More comment time on Odessa Subarea draft EIS. Stockland Report.
Washington Ag Today December 21, 2010 The Bureau of Reclamation and Washington State Department of Ecology’s Office of Columbia River have extended the comment period on the Odessa Subarea Special Study Draft Environmental Impact Statement to January 31st of 2011. The document, which was released in late October, examines the feasibility, acceptability and environmental consequences of alternatives to replace groundwater currently used for irrigation on about 102-thousand acres in the Odessa Ground Water Management Subarea with Columbia Basin Project surface water. Comments can be submitted electronically to odessa@usbr.gov The Northwest Washington Fair’s agricultural exhibits this year were recently judged to be the best of all 13-hundred fairs that are members of the International Association of Fairs and Expositions. The fair in Lyndon won the Sweepstakes Award, which covers fairs of all sizes, including some with more than one million visitors annually. The Northwest Washington Fair drew about 216-thousand people this year. Now the report from Stockland Livestock ‘This Jack McGuiness at Stockland Livestock here in Davenport. A big sale here about 12-head of cattle on the market. Feeder cattle stronger again. Some of these four to five hundred pound steers a dollar-forty to a dollar-fifty. Bred heifers topped at 1375. And we had some cow-calf pairs with some big calves at 17-hundred. That’s Stockland Livestock. Thanks for listening. Thanks for your business. Thanks Jack. I’m Bob Hoff and that’s Washington Ag Today on Northwest Ag Info Net.
