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6A – Daily News – Saturday, September 18, 2010 Agriculture & farm Will it rain on Saturday? The Beef ‘N Brew commit- tee will move the dance with Rough Cut band and the beef tri tip sandwich and micro-brew to the Veterans Hall if it is too wet in the evening. Otherwise, we will enjoy an outdoor street dance at the Cone Kimball Clock Tower from 7 to 10 p.m. The judges of the beef appetizers, Bev Ross, Bar- bara McIver and Vic Wool- ery, will be tasting the entries from Jack the Ribber in front of Norm’s Printing, Durango RV will be in front of Tremont Café & Cream- ery and Two Buds will be in front of Crystal Art. Ron Judsen will be in front of Dales Carpet with his barbecued beef appetiz- er, Tehama Angus Ranch will be in front of Plum Crazy and Stephanie McKenzie of Natural Beef will be in front of Discover Earth. The merchants also will have beef appetizers for judging. California Kitchen & Co; Heartfelt Designs Gallery; Crystal Art & Apparel; TJ’s Antiques, Gifts and Sweet Shop; First Love Tattoo. Other stores that will have beef appetizers with their micro brews are Gayle’s; Village Pottery; Sparrow Fine Art & Antiques; Prairie Rose Boutique; Discover Earth; Balloons & More; Dales Carpet & Design; Montana Morrison Art gallery and Taste of Tehama. In order to sample the micro brews between 5 and 7 p.m. and to attend the dance, you must have a wrist band, which ranch Beef ‘N Brew — Rain or Shine never, or very rarely, ever attacked humans) have been proven false by Candice Berner's fate. *** Ag Coalition Calls For Repeal of Onerous 1099 Rules The National Cattle- men’s Beef Association (NCBA) and 26 other ag organizations have sent a letter to U.S. Rep. Dan Lun- gren of California request- ing a repeal of new Internal Revenue Service Form 1099 filing requirements. Under new reporting rules set to take effect in 2012, a Form 1099 must be issued to any incorporated vendors or unincorporated service providers paid more than $600 during a tax year. The ag coalition indicated this will cover virtually all busi- ness-to-business transac- tions. Courtesy photo Judith and Farrell Shatswell admire the ribeye steaks at the Tehama District Jr. Livestock Auction presale dinner. and Horseshoe art by Joel and Erin Sire. Beef from Tehama Angus Ranch, jewelry by Jenny Marcum, gourds and wood objects from Grace Gresser, Phyllis Pentcaff has stained glass and flame- less candle warmers by Shaleen Swanson. *** At the moment, we don’t have wolves in Cali- fornia, but we do have mountain lions. Jean Barton you will purchase at the Clock Tower. Chilren can sample the beef appetizers without a wrist band. There will be vendors on Main and Walnut Streets, to name a few: Susan Ratclif- fee with photography, Terry Compton Friedmann with handmade jewelry, leather goods by Wayne McCraw U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy's Aug. 5 decision to restore full endangered species protec- tion to the Cana- dian gray wolf in Idaho, Mon- tana and Wyoming virtually guarantees that more people will fall victim to the prolif- erating and increasingly brazen predators. In addi- tion, elk populations as well as populations of other wild ungulates — moose, deer, goats, sheep, bison — may be driven to near extinction levels in many parts of the Rocky Mountain Northwest due to wolf predation. Ranchers also have experi- enced a sharp increase in wolf killings of cattle and sheep, enough so that some cattlemen and sheepmen have been driven into bank- ruptcy. In March, Candice Bern- er, a 32-year-old school- teacher, was killed by wolves near Chignik Lake, Alaska. In mid- August, members of Berner's family from Pennsylvania gathered on Three Star, a mountain near Perryville, Alaska for a memorial service for Can- dice. An AP story of the memorial gives the follow- ing brief account of the young teacher's last day alive. “Ms. Berner, a petite, accomplished athlete, who studied education at Slip- pery Rock University, was a special education teacher. She had just finished her day teaching at Chignik Lake, another of the small communities dotting the Alaska Peninsula, back on March 8 when she decided to go running on the road to the village airstrip.” Unbeknownst to Can- dice Berner, a pair of wolves was stalking that same road and, as the AP story recounts, “Ms. Berner, alone, unarmed, with head- phones blocking all cues, became their instant prey. Area residents on a snow- machine who came down the road shortly thereafter saw blood on the road and found her body.” Wolf attacks on humans have been relatively rare over the past century in comparison, for example, to bear attacks. However, claims by environmental activists and their sympa- thizers in the major media that wolves never attack humans (and historically “The business of produc- ing food, fiber and fuel is a hands-on venture where productivity and competi- tiveness is compromised by government rules and regu- lations that turn producers into bookkeepers,” the letter read. “Prompt action is needed by Congress to reverse this onerous tax reporting requirement.” Among groups signing the letter were the American Farm Bureau Federation, American Soybean Associ- ation, Farm Credit Council, National Association of Wheat Growers, National Corn Growers Association, National Council of Farmer Cooperatives and National Milk Producers Federation. If we buy more than $601 of hay or have a vet- erinary bill of more than $601, we would have to issue a Form 1099 to the vendor. Imagine the hassle of collecting tax identifica- tion numbers from all the vendors that sell us and other ranchers $601 or more worth of product during a year. Think of a bull sale, when all the buyers had to issue a 1099 form for a bull purchased. I understand this new reporting rule slipped through when the Health Care bill was signed. *** The California Cattle- Women’s book “Some Cal- ifornia Ranches, their sto- ries and their brands” is $20, and can be purchased at Heartfelt Designs Gallery. The Gathering at Red Bluff Bull Sale, Sept. 4, at the fairgrounds saw 48 Angus bulls sell for an aver- age of $2,681. Auctioneer was Trent Stewart, and sale manager was James Danekas & Associates. High selling bull was $6,250 paid by Bengard Ranches, of Sali- nas and Red Bluff to West- wind Angus Ranch, Red Bluff. Courtesy photo Jenny McCluskey and Abby Brown are both 8th grade students at Gerber School exhibiting market swine as Independent Exhibitors at the Tehama District Fair. The girls wanted to do a community project to give back to the Red Bluff community and decided on a good old- fashioned bake sale to raise money for Blues for the Pool. They baked all kinds of cookies, muffins, brownies and cupcakes and held a bake sale at the Red Bluff Junior Round-Up last weekend. They raised $87 at the bake sale and donated a total of $100 to the 400 Club.