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The agency has proposed a rule to reduce spray drift and considering one on dust, and is moving ahead with plans requiring Clean Water Act permits for applications of aquatic pesticides and on-farm oil spill prevention and control measures, and re-evaluating the safety of atrazine outside of normal procedures.

EPA's Jackson claims there is no intention of harming agriculture in any way- adding that she has no personal agenda of any sort against production agriculture.

Click on the LINK below to read more on the hearing- and to be able to listen to Lisa Jackson's opening statement to the Committee- who then verbally sparred with the Senators for over an hour.

Click here for more on the Senate Ag Committee Hearing on the EPA and their impact on farmers and ranchers.

As Senator Coburn frequently does- he got down to the bottom line of the cost of the measure. "If the Majority Leader believes this legislation is a matter of life and death he should agree to advance a version that is paid for. I intend to give the Majority Leader such an opportunity this afternoon. With our national debt at $13.5 trillion and unemployment near 10 percent we can't tolerate the borrow-and-spend status quo any longer. It is nothing less than laziness and incompetence to argue that it is impossible to find $1.4 billion of waste in a $3.5 trillion to pay for this bill."

Click on the LINK below to read more- and to hear Senator Coburn's worry about two agencies- not talking to one another- trying to regulate the safety of America's food.

Click here for more on the Coburn Response to Democrats Crying Foul over His Hold on the Food Safety Bill in the US Senate

He says that one of the positive things he has heard about this year's planting efforts is that producers seem to be putting more nitrogen fertilizer onto their fields- which could support higher yields- but more importantly, a better quality grain at harvest next June. Low protein levels have made it hard to move the Hard Red Winter Wheat Crop output of the last two years into marketing channels- and producers have had their ability to sell their grain impacted.

We have the audio of Kim Anderson talking with Austin Moore for Saturday's SUNUP TV Show- click on the LINK below and you can jump to our story and hear it before you see it. Besides the comments from Kim- we have the full lineup of this Satuday's SUNUP show that will be seen on OETA.

Click here for more on the words of wisdom from Wheat Marketing Guru Dr. Kim Anderson

The approved programs will provide about 18.1-million for promotion; nearly 6.7-million for research projects; more than 4.6-million for consumer information programs; about 3.3-million for industry information projects; more than 5.7-million for foreign marketing and education efforts about U.S. beef; and a total of about 1.7-million in Beef Board dollars for producer communications, which includes producer outreach using paid media, earned media and communications through livestock markets.

A separate 6.5-million dollars in allocations from the Federation of State Beef Councils will further increase checkoff funding of national programs in promotion, research, consumer information, industry information and foreign marketing. The Operating Committee also reviewed the CBB's program proposal for producer communications, which the Beef Board staff manages in-house.

Contractors whose program proposals were funded - subject to approval by USDA - include the American National CattleWomen, the Meat Importers Council of America, the National Cattlemen's Beef Association, and the U.S. Meat Export Federation.

Click here for a lot more details on the proposed budget for the Beef Checkoff in the Coming Fiscal Year.

Senator Tom Harkin agrees, there would be no vote on the tax cuts before the election. He says - there's nothing we can do about it right now. Dianne Feinstein says - I believe taking a vote on taxes right before the election is a mistake - the message can be manipulated. Meanwhile, Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin says - I can see the value in holding a pre-election vote, - but because of the short timetable, it makes it difficult.

This means that the Death tax will also not be dealt with before the November general elections- and it's looking more likely that the Congress will fail to act on this measure- instead allowing it to fall back to a one million dollar exemption and a 55% tax rate on everything above that.

"Many uncertainties surround this proposed rule, which could result in both positive and negative effects on independent producers," said Sen. Grassley. "I believe a sound economic analysis conducted by the Office of the Chief Economist would be appropriate to answer producers' concerns about what affect these rules could have on their operations."

He said the analysis would be beneficial to both GIPSA and producers who are reviewing how these rules may change their bottom line. Sen. Grassley advised Secretary Vilsack to conduct the comprehensive economic study prior to the closing of the comment period on Nov. 22, 2010.

If you want to know more about the GIPSA Rule- you need to check out our PRIMER on this Rule that now in the middle of a comment period- click here for lots of details to be right at your fingertips.

The fluid milk carbon footprint study, the first of its kind for a U.S. agricultural product, was presented on September 22 at the International Food Life Cycle Assessment Conference. The study is the dairy industry's initial step in a comprehensive, science-based approach to measure and improve its carbon footprint. It will provide a scientific basis to identify research needs and enable the industry to identify and measure management practices and technologies that are most effective in increasing productivity and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Together with data from additional studies, the carbon footprint study indicates that total U.S. dairy greenhouse gas emissions are approximately 2 percent of total U.S. emissions.

Click on the LINK below to jump to the Dairy Sustainability website for more information about the U.S. fluid milk carbon footprint study.

Click here for details of the brand new study on the carbon footprint of producing fluid milk in the US

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Our Daily Market Wrapup from the Radio Oklahoma Network with Ed Richards and Tom Leffler- analyzing the Futures Markets from the previous Day-
Ron on RON Markets as heard on K101 mornings with cash and futures reviewed- includes where the Cash Cattle market stands, the latest Feeder Cattle Markets Etc.
Previous Day's Wheat Market Recap- Two Pager From The Kansas City Board of Trade looks at all three US Wheat Futures Exchanges with extra info on Hard Red Winter Wheat and the why of that day's market.
Daily Oklahoma Cash Grain Prices- As Reported by the Oklahoma Dept. of Agriculture. <
The National Daily Feeder & Stocker Cattle Summary- as prepared by USDA.
The National Daily Slaughter Cattle Summary- as prepared by USDA.
Finally, Here is the Daily Volume and Price Summary from the Texas Cattle Feeders Association.