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Saturday, December 1, 2012 – Daily News 5A Agriculture farm California Farm Bureau to hold annual meeting Hundreds of family farmers and ranchers from throughout California will gather in Pasadena next week, as the California Farm Bureau Federation holds its 94th Annual Meeting. Three days of meetings and policy discussions begin Monday, Dec. 3. California Farm Bureau President Paul Wenger, an almond and walnut grower from Modesto, will describe the organization's goals for the coming year during an address that begins the meeting on Monday morning. Issue-oriented seminars scheduled for Monday afternoon include discussions focusing on energy, water, technology, immigration, possible new air quality rules known as the tractor rule, environmental regulations and other important issues affecting Farm Bureau members. Former U.S. Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman will receive the President's Award and address Farm Bureau members at an awards banquet Monday evening. The evening will also include a presentation of the Farm Bureau Distinguished Service Award and recognition of outstanding work by county Farm Bureaus. A trade show featuring agricultural products and services will be available on Sunday, Dec. 2, and Monday, Dec. 3. On Tuesday and Wednesday, delegates representing each of the state's 53 county Farm Bureaus will debate and set policies to guide the organization's work during the coming year. General session opens at 8:15 a.m. Dec. 3 and seminars begin at 1:15 p.m. at the Pasadena Convention Center, 300 E. Green St., Pasadena. Participants scheduled include California Farm Bureau Federation President Paul Wenger, former U.S. Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman and experts on energy, water, the economy, immigration and agricultural research. County eligible for emergency farm loans Pursuant to the Secretary of Agriculture's designation of an emergency in the state of California on May 31, Tehama, Alameda and Marin counties have been named eligible for USDA emergency farm loans because of physical and production losses based on damages and losses caused by drought covering the 2012 crop year. In addition, the following contiguous counties are eligible: Butte, Glenn, Mendocino, Plumas, Shasta and Trinity. Farmers in all 14 counties have eight months to apply for the loans to help cover part of their actual losses. Some of the eligibility requirements are listed below: • Have suffered at least 30 percent loss of normal production directly related to the above-cited cause, • Be able to repay the loan and any other loans, • Be unable to obtain credit elsewhere, • Have adequate security, • Have multi-peril crop insurance, if available, and • Meet other eligibility criteria. All applicants must complete a certification of disaster losses, which reflects the exact date and nature of the designated disaster and how it caused the loss or damage. Crop insurance field reports may be a source for documenting losses directly related to the cited cause. The authorization from Farm Service Agency (FSA) to accept Emergency loans under this authorization expires on Jan. 31, 2013. Applications should be filed with your FSA Service Center at 2 Sutter St., Ste. C, Red Bluff. Another Asian citrus pest found in Tulare County FRESNO (AP) — Another tiny pest capable of carrying and spreading a disease deadly to citrus trees has been found in California's citrus belt. California Department of Food and Agriculture spokesman Steve Lyle says an Asian citrus psyllid was discovered near Terra Bella in Tulare County. The psyllid was identified last week on a trap in a citrus grove. It's the third psyllid found this year in the San Joaquin Valley. The first was discovered in February and the second in October, both in Tulare County. As a result of the recent discoveries, Lyle said Tuesday a quarantine would be instituted for the area. A number of other psyllids have been found in Southern California, but none of those pests have tested positive for the deadly bacteria known by its Chinese name Huanglongbing, also called citrus greening. The disease has decimated the citrus sector in Florida and other parts of the world. & Beef Council open session set The California Beef Council will be holding an open session during the annual meeting, on Wednesday, Dec. 5, between 4 and 5 p.m. in the cafeteria at the Tehama District Fairground in Red Bluff. The hour-long program will feature program updates on activities in retail, foodservice, consumer relations and promotions. Anyone interested in learning more about the activities of the CBC is invited to attend. There is no need to RSVP. Each time a beef or dairy animal is sold in California, one dollar is collected for the beef checkoff. 50 cents is kept in California for the activities in retail, foodservice, consumer relations and promotions and 50 cents is sent to the national Courtesy photo beef promotion and Corning Olive Oil Co. had olive oil for sampling at the 2012 Tehama research efforts. County Cattlemen and CattleWomen Winter Dinner and Scholarship *** Auction. A cattlewoman friend wrote on her Facebook page, the following: "My laziness." Cattlemen and Cattle- ket of smoked beef and pork frustration for the When we had cattle on Women Winter Dinner and products. Mill Creek week…trespassing! If you the range, Bill always made Scholarship Auction will be Restaurant in Los Molinos don't know who the land a trip every morning to held Saturday, Jan. 5 at the has donated a gift certificate belongs to, it obviously check that the gates were Tehama District Fairground for the restaurant. doesn't belong to Pfizer Animal Health closed on the starting at 6 p.m. you. A single gate Tickets at $ 25 for the and Chad Amen have Tuscan Springs left open can Road so our Prime Rib dinner are avail- donated a 5 liter bottle of undo several pour-on cows wouldn't able at these Red Bluff loca- Dectomax day's work and if mix with the tions. Hawes Ranch & dewormer, a $ 260 value. you are wanderLil Barney has donated neighbors, or Farm Supply, The Loft, ing through Walco, Red Bluff Bull & two framed Remington vice versa. mountains that While grazing Gelding Sale, Farm Credit, prints, and a framed Charlie don't belong to at Eagle Lake, Crossroads Feed. In Cotton- Russell print. She gave two you. Don't expect we had to check wood, Shasta Farm & elk horn necklaces to the a friendly greet15 wire gates Equipment. Rabobank and scholarship silent auction. ing. Please Durango RV Resort has every other day, PremierWest Bank in Red respect private given a two night stay on a making sure that Bluff and Corning. Jean property." I-5 Tire, Inc. has donated river front site in their RV they were closed. Other friends If the cows got 4 Yamaha Geolandar A/T Park. The Olive Pit has added these comout and went to tires for the scholarship auc- donated a gift certificate. ments. "We have Corning Ford has given a the lakeshore, we tion. Patty Kelly will make that problem cash donation for the scholwere in violation her famous peanut brittle. also." "Yes gates left open and had to remove the catGeorge Growney arship auction. can undo several day's tle. Four local wineries will Motors has donated two work." "Basic rangeland That was a trip of 135 tickets for Sunday & Mon- be pouring their wine for the rules, if you open it shut it miles one way from Red day on first weekend of wine tasting starting at 6 NOW!!" "I get so mad Bluff; just to make certain 2013 National Finals Rodeo p.m. when I have to deal with the gates were not left open in Las Vegas. Jean Barton can be that. People don't under- by the campers at the lake. Quinn and Tony Menat stand the problems they donca of Tony's Custom reached *** jbarton2013@gmail.com. cause us by their one act of The Tehama County Meats will donate a gift bas- Barton Supreme Court to hear California raisin growers' case WA S H I N G T O N (MCT) — The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to hear an appeal from Fresno, Calif., raisin growers Marvin and Laura Horne, who contend that the federal marketing program that can take nearly half their crop is unconstitutional. Their case poses a significant challenge to the New Deal-era farm program that seeks to prop up prices by keeping part of the crop off the market. It also raises questions about the limits of the government's power to regulate commerce, an issue that sharply divided the justices in the major health care overhaul case decided in June. California produces 99.5 percent of the nation's raisins and about 40 percent of the world's supply, but the U.S. Department of Agriculture has a say on how some of the crop can be used. Under the federal program, the USDA's raisin board seeks to maintain RED BLUFF TIRES & AUTO REPAIR COMPLETE AUTO REPAIR All makes and models. We perform dealer recommened 30K, 60K, 90K SERVICES AT LOWER PRICES Smog Check $ 2595 certificate starting at +8 $ 25 (MOST CARS & PICK-UPS) 527-9841 • 195 S. Main St. NEW TIRES & QUALITY USED TIRES 811 4th Street, Corning (530) 824-9700 Mon-Sat: 8:30-5:00/Sun: 8:30-1:00 Visit us on Facebook! 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Over the objections of the Department of Agriculture, the high court said it would hear the growers' arguments that they were denied "just compensation" as required by the Constitution, making the program an illegal "taking" of private property. California raisins were Red Bluff Garden Club SCHOLARSHIP CHRISTMAS BOUTIQUE 616 CEDAR ST. RED BLUFF Former Holiday Market ALL FRESH WREATHS, ARRANGEMENTS & MORE Dec. 6, 7 & 8 Thursday-Friday-Saturday 9:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. For Custom Wreaths & Designs Call 527-4578 or 526-4578 Proceeds go to High School Scholarships last before the court in the late 1990s in a dispute over marketing campaigns. Then, dissident growers were challenging the mandatory fees for generic ads, such those depicting dancing raisins and a rendition of the song "I Heard It Through the Grapevine." The new case arises from independent farmers who admitted that they spoke for only a "small part of the large raisin industry" in California. The federal marketing order for raisins "extracts a hefty portion of a farmer's annual raisin crop as a condition" for selling the rest of it on the market, said the growers' appellate lawyer, Michael McConnell, a Stanford law professor and former federal appeals court judge. In 2003, when the case began, raisin handlers were required to set aside 47 percent of the crop, he said. The next year, the percentage dropped to 30 percent.