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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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sugar beet industries say they
consider a bill that passed
Congress requiring labels on
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modiied organisms to be a
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recently implemented in Ver-
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rules for the federal standard
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years.
The bill allows companies
to label GMO content using an
icon that will be developed by
USDA, on-package language
or a bar code linking to online
messaging when scanned by a
smartphone — a major point
of contention among critics,
who argue the requirement is
too weak.
“It gives the food com-
panies options,” said John
Keeling, executive vice pres-
ident and CEO of the National
Potato Council. “They have
to convey information, but
it gives them options in how
they do that.”
NPC had initially made
it a top priority to lobby for
a voluntary GMO labeling
standard, introduced by Rep.
Mike Pompeo, R-Kan., but
that bill failed to gain traction
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intervene in the case because
they have an interest in forest
health and Linn County was ef-
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mook, and Washington counties
turned timberland over to the
state.
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that contract by enacting a
“greatest permanent value” for-
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ties $1.4 billion in past and fu-
ture timber revenues, the com-
plaint said.
The non-proit groups ar-
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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.