| PNW EXPORT WHEAT SALES -- March 8, 2010 |
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| WHEAT: Japanese Food Agency was
the only export wheat buyer last week. |
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| That nation
purchased |
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16,000 metric tons of maximum 10.5 percent
protein western white wheat |
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25,000 metric tons of minimum 11.7 percent
protein hard red winter wheat |
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4,000
metric tons of 14 percent protein dark northern spring wheat |
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all for shipment April 21st to May 20th |
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| Quotes: For
February shipment |
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| White Wheat any
protein $4.60 |
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| White Club
Wheat, any protein $8.27 |
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| No. 1 Hard red
winter wheat-ordinary and 10 percent $4.63 |
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11 percent $5.12 |
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11.5 percent $5.38 |
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12 percent $5.57 |
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12 percent $5.49 |
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13 percent $5.87 |
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| No. 1 dark
northern spring wheat 12 percent $NA |
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13 percent $5.77 |
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14 percent $6.77 |
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15 percent $7.83 |
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| Oregon Feed and
Grain Convention Dates : The 2010 annual meeting
of the |
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Feed and Grain Association will be held April 30th to May 2nd at The |
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| Riverhouse
Resort, Bend, Oregon. Room reservations should be made directly |
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| with
the River House, Bend, Oregon at 800-547-3928. Cut off date is March 29, |
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| 2010.
Indicate you are with the Oregon Feed and Grain group. |
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| The
program is in the process of being finalized. Speakers confirmed at this |
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| time include
Richard Sellers, American Feed Industry Association; Sonny |
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| Sonny
Ramaswamy, dean, college of Agricultural Sciences, Oregon State |
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| University ;
Representative Gene Whisnant, District
53, Sunriver, Oregon ; |
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| Oregon
candidate for Governor Allen Alley ; and Richard TenEyck, Oregon |
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| Department
of Agriculture. The association is awaiting confirmation on an |
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| animal
rights speaker, and two others. The association will see the return of
the |
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| popular
casino night following the annual banquet on Saturday. Golf will be |
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| played
at the River House course Saturday at noon. Other social functiions will |
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| include
an opening reception, Saturday a.m. breakfast and Sunday a.m. closing |
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| breakfast and
meeting. |
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| Board of
Directors Conducting Membership Campaign: The Board of |
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| Directors
of the Oregon Feed and Grain Association has challenged its |
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| members to
a membership drive. |
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| Each
board member will recommend 10 new members and send them |
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| applications
for membership. Then they will follow up with the assistance of the |
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| association
office. Thus far thirteen new members have signed up. They are |
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| Scott
Koehn, Balchem Corp, and Brian Wilkins, Arm and Hammer Animal |
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| Nutrition;
Brandon Foote, Redmond Minerals, Inc., Redmond, Utah; and Matt |
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| Gottbers,
Kemin Industries, Meridian, Idaho; Bob Murtha, Matson Integrated, |
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| Tualatin,
Ore.; Keith Moring, Brenntag, Portland, Ore.; Sam Melamed, Valudor |
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| Products,
Rancho Santa Fe, Cal.; and Fred Nye, Min-Ad, 3131 Bell St., Suite |
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| 101,
Amarillo, TX; Bob Buckley, Standlee Hay Co., Eden, ID.; Elias Zegarra
and |
| Tim
Evans, Novus International, Santa Rosa, Cal.; Rick Cordiga, North American |
| Salt,
Stanwood, WA. Blake Palen, Westway Feed Products, Hood River, OR.; |
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| Bryce Purtzer,
J&D Fertilizer, Ltd., Canby, OR. Welcome to all new members. |
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| Scholarship Raffle Winner : Don Sneddon of Evonik Degussa is the winner of |
| the annual
scholarship raffle for tickets to a Portland Trail Blazer NBA basketball |
| game. |
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| Death Claims
Rich Pennell: Long time member of the Pacific Northwest
grain |
| trade,
Rich Pennell passed away on February 20th at the age of 82. He was |
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| born
in Craigmont, Idaho. He began his career with Kerr Grain Corporation,
and |
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| North
Pacific Grain Growers. This was followed by working as an editor for the |
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| Commercial
Review for a few years. He then returned to North Pacific Grain |
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| Growers.
At one point he was executive vice president of the National Grain and |
| Feed
Association in Washington, DC. |
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| USDA Announces
Rule Detailing Access To Pasture: The U.S. Department of |
| Agriculture
has unveiled the final rule addressing access to pasture for organic |
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| livestock
operations. This brings to a close a process that started in 2005 when the |
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Organic Standards Board recommended that ruminants obtain a minimum |
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| 30
percent dry matter intake for at least 120 days. The main components of the
rule |
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Animals must graze pasture during the grazing
season, which must be at l |
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east 120 days per year; |
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Animals
must obtain a minimum of 30 percent dry matter intake from grazing |
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pasture during the grazing season |
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Producers
must have a pasture management plan and manage pasture as a |
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crop
to meet the feed requirements for the grazing animals and to protect soil
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water quality, and |
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Livestock
are exempt from the 30 percent dry matter intake requirements |
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during
the finish feeding period, not to exceed 120 days. Livestock must have |
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access to pasture during the finishing phase. |
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| The
final rule becomes effective June 17, 2010. Operations that are already |
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organic will have one year to implement the provisions. Operations that |
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| obtain
organic certification after the effective date will be expected to |
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compliance. |
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