Albin News Readers,
After a few weeks of nice weather, the weather has again plunged below zero. Low temperatures in the area hit 20 below zero with windchills of 30 below. I think we can safely say that the winter wheat has gotten the frost it needs to go into winter dormancy. This of course assumes that you planted less than two feet deep. Hopefully we get some snow cover to protect against winter kill.
Lucille Miller has been transferred to the Davis Hospice Center in Cheyenne.
EMT class in Pine Bluffs is going well. The participants from the Albin area are Alicia Woolington, Tony Childers, Zane Willert and Cord Willert.
Les Smith has been in the Cheyenne Regional hospital for the past week after suffering from complications resulting from a spider bite.
Izzy Serrano is walking around with the use of a walker but has been having some problems with headaches. She has been doing some testing to try to find the cause of this but so far doesn't have a clear prognosis.
In Ag news there are a couple things affecting the wheat and cattle markets this week. South Korea, who has imported 25% of US beef exports so far this year, has been culling millions of cattle to contain a foot and mouth epidemic. The South Koreans are currently culling their cattle and pigs in an attempt to keep the epidemic from spreading to the rest of southeast Asia. On top of this, they found 40 cases of the bird flu in their chickens in January and have culled out 5.5 million chickens.
In wheat, there seems to be a stronger than expected demand for our relatively large 2010 carryover. Wheat prices rose after the Black Sea drought and fires and has stayed strong ever since. The higher cost of bread is part of the reason for the rioting in northern Africa and the middle east. Some of the countries have bought large amounts of wheat to at least stabilize the price and hopefully prevent higher prices yet. It's very possible that these riots could end in disintegration of government and chaos, disrupting the delivery and distribution of commodities to these countries.
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