Kingfisher County Extension Director Bryan Kennedy reports much of Kingfi sher County’s wheat acreage is still behind average growth at this stage because of dry weather in the early fall.

“There is still a lot of late wheat still coming up, which should be all right,” he said.

“This year’s growing season is a little different – not enough moisture for early growth but if we can get some warm days. we can get pasture,” Kennedy said.

He said some stockmen are beginning to turn cattle in on wheat pasture but most wheat is not ready.

He noted that the wheat price jumped 16 cents recently, possibly due to wet conditions further north where producers have been delayed in the corn harvest.

Kennedy also noted there have been marked cattle market fluctuations, probably due to a fire in packing plant a few months ago.

“It got to the point feeders couldn’t give cattle away,” he observed.

An international event affecting American livestock markets is an African Swine Flu epidemic in China that destroyed 75 percentage of the hogs there.

He said that event could boost American pork sales but it creates concerns about preventing the spread of the disease to the U.S.

Kennedy said the early Armyworm invasion in the county has been wiped out by cold weather.