10/24/08 Animal ID Partnership & Watching Your Dollars

Animal ID Partnership & Watching Your Dollars. I'm Greg Martin with today's Northwest Report. USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has established a partnership with four tribal organizations for National Animal Identification System education and outreach. The four tribal organizations are Intertribal Agriculture Council, Indian Nations Conservation Alliance, Intertribal Council of Nevada and the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Nation. Seems like every day we are hearing new stories about recession. Whether it is or not, it is a good time to be more disciplined when it comes to your money according to Wells Fargo agricultural economist Michael Swanson. SWANSON: The problem that we have is not that prices are volatile, the problem that we have is we don't bring ourselves to do those actions that are profitable because they're not profitable in the way we want them to be profitable. And so I think this is the year for farmers when they have fertilizer that's too expensive and cash rents are too expensive they have to say of it doesn't pay to do it, I'm not going to do it. Because why get yourself in a hole? Will Rogers was a smart man, he said "when you find yourself in a hole, stop digging." And that means we've got to stop paying cash rents for ground that won't pay for us. Now here's today's Washington Grange Report. (GRANGE) That's today's Northwest Report. I'm Greg Martin on the Northwest Ag Information Network.