Forum Shines Light on Corruption
Source: OAN
A government watchdog group Judicial Watch working to end corruption in Washington is shining a light on recent allegations of political partisanship at both the FBI and Department of Justice. One America's John Hines has more from Washington.
AGRICULTURAL PRICES RECEIVED
Prices Received – Mountain Region States and United States: March 2018 with Comparisons State March 2017 February 2018 March 2018 Barley, All (dollars per bushel) (dollars per bushel) (dollars per bushel) Colorado ............................. 5.45 4.80 (D) Montana .............................. 5.01 4.05 4.49 Wyoming ............................ (D) (D) (D) United States ....................... 4.97 4.58 4.46 Corn Colorado ............................. 3.62 3.31 3.49 United States ....................... 3.49 3.38 3.51 Wheat, All Arizona ............................... (S) (D) (D) Colorado ............................. 3.21 4.11 4.31 Montana .............................. 4.57 5.44 5.35 United States ....................... 4.37 4.92 5.10 Cotton, Upland (dollars per pound) (dollars per pound) (dollars per pound) Arizona ............................... (D) (D) (D) United States ....................... 0.692 0.677 0.677 Hay, Alfalfa (dollars per ton) (dollars per ton) (dollars per ton) Arizona ............................... 170.00 190.00 200.00 Colorado ............................. 150.00 185.00 190.00 Montana .............................. 140.00 140.00 150.00 New Mexico ....................... 170.00 175.00 200.00 Utah .................................... 120.00 145.00 150.00 Wyoming ............................ 125.00 150.00 160.00 United States ....................... 134.00 155.00 166.00 Hay, Other Arizona ............................... 160.00 190.00 200.00 Colorado ............................. 160.00 190.00 180.00 Montana .............................. 130.00 130.00 130.00 New Mexico ....................... 140.00 160.00 160.00 Utah .................................... 105.00 120.00 125.00 Wyoming ............................ 110.00 135.00 140.00 United States ....................... 127.00 124.00 123.00 Milk, All (dollars per hundredweight) (dollars per hundredweight) (dollars per hundredweight) Arizona ............................... 16.20 14.40 14.50 Colorado ............................. 18.00 15.90 16.00 New Mexico ....................... 15.70 14.00 14.20 Utah .................................... 17.90 15.10 15.70 United States ....................... 17.30 15.30 15.60 (D) Withheld to avoid disclosing data for individual operations. (S) Insufficient number of reports to establish an estimate.
UNITED STATES
March Prices Received Index Increased 4.5 Percent
The March Prices Received Index (Agricultural Production), at 94.9, increased 4.5 percent from February 2018. At 87.5, the Crop Production Index increased 1.5 percent. The Livestock Production Index, at 99.8, increased 5.9 percent. Producers received higher prices for market eggs, broilers, lettuce, and milk but lower prices for oranges, hogs, lemons, and grapefruit. Compared with a year earlier, the Prices Received Index is up 0.9 percent. The Crop Production Index increased 2.2 percent but the Livestock Production Index decreased 0.7 percent. In addition to prices, the indexes are influenced by the volume change of commodities producers market. Increased monthly movement of milk, strawberries, cattle, and calves offset the decreased marketing of cotton, soybeans, apples, and hay. The Food Commodities Index, at 99.8, increased 4.8 percent from the previous month but was unchanged from March 2017.
March Prices Paid Index Up 0.1 Percent
The March Prices Paid Index for Commodities and Services, Interest, Taxes, and Farm Wage Rates (PPITW), at 108.5, is up 0.1 percent from February 2018 and 1.8 percent from March 2017. Higher prices for herbicides, complete feeds, hay and forages, and insecticides more than offset lower prices for feeder cattle, field crops, feeder pigs, and diesel.
For a full copy of the Agricultural Prices report please visit www.nass.usda.gov. For state specific questions please contact:
Arizona – Dave DeWalt 1-800-645-7286 Colorado – William R. Meyer 1-800-392-3202 Montana – Eric Sommer 1-800-835-2612 New Mexico – Longino Bustillos 1-800-530-8810 Utah – John Hilton 1-800-747-8522 Wyoming – Rhonda Brandt 1-800-892-1660
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BLM Releases Management Plan To Decimate Wild Horse & Burro herds
Colorado Springs, CO 4/27/2018
The Bureau of Land Management has prepared a wild horse and burro management plan for Congress that suggests decimating wild horse and burro herds.
The plan is entirely based on achieving the agency’s arbitrary Appropriate Management Level, which were deemed “not transparent to stakeholders, supported by scientific information, or amenable to adaptation with new information and environmental and social change” by the BLM-commissioned 2013 National Academy of Sciences (NAS) report.
All options presented in the plan will bring wild horse and burro numbers down to the BLM’s AML of 26,715 total animals, just above the population estimate in 1971 which spurred Congress to pass the Wild & Free-Roaming Horses & Burro act due to concern about the possible extinction of these herds.
“This is an absolutely devastating Management proposal,” said Ginger Kathrens, Executive Director if The Cloud Foundation and Humane Advocate on the BLM’s National Wild Horse & Burro Advisory Board. “These federally protected animals are being blamed for rangeland health problems caused by welfare ranching on public lands, and are falsely called ‘starving’ and ‘overpopulated’ as an alarmist tactic to remove them from their home ranges.”
The plan relies heavily on appalling tactics to achieve AML. Options include removal of 50,000 animals, “euthanasia” and sale without limitation of 10,000 animals to reduce the horses and burros currently living in government holding. Other options include the inhumane approach of sterilization of these animals en masse. The BLM option to use the more humane method of fertility control vaccines still relies heavily on massive removals of animals and the killing of horses in holding.
“We are alarmed that after spending over a million dollars on the NAS report and receiving extensive public input about what will work, the BLM is still resorting to unscientific and inhumane management methods to cruelly eliminate the majority of these animals,” Kathrens said.
TCF will have a more detailed response in the days to come after thorough review of this management plan.
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