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December 29, 2017
44 THINGS TO DO IN THE NEW YEAR
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• Set up a meeting with
your accountant, banker and
financial adviser to develop a
financial game plan.
• Stand in the middle of a
field, take a deep breath, and
listen. Just listen.
• Talk about your plans
with your wife (or husband)
and the rest of your family.
• Take time to read
something important to you.
If you’ve already done that,
read it again.
• Figure out how to put the
internet to work for you.
• Ask yourself: What do I
want to be doing in five years?
Ten years? Plan accordingly.
• Get involved. Decisions
are made by the people who
show up.
• Count your blessings.
• Make a point to say,
“Please,” “Thank you” and
“I’m sorry.”
• Don’t assume you know
everything.
• Do something just for
fun.
• Admit your mistakes.
• Get plenty of sleep.
• Try one new thing this
year.
• Laugh every day.
• Contribute to a church,
charity, nonprofit organization
— or all of the above. If you
don’t have any spare money,
give them some spare time.
• Get a physical exam.
• Have your wife (or
husband) get a physical, too.
• Pick one thing to change
about your farm, and do it.
• Pick one thing you need
to do more, and do it.
• Pick one thing you need
to stop doing, and stop it.
• Tell your wife (or
husband) “I love you” every
day.
• Ask yourself every day:
“What am I doing, and why
am I doing it?”
• Never give up.
• If you haven’t already, set
aside money for a rainy day.
• Learn something new
every day.
• Subscribe (or renew your
subscription) to the Capital
Press.
• Figure out a way to save
10 minutes every day on your
chores. That’s 3,650 minutes
per year, or 2 1/2 days, that
you will have “made.”
• Don’t do anything you
wouldn’t want to read about
on the front page of the
newspaper.
• Don’t be afraid to cry.
• Help out a 4-H or FFA
group.
• If you don’t have a hobby,
find one.
• Do your best work all the
time.
• Be a mentor. Farmers
who are just starting out need
all the help they can get. You
did.
• And when you’ve finished
for the day, Thank God you’re
a farmer.
Environmental groups wanted to regulate CAFOs
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leftover from the Obama
administration and develop
a reliable method for esti-
mating farm emissions. The
agency then will be able to
identify how to control them,
he wrote.
“Until the EPA more ful-
ly understands the level and
sources of emissions of dif-
ferent pollutants, it would be
premature for the agency to
decide which (Clean Water
Act) regulatory tool or tools
could be most effectively ap-
plied to protect public health
and welfare from these emis-
sions,” according to Pruitt.
Other petitioners includ-
ed the Waterkeeper Alliance,
Sierra Club, Environmental
Integrity Project, Friends of
the Earth and the Association
of Irritated Residents. The
groups sued the EPA in 2015
and again this year alleging
the agency was taking too
long to make a decision.
The Obama administration
also took the position that it
needed a more accurate way
to estimate emissions before
Wildlife Services is now
keeping eye on seven-wolf
pack in Boise foothills area
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Courtesy USDA
Cows stand at a feedlot in Nebraska. The Environmental Protection Agency has rejected a petition
by environmental groups to regulate concentrated animal feeding operations like factories under the
Clean Air Act. notforsale
invoking the Clean Air Act,
according to court records.
Some of the same environ-
mental groups successfully
sued the EPA in another case
related to animal agriculture.
The D.C. Circuit Court of
Appeals ordered the EPA to
require farms to register with
the National Response Center
if their animals give off more
than 100 pounds of ammo-
nia or hydrogen sulfide in 24
hours.
The court is expected to
finalize the order Jan. 22.
EPA has offered worksheets
to help farms calculate emis-
sions, but says there is no
generally accepted way to
make the estimate.
Just having wolves in the
area can cause cattle to put on
less weight and reduce their
breed-back percentage, both
of which can cost ranchers a
significant amount of money,
he said.
“Any time there is an ad-
ditional predator around that
can cause a hit on a rancher’s
bottom line, that’s not great
news,” Mulrony said.
Jennifer Struthers, a region-
al wolf biologist with the Idaho
Department of Fish and Game,
said there is typically one or
two wolf sightings a year in
the foothills area during the
winter time, when elk and deer
come down onto winter range.
Outside of those sporadic
sightings, not much is known
about the predators, she said.
“The wolves come down
because the game come
down,” Struthers said. “We
get a few sightings most win-
ters by the public or when
we fly. Where they go in the
spring and summer time, we
really don’t know.”
Idaho Farm Bureau Feder-
ation Broadcast Services Man-
ager Jake Putnam said local
sheepherders reported a couple
wolf sightings in March but no
depredations were associated
with the animals.
“It doesn’t come as a sur-
prise to Idaho Farm Bureau
that wolves are that close
to the city,” he said. “There
have been sightings of wolves
there in years past, but this is
the first time a pack has been
reported and this is a concern
to us.”
According to Wildlife Ser-
vices, there have been sev-
en confirmed wolf livestock
depredations in Ada County
since the predators were re-in-
troduced to Idaho in the mid-
1990s.
Those depredations have
occurred higher up in the
mountain areas, said IDFG
spokesman Mike Keckler.