Grain Commission approves budget
Washington Ag Today May 31, 2011 At its annual meeting last week the Washington Grain Commission adopted a budget for its next fiscal year starting in July of five-million 66-thousand dollars. That is up from the current’s year’s budget of 4.8 million. The largest chunk of spending, 2.1 million dollars or about 44 percent, will be for research, most of which is at Washington State University. The second largest spending category, 978-thousand dollars or about 18 percent of the budget, is for marketing. At their meeting grain commissioners agreed that the Washington Wheat Research Foundation should be eliminated but approved a draft licensing agreement with Washington State University that creates a process and entity for licensing wheat varieties developed at WSU should it be recommended that a particular variety be licensed. It is similar to the process used in Oregon. Now this from Stockland Livestock “This is Jack McQuinness here at Stockland Livestock in Davenport. No sale here this past Monday because of the Memorial Day Holiday. No horse sale. We cancelled that because of the virus outbreak. Be back in business on June 6th selling all classes of cattle. We have several smaller consignments of yearlings. Looking for a good sale market. Rebounded a little here during the week and we are looking for a strong market for the feeder cattle and at least a steady market on the weigh up cows and bulls. Again, we sell cattle every Monday here at Stockland. We offer our small animals on the 4th Tuesday of every month. Goats, sheep, hogs sell on the 4th Tuesday of every month beginning in June. Thanks for listening. Thanks for your business. Stockland Livestock in Davenport. Thanks Jack. I’m Bob Hoff and that’s Washington Ag Today on Northwest Aginfo Net. ?
