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CapitalPress.com
April 21, 2017
Farm Bureau president looks
forward to Perdue confirmation
Senate vote set
for Monday
By DON JENKINS
Capital Press
American Farm Bureau
Federation President Zippy
Duvall said he looks forward
to Monday’s vote to confirm
Sonny Perdue as agriculture
secretary, a move that Duvall
said is overdue.
“We were discouraged it
didn’t get done before the
Easter break,” Duvall said
Tuesday in an interview with
the Capital Press.
The U.S. Senate has sched-
uled the confirmation vote on
the Trump administration’s
95th day. The Senate also has
yet to confirm U.S. trade rep-
resentative nominee Robert
Lighthizer and labor secretary
nominee Alexander Acosta to
fill out the 21-seat cabinet.
Some farm groups have
said they are concerned that
Perdue’s confirmation has
lagged weeks behind other
cabinet members, leaving
open other USDA leadership
positions, including deputy
secretary.
At the state level, USDA
Farm Service Agency and Ru-
ral Development offices are
being led by acting directors.
The agriculture secretary also
appoints state-level commit-
AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais
The agriculture secretary-designate, former Georgia Gov. Sonny
Perdue arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington on March 23 to testify
at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition
and Forestry Committee. The Senate will vote in him Monday.
tees of farmers to advise the
Farm Service Agency.
Perdue received a friend-
ly hearing in March from the
Senate Agriculture Commit-
tee, and diverse farm groups
have endorsed him.
In an interview about Pres-
ident Donald Trump’s early
months in office, Duvall said
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Perdue’s background in agri-
culture and as a veterinarian
“is very, very comforting.”
“He’s coming in with the
attitude that he wants to take
barriers down and let farmers
be as productive as they can
be,” Duvall said.
The National Farmers
Union has also urged the
Senate to confirm Perdue.
The group’s president, Rog-
er Johnson, said the new
administration already has
fallen short, particularly with
Congress beginning to work
on the next farm bill and the
White House proposing bud-
get cuts to the USDA.
Perdue will have some
catching up to do, Johnson
said. “He will get to a desk
piled high with paper, and
he’ll have to dig out.”
Perdue and Duvall are both
Georgia residents. Perdue was
the state’s governor from
2003 to 2011. Duvall said he
was president of the Georgia
Farm Bureau when he met
Perdue.
Perdue told him he would
always welcome farmers to
his office, Duvall said. “He
made good on that promise.”
After his second term as
governor, Perdue and busi-
ness partners founded an At-
lanta-based export company.
At the time, Perdue said the
company’s goal was to help
businesses gain access to new
markets.
Trump’s early trade ac-
tions have concerned some
farm groups. He followed
through on a campaign pledge
to withdraw the U.S. from the
Trans-Pacific Partnership, a
Pacific Rim trade agreement,
and has indicated his admin-
istration will renegotiate the
North American Free Trade
Agreement.
Duvall said he believed
Perdue will defend agricul-
ture’s interest in expanding
exports. “As a governor, he
was really good on trade,”
Duvall said.
Perdue will be another ad-
vocate in an administration
that already has cheered farm
groups by installing Scott
Pruitt as Environmental Pro-
tection Agency administrator
and Ryan Zinke as Interior
secretary, said Colin Woodall,
vice president of government
affairs for the National Cattle-
men’s Beef Association.
“When we look back at
that next year ... I don’t think
anybody is going to go, ‘If we
only had those 95 days, how
much more could we have
done,’” Woodall said. “I don’t
think it’s going to be a black
cloud over his term as secre-
tary of agriculture.”
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NOTICE OF PUBLIC BUDGET HEARING
TO: ALL OREGON FINE FESCUE GROWERS
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to ORS 576.416 (5), on Monday, May 8, 2017, at 7:00 a.m., at
Elmer’s Restaurant, 3950 Market Street NE, Salem, Oregon, upon
a proposed budget for operation of the Fine Fescue Commission
during the fiscal year July 1, 2017 through June 30, 2018. At this
hearing any producer of Oregon-grown Fine Fescue seed has a
right to be heard with respect to the proposed budget, a copy of
which is available for public inspection, under reasonable
circumstances, in the office of each County Extension Agent in
Oregon. For further information, contact the Fine Fescue
Commission business office, P.O. Box 3366, Salem, Oregon 97302,
telephone 503-364-2944. The meeting location is accessible to
persons with disabilities. Please make any requests for an
interpreter for the hearing impaired or for other accommodations
for persons with disabilities at least 48 hours before the meeting
by contacting the Commission office at 503-364-2944.
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Notice is hereby given that a public hearing will be held pursuant to ORS
576.416 (5), on Tuesday, May 16, 2017, at 6:00 p.m., at the Cascade Grill
Restaurant, 110 Opal St. NE, Albany, Oregon, upon a proposed budget for
operation of the Ryegrass Growers Seed Commission during the fiscal year
July 1, 2017 through June 30, 2018. At this hearing any producer of
Oregon-grown Ryegrass seed has a right to be heard with respect to the
proposed budget, a copy of which is available for public inspection, under
reasonable circumstances, in the office of each County Extension Agent in
Oregon. For further information, contact the Oregon Ryegrass Growers
Seed Commission business office, PO Box 3366, Salem, Oregon 97302,
telephone 503-364-2944. The meeting location is accessible to persons
with disabilities. Please make any request for an interpreter for the
hearing impaired or for other accommodations for persons with
disabilities at least 48 hours before the meeting by contacting the
Commission office at 503-364-2944.
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Courtesy of Washington Department of Natural Resources
Wheat grows on state land in the Horse Heaven Hills region of
Benton County, Wash. The Department of Natural Resources’
abrupt notification to wheat farmers that it was converting the land
to irrigated cropland spawned legislation that lawmakers have sent
to Gov. Jay Inslee.
Inslee gets bill to give
Wash. farmers heads-up
State agency
admits mess up,
backs new fix
By DON JENKINS
Capital Press
OLYMPIA — A bill
pushed by wheat growers af-
ter a state agency admittedly
messed up and short-circuit-
ed farmers’ plans in Benton
County has been delivered to
Gov. Jay Inslee.
Senate Bill 5051 would re-
quire the Department of Natu-
ral Resources to give farmers
a 180-day notice before ter-
minating a lease, tripling what
had been the department’s
standard practice.
The bill also mandates that
DNR document that the state
has a plan to sell, exchange or
increase the land’s profitabil-
ity.
The legislation stems from
DNR’s early termination a
year ago of leases to five
dryland wheat farmers in the
Horse Heaven Hills region.
DNR notified the farmers
it planned to convert some
3,000 acres into irrigated
cropland.
The Washington Associ-
ation of Wheat Growers said
it supports DNR’s mission to
manage lands to maximize re-
turns for public schools. The
association, however, object-
ed to the department’s abrupt
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notification of its plans six
years into 10-year leases.
Farmers reported that the
department wanted them to
start preparing to put the land
into organic production.
The farmers also report-
ed receiving payments from
DNR that didn’t cover their
investments, but that they
didn’t want to risk losing a
costly lawsuit against the
state.
“I think it was akin to hav-
ing a gun to your head,” said
Sen. Sharon Brown, R-Ken-
newick, who introduced the
bill. “It was a crying shame
that we had to go through
what we had to go through to
even get them something.”
In a rare mea culpa by a
state agency, DNR Leasing
Division Manager Darin Cra-
mer told lawmakers that the
department made a mistake.
“I have no excuses. We
screwed up, bottom line. We
communicated poorly and
late,” he testified to the Senate
agriculture committee.
He said the department
had already adopted a 180-
day notification policy under
new Public Lands Commis-
sioner Hilary Franz, who took
office in January.
The bill won’t affect
DNR’s plans for Heaven
Hills. The department recent-
ly took bids to lease the 3,000
acres. The bids are being eval-
uated, a DNR spokeswoman
said Monday.
The land will be irrigated
by a Columbia River water
right. The agency will select
the lessee based a criteria that
includes environmental con-
siderations, such as whether
the applicant intends to grow
organic crops or preserve
shrub-steppe as wildlife hab-
itat.
SB 5051 passed the House
and Senate unanimously.
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