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October 7, 2016
Organic growers cheer new
law reducing paperwork, fees
New UI economist hits the ground running
By CAROL RYAN DUMAS
Capital Press
By TIM HEARDEN
Capital Press
REDDING, Calif. — Or-
ganic farmers in California
say they are pleased with a
new law aimed at reducing the
annual paperwork and fees for
registering their operations
with the state.
The bill by Assemblyman
Mark Stone, D-Scotts Valley,
passed with nearly unanimous
support in the Legislature and
will mark the irst update to
California’s 2003 organic law.
Currently the program’s
registration process requires
information that duplicates
what producers already re-
port to the USDA, and the
program has operated with
millions of dollars in excess
funds collected as registra-
tion fees, notes the Califor-
nia Certiied Organic Farmers
organization, which certiies
organic farms.
“California is the only state
that requires an additional step
by requiring all certiied organ-
ic operations in the state to also
register with the state,” said
Kelly Damewood, the San-
ta Cruz-based organization’s
policy director. “This requires
additional paperwork and fees
in addition to certiication, so
this has been a longstanding
concern for organic producers
in California.”
California had 2,637 cer-
tiied organic farms with
790,413 acres in 2015, accord-
ing to the National Agricultur-
al Statistics Service.
The CCOF supported
Stone’s bill, which will allow
USDA-accredited organic cer-
tifying agents to submit their
clients’ registration informa-
tion directly to the state — a
shortcut the CCOF believes
will save growers hundreds of
hours in paperwork every year.
The bill also reduces state
registration fees for small pro-
ducers and caps the fee sched-
ule for everyone, allowing fu-
ture reductions as determined
by the state agriculture sec-
retary in consultation with an
organic products committee, a
news release explains.
Damewood and other in-
dustry leaders will work with
state oficials over the next few
months to iron out details of
the changes.
Any reduction in fees and
paperwork would be helpful,
said Mary Ocasion, owner of
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Mary Ocasion, owner of Churn
Creek Meadow Organic Farm
south of Redding, Calif.,
operates a booth at a farmers’
market Sept. 24 in Redding.
She says she hopes a new law
will reduce the paperwork for
organic growers, which can be
excessive compared to what
conventional growers must do.
Churn Creek Meadow Organic
Farm near Redding.
“It’s an amazing amount of
paperwork that organic farm-
ers have to do that conven-
tional farmers don’t,” Ocasion
said. “At the beginning of July,
I have to ile my organic regis-
tration form and they need the
amount of pounds we produce
in the ield for each type (of a
given crop). They want a lot of
detail on everything we grow.”
Ocasion said her annual
state registration fee is about
$100, above and beyond the
$995 she pays for inspection
and certiication.
Stone’s bill “will just sim-
plify the process while retain-
ing all of the protections that
were already in place,” said
Margaret Jensen, co-owner of
Good Work Organic Farm in
Round Mountain, Calif.
The cost of organic certi-
ication can be prohibitive for
small farmers, said Laura Bur-
lison of Burlison Fruit Stand
in Dairyville, Calif. The farm
isn’t fully organic because of
the expense, though it uses
many organic methods, she
said.
But while state registration
fees can be as much as $300
for some growers, the bigger
issue for producers has been
the paperwork, Damewood
said.
“What we’ve done in the
legislation is we’ve stream-
lined the whole registration
process so that it allows ac-
credited certifying agents like
CCOF to register or to review
registrations on behalf of our
clients,” she said.
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The University of Idaho’s
newest dairy and livestock
economist didn’t end up too far
from his roots in agriculture,
but he did take some interest-
ing detours along the way.
Hernan Tejeda grew up in
Santiago, Chile, with a father
and grandfather who were
agronomists and farmers. He
irst came to the U.S. with his
family as a toddler in the early
1970s so his father could pursue
a doctorate in agronomy and sta-
tistics at Iowa State University.
After returning to Chile
and then living briely in
Brazil, a job with the Interna-
tional Fertilizer Development
Center took his father and
the family to Alabama. They
eventually returned to Chile.
His interest in mathemat-
ics led him to seek a degree in
industrial engineering at the
Carol Ryan Dumas/Capital Press
Hernan Tejeda settles into his new ofice at the University of Idaho
Twin Falls Research and Extension Center on Sept. 9.
Pontiical Catholic Universi-
ty of Chile. He then worked
as an engineering analyst and
manager at a ish processing
company and later at a large
forest products company. But
he decided he wanted to fur-
ther his business education.
“I was thinking I wanted to
be a CEO,” he said.
He took up the University
of Notre Dame on a scholar-
ship and returned to the U.S.
He earned an MBA in 2000 but
had lost interest in the business
administration route along the
way.
“It involved a lot of cut-
throat decisions, many times un-
ethical decisions, and I became
very disenchanted,” he said.
His time at Notre Dame
also involved teaching at a
community college, and he
found his real vocation — aca-
demic research.
“I realized academia was
the place for me,” he said.
He began looking at pro-
grams where he could earn a
doctorate in economics and
was attracted to North Caroli-
na State University, which had
strong quantitative programs.
He began his studies there in
the mid-2000s and worked as
a research assistant.
And he could get away at
Christmas for visits to Chile,
where he met Luz Maria. The
two were married in Chile in
2009.
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