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Drought the Hot Topic at Summer Cattle Industry Conference
Wed, 03 Aug 2011 04:20:48 CDT
Scott Dewald, Executive Director of the Oklahoma Cattlemen's Association, talked with us as the first general session of the Cattle Industry Summer Conference was wrapping up in Orlando at the Gaylord Palms. Dewald says that cattle producers from coast to coast have been asking about drought conditions in Oklahoma and Texas- knowing that these two states are at ground zero for the 2010-2011 drought that is resulting in herd liquidation on an accelerated basis.
Dewald believes that some of our bigger cattle herds are considering the moving of some of their best young cows to other parts of the country in order to preserve the genetic core of their herd- those animals would likely return to Oklahoma once the drought breaks.
Dewald also talked with us about some of the other issues on the minds of the Oklahoma delegation that is present- over regulation by the EPA, the unknown of what a final GIPSA rule might look like and urgency of getting the Administration and the Congress to move on the stalled Free Trade Agreeements.
You can hear our hallway conversation with Scott Dewald by clicking on the LISTEN BAR below.
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