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Poultry Partners New Phone Number

admin — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 13:28:04 +0000

918-868-4358

Noble Foundation offers new resource for drought stricken farmers

admin — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 13:26:21 +0000

Noble Foundation agricultural consultants have developed www.noble.org/drought , a Web page that will serve as a central repository for information to assist agricultural producers in managing their properties and resources throughout this difficult situation.

Noble Foundation offers new resource for drought stricken farmers, ranchers in Southern Great Plains

NEWS RELEASE
Issued – July 28, 2011

ARDMORE, Okla. – Today the Noble Foundation launched a new online resource to assist farmers and ranchers, who are enduring one of the worst droughts since the Dust Bowl.

“This is a once-in-a-generation drought,” said Billy Cook, senior vice president and director of the Agricultural Division. “We haven’t seen this type of heat and lack of precipitation since the record-setting drought of the mid-1950s or even the Dust Bowl. Lloyd Noble established the Noble Foundation to assist producers after he witnessed the devastating effects of the Dust Bowl. Decades later, we’re equipped with the knowledge and experience to help farmers and ranchers to successfully endure this drought.”

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Poultry Partners Mailing Address

admin — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 13:27:42 +0000

22337 East 543 Road Colcord, Okla. 74338

Poultry Partners announces organization planning meeting

admin — Wed, 25 May 2011 13:25:52 +0000

Poultry Partners will hold a general membership planning meeting on Monday June 13, 2011 at the Gentry Arkansas Library conference room. The free meal will start at 6 p.m. and the meeting will be held at 7 p.m. All members and potential members are urged to attend. Please RSVP for a food count by calling 918-326-0325 or emailing Bev Saunders at sscattle2@yahoo.com.

The Library is located at 105 East Main Street. When coming to Gentry on Highway 59, turn west on Main Street where the brown rock Gentry Bank (with the LED sign) sits on the corner. Travel west until you come to a stop light (three blocks) and the library is the two story red brick restored building on the south side of the street. You can park on Main Street or in the parking lot behind the library.

Results from a recent survey will also be reviewed at the meeting. The need for growers to unite is more evident than ever before. If you are a member, please come. If you are not a member, please come and join. Growers must stay united to have a voice!

Poultry growers see successful end to lawsuit

admin — Tue, 10 May 2011 13:25:23 +0000

By CURTIS KILLMAN World Staff Writer Published: 5/9/2011; Edwin Johnston was hospitalized in 2002, recovering from hip ailments, when a friend called to tell him he and others were driving to Muskogee to file a lawsuit against an Arkansas poultry company. “Make sure my name is on it,” Johnston told his friend. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Muskogee, did list Johnston as a plaintiff along with four others who raised chickens for Fort Smith, Ark.-based OK Foods Inc.

Please go to www.tulsaworld.com, search for poultry for the rest of the story.

Poultry Growers Symposium Tuesday April 26

admin — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 13:24:27 +0000

See the latest machinery, equipment, products and gadgets offered to growers at the annual Ozark Poultry Growers Symposium. Doors open at 1 p.m. Poultry Partners general membership meeting will follow at 7 p.m.

Dr. Susan Watkins, extension poultry specialist at the University of Arkansas of Excellence for Poultry Science, Poultry Partners, Inc.,Oklahoma State University Extension Service Specialist Dr. Josh Payne, Winrock International, the USDA and Poultry Partners are joining forces to bring the Annual Ozark Poultry Growers Symposium Tuesday April 26, 2011. The doors of the Symposium will open at 1:00 p.m. to the growers. Vendors will be asked to set up before 1 p.m. The first program will be at 4 p.m. and those programs will be presented until about 7 p.m.

A Poultry Partners Inc. general membership meeting will be held following the last program at 7 p.m. The meeting is expected to only last about 30 minutes. The event will be held at the Pauline Whitaker Arena/Animal Science Center in Fayetteville.

The meal will be served from the concession area and growers will get their meal ticket when they sign up. They can take the ticket to the concession window for their free meal to eat at their convenience from 3 p.m. until 7 p.m. This will allow growers more time to visit the booths and trade show.

Oklahoma growers will be able to earn their annual state-required class requirements (three hours) by attending the event.

We will provide a table and two chairs in each booth space. We are asking each vendor for $50 cash plus a door prize. The cash will be used for door prizes, some will be used for incidentals. If vendors would like a booth space, please send $50, name, address and contact number to Bev Saunders, 22337 East 543 Road, Colcord, Ok. 74338 by April 15th if possible.

Please callif you have questions, 918-326-0325. Thanks for your interest and I look forward to seeing you Tuesday April 26.

Bev Saunders, Program Director

Defense: Oklahoma ignoring own law

admin — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 13:24:08 +0000

By Robert J. Smith Friday, February 19, 2010 TULSA — Defense attorneys on Thursday criticized Oklahoma for asking a federal judge to cut poultry manure’s use in the Illinois River watershed when the state has the ability to do it on its own but has not changed it. Gary Weeks, who represents Springdale-based George’s Inc., made an impassioned plea to U.S. District Judge Greg Frizzell during arguments that closed a 50-day trial to determine if sixpoultry companies have polluted the watershed with the manure. Weeks told the judge it’s wrong for Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson to ask Frizzell to limit the manure’s use to fields where phosphorus is below 65 pounds per acre across the watershed that includes portions of Oklahoma and Northwest Arkansas.

To read the rest of the story, please go to nwanews.com. Type “poultry” in the search bar and the headline will come up. Click on the story from there.

Judge asks Oklahoma for full tests from chicken farms

admin — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:34:44 +0000

Published in the Tulsa World online. By JUSTIN JUOZAPAVICIUS Associated Press Writer Published: 12/9/2009 12:32 PM Last Modified: 12/9/2009 2:32 PM Oklahoma’s pollution case against the Arkansas poultry industry suffered another setback Wednesday, when a judge blocked the state from introducing soil test records that reportedly showed high phosphorus levels at 50 chicken farms. Citing fairness, U.S. District Judge Gregory K. Frizzell instead ordered Oklahoma to hand over the complete soil test records for the operations going back to 1998, when the record-keeping began. “I want to see the history,” Frizzell said, siding with poultry company attorneys who accused the state of “cherry-picking” tests showing higher pollution levels. “That’s why I want to see all the records, because they may cut either way here.”

For the rest of the story, go to www.tulsaworld.com, type poultry in the search bar.

Judge asks Oklahoma for full tests from chicken farms

admin — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:23:38 +0000

by: JUSTIN JUOZAPAVICIUS Associated Press Writer Wednesday, December 09, 2009 12/9/2009 2:32:56 PM; posted www.tulsaworld.com. Oklahoma’s pollution case against the Arkansas poultry industry suffered another setback Wednesday, when a judge blocked the state from introducing soil test records that reportedly showed high phosphorus levels at 50 chicken farms. Citing fairness, U.S. District Judge Gregory K. Frizzell instead ordered Oklahoma to hand over the complete soil test records for the operations going back to 1998, when the record-keeping began. “I want to see the history,” Frizzell said, siding with poultry company attorneys who accused the state of “cherry-picking” tests showing higher pollution levels. “That’s why I want to see all the records, because they may cut either way here.”

For rest of story, go to www.tulsaworld.com, type in poultry in the search bar to read the complete story.

Geologist Says He Hired Children, Friends For Expert Report

admin — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:23:13 +0000

Last updated Thursday, October 15, 2009 6:23 PM CDT in News By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS; TULSA, Okla. — A geologist said Thursday he hired his three daughters and family friends to do legwork for a report that became the backbone of Oklahoma’s pollution lawsuit against the Arkansas poultry industry. J. Berton Fisher, one of the state’s expert witnesses, testified he hired at least eight family members and friends, including the daughter of one of the attorneys handling the state’s 2005 lawsuit.

To read rest of story, please go to nwaonline.net, type in poultry in the search bar.