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February 12, 2016
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Glanbia names top-quality producers
Capital Press
Kowz R Us Dairy, owned
and operated by Harry Hoogland
at Castleford, Idaho, has been
named Glanbia’s 2015 Quality
Patron of the Year.
The award comes with a
commemorative plaque and an
all-expense paid trip for two to
Ireland.
“It’s all about consistency,”
Hoogland stated in a Glanbia
press release.
“Our team works closely
with the veterinarian, nutri-
tionist, employees and our in-
side-outside foremen. If we ind
our somatic cell count increas-
ing or if we have several new
employees, we will pull together
milk training,” he said.
That training is facilitated by
the Castleford High School ag-
riculture teacher, who provides
a translator. The training helps
everyone understand the ex-
pectations of running the dairy,
Hoogland said.
The annual patron award
rotates between small, medium
and large dairies. To be rec-
ognized for the award, Glan-
bia’s milk suppliers must meet
strict quality standards over 12
months, paying close attention
to all facets of dairy operations,
Glanbia stated.
“Kowz R Us Dairy is a cul-
mination of many years of dairy
experience in Idaho.” said Russ
De Kruyf, Glanbia’s director of
milk procurement.
A photograph from the “Public Lands Hunt Club” Facebook page.
Multiple Facebook posters have criticized the page and asked that
it be taken down.
Carol Ryan Dumas/Capital Press
Harry Hoogland, right, talks with John Brubaker during an Idaho Dairymen’s Association district
meeting in Twin Falls in January. Hoogland has been named Glanbia’s 2015 Quaity Patron of the Year.
Brubaker was also recognized as one of Glanbia’s top quality milk producers.
Hoogland and his family
were among the early trans-
plants from California in the late
1960s. They saw the potential
for the dairy industry in Idaho
and paved the way for those
who followed, he said.
“Harry and (wife) Vicki have
been very successful and are
well respected in the Buhl and
Castleford area. They surround
themselves with excellent part-
ners, managers and employees.
Harry has some of the most
dedicated long-term employees,
and it is evident in their milk
quality,” he said.
The Hooglands have been
Glanbia patrons for the last 10
years, and Glanbia has had the
privilege of Hoogland’s insight
and advice on its patron adviso-
ry board for most of that time,
said Daragh Maccabee, Glanbia
senior vice president of procure-
ment and dairy economics.
“We would like to thank
Harry, Vicki and all at Kowz R
Us Dairy for their commitment
to excellence over the years and
congratulate them on their rich-
ly deserved award for 2015,” he
said.
The grand prize drawing
for an additional all-expenses
paid trip for two to Ireland was
awarded to Lael and Justine
Schoessler of No-View Dairy of
Kimberly, which was also rec-
ognized for quality production.
Other dairies recognized
with awards for quality milk
production were:
Buhl: Alania Dairy, Knott-
Run Farms, Kral Dairy and
Robert and Monica De Kruyf.
Gooding: Ballard Dairy and
Big Sky West
Jerome: Aardema-St. Brid-
get Dairy, Aardema Dairy No.
7, Millenkamp Milkers No.
1, Ted Baar Dairy, Toledo-T3
Dairy, Toledo Dairy and Valen-
cia Dairy.
Richield: Bill Johnston
Dairy, R and L Lezamiz Dairy,
and Robinson & Sorensen
Dairy.
Shoshone: 4 Bros Dairy No.
1, 4 Bros Dairy No. 3, 4 Bros
Dairy No. 5, U.S. Dairy
Terreton: Sunview Dairy
No. 3
Twin Falls: Lane Franco
Dairy, Manuel Faria Dairy
Wendell: DeJong Dairy,
Dinis Dairy No. 1, Dinis
Dairy No. 2, Rietkerk Dairy
No. 2, Sunview Dairy No. 2,
Toledo T&F Dairy, Van Dyk
& Sons Dairy and West Point
Dairy.
Washington cattlemen in beef over promotion fees
By DON JENKINS
Capital Press
Don Jenkins/Capital Press
Washington Sen. Brian Dansel, shown at a Senate Agriculture
Committee meeting Feb. 2, says he doubts a majority of producers
supports doubling fees that support the state Beef Commission.
Beef Board.
The other dollar goes to
the Washington Beef Com-
mission, a state agency that
received a little more than $1
million last year and dipped
into reserves to cover a slight
budget deicit.
The commission’s execu-
tive director, Patti Brumbach,
said in an interview that inla-
tion and declining cattle sales
have eroded the agency’s an-
nual advertising budget over
the past eight years to about
$320,00 from $600,000.
To adjust, the commis-
sion has narrowed its target
audience to young parents
in Western Washington and
shifted advertising from radio
and TV to social media web-
sites, she said.
Cattlemen’s Association
Executive Vice President Jack
Field told the Senate Agricul-
ture Committee that doubling
support for the Beef Com-
mission was embraced at the
group’s state convention in
November.
Several ranchers vouched
for that position, telling sena-
tors that the Beef Commission
was a valuable advocate, par-
ticularly to urban audiences.
“There are groups out here
that just as soon the cattle
industry go away, and we’re
ighting that daily,” Snohom-
ish County Cattlemen’s Asso-
ciation President Jerry Labish
said.
The Cattle Feeders’ execu-
tive director, Ed Field, said in
an interview that his organiza-
tion also sees the commission
as a wise investment.
“We are totally in support
of the increase,” he said.
Dansel questioned wheth-
er the fee hike really had
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OLYMPIA — Cattlemen
hotly debated a bill Thursday
to double the fees ranchers
pay to support the Washington
Beef Commission.
The Washington Cat-
tlemen’s Association and
Washington Cattle Feeders
Association support raising
the per-head assessment that
cattle sellers pay to the com-
mission to $2 from $1.
The Cattle Producers of
Washington, however, oppos-
es the increase, and a north-
east Washington lawmaker
said he’s heard from “hun-
dreds” of cattlemen in the past
few days who don’t want to
pay more to the commission.
“I think if you had a poll
done of the cattle producers
throughout the state of Wash-
ington, this would fail misera-
bly,” said Sen. Brian Dansel,
R-Republic.
The rift was exposed at a
hearing on Senate Bill 6638,
which would authorize raising
the beef checkoff.
For the past 15 years, cat-
tle sellers have paid $1.50 a
head, with 50 cents support-
ing the national Cattlemen’s
widespread support, espe-
cially after Moses Lake cattle
breeder Mark Ellis read to the
committee names of ranchers
from several counties who he
said opposed the fee increase.
The Cattle Producers’ trea-
surer, Nate Hare, told senators
that the fee increase was far
more than the commission
needed to balance its budget.
He questioned whether the
Beef Commission was the an-
swer to cattlemen’s problems
and said that the commission
hasn’t explained how it would
spend the new revenue. “We
haven’t heard where it’s go-
ing, and where it’s going to be
spent,” he said.
Doubling the fees could be
expected to bring the commis-
sion another $1 million. The
commission board’s goals
include promoting beef’s nu-
tritional value and burnishing
the industry’s image, but it
hasn’t made a detailed plan on
how it would spend the mon-
ey, Brumbach said. “I think
the majority would go toward
advertising,” she said.
The Senate committee’s
chairwoman, Moses Lake
Republican Judy Warnick,
passed the bill through her
committee Thursday. Other-
wise, the bill would have died
for this year. The bill must still
be approved by the full Senate
before going to the House,
and Warnick said she hoped
the cattlemen’s groups could
resolve their differences.
Dansel opposed keeping
the fee increase alive. He said
that in the past few days, as
more ranchers learned about
proposal, “hundreds of cat-
tle producers (have been)
calling, emailing, text mes-
saging, saying to oppose this
whole-heartedly.”
By ERIC MORTENSON
Capital Press
A Facebook page that
mockingly calls for shooting
cattle that are illegally grazing
on public land has riled pro-
ducers and generated dozens
of heated responses.
But all indications are it’s
fake, a parody intended to
make people angry in the wake
of the Ammon Bundy group
taking over the Malheur Na-
tional Wildlife Refuge south
of Burns, Ore. Among other
things, the occupiers demand-
ed that federally managed land
be turned over to the people
and urged ranchers to tear up
their grazing permits.
The “Public Lands Hunt
Club” page is an apparent re-
sponse.
“Since the Bundy Militia
has secured public lands for
the good of the people all Fed-
eral restrictions are null and
void. Cattle season is open!”
it says.
The hunt club “rules” go on
to say “members” should only
target cattle owned by ranch-
ers who have renounced their
public-land grazing permits,
and that cattle that are grazing
legally should be left alone.
Cattle found in areas near
“militia occupied lands” are
“fair game,” however.
“Shoot straight. Be safe.
Have fun,” the club page con-
cludes.
The page includes posts
from people claiming to have
shot cattle. Photos of supposed
hunters and their “prey” ap-
pear to have been badly Pho-
toshopped.
One poster on the page
links to a news account of
two men arrested in Umatilla
County on charges of killing a
cow on private property. How-
ever, an Oregon State Police
account of the arrests indicates
they were local residents who
partially butchered the animal.
Otherwise, OSP has no in-
formation of any cows illegal-
ly killed or “anything related
to that FB page,” spokesman
Lt. Bill Fugate said in an email.
Multiple Facebook posters
have criticized the page and
asked that it be taken down.
The Oregon Cattlemen’s
Association is monitoring the
page, spokeswoman Kayli
Hanley said.
The OCA has provided
information to “authorities”
about the “illegal message” on
the Facebook page, she said.
She would not elaborate.
“We encourage our mem-
bers to continue to post their
own positive experiences of
ranching through their own
pages and avoid engaging
with groups like this one,”
Hanley said by email.
The Capital Press sent
a Facebook message to the
page, asking for an explana-
tion, but received no reply.
Cheese holding, butter slipping
By LEE MIELKE
For the Capital Press
C
ash dairy prices showed
some strength the irst
week of February de-
spite the week’s GDT auction
plunge, but expectations ar-
en’t so strong.
CME cash Cheddar blocks
closed Friday at $1.47 per
pound, up a penny on the
week but 6 1/2-cents below a
year ago. The barrels inished
at $1.4650, up 3 1/2-cents
on the week and 1 3/4-cents
below a year ago. Two cars
of block traded hands on the
week and none of barrel.
The blocks and barrels
were unchanged both Monday
and Tuesday.
Midwestern cheese pro-
duction remains active with a
more than adequate milk sup-
ply, according to Dairy Mar-
ket News.
The ever-resilient butter,
after dropping 12 1/4-cents
Monday, regained 10 1/4
cents, then lost 3 cents on
Friday, to close at $2.17, 5
cents lower on the week but
37 1/2-cents above a year
ago. Twenty-three cars traded
hands on the week.
The spot gave up another
Dairy
Markets
Lee Mielke
penny and a half Monday and
2 cents Tuesday, slipping to
$2.1350 per pound.
Eyes were particularly on
last week’s sales, in view of
the CME’s change of policy
requiring the Double A Grade
on product offered there but
Jerry Dryer, editor of the Dairy
and Food Market Analyst,
said in Friday’s DairyLine
that he didn’t believe the pol-
icy change caused Monday’s
dip or the following rebound.
He doesn’t see a huge falloff
after the Super Bowl, at least
not on butter, because Easter
is early this year.
CME Grade A nonfat dry
milk dropped 2 1/4-cents by
Tuesday but gained it back
and then some, closing Fri-
day at 75 cents per pound, up
3 1/4-cents from the previ-
ous week but 31 cents below
a year ago, with 16 cars sold
last week.
The powder was un-
changed Monday but lost 2
cents Tuesday and slipped to
73 cents per pound.
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Bill would double
Beef Commission’s
state revenue
Cattlemen criticize phony
‘Hunt Club’ Facebook page
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