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Kansas wheat farmers still
assessing April blizzard damage
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By MATTHEW WEAVER
Capital Press
Wheat farmers in western
Kansas and eastern Colorado
are still evaluating the crop
damage caused by a late April
blizzard.
Bends and kinks in the
plants won’t allow them to
pull up moisture as hot, dry
weather approaches, Vance
Ehmke, a Dighton, Kan.,
farmer, said.
Twenty inches of snow fell
in some areas the last week of
April, said Justin Gilpin, CEO
of the Kansas Wheat Com-
mission.
“With wind and things dry-
ing out, a lot of the stems are
starting to break just because
they’re frail and have been
weakened,” Gilpin said.
He said he’s not certain
how much of the crop has
been damaged.
The commission encour-
ages farmers to contact crop
insurance agents to evaluate
their fields, Gilpin said.
“There’s nothing you
can really do right now ex-
cept worry as fast as you
can,” Ehmke said. All of his
wheat lodged and was bur-
ied by a foot of snow for two
days.
He estimates 1 million to 2
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Wheat growers in western Kansas are still worried whether their
crop will survive damage from a late April blizzard.
million acres of wheat in 15
Kansas counties, eastern Col-
orado and the northern Texas
panhandle are at risk.
Jason Ochs, a farmer in
Syracuse, Kan., said most of
his wheat popped up again af-
ter the first snow melted, but
another storm laid a lot of it
back down.
Under crop insurance re-
quirements he has to destroy
the wheat by June 1 to replant,
he said. Ochs hopes for an ex-
tension on the deadline.
Ochs will now plant more
acres of grain sorghum than
he originally planned. The
changes make cash flow
tougher and will throw off his
crop rotation, he said.
“I feel comfortable I’ll
make it,” he said. “I might
have to get creative on financ-
ing.”
Other farmers aren’t set up
for sorghum or other crops.
“I don’t know what their
options are going to be, hon-
estly,” he said.
The region is too hot for
spring wheat, Gilpin said.
Growers are also contend-
ing with an outbreak of wheat
streak mosaic virus.
“We’re getting a combina-
tion of things hitting us pretty
hard,” Ochs said.
Washington FFA adviser departing
Wallace to lead
state’s career,
technical education
program
By MATTHEW WEAVER
Capital Press
Rebecca Wallace, Wash-
ington state FFA adviser for
the past four years, has a
new job.
She is the new executive
director of career and tech-
nical education programs in
the state Office of the Su-
perintendent of Public In-
struction.
She will continue as FFA
adviser until a replacement
is named.
“My roots are in ag, I’m
a product of FFA, I’m a
product of ag education,”
Wallace said. “I’ve really,
truly enjoyed working with
the teachers, directors and
the students across the state
to advance agricultural edu-
cation.”
Wallace hopes to lead
by example in her new po-
sition.
“If you have the ability
to impact on a greater level,
then you have the responsi-
bility to do your best to try,”
she said. “We’ve been able
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Washington FFA adviser Rebecca Wallace waves to the audience
after being recognized during the Washington State FFA Convention
May 13 in Pullman, Wash. She is the new executive director for the
state Office of the Superintendent for Public Instruction’s career and
technical education program.
to do some great things in
agriculture. I’ve certainly
appreciated the support from
the ag teachers and ag indus-
try in general.”
Wallace said FFA has be-
gun strategic planning for
the future of agricultural
education in the next 10 to
15 years. She also pointed
to FFA’s relationships with
Washington State University
and the industry.
“I’m really proud of the
team we’ve built,” she said.
“I’m proud of being able to
bring to light some of the
great things we already had
been doing and growing
and starting some new pro-
grams.”
Wallace has had an “un-
believable” and “immeasur-
able” impact on FFA, said
Abbie DeMeerleer, execu-
tive director of the Washing-
ton FFA Association.
“She has been a tireless
advocate,” DeMeerleer said.
“She’s been innovative, cre-
ative and very supportive of
new initiatives of diverse
growth in our organization,
helping us look and grow
forward.”
Wallace said she plans to
continue to support FFA in
her new capacity.
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Bill seeks to double export promotions
By DAN WHEAT
Capital Press
A bill to double the fund-
ing of USDA’s Market Ac-
cess Program and Foreign
Market Development Pro-
gram has been introduced
in Congress by Reps. Dan
Newhouse, R-Wash., and
Chellie Pingree, D-Maine.
HR 2321, the Cultivating
Revitalization by Expand-
ing American Agricultural
Trade and Exports Act, is in-
tended to help U.S. agricul-
ture better compete globally.
It would double the funding
for the two programs over
five years.
Newhouse and Pingree
say it would be a fractional
increase in the USDA budget
and would provide an “enor-
mous return” for agriculture
and the U.S. economy.
“As a former state direc-
tor of agriculture, I under-
stand what it takes to market
and sell American products
to international buyers.
These programs are critical
to helping producers com-
pete overseas,” Newhouse
said in a news release.
MAP and FMDP fund-
ing has been static since the
2002 Farm Bill and has been
eroded by inflation, admin-
istrative costs and sequestra-
tion, the two sponsors said.
Meanwhile, the European
Union and other competitors
have ramped up export pro-
motions.
The EU is spending
$255.3 million to promote
wine alone in 2017, more
than the U.S. spends on com-
modity promotions through
MAP and FMDP combined,
Newhouse and Pingree said.
“If this trend continues,
American producers will
be severely disadvantaged
in the global marketplace,”
they said.
Slightly over $173 mil-
lion is allocated through
MAP in fiscal year 2017 to
65 commodity groups. The
Cotton Council Internation-
al receives the most at $14.9
million. The U.S. Meat Ex-
port Federation is a close
second at $13.3 million.
Among the largest West
Coast recipients, the West-
ern U.S. Agriculture Trade
Association receives $6.8
million, the Wine Institute
$6.6 million, U.S. Wheat
Associates $6 million, the
Washington Apple Commis-
sion $4.8 million and the
California Walnut Commis-
sion receives $4.2 million.
FMDP is allocating $26.6
million in 2017 to 23 groups,
many of the same ones that
receive MAP funding.
MAP was created in 1985
and awards groups money
for support of trade shows,
market research, consumer
product promotion and tech-
nical assistance for support
of exports.
There is a 10 percent
minimum funding match
for groups for generic pro-
motions and a 50 percent
minimum for brand-specific
efforts.
FMDP, created in 1955,
also requires funding match-
es, and is used for many of
the same promotions, mostly
for generic, bulk commodi-
ties and helps agricultural
trade associations maintain a
permanent presence in con-
sumer nations.
A 2016 study headed
by Texas A&M University
found the programs gener-
ated a net return of $28.30
for every dollar invested
between 1977 and 2014
and have added an annu-
al average of $8.15 billion
to the value of American
agricultural exports and
$8.7 billion to farm cash
receipts.
Doubling funding cou-
pled with increasing match-
ing funds from 10 to 50 per-
cent would result in average
annual gains in GDP of $4.5
to $6 billion under a less
than full employment sce-
nario, the study said.
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