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Thursday, October 8,
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Featured
Story:
 Secretaries
Vilsack and Burwell Review Dietary Guidelines
Process for House Ag
Committee
The
House Agriculture Committee held
a public hearing Wednesday with U.S.
Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom
Vilsack and Health and Human Services
Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell
to review the development of the 2015
Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA).
It's unusual that you will see two cabinet level
officials sitting in the same hearing room talking
about the same topic. A day
earlier, the two Obama Administration
officials jointly authored a blog that spoke to
what the new Dietary Guidelines might look like.
In that blog- they addressed the issue of whether
"sustainability" should be a consideration in what
the Government will say the American public should
be eating. The two Secretaries wrote "There has
been some discussion this year about whether we
would include the goal of sustainability as a
factor in developing dietary guidelines.
(Sustainability in this context means evaluating
the environmental impact of a food source. Some of
the things we eat, for example, require more
resources to raise than others.) Issues of the
environment and sustainability are critically
important and they are addressed in a number of
initiatives within the Administration. USDA, for
instance, invests billions of dollars each year
across all 50 states in sustainable food
production, sustainable and renewable energy,
sustainable water systems, preserving and
protecting our natural resources and lands, and
research into sustainable practices. And we are
committed to continuing this
investment. "In terms of the 2015
Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGAs), we will
remain within the scope of our mandate in the 1990
National Nutrition Monitoring and Related Research
Act (NNMRRA), which is to provide "nutritional and
dietary information and guidelines"... "based on
the preponderance of the scientific and medical
knowledge." The final 2015 Guidelines are still
being drafted, but because this is a matter of
scope, we do not believe that the 2015 DGAs are
the appropriate vehicle for this important policy
conversation about sustainability." Click here to read
more.
We
also have posted in this story a hunk of audio
that is an exchange between Congressman Mike
Rogers and the two secretaries as he asked them
about red meat and its role in the
Guidelines.
For
the Opening Statement by House Ag Chairman
K. Michael Conaway, click here.
For
the Opening Statement by Agriculture Committee
Ranking Member Collin C.
Peterson, click here.
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Tulsa
State Fair
Junior Livestock
Show Selects Their 2015 Grand
Champions
Four
Grand Champions were selected Wednesday evening as
the 2015 edition of the Tulsa State Fair Junior
Livestock Show wrapped up.
The
final species that saw its Grand Champion selected
was the market steer- and the Grand Champion in
2015 was the Crossbred shown by Seth
Tucker of Lindsay 4-H. The Reserve
Steer was shown by Madyson Arthur
from the Chickasha FFA- click here for complete
details about the Steer show champions and
reserves- plus we have a brief conversation that
we had with the 2015 Steer Judge- Mark
Hoge from Western Illinois
University.
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The
Grand Champion Barrow was owned and shown by
Hunter Green of Wellston FFA- he
had the top Duroc- which proved to be the best
barrow out of some 800 animals that showed up for
the contest.
The
reserve Barrow was owned and shown by
Jayme McMasters of Depew FFA- she
actually did not drive the Hamp in the
Championship drive as she was busy showing her the
Champion Cross at the same time- she had a friend
showing the Hamp and the judge went with the pig
she chose to hand off.
Details
on the market hog show are available here.
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The
Grand Champion Market Lamb was the top Crossbred-
shown by Hunter Dugan of Tecumseh
FFA- while the reserve was shown by Emily
Smith of Elk City FFA- with the Natural
Champ. These ladies were also at the top of
the Market Lamb show a year ago- But Emily was the
Grand Champion owner and Hunter the Reserve- they
have traded places here in 2015.
Full
details on the Lamb contest are available here.
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Finally-
the Grand Champion Meat Goat was shown by the same
young lady that owned the top Goat a year ago-
Johnna Stottlemyre of Luther FFA.
Click here for the
complete rundown on the Meat Goat winners.
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The
grand finale of the Junior Livestock show will be
the Sale of Champions that is scheduled to start
at 5:00 PM this afternoon in Tulsa- the
complete sale order lineup has been posted by the
Fair folks- click here to take a
look.
By
the way- we kept busy last night taking pictures
of the animals involved in the Night of Champions-
and their 4-H and FFA owners- you can find our
Flickr album we have put together from last night
by clicking here.
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U.S.
Beef and Pork Demand Slows in Key Markets in
August, Due to Global Economic
Concerns
U.S.
beef and pork exports struggled in August,
remaining below year-ago levels, according to data
released by USDA and compiled by the U.S.
Meat Export Federation (USMEF). August
beef exports totaled 84,167 metric tons (mt), down
18 percent from a year ago. Beef export value was
down 24 percent to $498 million, the lowest in 18
months. For the first eight months of 2015,
exports were down 11 percent in volume to 703,231
mt and dropped 5 percent in value to $4.31
billion.
Beef export value per head of
fed slaughter has averaged $286.51 this year, up
$9.28 from the same period in 2014. Exports
accounted for 13 percent of total production and
10 percent for muscle cuts, each down about one
percentage point from the same period last year.
For U.S. pork, August exports totaled
160,719 mt, down 1 percent from a year ago, while
export value fell 19 percent to $429.8 million -
the lowest monthly value in more than four years.
For January through August, exports were down 5
percent in volume to 1.41 million mt, while value
was down 17 percent to $3.75 billion.
An
already-tough global business climate became even
more difficult on Aug. 11, when China's
devaluation of the yuan added pressure to the
currencies of several key importing countries and
large competitors against the U.S. dollar.
Click here to read
more about red meat exports.
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National
Pork Board Announces First America's Pig Farmer of
the Year Award Winner
The
National Pork Board announced
Wednesday that Keith Schoettmer,
a pig farmer from Tipton, Indiana, is the
recipient of its first-ever America's Pig
Farmer of the Year Award. The award is
designed to recognize a pig farmer who excels at
raising pigs using the We Care ethical principles
and connects with today's consumers about how pork
is produced. "We are pleased to have
Keith represent America's pig farmers, and we look
forward to the dialog he will create as he travels
around the country," said Derrick Sleezer,
National Pork Board president and pig farmer from
Cherokee, Iowa. "It's important that we connect
with today's consumers about how we raise their
food in an ethical and transparent way. Keith's
interest in sharing his farm's story - and putting
a face on today's pig farming - will help us reach
this goal." Schoettmer and his wife
Darla founded his family farm, Schoettmer Prime
Pork, in 1987. They've grown the farm steadily
over the years with their community's values in
mind and now raise about 22,000 pigs annually with
the help of several full-time employees. Click here to read
more about the first winner of America's Pig
Farmer of the
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New
USDA Fact Sheets Illustrate State-by-State
Benefits of Trans-Pacific Partnership
The
U.S. Department of Agriculture
(USDA) Wednesday released a series of fact
sheets illustrating how the newly reached Trans-Pacific
Partnership (TPP) agreement can boost
the U.S. agriculture industry, supporting more
American jobs and driving the nation's rural
economy. Created by the USDA's Foreign
Agricultural Service (FAS), the fact sheets
graphically depict how each
state and individual
commodities stand to benefit from increased
agricultural trade with the 11 other TPP
countries. Trade ministers from Australia,
Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico,
New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, the United States
and Vietnam concluded TPP negotiations on Oct. 5
in Atlanta, Ga. Trade with these countries
accounted for 42 percent of U.S. agricultural
exports in 2014, contributing $63 billion to the
U.S. economy. The United States
runs an agricultural trade surplus which benefits
farmers, ranchers, and all those who live, work
and raise families in rural America. Agricultural
trade supports more than one million American
jobs. TPP will remove unfair trade barriers and
help further the global expansion of American
agricultural exports, particularly exports of
meat, poultry, dairy, fruits, vegetables, grains,
oilseeds, cotton and processed
products.
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Checkoff
Launches 'Acres and Avenues' to Help People
Reconnect with America's Dairy Farmers
"Acres
+ Avenues," a checkoff-funded initiative
to protect and grow public trust in dairy, has
launched to advance the conversation and help
people reconnect with dairy farmers who produce
our nation's milk and dairy
foods.
Created by Dairy
Management Inc.™ (DMI), which manages the
national dairy checkoff on behalf of America's
dairy farm families and importers, Acres and
Avenues reveals the shared values of dairy farmers
and urban millennials through unique job shadowing
experiences that demonstrate the enduring
relevance of dairy.
"Many people,
especially young urbanites, are removed from the
work we do on dairy farms and where food comes
from," said Paul Rovey, Arizona dairy farmer and
chairman of DMI. "Acres and Avenues shows how much
dairy farmers have in common with others once they
walk a mile in each other's shoes."
The
series is hosted by Jax Austin,
an online travel and food personality. Austin
joins two very seemingly different people in each
of two episodes to uncover their shared
values.
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Monsanto
Cutting Work Force After Dismal Earnings
Forecast
Monsanto
Co., the world's biggest seed company, plans to
eliminate 12 percent of its workforce to reduce
expenses as it forecasts fiscal 2016 earnings that
trailed analysts' expectations amid weaker
commodity markets.
Profit
will fall to $5.10 to $5.60 a share in the 12
months that began Sept. 1, excluding restructuring
costs, from $5.73 a year earlier, St. Louis-based
Monsanto said Wednesday in a statement. This was
well under what analysts had been expecting from
the company.
Monsanto
plans to eliminate 2,600 jobs as it re-prioritizes
some research and development efforts, including
exiting the sugar-cane business, to save as much
as $300 million a year. Like most of its
competitors, Monsanto is struggling to
increase earnings amid two straight years of
depressed commodity prices that have reduced
farmer incomes. Still, the company said it plans
to meet its goal of doubling per-share earnings in
five years from 2014.
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