Meeting with Brewers & Census of Ag

Meeting with Brewers & Census of Ag

Meeting with Brewers & Census of Ag plus Food Forethought. I'm Greg Martin with today's Northwest Report.

The complete 2012 Census of Ag is being released. As of May 2nd you will be able to get access to all the data included according Renee Picanso of the National Agricultural Statistics Service.

PICANSO: I will contain data down to the county level. The preliminary result just had national and state level data. This will be county level data for all of the items that were in the questionnaire.On the preliminary it focused more on the land and farm, farm numbers, demographics data, value of sale. This will have everything, all the details that are in the questionnaire.

Oregon's Greg Walden is having a roundtable meeting with craft brewers in Bend today. The Food and Drug Administration recently released a draft rule that would tightly regulate brewers' "spent grains," a byproduct of the beer-making process that is often sold or given to ranchers for use as animal feed. The draft rule could harm the craft brewing and livestock industries in Oregon, and Walden has urged the FDA to reconsider its rule.  He will announce steps he is taking legislatively to bring common-sense to this rule-making process.

Now with today's Food Forethought, here's Lacy Gray.

The list of movies showing the Big Apple's iconic tradition of a horse-drawn carriage ride is probably miles long. One of the most recognizable celebrities to stand openly against PETA's highly unpopular ban the carriages campaign is Liam Neeson, who has lived in New York City for over twenty years. Neeson chose to put forth his opposition to PETA's ridiculous claims that horse-drawn carriage rides are "an outdated practice that causes cruelty to horses" by penning an opinion editorial in The New York Times last week, in which he defends the carriage drivers and "their spotless record for looking after their animals". He went on to say that "A majority of carriage drivers and stable hands are recent immigrants, often raised on farms in their home countries. They love their jobs and their horses, and they take pride in being ambassadors for this great city." On the flip side PETA and some of their NYC supporters have led protests demonstrating against the carriage industry, calling for cleaner, safer, more livable streets. You would think, if they truly felt that way, they would go after the millions of fossil fuel burners that regularly clog their streets and smog up their air.

Thanks Lacy. That's today's Northwest Report. I'm Greg Martin on the Ag Information Network.

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