USDA TO MEASURE MILK PRODUCTION
Denver, CO – September 11, 2018 – Thousands of milk producers across the country, including approximately 900 producers in Arizona, Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming will receive surveys from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS), as the agency collects information for the 2018 October Milk Production reports. “The dairy industry is an important component of the Mountain Region’s agriculture economy and it is crucial for all involved with this sector to have accurate data.” said Bill Meyer, Director of the NASS Mountain Regional Field Office. NASS conducts the Milk Production survey every January, April, July, and October. The survey asks milk producers to provide the number of milk cows in the herd, number of cows milked and total milk production for the first day of the month. NASS also collects information about milk consumed on the farm and the amount fed to calves. The dairy industry relies on the quarterly Milk Production report to make decisions about the marketing of milk. By participating in the survey, milk producers can ensure that NASS provides timely, accurate and useful data that all sectors of the U.S. milk industry use to make sound business decisions. “At NASS we have a strong commitment to respondent confidentiality,” Meyer said. “We are required by law to protect the privacy of all responses and publish data only in aggregate form, ensuring that no individual producer or operation can be identified.” Survey results will be published in the quarterly Milk Production report released October 15, 2018. All NASS reports are available online at www.nass.usda.gov/Publications/. For more information, call the NASS Mountain Regional Field Office at (800)392-3202.
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North Ogden Entrepreneur Kraig Moore
Honored for Providing Outstanding Customer Service
Local Allstate agency owner earns prestigious service designation
NORTH OGDEN, Utah – Sep. 11, 2018 – As a business leader and involved citizen in the North Ogden area, Allstate exclusive agency owner Kraig Moore has been designated an Allstate Premier Agency for 2018.
The Allstate Premier Agency designation is given to 32 percent of Allstate’s nearly 10,000 agency owners across the country. The Premier Agency designation is awarded to Allstate agency owners who have demonstrated excellence in delivering a knowledgeable and personal customer experience, while achieving outstanding business results.
Moore’s agency is located at 2319 N 400 E in North Ogden, UT 84414 and can be reached at (801) 396-8747 or KraigMoore2@ALLSTATE.COM.
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I hope all is well. Today, the BLM proposed leasing over 200,000 acres in the San Rafael Desert, which borders Canyonlands National Park and Labyrinth Canyon. The National Park Service raised concerns for the sale because of the potential for development to impact the view shed and air quality of Canyonlands National Park-- as well as to damage the visitation experience at the park’s Horseshoe Canyon Unit, which houses one of the most famous rock art panels in the United States, if not the world -- the Great Gallery.
A whooping 130,000 acres were sold today including several parcels, which are located less than 10 miles from Canyonlands. Despite this vast sale, nearly 70,000 acres of the sale did not sell.
Just last week, Conservatives for Responsible Stewardship (CRS) filed a formal petition with BLM requesting an immediate halt to leasing on 117,000 acres of public lands that the Trump Administration previously tried to lease without success. In Utah, the petition includes almost 5,000 acres that BLM attempted to lease around Otter Creek State Park in June 2017, prompting a letter of concern from the State of Utah. Also included are over 18,000 acres along the western edge of the San Rafael Swell, one of the most popular recreation destinations in central Utah, if not the entire state.
Below, you can find bipartisan pushback from some locals including a local business owner, retired NPS employee, and CRS.
Drilling for oil and gas near Canyonlands National Park not only violates BLM’s responsibility to manage our lands for multiple uses, but conflicts with the true value of our public lands. In this administration’s push to lease as much as possible, much of our land is being sold at rock-bottom prices, which both inhibits a fair return on resource development to taxpayers and removes these lands from other value-added uses. Recreation is a growing economic driver in Utah which far outweighs the tiny returns taxpayers are getting from these BLM lease sales.
--Scott Newton, owner of Poison Spider Bicycles in Moab
“Once again, we see empty results from this administration’s indiscriminate effort to make oil and gas drilling the dominant use of our public lands. The real travesty, however, is its blatant subordination of all other natural resource values—values that Western communities depend on. This is policy is reckless, not conservative,”
--Conservatives for Responsible Solutions president David Jenkins.
The effect of oil and gas leasing near an area as pristinely beautiful and important to the American West as Canyonlands National Park cannot be ignored. The confluence of the Colorado and Green rivers, vital sources of water for many Americans, have sculpted the area into canyons and buttes unparalleled and uniquely American in their value. To drill around these lands threatens the health of surrounding communities and forever diminishes a piece of America.
--Walt
Dabney, former Superintendent of Arches and Canyonlands National Parks
Additionally, the Administration continues to limit public input by only allocating 25 days for the public to comment on these leases.
Here is a breakdown:
LEASE SALE.
LEASES/ACRES OFFERED
LEASES/ACRES SOLD (% OF ACRES OFFERED)
LEASES/ACRES SOLD FOR MIN. BID (% OF ACRES SOLD)
TOTAL RECEIPTS
NOTABLE CONFLICTS
NOTABLE PURCHASERS
Utah 9-11-2018
109 leases / 204,172 acres
64 / 133,402 (65%)
43 / 85,378 (64%)
TBD
Canyonlands & San Rafael
TBD
