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February 5, 2016
Blueberry exports to Japan decrease
By MATEUSZ PERKOWSKI
Capital Press
PORTLAND — Blueber-
ry exports to Japan, a major
destination for the crop, have
decreased in recent years but
experts aren’t alarmed about
the market’s future.
While the total amount
of frozen and fresh blueber-
ry shipments to Japan has
dropped off, the decrease
probably isn’t indicative of
a long-term downward trend
and the nation is expected to
remain a top consumer, ex-
perts say.
“We’re not discouraged by
it,” said Tom Payne, a market
development consultant for
the U.S. Highbush Blueberry
Council.
Exports of frozen bluber-
ries, the most common form
of the crop shipped to Japan,
were on the rise until hitting
$13.6 million in value in 2013,
according to USDA. After
that, shipments fell 6 percent
in 2014 and were on track to
decrease 11 percent in 2015.
Similarly, exports of fresh
cultivated blueberries to Japan
topped $6 million in 2011 and
2012 but fell to roughly $5
million in 2013 and 2014, and
shipments were trending lower
through most of last year.
The softening of the Jap-
anese market isn’t caused by
shifting consumer tastes, but is
linked to economic problems
in the wake of the country’s
catastrophic earthquake, tsu-
nami and nuclear disaster in
2011, Payne said during the
annual Oregon Blueberry Con-
ference in Portland.
Since then, the dollar has
gained in value signiicant-
ly against the Japanese yen,
which has reduced the buying
power of major retailers in that
nation, he said.
A U.S. dollar was trading
Dan Wheat/Capital Press ile
Blueberries are picked at Blueberry Hills Farms in Manson, Wash.,
last summer. Though blueberry exports to Japan have decreased
during the past few years, experts say they will eventually pick up.
in the range of 80 Japanese
yen during 2011 and 2012, but
spiked above 120 yen in 2015,
an increase of roughly 50 per-
cent.
Japan was an important
“ready to go” market for U.S.
blueberries, with consumers
who have high disposable in-
comes and are receptive to
positive health messages about
the fruit, said Jeff Malensky,
vice president of internation-
al sales at the Oregon Berry
Packing Co.
As the market matures, it’s
natural that growth will slow
down or latten, he said.
Meanwhile, exports to
nearby South Korea have ex-
ploded and the country ap-
pears to be the “new Japan,”
Payne said.
Frozen blueberry exports to
South Korea more than dou-
bled from 2011 to 2014, from
$7.5 million to $16 million,
and were in line to continue
increasing in 2015.
The value of fresh blue-
berry shipments to that nation
surged from less than $1 mil-
lion in 2011 to nearly $2 mil-
lion in 2014, and were on track
to hit $3 million last year.
Payne said he’s optimistic
about the overall trajectory of
blueberry exports, which now
represent about 15 percent of
the U.S. crop and have grown
by one-third in volume since
2010.
Consumption of blueber-
ries around the world will have
to increase to keep pace with
production.
Between 2010 and 2014,
global blueberry production
grew 65 percent, to about 1.24
billion pounds, said Dave Bra-
zelton, founder of Fall Creek
Farm & Nursery.
Blueberry production is
projected to grow 500 million
pounds, to 1.7 billion, by 2019,
he said.
Meanwhile, in recent years
more frozen blueberries are
going into storage than are
coming out in the U.S., which
does not bode well for pric-
es received by farmers, said
John Shelford, president of the
Shelford Associates market
consulting irm.
While the industry can’t
expect to clear out its invento-
ries completely, roughly one-
fourth of frozen U.S. blueber-
ries are now left unconsumed
from year to year, Shelford
said.
Onion growers happier with inal FDA safety rules
By SEAN ELLIS
Capital Press
ONTARIO, Ore. — There
is some good news but a few
headaches associated with the
FDA’s inal produce safety rule,
Idaho and Oregon onion grow-
ers were told Feb. 2 during their
annual joint meeting.
The good news? “It
shouldn’t interfere with your
ability to irrigate your on-
ions,” Oregon State Universi-
ty researcher Stuart Reitz said
during the 56th annual meeting
of the Malheur County and Ida-
ho onion growers’ associations.
That’s great news, he said,
considering the FDA’s initial
proposed produce safety rule
would have made it extremely
dificult to grow onions in the
Treasure Valley area, where
most farmers use surface wa-
ter that mostly won’t meet the
rule’s new agricultural water
standards.
FDA’s initial proposal
would have required produce
growers whose irrigation water
exceeds certain thresholds for
bacteria to immediately stop
using it. That would have made
it impossible for most people in
the valley to grow onions, in-
dustry leaders have said.
The inal rule, released Nov.
27, requires growers whose
water exceeds those minimum
standards to adopt a mitigation
strategy as soon as practicable
PUBLIC NOTICE OF SALE
State of Oregon Department of Forestry
OF APPROXIMATELY 115 ACRES OF IMPROVED PROPERTY KNOWN AS
THE D.L. PHIPPS FOREST NURSERY
D.L. Phipps Forest Nursery 2424 Wells Road
Elkton, Oregon 97436
Description:
Parcel No. 1 (Elkton Nursery): Beginning at a point on the property line
between Norman L. Compton and Keith Kesterson 1265.6 feet North
and 957.0 feet West of the one-quarter corner common to Sections 1
and 12, Township 23 South, Range 8 West, Willamette Meridian; thence
South 18° 14’ West 2436.7 feet along the Keith Kesterson property line;
thence North 57° 30’ West 1099.8 feet; North 65° 45’ West 1122.0 feet;
North 63° 45’ West 330.0 feet; North 73° West 48.8 feet to a point on
the Howard F. Carnes Property line; thence North 30° 54’ East 1451.8
feet along the Howard F. Carnes property line; thence North 84° 29’
East 1068.0 feet; South 48° 56’ East 572.2 feet; North 18° 14’ East 550.6
feet; South 58° 34’ East 754.0 feet to the point of beginning, all in
Douglas County, Oregon.
Parcel No. 2 (Road to Elkton Nursery): Beginning at a point 25 feet
South of the center of the Existing County Road No. 203, said point
being 532.7 feet North and 1773.0 feet East of the Northeast corner of
the William F. Bay Donation Land Claim No. 38; Township 23 South
Range 8 West, Willamette Meridian, thence along the center line of a
road right of way 50 feet in width South 26° 01’ West 639.5 feet; South
11° 57’ East 83.5 feet; South 4° 29’ East 365.7 feet; South 39° 52’ East
446.3 feet; South 22° 34’ East 342.8 feet; South 49° 33’ East 80.9 feet;
South 25° 10’ East 449.5 feet; South 64° 10’ East 72.4 feet; South 41° 15’
East 183.7 feet; South 75°46’ East 80.0 feet; South 22° 52’ West 71.7
feet; North 89° 24’ East 97.7 feet; South 69°10’ West 104.9 feet; South
36° 44’ East 67.9 feet; South 45’ 30” West 78.2 feet; South 69° 26’ West
99.8 feet; South 0°08” East 70.5 feet; South 12°45’ East 289.2 feet; South
12° 36’ East 323.0 feet; South 72° 19’ East 71.8 feet; thence along a 70
foot right of way North 67° 27’ East 66.0 feet; South 30°19’ West 192.3
feet; thence North 56°16’ East 82.0 feet; South 19° 13’ West 81.8 feet;
South 87° 17’ East 48.4 feet; South 36° 39’ East 222.7 feet; South 13° 48’
West 71.3 feet to a point on the North boundary of the proposed Elkton
Nursery site 1370.5 feet North and 1128.8 feet South of the one-quarter
corner common to Sections 1 and 12, Township 23 South, Range 8 West,
Willamette Meridian, all in Douglas County, Oregon.
Zoning:
but no later than the following
year.
“This is the real sea change
from what FDA had originally
proposed in 2013,” Reitz said.
“We are in a better situation than
we were with the initial ... rules
that were proposed.”
different than it is today,” said
Idaho Onion Growers Associa-
tion President Clinton Wissel.
Produce farmers with
$25,000 to $250,000 in sales
will have to start complying with
the new produce rule in January
2020, growers with $250,000-
$500,000 in sales have until
January 2019 and growers with
more than $500,000 in sales
have until January 2018.
Growers who use surface
water to irrigate their produce
have to take an initial 20 water
samples over a two-year period
to create a water quality proile,
and an additional ive samples
a year after that, recalculating
their proile annually based on
the most recent 20 samples.
Groups seek public, private dollars for farmworker housing
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Location:
Sean Ellis/Capital Press
Members of the Idaho and Oregon onion industries talk during the
56th annual meeting of the Malheur County and Idaho onion growers’
associations, Feb. 2 in Ontario, Ore. Growers were told the FDA’s inal
produce safety rule won’t affect their ability to irrigate onions.
The inal rule allows grow-
ers whose water exceeds the
standards to comply if they can
show that bacteria dies off at a
certain rate in the ield.
The bulb onions grown in
this region are left in the ield
to cure for seven to 10 days and
OSU researchers in Ontario
have conducted ield trials that
show bacteria dies off quickly
in those ields.
This die-off provision was
also not included in the agen-
cy’s original proposal and on-
ion growers were told the input
they provided FDA on its orig-
inal proposal was responsible
for the favorable changes.
“If everybody didn’t step up
like that, this rule would be a lot
Exclusive Farm Use (EFU)
Sale:
This property is owned in Fee Simple by the Oregon Department of
Forestry (ODF).
Price:
Minimum asking price for the entire property in “As Is” condition is One
Million Three Hundred Sixty Five Thousand dollars (USD $1,365,000).
By DAN WHEAT
Capital Press
YAKIMA, Wash. — The
Washington Growers League
is talking to growers about pri-
vate inancing to build more
seasonal farmworker housing
in Central Washington.
State funding for seasonal
farmworker housing is limited
to $6 million per organization
per biennium and that doesn’t
go far, Mike Gempler, League
executive director, said at the
organization’s annual meeting
in Yakima on Jan. 26.
“We are very interested in
a model that allows growers
to make an investment and
own a right to rent a certain
number of beds, sort of on a
time-share model,” Gempler
said.
Grower investments along
with league bank loans would
pay for development, and bed
rent would pay operational
costs, he said.
“We are working with
more than one group of grow-
ers interested in this. We ha-
ven’t quite gotten there yet,
but when people look at all
the alternatives this may be
attractive to a number of com-
panies,” Gempler said.
Later, he said a lot of
growers don’t have the man-
agement structure or scale to
build and manage housing.
But even some large compa-
nies that are able don’t want
to, he said, because they
would rather concentrate on
growing fruit.
Growers are required to
provide housing for H-2A
visa foreign guestworkers but
growers relying on domes-
tic workers are interested in
housing to attract employees,
he said.
The state Department
of Commerce awarded a $3
million grant to the Growers
League on Dec. 3 to build a
120-bed migrant farmworker
housing facility in Mattawa.
At that time, Gempler said he
hoped to break ground soon
and maybe have the facility
ready for occupancy by apple
harvest in the fall of 2016.
Now, he says ground-break-
ing is more likely by late this
spring with occupancy by
spring of 2017. Land purchas-
es, street improvements and
other aspects take time, he said.
The league is applying for
another $3 million from the De-
partment of Commerce to build
a second phase at Mattawa.
It would be for 200 beds with
ground-breaking a year from
now and occupancy by fall of
2017 or spring of 2018.
In December, WAFLA, for-
Deal boosts effort to remove 4 Klamath River dams
SAN FRANCISCO (AP)
— An agreement by Califor-
nia, Oregon and the federal
government on Tuesday boost-
ed efforts to remove four dams
in the Paciic Northwest de-
spite opposition in Congress.
Oficials from those two
states and the federal govern-
ment committed in the deal
to pressing ahead on plans to
remove the four hydroelectric
dams on the lower Klamath
River, which runs through Or-
egon to California.
Local tribes and other op-
ponents of the dams say the
structures block ish from
spawning grounds and damage
habitat while generating com-
paratively little hydroelectric-
ity.
The agreement to remove
the dams had been part of a
Compliance with RFP:
All Proposals must comply with a Request for Proposal issued by ODF. A
copy of the RFP can be obtained from:
Oregon Department of Forestry Administrative Services Program
Facilities Section - Bldg. “F”
2600 State Street
Salem Oregon 97310
Attn: D. Chris Stewart, P.E.
Facilities Director
Phone: (503) 945-7375
Public Commentary:
The Public is invited to comment on the values of this property to the
people of the State of Oregon; including its values for fish and wildlife
habitat and public access to other property in accordance with OAR 125-
045-215(7). All such comments must be in writing and sent to the
Submittal Address described below. Comments are due no later than 3
PM (Pacific Time), Monday, March 7, 2016.
Deadline:
Proposals must be in writing and signed by a person authorized on
behalf of the Offeror in accordance with 125-045-0235(6), and received
at the following address by no later than 3 PM (Pacific Time), Monday,
March 7, 2016.
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Pursuant to OAR 125-045-0235(3)(e): Terminal Disposition of this State
Real Property Interest may be subject to a Right of First Refusal.
yearslong effort to end dis-
putes among tribes, wildlife
advocates and farmers and
ranchers over use of the river
and its water. The resolution
had been put in peril when
congressional Republicans op-
posed to the dam removal had
declined to formally authorize
the project.
The agreements on manag-
ing the Klamath River Basin
were the result of “years of
hard work and collaboration,”
Interior Secretary Sally Jewell
said in a statement Tuesday.
“We can’t let that local vision
go unfulilled.”
Tuesday’s
agreement
means the two states, the fed-
eral government and more
than 40 other parties involved
in the negotiation will stick to
plans to decommission and
remove the dams, using exist-
ing funding, despite the lack
of congressional support, of-
icials said.
LEGAL
D.L. Phipps Nursery Proposal
Oregon Department of Forestry
Facilities Section - Bldg. “F”
2600 State Street
Salem Oregon 97310
Attn: D. Chris Stewart, Facilities Director
Phone: (503) 945-7375
*Reservation of Rights by ODF:Pursuant to ORS 270.130; ODF reserves
the right to accept or reject any proposal.
merly known as the Washing-
ton Farm Labor Association in
Olympia, was working with a
commercial developer in Yaki-
ma to provide housing for 200
seasonal farmworkers. That
effort was not cost effective
so now WAFLA will apply for
state Department of Commerce
funding, said Dan Fazio, WAF-
LA director.
WAFLA is looking at sites
in Yakima, Royal City and
Okanogan. WAFLA opened
a 96-bed facility near Mesa in
2011. WAFLA continues to
explore private funding and
doesn’t view itself as being in
competition with the league,
Fazio said.
“Housing is a scarce re-
source. Whichever one of us
can provide it is great. We
sent three-quarters of their
business to them in Cash-
mere,” he said.
PURSUANT TO ORS CHAPTER 87
Notice is hereby given that the
following vehicle will be sold,
for cash to the highest bidder,
on 2/9/2016. The sale will be
held at 10:00 am by
NORTHWET WATERCRAFT
580 19TH ST SE #B, SALEM, OR
2003 YAMAHA VX CRUISER SKI
VIN = YAMA2556E303
Amount due on lien $2,143.57
Reputed owner(s)
Universal Auto Sales
Brandon Boatwright
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