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JEANBARTON KathyFerguson,of Cottonwood, pulled off a clean sweep of all three National Reined Cow Horse Association (NRCHA) Snaffle Bit Fu- turity Discount Tire Non- Pro, Intermediate Non- Pro and Novice Non-Pro championships on Sept. 30, at the Reno-Sparks Livestock Events Center. Ferguson, who arrived in Reno with just over $17,000 in prior NRCHA lifetime earnings, had plenty of experience showing bridle horses and derby horses, but vir- tually no prior futurity experience. She piloted Royal Is- abella — One Time Roy- alty x Oaks Rowdycat x High Brow Cat — to a 644.5 composite score — 217 herd/215.5 rein/212 cow — winning the Non- Pro Championship by a 3-point margin. Ferguson's husband, Dave, was also a Snaffle Bit Futurity Non-Pro fi- nalist, finishing seventh on Metalic Dual — Metal- lic Cat x Dual Whisper x Kit Dual. Kathy said typ- ically, her husband shows the futurity horses and then she takes the reins during their derby years. ••• I found this steer car- cass data for 1979 Ju- nior Livestock Auction with buyers listed: Te- hama Angus Ranch, John Wheeler Logging- 2, Weldcraft Industries, Shasta Livestock Auction- 4, Tehama County Cat- tlemen- 2, Ag Irrigation, PG&E, Production Credit, Red Bluff Bull Sale, Safe- way Stores, Walker & Martin, Hoyt-Cole Cha- pel of Flowers, Burrows Ranch, Wiggley & Sons, Jack's Wholesale Meats. C. Roy Carmichael, Pacific Farms, Bank of America, Whitney & Baird, Shasta County Bank, Tehama Co. Farm Bureau, Ben's Truck- ing, Loren Miller, A.D. Cool Earth Movers, Car- michael & Stricker, R. A. Patrick, Holiday Markets, Better Buy #2, Pat Jen- kins, Federal Land Bank, John Spencer, Nichole Reid. 36 years ago, the heavi- est steer in the sale was 1180 lbs grading Choice minus for Craig Miles, Bowman 4-H. The light- est steer was 875 lbs grading Choice minus for Yvette Owen, Los Moli- nos 4-H. Of the 36 steers, Aaron Borror, El Camino 4-H had the only Choice + steer, 14 were Choice-, 10 steers were Good+, 3 were Good, 4 were Good-, 2 were Standard+, 1 Stan- dard, and 1 Standard mi- nus. The data had been compiled by Farm Ad- visor Ron Knight, , Bill Dykes, USDA Meat Grad- ing Service and Stoeven Bros. Meat Co; Dixon, At the 2016 TDJLAC sale, the steers weighed between 1130 and 1300 lbs. Selective breeding has increased the weight of the market steers over the years. The 330 auction lots had many buyers sup- porting the youth. Hope- fully I didn't miss too many, although several buyers were missed in the thank you advertisement the other day. Les Schwab Tires of Corning purchased 6, and Les Schwab Tires Red Bluff another 6 head. Murphy Family Farms supported the youth with 6. Northern Light Energy & Muse Trucking pur- chased 5, as did the Long family as Long & Long Or- chards 2, Greg Long 2 and Shanna Long 1. I — 5 Tires with 5 and thanks for the bottled water during the sale, Pine Creek Cattle Company with 5. Arrow- smith with 3, Arrowsmith & Sons 1, Chet & Karen Arrowsmith 1. Dusty & Shana deBraga with 5. Gerveden Industries with 5. Anderson & Son Walnut Shelling with 5. Four head or lots were purchased by Crown Mo- tors, Sierra Pacific Indus- tries, Crain Walnut Shell- ing, Pacific Farms, Clay & Lily Parker, Wright Brothers. The Borror family pur- chased a total of 7, with Bill at 1, Bryce & Erin 1, Borror Brothers 2, and Tehama Angus Ranch 3. Buyers of three in- cluded Lock Tite Mini Storage, Growney Motors, Ron Knight & Family, Redding Roofing, Waits Roofing, Shuffleburger Construction, Cox Ranch, Derek & Samantha Lin- deman, Corning Chevro- let, Buick, Red Bluff Vet Clinic. Buyers of two: Tomp- kins Electric, Craig Jen- kins, Brewer Construc- tion, McCarthy & Ru- bright, Mike & Kendra McCluskey, Mike & Teri Collins, Hamre Equipment, Rocky Ridge Hunting Club, Proof Positive Consulting, Heritage Ag & NCWA, All American Tent, North Valley Ag Services, Dud- ley Excavating, Allen Gill Construction, Ted & Vickie deBraga, Big Dawz Quarter Horse, Shasta District Fair Board, Bell Carter, Redding Freight- liner, David & Cindy Stro- ing, J C Partners, Molo Farms, California Wal- nuts, Martin Mattila, Fred & Jill Botts, Ja- son Abel Construction, Lee Trayham Ranches & Shasta Livestock, Golden State Farm Credit, Tet- rad Services, Western Crop Insurance Agency, Clearwater Pump, Charles Mueller Truck- ing, Endres Family Farm, Hawes Ranch & Farm Supply, Furtado Ag Con- struction. Supporting the sale by buying one animal or lot were Pat Jenkins, Josh Pemberton, Rich- field Feed, Cathy Che- noweth, Intercity Body, Rector Trucking, Wendy Lou's Mini Market, K.Coe & Isom, Don Kish, The Humphrey Family, Dar- row Ranch, Billy Spangle, Foothill Ready Mix. Richards Family, I — 5 Rentals, White Ranches, A & R Meat, Sallie Owen, Stroing Livestock, Tri Counties Bank, Tom & Jeannie Stroing, Rabo- bank Red Bluff & Corn- ing, Judson Engineering, Ramos Construction, Ken & Nonie Randle, Paul We- ber & Co.; Graham Wag- nfur, Pamela Smith, 2 x 4 Ranch. Peterson Logging, Red Bluff Bull & Gelding Sale, Crane Mills, Cone Plumb- ing, Holiday Ranch, Girls with Guns, Kevin Brunnemer, Redding Freightliner, Hill Enter- prises, Riverwest Pro- cessing, Quality Surfac- ing, Mike Murray Plumb- ing, North State Forestry. Ken's Meat Market, Deer Creek Heating & Air, McCambridge Enter- prises, Accident Proper- ties, Dudley Excavating, Tim Gallagher, Bert & Anne Owens, Smith Fam- ily Dairy, Mid Valley Vet Hospital, Bob-Beth-Mike Chaney, Steve & Lorie Hill, Jim & Bev Ross, Tim Gallagher, Tri State Drill- ing, Kyle Tingley. Thank you to all the generous people and busi- nesses that supported the 2016 sale. JeanBartonhasbeen writing her column in the Daily News since the early 1990s. She can be reached by e-mail at jbarton2013@ gmail.com. CONTRIBUTED Kathy Ferguson Ferguson gets clean sweep in Reno By Manuel Valdes The Associated Press SEQUIM, WASH. To the south of Nash Huber's farm fields are the Olym- pic Mountains, peaking at nearly8,000feet.Duenorth is the end of a channel of Pacific Ocean waters that separate the United States from Canada. Yet in this corner of the country is where the 75-year-old Huber hopes the South American grain quinoa takes root. Last month, Huber har- vested quinoa commer- cially for the first time on about 30 acres, making him the latest addition to a small number of U.S. farm- ers trying to capitalize on American eaters' growing demand for the Andean grain. "It's a beautiful crop," Huber said as he surveyed his combine grinding the plants and spitting out the seeds. He chose a vari- ety called Redhead, which turned his field lipstick red for a couple of weeks before harvest. "We're still learn- ing.Ikindofsteppedoffthe end of the dock here with a bit of a bite this year." Americans consume more than half the global production of quinoa, which totaled 37,000 tons in 2012. Twenty years earlier, production was merely 600 tons, accord- ing to the United Nation's Food and Agricultural Or- ganization. Yet quinoa fields are so rare in American farm- ing that the total acreage doesn't show on an agri- cultural census, said Juli- anne Kellogg, a Washing- ton State University grad- uate student monitoring quinoa test plots around the Olympic Mountains, in- cluding one next to Huber's field. A rough estimate puts the country's quinoa fields at 3,000 to 5,000 acres. Quinoa's nutritional punchhaspushedthegrain beyond health food stores and into general consump- tion, propped up by celeb- rities like Oprah Winfrey. It has all the amino ac- idshumansneed,makingit a complete protein, Kellogg said. That's hard to find in grain crops, she said. It's also gluten-free. The grain's future is marked with possibilities, including milk, beer, cere- als, hair products, snacks — products well beyond the salad bar. "I think we're witness- ing the start of a staple," said Sergio Nuñez de Arco, a Bolivia native whose com- pany, Andean Naturals, has beeninstrumentalinbring- ing quinoa north, distribut- ing to Costco, Trader Joe's and others. The spike in demand from the U.S. and Europe led big farm operations in Peru to enter quinoa farm- ingafewyearsago.Thatre- sultedinanoversupply,and prices have been falling. According to a July re- port from the U.S. Depart- ment of Agriculture's For- eign Agricultural Service, quinoa prices plummeted about 40 percent between September 2014 and Au- gust 2015. "Farmers are rotating out of quinoa," Nuñez de Arco said. "They went back to the city to look for work. It was good while it lasted, so it's back to rural migra- tion." Nuñez de Arco has opened a California pro- cessing plant for the bit- ter coating that covers the quinoagrains.Itwasn'twel- come news for his Bolivian farmers. "There needs to be some improvement to practices and they're gonna get that through some healthy com- petition," said Nuñez de Arco, now based in San Francisco. "My push has been to protect the smaller farmer in a top-shelf niche, wheretheywillhavethede- mand." In Washington state, Huber's quinoa will head to Lundberg Family Farms, a California-based com- pany that has been a leader in domestic quinoa produc- tion. This year, Lundberg and its network of con- tracted farmers along the West Coast hope to har- vest 2 million pounds of quinoa. "It's great to have prod- uct available where folks are consuming it," said Tim Schultz,vicepresidentofre- search and development at Lundberg. "You have less food miles on it." For more quinoa to grow in the United States, farm- ers and researchers must find the right mix of variet- ies and environments. The Washington State Univer- sity plots are testing va- rieties for heat resistance and late-summer sprout- ing, among other bench- marks. Next year, they'll test plots in Maryland and Minnesota. "From a farmer's per- spective, it's more options for rotations," said Kevin Murphy, an assistant pro- fessor at the university. That's an option that at- tracted Huber. Quinoa rep- resents his first commod- ity crop. On a harvest day, he eyeballed a lower yield than he wanted, in part be- cause the elk that roam the nearby woods frolicked in the quinoa fields. "I hope I break even," he said with a laugh. "If we break even or make a little bit of money, that'll be good because I learned quite a few things here." GRAIN TED S. WARREN — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Farmer Sam McCullough uses his combine to harvest quinoa near Sequim, Wash. Quinoa, a trendy South American grain, barely has a foothold in American agriculture, but a handful of farmers and university researchers are working toward changing that. 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