The Environmental Protection Agency is set make a decision on Tuesday on a petition by Growth Energy to raise the blend limit in gasoline from 10 percent to 15 percent. However, even if EPA agrees to raise the limit, there is no guarantee that gasoline with a higher blend of ethanol will be available at [...]
Archive for November, 2009
30 Nov
HSUS Goes to Missouri
As assumed in the aftermath of Issue 2 in Ohio last month, the Humane Society of the United States has announced that they plan to sponsor a ballot initiative in Missouri in the spring of 2010. It is expected that this initiative will look very similar to Proposition 2 that was passed in California. Missouri [...]
30 Nov
China Approves Biotech Rice
According to the Wall Street Journal… China’s government declared two strains of genetically modified rice safe to produce and consume, taking a major step toward endorsing the use of biotechnology in the staple food crop of billions of people in Asia. In a written reply to questions from The Wall Street Journal, China’s Ministry of [...]
30 Nov
Managing Nitrogen to Maximize Gains
The Boulder Valley and Longmont Conservation Districts, along with the Longmont Natural Resources Conservation Service office invite you to the “Managing Nitrogen to Maximize Gains” workshop on January 7, 2010 at the Boulder County Fairgrounds in Longmont, Colorado. If you plant to attend, please RSVP at (303) 776-4034 ext. 3. Speakers will include: Mike Peterson- [...]
30 Nov
General Session Highlights
Kimbal Rasmusen of Deseret Power and Transmission in Utah, spoke at the General Session of the 09 Annual Meeting and confirmed much of what we all suspected about the global warming “crisis.” Kimbal id a great job of explaining the data surrounding the global warming models that predict our coming doom, and the large assumptions [...]
25 Nov
Climate Bill May Not Hit Senate Floor Until July or Later
Climate change legislation is not expected to hit the Senate floor until July, it is possible the bill will be put off until the next Congress “Most of the country doesn’t know what cap-and-trade is. They have no idea. I would say half the Senate has no idea what cap-and-trade is and could not explain [...]
25 Nov
Hackers Post Thousands of Climate Change Documents Online
Computer hackers illegally accessed thousands of e-mails and documents from a prominent climate change research center and posted them online last week. The posted materials, stolen from the Climate Research Unit at East Anglia University in the United Kingdom, are raising eyebrows and ethical questions in the scientific community. Correspondence among dozens of researchers around [...]
25 Nov
Senate Votes to Move Forward With Health Care Debate
The Senate on Saturday voted 60-39 to move forward and begin debate on health care reform legislation, H.R. 3590, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. All Democratic and Independent members of the Senate voted in favor of moving forward with debate on the measure, while all Republicans who were present (one was absent) voted [...]
25 Nov
Coalition Stresses Importance of Trade for Agriculture
The Ag Trade Coalition has issued a statement on the “Importance of Trade for U.S. Agriculture” to underscore the positive contributions from trade and its importance to the economic recovery and food security of the United States. The coalition, which includes AFBF, noted that exports are essential to the prosperity of U.S. food and agriculture. [...]
24 Nov
Me and CFB
My dad, a lifelong businessman, has always said that ‘if you’re not at the table, you’re on the menu’. This was part of my opening statement in the Final Four round of the YF&R Discussion Meet and this moment, this entire weekend, marked the beginning of an amazing journey. When I first attended a CFB [...]
24 Nov
Ag Education Auction Nets Over $9000
Both the Ag Education live and silent auction at the recent CFB Annual Meeting have raised over $9000 for Ag education in Colorado. Among the highlights was a bidding war between CBFMIC’s Jeff Smith and other insurance employees over a prize winning pie made by Phyllis Snyder. The Executive Workhorse part of the sale set [...]
23 Nov
2009 Annual Meeting a Success!
The 2009 CFB Annual Meeting, held at the Hyatt Regency Denver Tech Center was a huge success and we thank all the members and guests who attended! Stay tuned for updates from the meeting, we will be posting the highlights in the next few days. Until then, please visit the CFB Flicker Page and view [...]
18 Nov
Climate Bill May Not Hit Senate Floor Until July or Later
Climate change legislation is not expected to hit the Senate floor until July, it is possible the bill will be put off until the next Congress “Most of the country doesn’t know what cap-and-trade is. They have no idea. I would say half the Senate has no idea what cap-and-trade is and could not explain [...]
17 Nov
Annual Meeting Preperations Continue
Staff is busily working on final preparations for CFB Annual Meeting at the end of this week.
17 Nov
Ag Education Auction Will be ‘One for the Record Books’
The upcoming Ag Education Auction at the CFB Annual Meeting will be “one for the record books” according to Troy Bredenkamp, CFB Executive Vice President. The Auction will take place on Friday evening, (20th) at 7:30 p.m. in the Grand Mesa room. Members should prepare their bids. In addition to our Executive Workhorse, CFB will [...]
16 Nov
September Pork Exports Regain Momentum; Beef Exports Struggling
September pork plus pork variety meat exports reached nearly 154,000 metric tons (339.5 million pounds) valued at $347.8 million, the highest volume since April 2009, according to statistics released by USDA and compiled by the U.S. Meat Export Federation. September beef plus beef variety meat exports were down slightly from August, with the January-September cumulative [...]
16 Nov
No Advantage to Controlled-atmosphere Chicken Stunning
Controlled-atmosphere stunning (CAS) offers no significant welfare advantage over conventional low-voltage electrical stunning in the commercial processing of chickens, according to a recent study that included Tyson Foods Inc. and Keystone Foods LLC, two suppliers of McDonald’s Corp. As in most parts of the world, there are no large-scale chicken producers in the U.S. that [...]
13 Nov
EPA May Not Meet Deadline on Blend Wall Decision
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency may miss a Dec. 1 deadline for a decision on an industry request to raise the amount of ethanol that can be blended into gasoline, Reuters reported. On March 6, 54 ethanol manufactures asked the EPA to bump up the percentage of ethanol allowed in gasoline to 15 percent from [...]
12 Nov
Senate Warming Bill on the Shelf for 09
According to the Wall Street Journal, key Senate Democrats Tuesday said it is unlikely there will be any more major committee action on climate-change legislation this year, the strongest indication yet that a comprehensive bill to cut greenhouse-gas emissions won’t be voted on until at least next year. Although the Senate Environment Committee last week [...]
12 Nov
Price for Thanksgiving Dinner Drops 4 Percent
Menu items for a classic Thanksgiving dinner including turkey, stuffing, cranberries, pumpkin pie and all the basic trimmings dropped 4 percent in price this year, according to the American Farm Bureau Federation’s 24th annual informal price survey. The price survey of classic items found on the Thanksgiving Day dinner table indicates the average cost of [...]
12 Nov
Lincoln County Annual Meeting
Lincoln County Farm Bureau recently held their annual meeting despite a nasty winter (fall) storm. The roads iced up quickly but members were able to receive their awards and have a hot meal before heading back out into the weather. Charles Hoffman called the meeting to order and introduced Young Farmer & Rancher Representative Jason [...]
12 Nov
Cargill to Administer Vaccines to Sow Herd for H1N1
Cargill is hoping a shipment of vaccinations will arrive in time to treat the company’s sow herd against H1N1, according to Meatingplace. Cargill spokesman Mark Klein said the H1N1 vaccine would be administered to Cargill’s 120,000 pigs as part of the company’s semiannual vaccination program in mid-December. The company should know later this month whether [...]
11 Nov
Executive Workhorse for Sale!
For those of you planning on attending the CFB Annual Meeting, make sure you have plans to attend the Ag Education Auction on Friday November 20th at 7:30 p.m. The Executive Workhorse will again be for sale! It irrigates, it vaccinates, it drives a combine, and much, much more! Dont miss your chance to own [...]
11 Nov
Don’t CAP Our Future Update
Members, Since the introduction of the Don’t CAP Our Future Campaign, you have done a great job signing caps, signature cards and posters. I encourage you to continue to do so. Ask your neighbors to sign the online petition. So far there have only been 25 people from Colorado sign the AFBF online petition and [...]
10 Nov
December, January Crop Report Will Be Scrutinized Due to Late Harvest
WASHINGTON, D.C., November 10, 2009—Wet and cold weather over much of the country in October put a dent in corn and cotton yields, but the Agriculture Department is still forecasting corn yields will be the highest on record and total corn production will be the second highest on record. USDA released its November crop report [...]
10 Nov
It Begins…
EPA Sends White House Finding on Greenhouse Gas Endangerment On Monday, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced it sent the White House Office of Management and Budget its proposed finding that greenhouse gases endanger human health and welfare, according to a posting on the Wall Street Journal’s Environmental Capital blog. Adoption of that endangerment finding [...]
10 Nov
HSUS to Continue Legislative Push
Nebraska, Missouri and Illinois appear to be the next three states being targeted by the Human Society of the United States (HSUS) for animal rights initiatives. Larry Sitzman, executive director of the Nebraska Pork Producers Association, says Nebraska livestock groups are already discussing strategy. He says Ohio’s successful Issue 2, establishing a livestock care standards [...]
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