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September 16, 2016 CapitalPress.com ODA plans for both budget cuts, increases Spending depends on fate of corporate tax measure By MATEUSZ PERKOWSKI Capital Press PENDLETON, Ore. — Oregon’s farm regulators are simultaneously plan- ning for substantial budget cuts and in- creases due to the state’s uncertain rev- enue future. The Oregon Department of Agricul- ture is anticipating a total budget ranging from roughly $103 million to $124 mil- lion in the 2017-2019 biennium, depend- ing on whether voters approve a corpo- rate tax increase in November. The agency’s budget for the current biennium is about $111 million, which means it faces either a 7 percent reduc- tion from its current level, or a boost of nearly 12 percent. ODA is scrambling to plan for either scenario, as are other state agencies, be- cause Gov. Kate Brown must complete her proposed budget for the next bien- nium by Dec. 1. — just weeks after the Nov. 8 election. “We’re all kind of schizophrenic right now,” said Katy Coba, ODA’s director, during the Sept. 13 Oregon Board of Ag- riculture meeting in Pendleton, Ore. State agencies have been asked to submit proposed budget cuts due to a large expected rise in state spending on the Public Employee Retirement System, as well as higher healthcare costs, said Coba. However, the state government is also preparing for the possibility that Measure 97 passes, she said. That ballot initiative would raise roughly $3 billion a year by imposing a gross receipts tax of 2.5 percent on cer- tain corporations. Under the $124 million budget re- quest, ODA would hire multiple new employees focused on food safety in- spection, agricultural water quality, in- formation services, human resources and public records, among other investments, Coba said. Positions would be cut from those and other programs, including conined ani- mal feeding operations and insect pest prevention, under the $103 million sce- nario, she said. Much of ODA’s budget is derived from fees on different types of farms and other companies who have a good under- standing of what service reductions will entail, Coba said. The situation is more complicated when dealing with the portion of the bud- get that comes from state general funds, which aren’t directly funded by the same agricultural constituency that receives ODA services, she said. Glyphosate-resistant tumbleweed discovered in NE Oregon Russian thistle, known as tumbleweed, can spread quickly By MATEUSZ PERKOWSKI Capital Press Mateusz Perkowski/Capital Press Judit Barroso, the OSU weed scientist who conirmed three infestations of glyphosate-resistant Russian thistle, or tumbleweed, in Oregon’s Morrow County, speaks at a Sept. 12 Oregon Board of Agriculture meeting in Pendleton. 12-month waiver Idaho water users concerned over water right application By JOHN O’CONNELL Capital Press RIRIE, Idaho — Water us- ers involved in a 2015 water call settlement aimed at sta- bilizing Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer levels are concerned about a pending application to irrigate new farm ground in the region. Only one party iled an objection, which was later withdrawn, during the alloted time period to protest Centu- ry Holdings LLC’s March 3 application for a 2016 water right on Willow Creek, the stream that’s dammed to form Ririe Reservoir north of Idaho Falls. But parties involved in the broad Surface Water Coali- tion water call settlement — including Twin Falls Canal Co. and Idaho Ground Water Appropriators, Inc. — say the application lew under their radars, and they would have protested had they known about it in time. “I think the question is, ‘Should the state of Idaho be developing new ground when every year there’s going to be a curtailment order to shut acres down?’” asked IGWA Executive Director Lynn Tominaga. Century Holdings has ap- plied to divert 20 cubic feet per second of stream water to irrigate 1,712 acres now farmed on dry land. Natural lows would have been in priority in the Snake River tributary for at least a couple of weeks during 10 of the past 26 years, according to the Idaho Department of Wa- ter Resources. 3 Years @ 0% The applicant plans to sup- plement its water right with a long-term storage lease from Enterprise Canal Co. and would build a pump station to divert water from Willow Creek into a pressurized pipe- line. “The intent would be to divert storage water, inject it into Willow Creek and take water out of Willow Creek as an exchange, below the point where they would divert for their irrigation,” said Jeff Pep- persack, IDWR’s chief of the Water Allocation Bureau. Peppersack said IDWR is reviewing the application and a decision should come within “the coming weeks.” Peppersack said the water right lies outside a broad area of the Snake Plain in which a moratorium on new consump- tive water development has been in place since 1992. “It’s been uncommon to have any large applications, especially when you’ve got other people who are cutting back in order to stay with- in their (recent settlement) agreement,” said Lyle Swank, watermaster for the district that includes the Upper Snake Plain. Efforts were unsuccessful to reach the applicant and its attorneys with Holden, Kid- well, Hahn & Crapo. 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Multiple growers in sever- al counties reported instanc- es glyphosate failing to kill tumbleweed last summer, which led OSU researchers to collect samples, germinate seeds and spray the offspring with the herbicide. Last week, Judit Barroso, an OSU weed scientist, con- irmed that three of the tum- bleweed populations were glyphosate-resistant. Tumbleweed, an iconic Western weed, spreads seeds proliically when it dries out and tumbles across the land- scape. Weeds develop resis- tance when individual plants survive spraying and then multiply. “The resistance is going to spread really fast, so we need to convince growers to con- trol these weeds in a different way,” Barroso told members of the Oregon Board of Ag- riculture during a Sept. 12 meeting in Pendleton, Ore. However, alternatives to glyphosate have serious drawbacks. Tillage is one option, but it can cause erosion, Barroso said. 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