Archive for June, 2008

Local rescue team gets trained in the trenches

Imagine falling or being trapped in a large hole or trench, or being a construction worker and seeing another co-worker becoming buried under dirt or water while working in a pipeline trench.  Who is going to be called for the rescue and how are you going to know if they have been trained in this [...]

OK grain prices 06/30/08

Oklahoma City — Here are the closing prices for the cash grain markets for Monday, June 30, 2008,  as reported by the USDA.
U.S. No 1 HARD RED WINTER WHEAT: 39 to 53 cents lower. 7.66-8.20
Davis 7.66, Banner, El Reno, Frederick, Geary, Hobart, Lawton, Okarche,
Watonga 7.81, Clinton, Temple, Weatherford 7.83, Okeene 7.88, Eldorado 7.91,
Shattuck 7.94, Alva, Buffalo [...]

State wheat harvest 90 percent complete

Just 10 percent of the state’s wheat waits to be harvested, according to Mark Hodges, executive director of the Oklahoma Wheat Commission. And those acres are mostly those of farmers with larger acreage that had limited access to combines at the end of the harvest cycle or those that have had to go slow because [...]

Auctioneer Cochran makes final round

Local auctioneer Lance Cochran was one of three Oklahomans to make the championship round at Livestock Marketing Association’s 45th annual World Livestock Auctioneer Championship on Saturday.
However, Matt Lowery of Burwell, Nebraska, claimed top honors. Reserve World Champion is Ted Odle of Brush, Colorado, and Runner-Up World Champion is Ty Thompson, of Billings, Montana. You might recognize [...]

OK agriculture loses advocate

From Ron Hayes’ Oklahoma Farm Update: “All of us know that agriculture can be a very unforgiving and dangerous occupation, especially when you are working with farm machinery. We were reminded of that on Saturday as word came that second term Democratic lawmaker Terry Hyman is dead because of a tractor accident on his farm [...]

Restrictions vs. rationing?

Call me a stickler for semantics but I can’t understand why the term “rationing” is being used to describe Guymon’s emergency water restrictions.  Rationing is “the controlled distribution of resources and scarce goods or services. Rationing controls the size of the ration, one’s allotted portion of the resources being distributed on a particular day or at [...]

Roping results posted

Winners in the second of the summer series of team ropings at L&M Arena were A.P Elliott & Bruce Cornelsen with 33.73 on 3; Seth Maness & Neil Ferguson finished second with a time of 36.75 on 3, and Kyle Hayes & Dave Robson placed third with 37.68 on three. Seth Maness & Kade Monroe [...]

Team roping continues Sunday

Team roping continues at L&M Arena, 2 miles north of Guymon on Hwy 64,  at 4 p.m. Sunday, June 29,  #11, capped at 6.  Results from the last competition are posted here: http://www.lmarena.com/resultsroping.html. For more information, call Mike and Lori Shannon at 580-468-7673.

Fox news reports on Panhandle drought

See the story — with photos and video — online here: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,372122,00.html

Start July 4th weekend early

Bank of the Panhandle is continuing their Fun in the Sun summer appreciation series with a watermelon feed on Thursday, July 3. You can also register to win a U.S. savings bond.