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4A Daily News ��� Saturday, December 22, 2012 Agriculture farm & ranch Cattlemen Scholarship Auction Farmers worry If you didn���t hear the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo barrel racing results, Mary Walker of Ennis, Texas is now the world champion. She won the Ram Truck Top Gun Award for most WNFR earnings this year with $146,941, plus the Jeri Ann Taylor best dressed award of $5,000. Total for year was $274,233.28. All around was Trevor Brazil, bareback Kaycee Field, steer wrestling Luke Branquinho, team roping header Chad Masters, team roping heeler Jade Corkill, saddle bronc Jesse Wright, tie down roping Tuf Cooper and bull riding Cody Teel. *** The Tehama County Cattlemen and CattleWomen have many items donated for their scholarship auction, both live and silent. Matt Norene of Shasta Livestock Auction Yard will be auctioneer, and John Gentry will be master of ceremonies. Bill Borror has donated a handcrafted black walnut chair. Sandra Merhoff has made a lap-size star quilt. The Stroing ranch has given 12 half pint jars of gooseberry jelly in memory of Barbara Frost Kloose. Tehama Angus Ranch has donated two 40 pound boxes of premium Angus beef from their ranch. Animal Health International will donate one ton of protein blocks. Charlie Mueller Trucking and Valley Rock Products will deliver 25 tons of road base within Tehama County. Rolling Hills Courtesy photo Casino has donated a Stay Bill Borror is pictured with the hand crafted black walnut chair he has and Play package for four donated for the Tehama County Cattlemena and CattleWomen at the Casino. JP Ranch Scholarship Auction Jan. 5 at the fairgrounds. Rodeo has given 10 full passes for the ranch rodeo, Boehringer Ingelheim favorite pie. given a gift basket. Jan. 18 ��� 19, 2013. A gift box and tasting There is a wheel align- has given a jacket and l Plum Crazy has given ment from Bob���s liter oral dewormer. at Corning Olive Oil has two scarves and Tires, and they Durango RV Resort had been given. Jeannie Smith necklace sets. gave a tire rota- donated a two night stay has made a bird house and Red Bluff Bull a hanging planter from tion and balance, on a river front site. and Gelding Anselmo Vineyards gourds. also. Corning Sale, Jan. 22CX Ranch, Andy and NAPA Auto had given a gift basket, 26, 2013, has Parts donated a plus they will be offering Sally Cox, have donated donated a bascollectors item, a their wines for tasting one cord of oak wood, ket of merchandelivered in Tehama starting at 6 p.m. toy car. dise and tickets Corning Ford has County. Bell Carter for the horse The Norcal Antique Foods, Inc. donated an emergency sale. donated a Lind- road kit plus $200 cash for Tractor and Engine Club Te h a m a has given a check for $250 say Olive basket. the scholarship fund. County CattleA case of Burnsini for scholarships, and Mike Jackie Baker has Women have a Jean crocheted a Tehama Red Wine was Rychard has given a scholgift basket with donated by Burnsini Vine- arship check for $250. Monet lap robe. the new placeGeorge Growney Marney and yards and they will be mats, cookDiane Davy have offering their wines for Motors has given two tickbook, and two ets for Sunday and Monmade a quilted tasting starting at 6 p.m. tickets to Beef Olive Oil gift tastings day nights on the first wall hanging. Rutherford ���n Brew, Sept. 14, 2013. Turri Farms, Flournoy Ranch Winery has given have been donated by weekend of the Wrangler has donated two gift bas- four bottles of Silver Lucero Olive Oil. A National Finals Rodeo in kets. One is filled with Buckle Chardonnay and lemon meringue pie will December 2013, and a dried salami and the other four bottles of Silver be made by Linda Borror. check for $100 for the This was always Bill���s scholarship fund. is jerky. Ride for Life has Buckle Red. The prime rib dinner will be Jan. 5, starting at 6 p.m. with wine tasting at the Tehama District Fairground. Presale tickets are $25, and are available at these Red Bluff locations. Hawes Ranch & Farm Supply, The Loft, Walco, Red Bluff Bull & Gelding Boxed Assortments Sale, Farm Credit, Crossroads Feed. In CottonGift Trays wood, Shasta Farm & Equipment. Rabobank and Stocking Stuffers PremierWest Bank in Red Bluff and Corning. Milk, Dark, White & Barton about dairy prices as deadline nears MILWAUKEE (AP) ��� As the nation inches toward the economic ������fiscal cliff,������ anxiety is growing in farm country about an obscure tangent of the Washington political standoff that reaches into the dairy industry and, indirectly, into the household budgets of consumers who buy milk and cheese. Little noticed in the struggle over major looming tax increases and spending cuts is that the outcome could also affect the farm bill, on which Congress didn���t complete action this year after it expired in September. Agriculture industry leaders hope the farm legislation can be added to any final fiscal package before the end of the year. But if no fiscal agreement is reached, and the farm legislation is left adrift, farmers could face the prospect of returning to an antiquated system for pricing milk that would bring big price increases for consumers. ������It���s going to come down to whether leadership tells them in enough time to get (the farm legislation) into a bill,������ said Chandler Goule, lobbyist for the National Farmers Union, referring to the agriculture leaders��� wait on the fiscal cliff negotiations. The problem is serious enough that industry officials are considering fallback options. The likeliest would have Congress passing an extension of current farm law, which would provide a temporary fix. But farmers still shudder at the thought of any prospect, even remote, of reverting to an old system under which milk could surge to $6 a gallon. The Agricultural Act of 1949 contains the basic provisions for setting milk prices. The act is superseded every time a new farm bill is passed, but if no new bill or extension is passed the old act goes back into effect. That law includes a mechanism for guaranteeing a minimum milk price that covers producers��� costs. The government guarantees to buy their milk products at that price, but producers can usually do better selling on the consumer market. But if the old mechanism were applied to current market conditions, the government price could be double the current rate, industry officials say. Farmers would sell their dairy products to the government instead of the private market and store prices would surge. Then prices might collapse as the government eventually sold its dairy stockpiles. ������If the government is going to continue to buy it and store it, eventually you���re going to have an overabundance of dairy products in storage,������ said Karen Gefvert, a lobbyist with the Wisconsin Farm Bureau. ������That will eventually be put on the market at reduced prices and you���ll have this flood of inventory that would severely depress prices.������ Ray Souza, a 66-year-old dairy farmer who milks about 900 cows in Turlock, Calif., worried that surging prices for American cheese would give American consumers incentive to switch to cheeses from New Zealand and Europe. ������I���m concerned this could put us out of alignment with the global market,������ he said. Consumers agree that they���d be looking for alternatives if milk or cheese prices suddenly spiked. Jim Mitchell, a 63-year-old artist from Milwaukee, said his family of four goes through at least a gallon of milk a day but might switch to soy or almond milk. ������They���re usually more expensive,������ he said, ������but if milk goes to $6 a gallon, all of a sudden they���d be affordable.������ ������Or we might have to buy our own cow,������ his wife, Melissa, joked. Action of the farm bill this year was stalled by disagreements over the food stamp program, with some congressional conservatives calling for deep cuts. The National Milk Producers Federation and other farm groups are pressing Congress to wrap up the legislation now rather than pass a temporary extension, which would leave issues unresolved. 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