Coors Brewing Company to Donate 1 Million Pounds of Feed Pellets to Help Farmers and Ranchers in Southeastern Colorado.Coors Working with Operation Blizzard blizzard, winter storm characterized by high winds, low temperatures, and driving snow; according to the official definition given in 1958 by the U.S. Weather Bureau, the winds must exceed 35 mi (56 km) per hr and the temperature 20°F; (−7°C;) or lower. Benefit to Provide Food to Cattle GOLDEN, Colo. -- Coors Brewing Company will donate 1 million pounds of pellets to Operation Blizzard Benefit, a relief effort coordinated by the Colorado Cattlemen's Association, the state's leading agricultural organization. Operation Blizzard Benefit is alleviating the hardships suffered by ranchers and farmers as a result of the recent storms by coordinating and distributing donations throughout the state. The pellets, a by-product by·prod·uct or by-prod·uct n. 1. Something produced in the making of something else. 2. A secondary result; a side effect. by-product Noun 1. of the brewing process, consist of spent grain and are high in protein. Coors' donation, which is enough to feed 200,000 cattle for one day, will be distributed to farmers and ranchers by local chapters of the Colorado Cattlemen's Association, the Colorado Livestock Association and Colorado Farm Bureau. Teague Diversified, Inc., the animal feed broker for Coors, helped facilitate the effort and contributed part of the transportation costs. "We're pleased to be able to help these vital Colorado communities that have been hit hard by a difficult winter," said Dennis Puffer puffer, common name for some tropical marine fish of the family Tetraodontidae. The puffers and their allies, the boxfish, the porcupinefish, and the ocean sunfish or headfish, form an odd group (order Tetraodontiformes). , chief supply chain officer, Coors Brewing Company. "At Coors, we have two longstanding commitments - to support our local communities and to recycle the rich by-products from our brewing process. With today's donation, we're able to do both." "Over the past month the Colorado Cattlemen's Association has been working to help ranchers feed their cattle. We thank Coors for this generous donation which enables us to reach even more ranches and farms," said Terry Frankhauser, executive vice president, Colorado Cattlemen's Association. Since late December, many ranchers and farmers in Colorado have faced challenges in keeping their herds alive. As a result of the recent storms, efforts to transport food to the ranches and to reach cattle to feed them have been obstructed ob·struct tr.v. ob·struct·ed, ob·struct·ing, ob·structs 1. To block or fill (a passage) with obstacles or an obstacle. See Synonyms at block. 2. , and cattle have been unable to graze in their natural habitat. The pellets, valued at approximately $75,000, will help feed cattle well into spring. The first shipments of pellets left the Coors Brewery today. About Coors Brewing Company Coors Brewing Company is a subsidiary of Molson Coors Brewing Company Molson Coors Brewing Company (TSX: TAP; NYSE: TAP) is a company that was created by the merger of two of North America's largest breweries: Molson of Canada, and Coors of the United States, on February 9, 2005. , (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : TAP) (TSX TSX Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE before April, 2002) TSX Transfer from Stack Pointer to Index TSX True Space Extension : TAP). It is the third largest brewer in the U.S. The company's U.S. brands include Coors Light, Molson Canadian, Coors, Killian's Irish Red, Keystone, Blue Moon, Coors NA and Zima XXX. For more information on Coors, visit the company's Web site, http://www.coors.com/. About Colorado Cattlemen's Association Colorado Cattlemen's Association (CCA (1) (Common Cryptographic Architecture) Cryptography software from IBM for MVS and DOS applications. (2) (Compatible Communications A ) is the state's only nonprofit trade organization exclusively representing Colorado's cattle producers. Founded in 1867, CCA is the nation's oldest state cattlemen's association. |
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