February 17, 2017
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Oregon
Mid-Valley Winter Ag Fest’s
2nd edition set for Feb. 25-26
By GEOFF PARKS
For the Capital Press
RICKREALL, Ore. — The
Mid-Valley Winter Ag Fest
aims to build on last year’s
inaugural event, which “ex-
ceeded attendance expecta-
tions on every front,” accord-
ing to the event’s organizer.
The event, scheduled for
the Polk County Fairgrounds
on Feb. 25 and 26, welcomed
5,500 adult visitors last year,
said Deb Thomas.
“This doesn’t include the
thousands of children that
attended,” she said. “We had
strong local participation with
ag organizations and youth
groups as well as ag-related
businesses.”
The event is spread over
five buildings on the fair-
grounds campus that host ed-
ucational events, a Farmer’s
Bounty Market, a petting zoo,
artisan vendors and displays
of ag technology.
The fairgrounds’ Main
Building will house the
Bounty Market, ag business
vendors, the Polk County
Master Gardeners and Master
Preservers and other groups,
Thomas said.
The Swine Barn will fea-
ture the Polk County 4-H
Horse Club, and local FFA
groups will show animals and
provide demonstrations such
as hoof trimming.
In the Floral Building,
demonstrations on outdoor
Dutch oven cooking by the
4-H Achievers are a highlight.
In the 4-H Building, fam-
ily-friendly events such as
food and fashion demon-
strations are scheduled, and
Building B hosts “a mix of
ag organizations, Saturday
Market and artisan vendors,”
Thomas said.
It was, in all of her mea-
sures, a successful first year
last year, she said. “We just
want a repeat of last year.”
Seminars in the Main
Building on Feb. 25 include:
• “Home Canning Toma-
toes” by the Marion County
Lawmakers consider extending
Oregon’s fish screen tax credit
Tax credit covers
50 percent of
installation costs
up to $5,000
By MATEUSZ PERKOWSKI
Capital Press
Geoff Parks/For the Capital Press
Deb Thomas, organizer for
the second annual Mid-Valley
Winter Ag Fest, looks over a
drawing of a balloon sculpture
that may be part of the Feb.
25 and 26 event at the Polk
County, Ore., Fairgrounds.
Mid-Valley Winter
Ag Fest
Where: Polk County Fair-
grounds, Rickreall, Ore.
When: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Satur-
day, Feb. 25, and 10 a.m. to 4
p.m. Sunday, Feb. 26.
Admission: $5 for adults and
free for those under the age
of 18.
Parking: Free at the fair-
grounds.
Website: www.mvwagfest.com
Email: mvwagfest@gmail.com
Master Preservers at 10 a.m.
• “Secrets of the Lazy Ur-
ban Chicken Keeper” by Ida-
ho author and farmer Gretch-
en Anderson at 11 a.m.
• “Introduction to Bee
Keeping” by George Wood-
ward of Woodward Farms in
Dallas at 1 p.m.
• “Water is the Connec-
tion: Managing Pesticide
risk to Aid in Salmon Recov-
ery” by Sharon Selvaggio of
Northwest Alternatives to
Pesticides at 2 p.m.
Seminars in the Main
Building on Feb. 26 include:
• “Winter Planning for a
Summer Harvest” by Ander-
son at 11 a.m.
SALEM — Lawmakers
are considering whether to
extend a tax credit for Ore-
gon farmers who install fish
screens on their irrigation
intakes, which expires next
year.
Under Senate Bill 172, the
tax credit — which covers 50
percent of installation costs
up to $5,000 — would expire
in 2024 instead of 2018.
“We view this as a valu-
able tool in the toolbox,” said
Alan Ritchey, manager of the
fish screening program at the
Oregon Department of Fish
and Wildlife.
Screens are intended to
prevent fish from getting
sucked into irrigation sys-
tems and killed.
Between 2010 and 2015,
Oregon has issued 230 tax
credits for the installation
of fish screens at an average
amount of $819, according to
the Legislative Revenue Of-
fice.
“We have tens of thousands
of unscreened diversions, so
this is way of chipping away
at those,” said Shannon Hurn,
ODFW’s deputy director for
fish and wildlife programs.
While the amount of mon-
ey spent on the tax credits is
relatively small, Hurn said it
helps incentivize voluntary
installation of fish screens,
she said.
The program also smoothes
the process for mandatory in-
stallations, since irrigators are
required to install fish screens
when establishing new water
rights or changing the point of
diversion, she said.
“When they are required,
Mateusz Perkowski/Capital Press
Dan Kleinsmith, project manager for the Farmers Conservation Alliance, and Julie Davies O’Shea, the
nonprofit’s executive director, explain the functioning of a small, modular fish screen in Oregon’s Hood
River Valley. Oregon lawmakers are considering whether to extend a tax credit for such screens.
it is a very tense conversation
and this makes it more pal-
atable,” said Hurn, who es-
timated that roughly half the
tax credits are used for man-
datory installations.
The tax credit supplements
a cost-share program that as-
sists landowners with money
and technical expertise.
12 month waiver
The debate over requir-
ing fish screens for irrigation
diversions dates back to the
1980s, with lawmakers en-
acting the cost-share and tax
credit programs to relieve the
burden on landowners, said
Richard Kosesan, lobbyist for
Water for Life, a group repre-
senting irrigators.
3 years at 1.9%
The approach relied on
investment from landown-
ers and the state, as well as
anglers in the form of a sur-
charge on fishing licenses, he
said.
Without state assistance,
“you get away from the co-
operative nature of the pro-
gram.” Kosesan said.
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