Show A r ' w' 1 i i : r K o Sunday 'I April in 2004 i 'r 4 f ‘ tr ' i A8 ) The Herald Journal y People in business I Joins staff - '' I Kakoi Day Spa and Boutique is pleased to 'L announce the addition of Shae Belnap to 4heir staff Shae specializes in haircuts colof placement formal v - ‘v J i' y 1 jll TtT perma- up-do-'s nents and basic styling Shae is cur- rently accepting new clients Call for an appointment 9 ’ 753-678- Honored EK Ekcessories Inc the world leader in small spoiling accessories is pleased to announce Arianne Bateman as our March employee of the month Ananne increased her Febru- ary production per-centa- ge by 343 percept while maintaining excellent quality Ananne is a junior at USU majoring in family and human development EK appreciates Arianne and all of bur employees for all of their hard work and dedication EK Ekcessories Inc is pleased to announce Shauna Espinoza as our April employee of the month Shauna performed 683 percent above company standard with excellent quality As a seasoned employee Shauna spends most of her time in our sewing department sewing hundreds of dog collars dog leashes and roll bar handles for our Motor Sports line Shauna currently resides in Logan with her husband Felo and her two sons Freddy and Franky ' t APphoto West's promising snowpack has all but disappeared experts warn ENO Nev (AP) — From the brittle of Southern California to I hillsides the drying fields of Idaho from to New Mexico a relent- y Montana I less drought is worsening across 4 most of the West where a once- promising snowpack is shrinking early water sup-plies are dwindling and tire threat of wiidfires is already on the rife “Most of the West is headed into six years of drought and some areas are looking at seven years of drought” said Rick Ochoa weather program manager at the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise Idaho Arizona faces its worst drought on record New Mexico farmers are bracing for dramatic reductions in water supplies and in parts of southeast Idaho the only farmers who will get water this summer might be those with watery rights dating to the late 1800s y On the edge of the Sierra lingering drought is pitting residents against the Reno country club that hosts a national golf tournament iri a battle over water from a mountain creek ‘ “Some part of the West has been in a state of said Kelly drought since the winter of 1995-96- ” Redmond regional climatologist for the Institute’s Western Regional Climate ' Center in Reno x “For the last year or two it has extended all foe 'way from the Mexican border to Canada pretty : consistently” he said An unusually warm dry March melted snow- ' pack and increased wildfire threats especially in southeast Oregon half of Arizona most of arid parts of Colorado nJ A Big project Banco Logan a world leader in ' large screen display solutions its has it announced completed " installation of a Dlite outd or LED video display solution for KUTV2 news Salt Lake City Utah a CBS owned and operated station This new display will allow people on Main Street in Downtown Salt Lake City to view live news broadcasts It is the flrst LED screen of its kind to be placed in the Utah broadcast market In addition to entertaining viewers with brilliant live video newscasts the Barco display solution offers KUTV an exciting new means to deliver their promotional messages: ' The outdoor LED display is approximately 10 feet tall by 6 feet wide and usesBarco’s tion Dlite 7 video display solution Speakers are mounted to the frame v to allow viewers to hear as well as see the actioriThe display's struc-turn curves slightly to match the architectural lines of the building high-resol- u- Desert-Researc- V - ’ south-centr- - ! - v agencies: With the addition : ' 66 : at : there' h ‘ Wwu Editor’s note: Extenskh Agent Scott v agencies have been successfully version of the Spillman software specifically tailonsd to the needs of smaller 'operating an' NT-bas- ed : encies:C- ’ COWS ftr ’ co The company expects to release v the Window s 2003 Server platform :y option in first quarter 2005 v sumed Forage production can be v highly variable in the western states and cows are commonly required to column on livestock issues be highly productive on a limited forage supply V By Scott Wlilleme A practical measurement of jwk ductiori efficiency is total pounds of With the passing of anofoer winter calf wearied per female exposed to a and foe mud of March comes the bull This measure combines both beginning of anofoer reproductive foe reproductive performance of the cow herd and foe growth Character- 'Cycfe for beef 1 istics of foe calves relative to foe producers :f This brings total number of cows in the breeding v herd upa discussion on a' Pasture forage is generally one of variety offacr foielaigest fixed cost to the opera? tors foat-- ’ foereforeto "influence the match cow type to foe forage supply overall profto achieve maximum efficiency in : itability of the harvesting the forage arid converting it to a Cash commodity in foe form ? ranching ' Operation- - In general efficiency is Of the calf: Many factors caiq affect the opfimum use of refeurces toward production efficiency in fob cow a sustainable level of production herd Major factors of efficiency : Beef production efficiency can be V including cow size milking ability expressed as foe ratio of pounds of ' and body condition aU relate to efficalf weaned per unit of forage con- cient reproductive performance - : - Robert Alder has purchased the business of Bright Stripes and Sweeping It offers sweeping of ':: parkingareas streets and drive-'-V ways as well as equipment' for painting and striping facilities and parking spaces state-of-the-- art rt1 - Continued on A9 - : : : : 'V’V miiMitita kkM jariduce a larger calf but her cost of production may not be the optimal use of limited forage resources Williams joins mo roiauon 01 cofurTr nists on this page witti an occaskmal : New owner al ' ' Spillman software will be available Intel-based on IBM Sun and ’’ 'servers f Spillman is nbt new to the Win-- ‘ dows development environinert : nearly six years public safety v ' v : of the Windows V Server 2003 operating system to their list of supported platforms 'v New-Mexi- ge : ‘ Adds system “A lot of places had The US Natural Resources Conservation Ser- snowpack But we had one of the warmest Marches mi vice forecasts the potential for water restrictions and widespread crop and pasture losses in central ' record aieroSS'fimd we 4dn’t get any precipitation ' Nevada southern Idaho most of almost anywhere in the West” he sard “So not only didWe not add to our supply in Montana and eastern and southwestern Utah hferch which is usually a very healthy month but “Drought? What drought? It rained here a cou- foe temperature was so warm that pie of years ago” said Dick foe melting started early” he said Larsen spokesman for the Idaho Water Resources of Significant snow melt into foe Department Merced River at Yosemite National He’s straining for humor because Park in California began on its earniost of soufoori Idaho is in a catethe liest date in 87 years Redmond r US Agriculture Departgory said ment calls “exceptional drought” hlS- are “The situation has been repeated with foulhwextMoalooking of pans along all over the West”he said toric low levels of That’s a step worse than In Idaho “the furtho' south and Water ItS entirely east you go the worse it gets” “extreme drought” which the USDA says best describes the con- - possible there Will Larseq said One of the hardest hit areas is in ditionofotherpartsofMontana be nQ jrrigatjon southeast comer of the stale st the New Utah Wyoming Arizona Bear Lake which provides water to Mexico Nevada Oregon and Coir water available for orado parts of Idaho Wyoming and Utah farmers down Those states are heavily depen- “They are looking at historic low levels ibf water It’s entirely dent on melting snow for water possible there will be no irrigation supplies — snow that has rapidly across month the disappeared past —Dick Larsen Idaho water available for fanners down ' foe region there” Larsen said Dept of Water Aiizona is on the verge of its Snowpack showed half or less Resources wrest the normal March precipitation drought rerecorded history level in the Intermountain West according to John Sullivan associ- Soufowest Northern Rockies central Idaho Ore- ate general manager of the Salt River Project’s gon and California Thp driest basins were in cen- - Vater group For nine yean running precipitation and runoff tral Arizona where less than 70 percent of normal seasonal precipitation was reported into foe Phoenix area’s reservoirs have been far Most of the “sitting reasonably well” y See DROUGHT on A9 at the end of February Redniondsaifo near-avera- : Spillman Technologies' announces plans to include a Microsoft Win- dows Server 2003 operating system as an additional platform for their industry-leadin- g public safety soft- ware The additional platform will expand Spillman’s addressable tnar-- i ket to a wider range of public safety snow-pac- k ©CD 4 - Colorado drought la keeping Its grip across much of the West where the is shrinking early and wildfire season has already begun Douglas Hutchinson of the liS Geological Survey measures the flow rate and volume of the Truckee River near Reno Nev Tdesday From Nevada to : Cow Milk Yield Milk yield is directly rtlated to calf growth so cow herd Larger cows require more ' increased milk energy than smaller cows yield often is consid-Researchers have shown that smaller ercd an advantage in a cow-ca- lf cows cart wean more pounds of calf operation However milk produc-- " feed of than can tum requires lugh levels of energy ' per pound larger cows Feeding larger cows' a higher iiqxitlrthe cQW and if feed v : resources are linrited riulkproduc? energy diet does not increase foe number and total weight of calves tion can have a negative effect on foe overall efficiency of beef pro- weaned enough to ofuet the higher level of energy intake The expected duction' Research indicates that a ' level of forage intake forcows hiierrmilking cow generally has a weighing 1000 and 1300 pounds greater total energy requirement than would be approximately equivalent a cow of sinular size to 35 and 42Ttohsear respective- during foe lactation arid dry periods Hoiyevrir the question remains: ly At the lowest level Of energy intake foe smallest and more moder- - can foe cows pro- - V: : ng pic-weani- ! r lower-milkin- g : higher-milki- ng cowsweremorefoanducecalvesffoatareheavyenoughto twice as efficient as foe largest1 : V highest-mil- k ing cows in converting feed into pounds of weaned calf The conclusion is a larger cow can T‘- pay for this increase ta forager demand? Cows foal produce tnore 'V1- - See WILLIAMS on A9 |