Record ‘Call Of The Homs’ BARNESVILLE, Ohio bralter, an 11-year-old Texas Longhorn steer won the Interna tional Championship Texas Longhorn “Call of the Homs” at Louisville, Ky. The champion ship show staged by the Interna tional Texas Longhorn Assn. (ITLA) headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas is an annual event provided for cattle who have qualified by winning in regional shows. The Call of the Horns has two divisions. One is measured tip-to tip designed to evaluate the wide st hom spreads by total lateral distance. The Total Horn Mea surement is much like a Boone and Crockett evaluation, which measures around the curl to de termine the total horn length. Gibraltar measured an official 124.75 inches. This is the most total horn of record at any Inter national Championship Show Call of the Horns event. Gibralter is owned by Robert Snyder of Co lumbus, Ohio and Dickinson Cat tle Co. Inc. of Barnesville, Ohio. The tall, dark red steer is a son of famous Longhorn sire Senator. 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LAND O’LAKES, INC. 405 Park Drive • Carlisle, PA 17013 • 1-800-645-MILK • • Gi- Gibralter, an 11-year-old Texas Longhorn steer was Champion Trophy Steer of the 2003 annual International Texas Longhorn Assn. Show in Louisville, Ky. His total horn spread measured 124.75 inches which allowed him to also win the Call of the Horns division. He is owned by Robert Snyder of Columbus, Ohio and Dickinson Cattle Co. Inc. of Barnesville, Ohio. Trophy Steer Champion, which was a visual conformation con test judged loose in the arena. Dickinson Cattle Co. Inc. was also represented with the ITLA All Age Champion Texas Long horn loose class Female, Sadie Sam, the Call of the Horns All Age Champion Bull, Winchester with a 69-inch horn tip-to-tip, and exhibited the All Age Call of the Horns champion Female, Un- bounded Symbol, age 5, with a 68’/»-inch horn tip-to-tip. Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 6, 2003-A39 (Continued from Page A 10) both favorable to higher crop yields. So actually, farmers and their customers would benefit from global warming. During the Medieval Warming Period (AD 1100-1300), for example, Green land was green and there were vineyards in England. Rather than worry about its ef fect on weather, farmers should worry about new laws passed in the name of preventing global warming. The U.S. Senate just voted to reject legislation pro posed by Senators John McCain and Joe Lieberman that would have imposed mandatory emis sion reductions and required util ities to use more renewable fuels. Reducing greenhouse gases would be very expensive, result ing in higher energy prices and lost jobs. Best available research shows reducing emissions to 7 percent below 1990 levels by the year 2010 would reduce gross do mestic product (GDP) by $3OO billion to $4OO billion a year and destroy 2.4 million jobs. Average annual household income would fall approximately $3,300 (in 2001 dollars) below baseline lev els. 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Raising energy prices equivalent to a tax on gasoline of approxi mately 50 cents per gallon (the amount estimated to be necessary to cause greenhouse gas emis sions to fall) would cause net profits for farmers to fall by be tween 15 and 44 percent, depend ing on the crop. Total annual U.S. farm production expenses would rise more than $23 billion, causing net national farm income to fall by 51 percent. Some environmental groups are trying to woo farmers into en dorsing greenhouse gas emission reduction programs by promising to pay them to sequester carbon in their soil. But farmers stand to lose farm more through higher energy costs, new regulatory bur dens, and emission permit costs that they could possible gain by selling credits. Proposals to control green house gas emissions, in short, pose a very serious threat to American farmers. Farmers and their allies should forcefully op pose greenhouse gas control pro grams at both the national and state level. Joseph L. 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