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4 CapitalPress.com July 22, 2016 Pumpkin seeds may be a Progress made on accessing crop for Treasure Valley U.S. potato markets By JOHN O’CONNELL Capital Press By SEAN ELLIS Capital Press ONTARIO, Ore. — Ef- forts to explore whether pumpkin seeds for the snack market could be grown on a large scale in the Treasure Valley area continue despite a challenging 2016 growing season. Companies that sell hul- less pumpkin seeds continue to show signiicant interest in having farmers in southwest- ern Idaho and Eastern Oregon provide them the product, said Kit Kamo, executive director of the Snake River Economic Development Alliance. “We continue to pick up more interest from a number of companies ... that want to buy pumpkin seed from this area,” she said. “We just need to make sure it’s proitable for the farmer.” Funded by a $91,000 spe- cialty crop grant from the Ida- ho State Department of Agri- culture, SREDA is working on the unique harvesting and processing requirements for that crop. The crop is harvested by what researchers describe as a pumpkin seed combine, which beats the pumpkins into Sean Ellis/Capital Press Oregon State University Cropping Systems Extension Agent Bill Buhrig hands out a sample of pumpkin seeds July 13 at OSU’s Malheur County experiment station. Buhrig and others are trying to determine whether pumpkin seeds for the snack market can be grown effectively in the Treasure Valley area. pieces with a hammermill, separates the seeds and loads them into a truck. The pump- kin seed has to be washed and dried quickly after harvest, before the starch solidiies. Oregon State University Cropping Systems Extension Agent Bill Buhrig is conduct- ing ield trials to try to deter- mine how to grow the crop in an economically feasible way here. A handful of farmers in both states are also conduct- ing their own ield trials. PARK CITY, Utah — U.S. potato industry leaders say they’ve made signiicant headway recently in their efforts to bolster access to some key foreign markets. During the National Pota- to Council’s summer meeting here on July 13, oficials up- dated their progress in mar- kets including Japan, Pana- ma, China, Korea, Mexico, Costa Rica and Indonesia. Japanese oficials recently announced plans to open ac- cess to Idaho fresh chipping potatoes, said Matt Lantz, who works to open foreign markets for U.S. potatoes on behalf of Bryant Chris- tie, Inc. Leaders from Ja- pan and USDA met in Idaho Falls during Memorial Day week to discuss the issue. “Today at lunch, they called and said by Septem- ber they think they’ll have the whole thing through the Japanese system,” Lantz said, adding shipments could commence by next January. Japan agreed to accept fresh Idaho chipping pota- toes in 2006, but access was abruptly severed after a sin- John O’Connell/Capital Press A ield of potatoes lowers July 5 in southeast Idaho near Pocatello. U.S. potato industry leaders say they’ve made signiicant head- way recently in their efforts to bolster access to some key foreign markets. gle load was delivered, based on the discovery of pale cyst nematode in Eastern Idaho. Pat Kole, vice president of legal and government affairs with Idaho Potato Commis- sion, said R&G Potatoes in American Falls is the state’s only fresh chipping potato supplier, but he believes the improved access could spur growth in the sector. “It could be a big deal be- cause the quality of chipping potatoes from Idaho is very high,” Kole said. Lantz said the next goal will be convincing Japan to grant year-round access to U.S. chipping potatoes, which may now be shipped only during a six-month window. Earlier this month, Panama agreed to start accepting U.S. seed potatoes. “At this point, we’ll notify growers that the opportuni- ty exists, and they’ll start to build a customer base,” said NPC Vice President and CEO John Keeling. Keeling said Panama rais- es a lot of potatoes, and the U.S. has been active in open- ing markets throughout Cen- tral America. Environmentalists shut out of Oregon forest litigation By MATEUSZ PERKOWSKI Capital Press Environmental and ish- ing groups will be shut out from high-stakes litigation over Oregon’s forest manage- ment policies, according to a judge’s order. Linn County Circuit Court 12-month waiver TRACTORS Judge Daniel Murphy has denied a request by sever- al non-proit organizations to intervene in the lawsuit, which seeks $1.4 billion from Oregon on behalf of multiple counties. “Passionate concern about something does not qualify an 3 Years @ 0% TRACTORS applicant for intervenor status,” Murphy said in the ruling. The proposed intervenors in- cluded the Wild Salmon Center and its policy director for Ore- gon and California, Robert Van Dyk, as well as the Association of Northwest Steelheaders, As- sociation of Northwest Guides 5 Years @ 0.9% OAC TRACTORS and Anglers and Paciic Rivers Council. Linn County iled a com- plaint against the State of Ore- gon earlier this year, arguing that 15 counties turned over 650,000 acres of their forestlands in the early 20th Century to the state in exchange for promises of future revenues. 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The non-proit groups ar- 30-4/#6 NPC President Jim Tie- de, of American Falls, Idaho, lobbied for the current bill with leaders from the major U.S. commodities, including corn and soybeans, in a July 7 meeting with House Agri- culture Committee Chairman Michael Conway, R-Texas. Tiede said Conway “apol- ogized profusely” that the voluntary labeling bill failed, but agricultural interests agree the new bill is still “a good compromise.” Ashton, Idaho, potato farmer Britt Raybould, who chairs NPC’s Legislative and Government Affairs Commit- tee, said suppliers had already started pulling products from Vermont shelves. Raybould supports the bill’s deinition of a GMO crop, noting it regulates the introduction of traits from one organism into another but omits promising new “gene editing” tech- niques that don’t introduce foreign DNA. Furthermore, the bill doesn’t require labeling of in- gredients derived from GMO crops in which all traces of GMO traits are removed in processing, such as beet sugar. “Food companies now can breathe a bit easier,” said Lu- ther Markwart, executive vice president of American Sugar- beet Growers Association. “They’re not going to have to do different sourcing of ingre- dients and drive up consumer food prices over a ridiculous Vermont bill.” National Organic Coalition oficials said in a press release the bill avoids “fully transpar- ent, on-package labels” and includes no enforcement pro- visions or penalties. The vast majority of U.S. sugar beets are genetically en- gineered to withstand glypho- sate herbicide. Idaho-based J.R. Simplot Co. is in the early stages of marketing the only commercially available GMO spud, called Innate. “This bill blocks Ver- mont’s law and gives USDA two additional years to set labeling rules under this weak and meaningless framework,” the coalition’s press release reads.