Three day average, four inch bare soil temperature, 53 degrees.
Sunset at 630, mostly sunny and 50 today.
Tonight, 27, partly cloudy.
Tomorrow, 30% chance of rain and snow, 47 for high.
South wind, seven to 20 miles an hour with gusts up to 30.
Well, finally, on my show, after this is year three, after three years, I have Mrs.
Annie Switzer on here, Mike's boss.
Anyway, welcome to the show finally.
Thank you.
Thank you for having me.
Yes.
And man, you got a good crowd.
Yes.
The wind's not blowing.
And which is good for everybody, including our firefighters that are out saving the world as far as I'm concerned.
And anyway, so how many bullsales is this?
I think this is our 20th and our probably 10th or 11th here at our place.
I got you.
And I got to sneak around the bulls before I came in here and try to get everything rolling around here.
And you got a great set of bulls.
And guess what?
It sounds like it's firing up in there.
And we got, so Mike hasn't brought you back, brought you twice now.
So we got you here.
So we're going to, we're not going to throw, we're not going to throw him under the bus.
He's already getting all that flack about that.
So what's it like having a great bull cell that you guys have?
It's a lot of work.
We start, you know, three years ago, we started AI in these cows back, I guess, in May of whatever 21.
So it's a lot of preparation.
We actually for our cows, we have a breeding program that we, we AI them.
We pull blood at 30 days.
If they aren't settled to AI, yeah, we breed them again, sync them up and do them again.
Got them going.
And then the and then after that, is it a no go or you put them in a bowl in a different pasture?
We actually do that twice.
AI them twice and then we put them with bull.
Well, I got you.
So you got an, oh, basically a 75 day window there and stuff like that.
Well, anyway, so well, let's grab this catalog.
But first, we got to go back.
Who is Annie Switzer?
Was you raised around here?
I was.
I was raised on Quartermaster Creek, actually about seven miles down the river, down the creek used to be a creek, used to have water in it when I was a kid.
My mom and dad, that's where I was born at.
And then what was your maiden name?
My name is Smith.
Okay.
My maiden name Smith.
You probably heard of my dad, Joe Smith.
Yep.
He does some metal work.
Yep.
He does that.
There's quite a few Smiths between here and him and in there.
There are.
Yeah.
My two brothers are here.
Right.
And my cousin, who is a Smith, is out in the audience today.
We're quite a few of us.
And who is that?
Shawn Walters.
Oh, that's the one I was going to get at because-
She's a worker.
Yes.
Shawn's a worker.
As a matter of fact, I fed out a couple of heifers for her a while back, three or four years ago, for butchering, and I bought some butcher from her, and now she's a go-getter.
She's a go-getter.
And I bet that sling she's carrying right now just burns her.
I know it does.
And it's probably a result of a whole lot of work.
Yes, it probably is.
So anyway, so you was raised here in Leedy, been here your whole life?
Except for when I was in college and my brief stint at being an urban girl in Oklahoma City, which didn't last very long.
That didn't work out?
Well, let's look at the bulls.
You got a favorite bull?
I like the growth funds.
I like the step ups.
I like the daughters that they've raised really well.
We gave them out this spring and they were very maternal.
To me, that's always a good sign.
Lot 75 is a bull that I've hand fed.
He's got good numbers.
I like him because he's gentle.
Is that right?
Yeah, he's gentle.
But when I was feeding him, he just about got the Polaris with me one day, so I quit doing that.
I put that to Owen.
Owen Welty works for us and he's a great.
Seventy-five.
QC well found it.
Anyway, what order is he selling in?
I don't have my order sheet with me today.
I think he's towards the middle of the sale.
I got it on my phone, but we don't have to look at that anyway.
So what do you guys do when the bulls sells over and everything's delivered?
Breathe.
Start breathing.
We have a short window there where we have some downtime and might go.
We don't have any plans for a trip, but that'd be nice.
Right.
Well, I see Mike and Jimmy and Mike.
They're always hanging out together with us.
See them at OCA or something like that.
We've got some good friends that we had the pleasure of traveling with.
You know, Mike Wilson, my cousin.
I think Christine was one of my favorite cousins.
I mean, she's always such a sweetheart.
Anyway, I was born, I was an accident, I'm pretty sure because I was.
You was?
Yeah, we can be in that same boat.
Yeah, because there's 30 years difference between me and my oldest sister.
Oh, my.
Yeah.
Wow.
Four of them born in the Dust Bowl days, and then Jimmy born right there before Kennedy got shot.
So that's a lot of difference.
But I remember coming up with my dad and when my Uncle Tom was in from Arizona, my Uncle Skeet was in from Amarillo, we'd always go down the river road and go see Jimmy and Christine when they lived out there.
And I do this day, I'll get lost going out there.
Probably if it wasn't for Skinny Craig, God had never found my way over there to start with.
But now, there's a lot of great people around Leedy.
There are a lot of great people in our community.
We are really blessed and a lot of community pride, support our school, support all of the things.
We had that text message the other day when Mike was talking, the Switzer family supports the local community and that was a compliment to you guys.
The FFA kids that come up to the show here a couple of weeks ago, they were so good.
Oh yeah.
Yeah, they were so good.
So a lot's going on here.
There's a full house out there.
Do you know everyone of them by name?
I don't.
There's some new faces that there's a lot of return people to, which is always nice.
That's important to your bull sell.
It is.
Mike is very good at standing behind the product that we raise.
Right.
Anyway, well, next year, I hope to do this again next year.
Maybe I'll come to Elk City.
Yeah, maybe.
Now that I've got my nerves off or whatever.
See, I'm not that bad, am I?
No, you're very good.
Especially for not being professionally trained.
Yeah, I think you do a great job.
Anyway, so you got people that couldn't make it today.
I know there are some people who couldn't make it today because of what's going on out there, and we want to send everybody out there prayers, and you want some new bull buyers here next year.
What do you tell them right now?
I think our bulls get better every year.
So come again next year.
There you go.
So we'll see.
All right.
Come see us anytime.
Well, we're going to take a Taylor Ranch break, and when we come back, we're going to hear the first bulls sound off with a mic in there, and see what's going to happen today.
We'll be right back at, well, we might be right back after this.
There we go.
Yeah, I got her.
See that one.
I'm going to start with Jimmy Clark.
This is the Elk City Livestock Auction Market Report for Friday, February 23rd.
1,445 head were sold, five head of steers at 418 brought 340, 10 at 473 brought 314, seven at 589 brought 287.50, nine at 616 brought 285, three at 642 brought 266, four at 733 brought 237, 10 at 811 brought 234, 16 head of heifers at 416 brought 324, three at 450 brought 290, 11 at 560 brought 270, seven at 623 brought 226, nine at 743 brought 220, but your cows were 52 to 130, but your bulls 91 to 143, bred cows were 1025 to 2875, pairs brought 1000 to 3200.
Elk City Livestock Auction, 3202 South Highway 6, Elk City, Oklahoma, sell every Friday at 9 a.m.
To consign, call Brandon Hickey 580-497-6095.
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Now, back to more of Today in Ag with Jimmy Clark.
See ya.
All right, welcome back.
We're broadcasting live up here from the Quartermaster Creek Ranch.
I just had Annie Switzer on here.
She's the owner.
Her husband works for her up here.
But anyway, it's a great sale.
It just got started.
So what I'm going to do is I'm going to give you a Hobart Farming Garden Long Ranger Forecast, not Long Ranger Ag Weather Forecast update here.
And then I'm going to turn the mic over to what's going on in the auction barn so you guys can listen for the next segment to see how the sale is going up here.
So this is going to be my first time doing this and I hope you guys enjoy this.
So currently here is your Hobart Farming Garden Ag Weather Update.
Tipton, Oklahoma, 41 degrees, feels like 34.
Dewpoint 17, humidity is 38.
The winds are out of the north, 11 miles an hour.
Three-day average four-inch bare soil temperature, 57 degrees.
Really warm down there.
The ground temperature is sunset at 631.
Today, cloudy, 50 degrees.
Northeast winds, nine to 12 miles an hour.
Tonight, mostly cloudy, 34 degrees.
Tomorrow, 20 percent chance of rain or snow with a high around 47.
I'm going to give you there at a shutdown point for just a second.
So I'm going to give you a quick update on some of the grains in live cattle and feeder cattle.
March, corn, 412, up a little over 3.
May is 427, up a little over 3.
And then we got soybeans for March, 1133, up 1.
May is up almost 3 at 1143.
Soybean mill, March, 332.30, up 450.
And then we got wheat, March, 577, down 8.
May is almost down 10 at 574.
All right, we're going to see what happens here when I turn this mic on so you guys can hear what's going on in there.
Enter 20.
I wish my cord was long enough on my headphone to go in there and tell you guys who's bidding on them.
So anyway, I'm going to let you guys listen to the sale here for about 10 minutes, so hang tight.
261 to, or 161 to 170 is the first pin of them out here, pin X.
Pin B's got 171 to 180, and then there's 11 in the last pin, 191 to 191, all right?
You take them in multiples of 10 or 11.
Any pin you'd like, you take all that's in that pin, you can have all pins if you so desire.
Here we go, an open heifer.
By 100, 58, 57 for April, down 30.
May is 77, 82, down 41.
And then let's see here, natural gas, up a little bit today, looking better.
April, 187, up seven.
May, 204, well, 204, up 82.
And then let's go up here and see what the cattle's doing.
See, go do a meat market up here.
Man, I need a mouse.
There we go, here we go.
Live cattle for February, 184, 87, down 72.
April, 186, 45, down 127.
81, 27, down 140.
Feeder cattle for March, 249, 85, down 315.
April is 255, 37, down 357.
May is 258, 07, down 325.
Lean hogs, April, 8602, up 12.
May is 90, 30, down seven.
June is 99, 45, down 12.
And then I read my text message a while ago.
Roy, R8 from Delhi, I call him, he is actually north of Canadian, is where he was.
Canadian, Texas, and I'm sorry, I thought he said Pampa.
Anyway, he said, it's black as far as the eye can see.
So, not to, just, it's bad out there.
So, anyway, I wanted to go over again, some stuff with the fire, because it's important to all of us.
And I got text messages, phone calls, Facebook's lightin up.
Talking to Jimmy Emmons there after the break, there was probably 700,000 acres from what he understands in Texas Panhandle alone.
And 100-something thousand over here in the, well, I can add it up real quick.
Let me open this up.
So, we're lookin at probably 115, 120,000 on the Oklahoma side.
And that was as of this morning.
And it's still burnin out there.
The best thing for you guys to do, if you're wantin to donate, to help families and farmers and ranchers, is just be calm today.
Let these organizations get organized, like Texas A&M, AgriLife, and Wheeler in Canadian counties, and probably over there in Gray and Roberts County.
I don't know all my counties that well, but I think those covered them.
And let them get organized for drop-offs.
I think donations for families that were burned out were probably in their homes, probably gonna be the best thing.
And then hay and feed and stuff like that.
Let's just get, like I said, let them get organized today.
And we've got, I've already got people calling that own semis and stuff, trucking companies ready to help us out like they did back in 18.
And then we got hay donations already.
And like I said, people like JD Dameron down at Sayers is gonna open his feedlot up for cattle that's been misplaced.
And stuff like that.
And we already got hay to be donated to him to feed those cattle.
Go to the Western Oklahoma on Facebook.
Go to the Western Oklahoma fire coverage.
And you can find out how to do it on the Oklahoma side.
And they got a lot of Texas stuff.
They cover the Texas Panhandle also.
And then we got the Facebook page that AgriLife told me that they're associated with will be the pray for Panhandle.
Pray for Panhandle.
So there's all kinds of ways we can do.
And like I said, we're gonna keep covering the fires and stuff.
And we did, we lost the firefighter last night.
Two more injured, as Jimmy was saying.
They had to be metaflighted out.
I know the Oklahoma National Guard and the Texas Forestry Department are all got things up in the air today to help fight some of this.
Look for hot spots and stuff like that.
And just pray for our firefighters.
That's all I'm saying.
Pray for everybody that's involved in this deal.
But our firefighters, they've been going since what's today, oh, Wednesday.
They've been going since Monday.
Some food out to his firefighters that were fighting over there somewhere in the Canadian area.
He told me that from the Hitchin Post there at Durham, straight west on, what is that, 34, 47?
Whichever road that is, I can't remember.
Probably 33, 33.
Anyway, going to Canadian, they was fired on both sides of the highway all the way to Canadian.
And I don't remember what that is.
It's 25, 30 miles in between Durham and Canadian, the highway, highway 83 over there.
So anyway, it's a bad deal.
Still a bad deal.
And we need to send prayers out for them.
Donations, again, you're going to hear me say this until you're sick of hearing me saying it.
Donate to your favorite fire department.
That's the best way to do it.
Just donate to your favorite fire department or get with your county firefighter association.
I know Roger Mills has got one.
And then if you donate to them, they divvied it out even to all their fire departments in Roger Mills County.
Same thing can happen in Beckham County and up here in Ellis County and Harper County and Woodward County.
And the Texas Panhandle, honestly, I don't know how that works over there.
I know they got great fire departments.
I know a bunch of those guys, but I never pay no attention to how deal is.
And so I just got a text message from Rusty.
He said, still burning in a lot of spots.
He just come through there.
And I had another message here.
Let's see what it is.
Please remind everyone that cannot donate transport hay that has been stored, produced within the fire ant quarantine to areas outside the quarantine.
Yes, Eastern Oklahoma, there's a lot of that.
You can look up the quarantine area of the fire ant.
You cannot donate that hay.
Governor Lyft lifted those restrictions.
There was a lot of hay from the quarantine shipped up towards the Panhandle.
That was fire ant free area prior to that.
They now have fire ants in that area that were transported in that deal.
So anyway, we'll see how that goes.
Well, I think that's it.
And anyway, I got a map of the quarantine area if anybody wants that.
And I guess I'm done for the day.
You guys have a great day.
You've been listening to Today in Ag with Jimmy Clark.
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God bless and please pray for our firefighters and the people who have lost a lot of cattle and homes and stuff in these fires.
Peace.
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