Congresswoman on ag cuts

Tuesday Aug 16th, 2011 43 Views Washington State Farm Bureau Report

Washington Ag Today August 16, 2011 During an interview Monday we asked Washington’s Fifth District Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers how agriculture should be treated in the spending reductions Congress agreed to in the debt ceiling deal.

McMorris Rodgers: “I recognize that agriculture is the number one industry in eastern Washington and I don‘t believe that is should be disproportionately cut.”

The Republican Congresswoman says she has been working in particular to protect federal research funding.

McMorris Rodgers: “We had even some briefings that I organized in D.C. with local wheat growers to talk about ag research that is done at Washington State University. So we are going to continue to tell that positive story.”

Now the Stockland Livestock Report.

This is Jack McQuinness here at Stockland Livestock in Davenport. 600 cattle on our market. Cows and bulls about steady. We have a couple of outstanding loads of cows from Montana that had been on feed selling in the mid to high 70s. Some of the best of the cows in the low 80s. Bulls were three to five lower. We were in the 90s on most of the big high yielding bulls. Feeder cattle fully steady if not stronger. 730 pound steers as a high as $1.35. Eight-weight steers as high as 825 pound steers up to 122-50. Heifers trading five to eight back from steers all the way across. Stockland in Davenport. Thanks for listening.

Thanks Jack.

I’m Bob Hoff and that’s Washington Ag Today on Northwest Aginfo Net.