Daily News 03/11/2014

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In 2 shakes of the lambs tail

Farmers barns fill with bahs with birthing season underway
By GAY GRIESBACH
For the Daily News
Winter has begun to relax its icy grip and in local barns, another sign of spring is beginning to appear the urgent bleat and delightful cavorting of lambs. At Farm 45, Chris and Terry Groth had 45 pregnant ewes, but that number is declining steadily and four newborns were welcomed last week. Its hectic right now, especially with the cold weather, Chris Groth said. We have to go out every few hours to check because its so cold. The arrival of triplets required the Groths to put a heat lamp in the barn for an evening, but Steve Bingen found himself with overnight guests earlier this year. For Bingen, lambing season started Jan. 20 with 15 pregnant ewes. He had to bring lambs from a barn on Highway 33 near Allenton to his basement in Nenno keep the tender newborns warm. Usually, the weather is not so bad and I can take them back in day or so. This year, I didnt even want to take a chance, Bingen said. Because of the amount of time they were away from the ewes, some mothers didnt recognize their offspring and Bingen had to care for a few orphans. Bingens flock came in early because his purebred Oxfords need to be a certain age to fit categories of show at the Wisconsin and Washington county fairs and All-American Junior and North American International shows. This year he plans on manipulating breeding cycles so he can enter lambs in classes of sheep born in fall. Terry Groth said most of his sheep will lamb at the end of March and the beginning of April. We have a few early and a few late, he said. They are expecting another half dozen ewes to Gay Griesbach/For the Daily News give birth this week. Hes hoping the farms Terry Groth holds one of four lambs Sunday that was grasses grow by the time born last week at Farm 45 in the town of Polk. lambs are ready to go out on want to see the lambs being he said. pasture. Groth direct-markets Jean Telderer is hoping born and well sit and watch, but as soon as we leave they 100 percent grass-fed and the same. locally raised lambs at At Rainbows End Farm pop them right out. Terry Groth said his Milwaukee restaurants like in the town of Rubicon, 13 of Telderers Icelandic ewes Katahdin ewes also have a The Bavette, Braise and Erie Street are expecting in late March. strong maternal instinct Hinterland She chose the heritage and usually do not require Gastropub and grocers like breed because of their birthing assistance, but he Good Harvest Market in strong maternal instincts checks the barn three times Pewaukee. At Telderers, lambs are part of a menu of and their tendency to lamb a day for newcomers. Its the last thing I do grass and organically fed while out on the pasture. Theyre pretty self- when I go to bed and the first and pastured meat birds and pork sold at Rainbows End. thing I do when I wake up, reliant, Telderer said. We

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ABOVE: Ebony is pictured with her lambs, Tom and Janein, in this April 17 photo at Jean Telderers Rainbows End farm. BELOW: Ella is shown with her babies Zoro and Zelda that were born March 25.

Paying for pork may hurt pocketbooks

4 million to 5 million pigs dead from virus
JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) A fast-spreading virus that can kill 80 percent of piglets that contract it is rapidly spreading across Missouri hog farms, wiping out entire nurseries in some cases. Porcine epidemic diarrhea has killed 4 million to 5 million pigs nationwide, or about 4 percent of the pigs that would go to market later this year, The Joplin Globe reported. We had our first initial case in December in northern Missouri, said Marcia Shannon, a swine nutrition specialist with the University of Missouri-Columbia. Since then, there has been an explosion of it, especially in the first two weeks of February . I would consider it widespread now, especially north of Interstate 70. About 3,000 farms in Missouri have pigs, she said, and any size farm is susceptible. Ron Plain, livestock economist with the University of Missouri, said he expects most of the state's hog farms to be touched by the epidemic. We're adding 300 farms per week to the list of infected farms. I think most all will wind up with the disease, Plain said. The average slaughter age is 6 months. So we will see the impact of this in six months. We do know it has impacted the futures market for hog contracts. We're at record levels now. With no evidence that the virus can be transmitted to humans, people who live near industrial hog farms where piglet deaths have been reported shouldn't be concerned, Shannon said. The virus does not pose a food safety risk. Humans are not going to get it, she said. Porcine epidemic diarrhea, which is believed to have originated in Europe in the 1970s and remains uncontrolled in China and other parts of Asia, appeared in the U.S. last spring and has spread to more than 27 states. For a producer who is hit by PED, it can be pretty serious, Shannon said. If you have 400 litters with 10 pigs in a litter, that's 4,000 piglets that have been lost. It's devastating to those individuals. Missouri's pork industry employs more than 25,000 people, including in the feed, processing, transportation and packing areas, Missouri Pork Association Executive Director Don Nikodim said. He agrees there will be fewer pigs in the market chain by this summer, and prices will rise as worldwide demand for meat continues to grow. Enhanced biosecurity measures have had a positive impact, but there still has been a considerable baby pig loss, Nikodim said.

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Local FFA members head to state forum

WISCONSIN RAPIDS Slinger FFA members were among more than 140 high school students who attended the Wisconsin Farm Bureaus FFA Farm Forum from Feb. 21-22 in Wisconsin Rapids. The Farm Bureau is proud to host this annual event with the FFA to help grow the next crop of agricultural leaders in Wisconsin, Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation President Jim Holte. During the event at Hotel Mead in Wisconsin Rapids, FFA members attended workshops that covered post-high school agricultural opportunities, legislative issues and misconceptions about agriculture and biotechnology . Joining Holte as keynote speakers were two young dairy farmers who regularly engage the public on social media: Rick Roden of West Bend, a former chairman of the Wisconsin Farm Bureaus Young Farmer and Agriculturist Committee, and Carrie Mess of Lake Mills, who blogs under the name Dairy Carrie. The Washington County Farm Bureau sponsored Slingers Emma Gehring, Carolyn Kuzmic and Joelle Laufer.

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Judge halts Big Island GMO registration rules

HILO, Hawaii (AP) A judge is putting on hold Hawaii Countys registration requirements for growers of genetically modified crops. Hilo Circuit Judge Greg Nakamura granted a temporary restraining order Friday in favor of a papaya farmer whose lawsuit claims the new registration law is burdensome and intrusive, the Hawaii Tribune-Herald reported. Nakamuras order prevents the county from enforcing the registration requirement and disclosing the information already received. The registry is part of the countys new law restricting the planting of genetically modified crops to enclosed structures such as greenhouses. Papaya growers are exempt but still must register. The lawsuit claims the plaintiff believes giving up confidential information opens him up to vandalism or having trade secrets stolen. These are farmers who really fear for their plants, for their farms and for their livelihoods, plaintiff attorney Margery Bronster told the court via telephone.

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