August 2007 Updates page 4
15 August
Spring Turkey
Thank you Chantz for the detailed hunt account and the opportunity to share with others. Every story counts. Congratulations on your bow harvest, can not do it any harder!
CRP Release & Drought
A concern for Kansas pheasant hunters that prefer Kansas tall grass pheasant hunting.
Another indicator that there will not be any emergency CRP release for pasture or harvest:
"...All hay production in 2007 is forecast at 145 million tons, up 3.6 million from 2006 because of increased area harvested and yields than last year. The all-hay yield is expected to be 2.35 tons per acre, up from 2.33 tons per acre in 2006. Harvested acres are unchanged from last month at 61.8 million acres, up from 60.8 million last year...."
While there may be some localized drought release in some states the overall national average forage production does not indicate a wide coverage CRP release.
Cattle Network, Stanley Kansas, All Hay Production To Increase, August 14, 2007
The Other Side
HSUS campaign against USA horse slaughter plants for meat hurts zoos trying to meet nutritional requirements of meat eating zoo animal. If horse meat becomes unavailable then more expensive alternatives must be found.
Local zoos caught in horse slaughter controversy, KoMoTV.com, Tracy Vedder, August 14, 2007.
Humane Society of the United States Misled Americans With Fundraising Pitch, Animal Rights Group Falsely Claimed It Would "Care For" Michael Vick's Dogs.
The title says it all.
The Center for Consumer Freedom, August 2, 2007, press release.
13 August
Deer
Our observation is there will be a lot of deer for the upcoming season...
and next as well.
The Other Side
UCLA Researcher Targeted for Death, 08/11/2007, ID: 64188, The Short News, The News Community.
"...Dr.Rosenbaum, a pediatric opthalmologist, has been targeted for death by the Animal Liberation Front...for his research on rhesus monkeys and cats at UCLA's Jules Stein Eye Institute....A makeshift gasoline bomb was placed under a vehicle at Rosenbaum's L.A. home on June 25th, and a recent statement claiming to be from the Animal Liberation Front confesses to the attempt. The bomb failed to detonate due to a faulty fuse."
Canada.
Minister says animal rights groups mislead about nature of annual seal hunt, Friday, 10 August 2007.
"The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) has just released a list of 60 South Florida restaurants supposedly joining its boycott of Canadian seafood. But the nonprofit Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) has already exposed HSUS's phony boycott as a dishonest attempt ...CCF surveyed more than 80 companies HSUS claimed were involved with its boycott, and found that 78 percent of respondents were not actively participating....Overall, 31 percent of the companies CCF surveyed said they were still serving Canadian seafood. And 62 percent said they were unaware that HSUS was publicly describing them as boycott participants."
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