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Daily News Update, Dec. 6, 2007
Call your
Senators re Farm Bill amendments
The Senate has brought the 2007
Farm Bill to the floor for consideration; amendment votes are
expected tomorrow. Please make a final push of calls to your
senators and urge them to oppose the Tester, Harkin, Grassley and
Enzi anti-marketing choice amendments!
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Texas House
committees to study issues concerning Cattle Raisers
Texas Speaker of the House
Tom Craddick has released his interim committee charges for study
and report before the next session of the Texas Legislature convenes
in January 2009.
Jason
Skaggs, TSCRA's executive director for government affairs and public
relations has prepared the following report on the subjects that
most concern Cattle Raisers.
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Silence is
deafening on beef hormone report
"Pound-for-pound,
beef produced with grains and growth hormones produces 40 percent
less greenhouse gas emissions and saves two-thirds more land for
nature compared to organic grass-fed beef." Given the current public
interest in global climate change, you would think this would be big
news. But it hardly made a ripple in the environmental community or
the mass media.
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Genome
mapping yields clues about shipping fever
Mississippi State University researchers are
developing a biological map of how three tiny pathogens cause
bovine respiratory disease, which costs the cattle industry more
than $1 billion each year.
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Operation Cow
Thief
You can help catch a thief!
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Market
Information
Direct link to TSCRA's market
information page go
Events and Sale Calendar
Direct link to
TSCRA's events and calendar page go
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