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2 CapitalPress.com December 30, 2016 People & Places Phosphorus recycler on tour Joe Harrison develops mobile device that makes fertilizer from cattle manure Western Innovator Capital Press Calendar Wednesday-Friday Jan. 4-6 Potato Expo 2017. Moscone Center West, 800 Howard St. San Francisco, Calif. potato-expo. com Friday, Jan. 6 Beef Herd Economics Work- shop. 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Grant County Fairgrounds, Moses Lake, Wash. Sponsored by Washington State University Extension. Cost: Free. http://bit.ly/2hIH4X3 Friday-Wednesday Jan. 6-11 2017 American Farm Bureau Federation Annual Convention & IDEAg Trade Show. Phoenix Con- vention Center, 100 N Third St., Phoenix, Ariz. http://annualcon- vention.fb.org Tuesday, Jan. 10 Idaho-Eastern Oregon Alfalfa and Clover Seed School. Caldwell Elks Lodge, Caldwell, Idaho. Con- tact: benjamin@amgidaho.org Thursday, Jan. 12 Irrigation Equipment Show and Conference. 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Burley Inn and Conven- tion Center, 800 Overland Ave., Burley, Idaho. Classes on irriga- tion-related topics will be offered along with a trade show. Spon- sored by the Idaho Irrigation Equipment Association. http://bit. ly/2hWuOTw Inside the Family, Outside the Business. 7:30 to 9 a.m., Bridge- Port BrewPub, 1313 NW Mar- shall St., Portland. This session will explore how family members involved in the business can best communicate and collabo- rate with non-active members. We will share first-hand insights from a panel of non-active fam- ily members on how they have faced the challenges of being inside the family, but outside the business. Presented by the Aus- tin Family Business Program, Oregon State University. $40 per person. 800-859-7609 http:// bit.ly/2gQX6M4 Thursday-Friday Jan. 12-13 Joe Harrison Age: 60 Position: Washington State University animal science professor at the Puyallup Research Center Education: Bachelor’s, mas- ter’s and doctorate degrees from Ohio State University Don Jenkins/Capital Press Joe Harrison, a scientist at the Washington State University Puyallup research center since 1984, has developed a mobile device that extracts phosphorus from cow manure to make a fertilizer called struvite. washes into rivers and lakes and can cause harmful algal blooms. Nitrates and fecal coliform get the attention, but “we know eventually phosphorous will be an issue,” said Ginny Prest, manager of the Wash- ington State Department of Agriculture’s dairy nutrient management program. “It’s on our radar.” Harrison’s research project seeks to redistribute phos- phorous from farms with too much to farms with too little. The plan is to extract phos- phorous from manure to make struvite, a fertilizer named for a German geologist, Hein- rich Christian Gottfried von Struve. He identified the substance clogging Hamburg sewer lines in 1845 as a mix- ture of phosphorous, magne- sium and ammonia. Oregon Mint Growers Annual Meeting. Salishan Lodge & Golf Resort, 7760 Hwy 101 North, Gleneden Beach, Ore. oregon- mint.org www.oxarc.com Monday, Jan. 16 Oregon Blueberry Confer- ence. 8 a.m.-6 p.m. Salem Con- vention Center, 200 Commercial St. SE, Salem. Presented by the Oregon Blueberry Commission and the North Willamette Re- search and Extension Center. 503-589-1700 or oregonblueberry. com. Tuesday, Jan. 17 Succession Planning Work- shop orientation. 9 a.m.-noon. This is the first of two workshops on succession planning. Cost in- cludes planning workbook and food. Presenters from: OSU’s Ties to the Land, Green Belt Land Trust, Farm Credit Services and attor- neys specializing in conservation and farm and ranch estate plan- ning. Western Oregon University Werner University Center, Pacific Room, Monmouth, Ore. Cost: $50 per family. http://www.polkswcd. com/success.html Tuesday-Thursday Jan. 17-19 38th Annual Ag Expo. Idaho Holt Arena, 921 Pocatello, Idaho. ductions.com Harrison recently received a $460,000 grant from the Natural Resources Conser- vation Service and $150,000 from the Washington Dairy Products Commission to build a portable struvite-maker. He hopes that by March he will be able to haul it on a 24- foot trailer to dairies around Washington state. Liquid manure will be pumped into the base of an up- right cone, where manure and chemicals will swirl, forming struvite at the bottom. The liquid will run out the top and back into the lagoon. “Joe Harrison’s idea of taking a mobile struvite unit around really does hold a lot of promise to manage what could be this potential phos- phorous loading in the soil,” Prest said. A thousand gallons of liq- uid manure yields 2.6 pounds of struvite, a fertilizer for for- age crops and nursery plants that’s light enough to eco- nomically transport. Harrison estimated 1,000 cows could produce 100 pounds of stru- vite a day. “At the end of day,” Harri- son said, “it would be nice if it were an income stream for dairies.” Harrison has been work- ing on the idea for about a dozen years, forming a long- time partnership with Keith Bowers, an engineer who in- vented technology to recover phosphorous in livestock and human waste and founded a Seattle company, Multiform Harvest. Multiform’s customers in- clude sewer plants in Yakima, Boise and Green Bay, Wis. “It’s not something that’s being tinkered around with,” Bowers said. “I would hope people would become aware of the struvite technology and recognize that it is a solution that’s available now.” Bowers, who grew up on a hog farm, said the stru- vite-maker can remove up to about 80 percent of the phosphorous in manure. “You don’t necessarily want to take it all,” he said. Several previous applica- tions for funding a portable struvite-maker were rejected. “I’m excited we finally got the money to get the wheels on the road,” Harrison said. “We both have a lot of passion for this one.” He said he’s looking for dairies to try the system — at no cost to the farmer, except for the electricity to power the struvite-maker. Harrison is also looking for farmers to take the result- ing product. GASES / WELDING / SAFETY / FIRE Sponsored by: To submit an event go to the Community Events calendar on the home page of our website at www. capitalpress.com and click on “Sub- mit an Event.” Calendar items can also be mailed to Capital Press, 1400 Broadway St. NE, Salem, OR 97301. Established 1928 Board of directors Mike Forrester ..........................President Steve Forrester Kathryn Brown Sid Freeman .................. Outside director Mike Omeg .................... Outside director Corporate officer John Perry Chief operating officer By DON JENKINS PUYALLUP, Wash. — Re- search scientist Joe Harrison began his career as a livestock nutritionist. As time went on, environ- mental issues became more prominent. That caused Harri- son to shift his attention rear- ward. “What I tell people is I work on both ends of the cow. And that seems to be the best way for them to understand,” he said. Harrison, 60, has been stationed at Washington State University’s Puyallup research center since 1984. He’s currently engaged in a project to recycle phospho- rous, a mineral that goes in one end of the cow and out the other. Animals and plants can’t live without it. Without phosphorous, we’d be tooth- less and boneless. For growing food, there is no substitute. About 95 percent of the phosphorous mined from phosphate rock is used for commercial fer- tilizer, according to the Sustainable Phosphorous Alliance at Arizona State University, Yet, too much phospho- rous causes problems. It can build up in the soil. It’s not a threat to groundwater, but Capital Press Eastern Idaho State University South 8th Ave., www.spectrapro- Wednesday-Thursday Jan. 18-19 49th Annual Idaho Potato Con- ference. Idaho State University’s Pond Student Union Building, 921 S. Eighth Ave., Pocatello, Idaho. Speakers include Idaho Potato Commission President and CEO Frank Muir, Potatoes USA Pres- ident and CEO Blair Richardson and National Potato Council Exec- utive Vice President John Keeling. http://bit.ly/2fayqPE Idaho Noxious Weed Con- ference. Riverside Hotel, 2900 Chinden Blvd., Boise, Idaho. www. idahoweedcontrol.org Wednesday-Friday Jan. 18-20 Idaho Horticulture Expo. Boise Centre on the Grove, 850 W. Front St., Boise, Idaho. Sponsored by the Idaho Nursery and Landscape Association, this annual event of- fers seminars and workshops on topics important to the nursery industry. inlagrow.org Thursday, Jan. 19 Oregon Tall Fescue Commis- sion meeting. 6-8 p.m. Cascade Grill restaurant, 110 Opal St. NE, Albany, Ore. www.oregontallfes- cue.org/ Friday, Jan. 20 Family Foresters Workshop, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Coeur d’Alene Inn, 506 W. Appleway Ave., Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. The program will feature presentations on up and coming forest products, changes in Inland Northwest family forest- ry, managing forests in the face of droughts, effectiveness of prescribed burns in preventing fire; research up- dates on forest biofuels, managing family forest habitats for moose and the annual family forest economics/ policy update. Register by Jan. 13. Cost: $85-$90, www.uidaho.edu/ FamilyForesterWorkshop Tuesday, Jan. 24 Western Idaho Ag Expo. 9 a.m.- 4 p.m. Caldwell Events Center, 2207 Blaine St., Caldwell, Idaho. http://www.spectraproductions.com Tuesday-Thursday Jan. 24-26 Northwest Agricultural Show. Portland Expo Center, 2060 N. Marine Drive, Portland, Ore. The hours are 9 a.m.-6 p.m. on Tues- day, 9 a.m.-8 p.m. on Wednesday and 9 a.m.-3 p.m. on Thursday. www.nwagshow.com Wednesday-Friday Jan. 25-27 FSPCA Preventive Controls for Human Food Course. Idaho De- partment of Labor, 600 N. Thorn- ton St., Post Falls, Idaho. The new Food Safety Modernization Act regulation requires every process- ing facility to have a trained re- source person or “Preventive Con- trols Qualified Individual” who has completed a specialized training course (such as this one) devel- oped by the Food Safety Preven- tive Controls Alliance that is recog- nized by the FDA. This person will oversee the implementation of the facility’s food safety plan and other key tasks. http://bit.ly/2f6cogT Wednesday-Saturday Jan. 25-28 American Sheep industry Asso- ciation Convention. Denver Mar- riott City Center, 1701 California St., Denver, Colo. www.sheepu- sa.org/About_Events_Conven- tion EcoFarm Conference. Asilo- mar Conference Grounds, 800 Asilomar Ave., Pacific Grove, Calif. The theme of this year’s meeting is “Cultivating Diversi- ty.” https://eco-farm.org/confer- ence Wednesday, Feb. 1 California Prune Industry Sum- mit. Orchard Creek Lodge, Lincoln, Calif. www.californiadriedplums.org Tuesday, Feb. 7 Pesticide Short Course-IPM. 8 a.m.-4:10 p.m. Lane Community College, Center for Meeting and Learning, Bldg. 19, 4000 E. 30th Ave., Eugene, Ore. $85 if registered by Jan. 23; $95 after. http://exten- 20 Northwest Locations 1-800-765-9055 sion.oregonstae.edu/lane/farms 50th year. www.worldagexpo.com Alfalfa U. Learn how alfalfa can contribute to a farm’s profit- ability. Canyon Crest Dining and Event Center, 330 Canyon Crest Drive, Twin Falls, Idaho. alfalfaU. com Practical Food Safety & HAC- CP. The Riverside Hotel, 2900 Chinden Blvd., Boise, Idaho. HAC- CP, or Hazard Analysis Critical Con- trol Points, is a preventive system for the control of health-threatening food hazards during food process- ing. The comprehensive three-day workshop is designed for individ- uals responsible for implementing and managing a HACCP system in a food processing facility. Par- ticipants who pass a final test will receive a certificate of completion. http://bit.ly/2f2iJ9Q Tuesday-Thursday Feb. 7-9 Spokane Ag Expo and Pacific Northwest Farm Forum. Spokane Convention Center, 334 W. Spo- kane Falls Blvd., Spokane, Wash. Spokane Ag Expo is the largest farm machinery show in the In- land Northwest. https://greater- spokane.org/ag-expo/ Washington Association of Wine Grape Growers 2017 Con- vention. 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Three Rivers Convention Center, 7016 Grandridge Blvd., Kennewick, Wash. This annual event includes the second largest industry trade show in the nation and a welcome breakfast. wawgg.org Wednesday-Feb. 8 Oregon Clover Growers Annual Meeting. Noon-1 p.m. Holiday Inn, Wilsonville. www.oregonclover.org Wednesday-Thursday Feb. 8-9 The 8th Annual Organic Farm- ing Conference. Canyon Crest Event Center, 330 Canyon Crest Drive, Twin Falls, Idaho. The event is organized by the North- west Center for Alternatives to Pesticides. www.pesticide.org/ events Friday, Feb. 10 University of Idaho Cropping School. 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Best West- ern Plus Caldwell Inn & Suites, 908 Specht Ave., Caldwell, Idaho. This event will have presentations on fertilizer and irrigation water man- agement, crop diseases, falling numbers, soil health, precision ag, unmanned aerial systems and a drone flight demonstration (weather permitting). CEUs available. The cost is $20 and includes breakfast and lunch. owalsh@uidaho.edu, 208-722-6701 Friday-Sunday Feb. 10-12 2017 Women’s Conference. Chico Hot Springs, 163 Chico Road, Pray, Mont. Women’s lead- ership, communication and other agriculture-related topics will be discussed. Sponsored by the Mon- tana Farmers Union. montanafarm- ersunion.com Tuesday-Thursday Feb. 14-16 World Ag Expo. Internation- al Agri-Center, 4500 Laspina St., Tulare, Calif. The nation’s largest agricultural exhibition celebrates its Capital Press Managers Mike O’Brien .............................Publisher Joe Beach ..................................... Editor Elizabeth Yutzie Sell .... Advertising Director Carl Sampson ................Managing Editor Barbara Nipp ......... 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