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January 22, 2016
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Klamath sale features more bulls
111 already
consigned for
annual auction
By LEE JUILLERAT
For the Capital Press
KLAMATH FALLS, Ore.
— Nearly double the number
of bulls will be up for bid at
the 56th annual Klamath Bull
& Select Ranch Horse Sale set
for Feb. 4-7 at the Klamath
County Fairgrounds.
Jolene Moxon, cattle man-
ager for the upcoming sale,
said 111 bulls have already
been consigned for the sale.
She attributes the increase to
a variety of factors, including
high prices at last year’s sale
and the cancellation of a bull
sale in Winnemucca, Nev.
Moxon said the sale will
also cater to families and
children, noting, “We have a
lot of fun events we’re real-
ly proud of,” including goat
roping and a kids’ stick horse
boot race. Other programs
include a new two-man team
ranch horse event along with
a Western Trade Show, stock
dog trials, stock horse show,
ranch rodeo, a beef n’ brews
and the CattleWomen’s Din-
ner and Dance.
“It’s one of the traditions
of the community,” Moxon
said of the sale, which show-
cases “many of the best bull
programs in the Northwest.
This all-inclusive, fami-
ly-oriented event has been
a staple for the ranching
and farming community of
the Klamath Basin and sur-
rounding areas to provide
entertainment,
education
and a great venue for the sale
for their livestock.
The sale is sponsored by
the Klamath Cattlemen’s
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with several local sponsors.
Last year, Moxon said the
sale price for 56 head of bulls
averaged $5,397, the select
ranch horse sale averaged
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replacement heifers sale av-
eraged $2,480 per head on
six pens of six animals. She
said this year’s sale will have
nine pens of heifers and an
“amazing” trade show that
has some of the top vendors
from all over the West Coast.
The Western Trade show
will open daily at 9 a.m. Bulls
and heifers will be checked in
starting on Wednesday, Feb.
3.
The live arena action will
begin Thursday, Feb. 4, and
feature the Stock Dog Trials.
The Beef N Brews event that
evening will showcase sever-
al local breweries and winer-
ies, which will be paired with
locally raised beef. Tickets
are available online at www.
klamathbullsale.com.
The following day, bulls
will be sifted and graded
and the Supreme Bull will
be selected. Also scheduled
for Friday, Feb. 5, is the con-
clusion of the Stock Dog Tri-
als. Evening events include
a four-person team brand-
ing and the Klamath County
Cattlewomen’s Dinner and
Dance.
Saturday activities in-
clude the stock horse show,
horse sale, Cattlewomen’s
live auction and ranch rodeo.
The main event begins with
the annual bull sale at 11 a.m.
with the dropping of the auc-
tioneer’s gavel.
Other activities will in-
clude stock horse classes,
stray gathering and the Select
Ranch Horse Sale at 4 p.m.
The KCA Ranch Rodeo be-
gins at 6 and concludes with
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a.m.
Admission tickets will be
available at the door or in ad-
vance at several local retailers
and online at www.klamath-
bullsale.com. Pre-sale tickets
are $6 and include admission
to the Event Center Saturday
and Sunday. Tickets at the
door will be $10. There is
no admission fee for the bull
sale.
For more information for
bull or horse sale entries,
stock dog entries, or trade
show information call Moxon
at 530-513-3782, horse sale
secretary Kris Staebler at 541-
892-2257 or visit the website.
Some Idaho dairies to be regulated as public water systems
By CAROL RYAN DUMAS
Capital Press
TWIN FALLS, Idaho —
Teaming up with the Idaho
Dairymen’s Association, the
state Department of Environ-
mental Quality has begun the
process of bringing large dairies
that qualify under the regulatory
umbrella of public water sys-
tems.
Given the growing number
of lawsuits aimed at dairies, in-
cluding those in Yakima, Wash.,
IDA wants to be sure its mem-
bers have all their regulatory
bases covered, said Rick Naere-
bout, IDA director of operations.
While the requirements are
nothing new, getting dairies into
DEQ’s Drinking Water Program
is, and the agency asked IDA for
help, Naerebout said at an IDA
district meeting in Twin Falls on
Tuesday.
“It’s a good thing for us to
engage with DEQ,” he said.
The regulations will apply
to roughly 60 dairies in the state,
those having 25 or more em-
ployees, he said.
Under the Clean Water Act,
water systems with at least 15
service connections or serv-
ing at least 25 people qualify
as public water systems, said
Albert Crawshaw, DEQ Drink-
ing Water Program manager in
Twin Falls.
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perwork with DEQ, but without
the resources to look at every
well in existence, it’s hard to de-
termine which existing systems
should be regulated as public
systems, he said.
DEQ knows there are dairies
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know how many, he said, add-
ing that IDA estimates that num-
ber at between 50 and 75.
The process of getting dair-
ies into the program has not met
with much success. Miscon-
ceptions about DEQ and what
it does and the unknowns as to
how many people are on a dairy
have been barriers to the pro-
cess, he said.
Dairies that meet the crite-
ria will pay a minimal annual
fee to DEQ and water sampling
fees to an approved laboratory.
Monitoring starts with an initial
inspection and includes a mini-
mum of monthly bacteria sam-
plings, he said.
In addition, sampling for nu-
merous contaminants — such as
arsenic, mercury, xylenes and
PCBs — are required. Facili-
ties in good standing on such
contaminants normally go to
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year, he said.
All sampling must be done
by a licensed water operator, he
said.
IDA is in the process of hir-
ing a licensed operator to as-
sist dairymen in getting ready
for DEQ’s initial inspections.
Dairymen will then be respon-
sible for sampling fees and any
post-inspection services, but the
goal is to give dairymen a “one-
stop shop” in the process of get-
ting on board, Naerebout said.
Dairies are already moni-
tored by Idaho State Department
of Agriculture, but DEQ will be
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Albert Crashaw, left, Idaho Department of Environmental Quality
Drinking Water Program coordinator, talks with Mario de-Haro-Mar-
ti, a University of Idaho extension dairy and livestock environmen-
tal educator, following a DEQ presentation on Public Water System
requirements for some Idaho dairies. The presentation was in Twin
Falls on Jan. 19.
monitoring more than nitrates
and sanitary surveys will be
done with a different set of
rules, said Megan Larson of
DEQ. The DEQ will be mak-
ing sure the water systems ar-
en’t creating any health issues
for employees and that water
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she said.
Butter prices skyrocket, then dip
By LEE MIELKE
For the Capital Press
Dairy
Markets
That bright light in the
clouds last week was not the
sun. CME cash butter was sky-
rocketing again, closing Friday
at $2.25 per pound, up a stargaz-
ing 21 1/2-cents on the week, 70
cents above a year ago, and the
highest it has been since Dec.
10, 2015. Twelve cars were sold
on the week at the CME. As FC
Stone dairy broker Dave Kurza-
wski wrote, “The yellow giant is
alive and well.”
Notice I said butter was sky-
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rocketing. The markets were
closed Monday for the Martin Lu-
ther King holiday but the spot but-
ter plunged 11 3/4-cents Tuesday,
dipping to $2.1325, as the cloud
of Tuesday’s Global Dairy Trade
auction came on the horizon.
The CME also announced
Tuesday that spot traded butter
will no longer have to be graded
AA beginning Feb. 1. Kurza-
wski says, “The removal of the
grading requirements has the
potential to impact the quanti-
ties of product brought to the
exchange and possibly work to
quell the rampant bullish senti-
ment in the marketplace.”
CME block Cheddar
cheese closed the third Fri-
day of January at $1.4950 per
pound, up 3 1/2-cents on the
week and 2 1/2-cents above a
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at $1.5250, down 1 1/2-cents
on the week but 7 1/2-cents
above a year ago and 3 cents
above the blocks.
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