October 23, 2015
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Dairy/Livestock
Idaho dairymen, with cow in tow,
Roller coasters, deliver pizzas to stunned customers
yo-yos and
Dairy
Markets
Lee Mielke
By SEAN ELLIS
dairy markets
By LEE MIELKE
For the Capital Press
W
hat do elevators, roll-
er coasters, and yo-
yos have in common
with dairy markets? They all
have their ups and downs, and
right now cash dairy markets
are falling as traders anticipated
the Global Dairy Trade Auction,
the September Milk Production
report and the September Cold
Storage report.
CME Cheddar block cheese
closed the third Friday of Octo-
ber at $1.6650 per pound, down
3 1/2-cents on the week and 62
1/4-cents below a year ago.
The Cheddar barrels closed
at $1.64, up 2 cents on the week
but 43 cents below a year ago.
Three cars of block traded hands
on the week and 10 of barrel.
The blocks lost 2 cents Mon-
day and another 2 cents on Tues-
day, sliding to $1.6250. The bar-
rels dropped a nickel Monday
and a penny Tuesday, dipping
to $1.58.
The spot butter, after losing
almost 72 cents the last two
weeks, plus 6 3/4s last Mon-
day, headed back up Thursday
and closed Friday at $2.45 per
pound, up 3 1/4-cents on the
week and 45 cents above a year
ago when it plummeted 80 1/2
cents, to $2 per pound. Seven
cars traded hands last week at
the CME.
The spot price jumped 8
cents Monday only to drop 9
cents Tuesday, to $2.44.
Cash Grade A nonfat dry
milk finished Friday at 89 cents
per pound, down 10 1/2-cents
on the week and 49 cents be-
low a year ago. Two cars were
sold on the week.
Capital Press
EAGLE, Idaho — Several
people in Eagle, Idaho, who
ordered pizzas Oct. 16 were
stunned when a cow and dairy-
man showed up on their door-
step with the delivery.
“Wow,” said Kirk Scolari,
after opening his front door
to find a heifer and Meridian
dairyman Clint Jackson deliv-
ering his pizza. “This is a fun
deal.”
He was one of several peo-
ple who got the surprise de-
livery after ordering a pizza
from Rocky Mountain Pizzeria
Grill.
The United Dairymen of
Idaho partnered on the idea
with Smoky Mountain, which
uses only Idaho cheese on its
pizzas and promotes Idaho
dairy families on its menu.
Sean Ellis/Capital Press
Kirk Scolari, with pizza box, and his wife, Tillie, are stunned to find
an Idaho dairyman and a cow on their doorstep Oct. 16. United
Dairymen of Idaho partnered with a local pizza restaurant on the
surprise deliveries, which were meant to connect consumers with
Idaho’s dairy industry.
The idea was to connect
consumers with where their
dairy products come from in
a very close-to-the-farm way,
said UDI spokeswoman Cindy
Miller.
“What better way to con-
nect consumers with where
their food comes from than
to deliver a pizza with Idaho
cheese on it, from an Idaho
dairy farmer and a dairy cow?”
she said. “It’s bringing the
farm to them.”
“Some people may say it’s
gimmicky but we think it’s just
a fun way to engage every-day
consumers with an unexpected
surprise,” Miller said.
Kuna dairyman John Wind
said he didn’t hesitate when
UDI officials asked him to par-
ticipate in the event. He hosted
a media tour on his operation
last year and said he’s a big be-
liever in reaching out to con-
sumers.
“I jumped right on it,” he
said. “What a cool idea, to go
make that connection from
farm to dinner table.”
October is national pizza
month and dairy is Idaho’s
main farm commodity in terms
of farm-gate receipts. UDI of-
ficials said another purpose
of the event was to highlight
to consumers how important
dairy is to the state’s economy.
On each surprise deliv-
ery, the pizza was delivered
by Wind or Jackson, as well
as “Bossy,” an FFA heifer. A
gaggle of UDI officials and
the dairymen’s families joined
in and the procession turned
heads in the neighborhoods
they visited.
“I think it’s a great way for
us to connect with the consum-
er and let them know the key
role we have in providing this
product by bringing the pizza
to them,” Jackson said. “Peo-
ple in the city a lot of times
don’t get a chance to see a
cow up close. I think it’s a fun
concept.”
Plans for Mormon cattle ranch stir controversy
DESERET RANCH, Fla.
(AP) — Under one of the big-
gest land development plans
ever proposed in Florida, a
tract more than six times the
size of Manhattan could be
transformed from a home for
cows and alligators into new
housing developments for
half a million people.
Over the next six decades,
the plan being developed by
the Mormon church-owned
Deseret Ranch promises to
convert the largest undevel-
oped section of metro Orlan-
do into more than a dozen
bustling neighborhoods. In
the process, it would radical-
ly reshape Osceola County, a
suburb that has been transi-
tioning from cowboy culture
into a major destination for
Puerto Ricans moving to the
mainland.
Opponents say the plan to
convert cattle pastures to cul-
de-sacs could destroy tens of
thousands of acres of import-
ant habitat near the headwaters
of the St. Johns River flowing
north and the Kissimmee Riv-
er flowing south. They also
worry that Osceola County
has been doing the bidding of
Deseret Ranch, one of the na-
tion’s largest ranches. County
commissioners approved the
ranch’s plan unanimously in
September and now it awaits
a state review.
“There are no checks and
balances happening,” said
Karina Veaudry, a landscape
architect, who is with the
Florida Native Plants Society.
“The county has been bending
over backward pretty much to
do whatever they say.”
But other environmental-
ists who once opposed De-
seret’s proposal have dropped
their objections, saying the
plan shifts population growth
to east of the county’s ur-
ban core, rather than to its
south where development
might pose a greater threat
to the headwaters of the Ev-
erglades. They also say it’s
better to have a comprehen-
sive plan rather than breaking
off 1,000-acre tracts at a time
for piecemeal development.
Osceola County currently is
about three-quarters rural.
“The future of that prop-
erty is better with this plan,
than the plan not being there,”
said Charles Lee, director of
advocacy for Audubon Flori-
da. “Doing it on a large scale
gives you a lot of possibilities
for preservation.”
The plan looks ahead six
decades for property that the
Church of Jesus Christ of Lat-
ter-day Saints began purchas-
ing more than six decades
ago. The church began ac-
quiring ranchlands in 1950 to
have resources for food pro-
duction in times of need. The
ranch now has 42,000 cattle
and more than 80 workers,
and straddles three counties in
an area nestled between two
of central Florida’s iconic in-
stitutions: Walt Disney World
to its west and the Kennedy
Space Center to its northeast.
“This is the way we’re go-
ing to grow for the next 60
years, maybe 100 years,” said
Commissioner Fred Hawkins
before the vote.
Deseret Ranch general
manager Erik Jacobsen called
the development plan a way
to meet growth pressures
smartly in what’s expected
to be one of the nation’s fast-
est growing regions in the
coming decades. He said it
will be bicycle- and-pedestri-
an-friendly and an economic
boon, connecting Orlando’s
medical research hub south
of the airport with tech com-
panies along the Space Coast.
The county, one of the na-
tion’s fastest-growing, cur-
rently has a population of
310,000, expanding by 15
percent since 2010.
5 Key Breast Cancer Findings From
32-Year Cancer Prevention Study
The American Cancer Society began its
third major long-term follow-up study in
1982, enrolling approximately 1.2 million
American men and women. This
nationwide study, called Cancer
Prevention Study II (CPS-II) – and its
companion study, the CPS-II Nutrition
Cohort – have yielded mountains of
cancer insights – including numerous
breast cancer insights.
By following initially cancer-
free adults for many years,
Society researchers are able to
closely track who gets cancer
and then can work to figure
out why. They do this by
analyzing the information (such
as weight or eating habits) and
biospecimens that participants
provided (such as blood and
DNA samples) to figure out
possible lifestyle, medical, environmental
and biologic factors that contribute to a
higher risk of developing the disease.
CPS-II data have – and continue to – shed
light on some of the major potential causes
and pathways to
prevention of breast
cancer in particular.
The following are 5
key findings about
breast cancer from
CPS-II:
1. Walking helps women lower their risk of breast
cancer: A CPS-II analysis of more than 73,000 post-
menopausal women found that those who walked at
least 7 hours per week were 14% less likely to develop
breast cancer after menopause.
2. Losing weight and keeping it off could reduce
breast cancer risk: An analysis of data from the CPS-II
Nutrition Cohort suggests that losing 10 or more
pounds and keeping it off for at least 5 years might
reduce breast cancer risk among postmenopausal
women.
3. Gaining weight significantly increases the likelihood
of developing breast cancer: A study of women from
CPS-II has shown that those who put on 60 or more
pounds after age 18 double their risk of a post-
menopausal breast cancer diagnosis.
4. Smoking may increase risk of breast cancer for
women: A study of women from CPS-II suggested that
those who smoke – especially those who drink alcohol
and smoke – are at increased risk for developing
breast cancer. Additionally, women who started
smoking at an earlier age were at an even higher risk
for breast cancer.
5. Understanding common genetic variations may
help to predict breast cancer risk: CPS-II data and
biospecimens have been used as part of a larger
collaborative study that has enabled researchers to
identify or confirm most of the common genetic
variants associated with increased risk of breast cancer
in women. The more genetic variations linked to
breast cancer that scientists find, the more useful the
information will be for understanding why some
women are at high-risk of getting the disease.
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