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4 CapitalPress.com June 23, 2017 California sets cherry record; big Washington crop rolling By DAN WHEAT Capital Press YAKIMA, Wash. — Cal- ifornia has finished its best cherry season in recent mem- ory at 9.7 million, 18-pound boxes, surpassing its previous record of 8.7 million boxes in 2008. “It was a good year for them. Consumers were get- ting good fruit and we’ll keep right on rolling with good fruit,” B.J. Thurlby, president of Northwest Cherry Growers in Yakima, said of the Wash- ington crop just ramping up. “They needed it after the last few years of rain and poor fruit sets. We’re very happy for them,” he said of Califor- nia. Washington harvest be- gan June 6 at Doebler Orchard in Mattawa and has continued with other Mattawa and Pasco growers in light volumes the last two weeks. “We’ll be close to 1 million (20-pound boxes) shipped by today. Cool weather has backed us up a couple more days. We originally antici- pated we’d be at 5 million by the Fourth of July but it will be closer to 3.5 to 4 million,” Thurlby said on June 19. That’s less than liked but still “decent” volume for Dan Wheat/Capital Press Cherries drop onto a conveyor at Columbia Fruit Packers, Wenatchee, Wash., on June 20. Chelan and Bing cherries are being packed for export to Japan and South Korea. Fourth of July sales, he said. The Pacific Northwest forecast a 22.7-million, 20-pound box crop on May 17, with Washington produc- ing 81 percent of that. However, there is specu- lation the crop could easily exceed the 23.2 million-box record set in 2014. Early variety Chelan and Tieton cherries wrapped up in Mattawa and Pasco, where picking is turning to Bing. The Lower Yakima Valley and Wenatchee are working on early varieties. There’s good harvest spread among districts, which makes for good quality and marketing and eases labor needs, Thurlby said. “The weather this week looks wonderful. When it stays mild, not too hot, we end up with great quality,” he said. June 15 rain and hail dam- aged cherries in Grandview and Finley, but it was spotty, said Frank Lyall, a Grandview grower. “I haven’t heard of any- one walking away from an orchard (as a total loss),” he said. “The wild card with a large cherry crop is how clean a crop. So far out of Matta- wa, we’ve been happy with a cullage rate of less than 20 percent on Chelan and Tieton and packout of large, firm cherries,” Lyall said. Norm Gutzwiler, a Wenatchee grower, said wind has been a constant battle, marking a lot of cherries. Lyall’s brother, Charles, a Mattawa grower, said he suf- fered a little wind damage on June 12 and 13. He said he got slightly higher than aver- age yield in Chelans at 8 tons per acre and his average in Tietons was 3 tons. Tietons were large and Chelans were pretty good at 10.5-row. That means 10.5 cherries to fill a row in a box. Many years ago, the Wash- ington industry banned 13- row cherries as too small and a few years ago voted on ban- ning 12-row. It didn’t pass. With fewer warm days to size up this year’s crop, cher- ries will be about one size smaller than last year, which was a year of unusually large cherries, said Bruce Turner, national marketing represen- tative at Oneonta Starr Ranch Growers in Wenatchee. Tom Riggan, president of Chelan Fresh Marketing, agreed, saying early cherries are running 10.5-row versus 10- and 9.5-row a year ago. While growers fear labor shortages further into the sea- son, labor usually is sufficient in early picking. Charles Lyall said that was true for his early cherries. He said he had about 150 pick- ers and turned away a lot of California pickers looking for work. The test will come, he said, as harvest volume picks up in Bing in the last week of June. He’s down to 10 pickers now in the lull before Bing and hopes to have no problem getting more again. Harvest spread among districts will help, he said. Thurlby said California had enough labor and he’s hoping Washington will also as California pickers head north. He said he hasn’t heard of any packing house labor shortages. Reggie Collins, general manager of Chelan Fruit Co- operative, said on May 12 that he was short 400 applicants for a June 10-12 packing start. On June 20, he said adver- tising resulted in more than 1,000 applications from as far away as Idaho and California for sorters and packers. “We’re fairly optimistic, but they have to show up. We will need 700 to 800 of those for double-shifting on three cherry lines from the last week of June through July 20,” he said. Even though all three are new, high-tech lines requiring fewer sorters, they need pack- ers for the variety of pouch bags, clamshells and other packaging, he said. Too early to worry about falling Sugar producers endorse updated number problems, researchers say trade agreement with Mexico It’s too soon for farmers to start worrying about tem- perature fluctuations leading to low falling numbers in their wheat crop, Washington researchers say. Temperatures in the 90s on May 30 followed by high temperatures in the 60s have some wheat growers worried about a repeat of last year’s falling number problems, a post on Washington State University’s Small Grains website reports. Falling number is a test that measures starch dam- age that affects the quality of baked goods and noodles. Farmers were caught off guard last year when rough- ly 44 percent of soft white wheat samples and 42 per- cent of club wheat samples received ratings below 300, Capital Press File Researchers say it’s too early for temperature swings to cause starch damage in this year’s wheat crop. the industry standard pre- ferred by key overseas cus- tomers. The problem did not make its way to international buyers. The industry estimates the damage last year cost more than $30 million in lower prices. The widespread problem was partly due to late maturi- ty alpha-amylase, an enzyme that develops in response to widely fluctuating tempera- tures about one month after pollen-shedding, according to WSU. It is difficult to pinpoint the window of LMA-sensi- LEGAL PUBLIC NOTICE BY WASHINGTON STATE PORK PRODUCERS ASSOCIATION AND THE NATIONAL PORK BOARD The election of pork producer delegate candidates for the 2018 National Pork Producers (Pork Act) Delegate Body will take place at 1:00 pm, Wednesday, July 7, 2017 in conjunction with a Board of Directors meeting of Washington State Pork Producers Association, in Room 1 of the Soup It Up Restaurant, 109 East First Street, in Ritzville, Washington, 99169. All Washington State pork producers are invited to attend. Any producer, age 18 or older, who is a resident of the state and has paid all assessments due may be considered as a delegate candidate and/or participate in the election. All eligible producers are encouraged to bring with them a sales receipt proving that hogs were sold in their name and the checkoff deducted. For more information, contact Washington State Pork Producers Association, 2001 VanTine Road, Garfield, Washington. Telephone 509/397-2694. 25-3/#4 tivity for this year’s crop be- cause it depends on when the wheat reached pollen-shed- ding, an event that depends on temperature and variety, according to WSU. Wheat in Central Washington reached this stage during the week following Memorial Day, while wheat farther east is just starting to head. “We guesstimate that wheat in Central Washing- ton may become LMA-sen- sitive during the last two weeks of June, while wheat farther to the east may be- come LMA-sensitive during the first two weeks of July,” WSU’s post states. For more information, contact USDA Agricultural Research Service molecular geneticist Camille Steber at csteber@wsu.edu or Ryan Higginbotham, director of WSU’s cereal variety testing program, at rhigginbotham@ wsu.edu. LEGAL CHERRY AVENUE STORAGE 2680 Cherry Ave. NE Salem, OR 97301 (503) 399-7454 AUCTION Sat., July 1st • 10 a.m. • Unit 4 - Bryan VanDyke • Unit 5 - Abe Schw orak • Unit 73 - M iriam Flores • Unit 75 - Lisa Gayman • Unit 116 Andrew Sosa • Unit 129 - Jackie Hill • Unit 136 - Alison Davis • Unit 138 - 185 - Rachel Choudry • Unit 194 - M ichelle Darr • Unit A-1 - Herminia Barboza Cherry Avenue St orage reserves t he right t o ref use any and all bids legal-24-2-1/#4 Wheat will reach sensitive stage in late June, early July Capital Press WASHINGTON, D.C. — An organization represent- ing U.S. beet and cane sugar farmers says it supports a re- vised agreement to resolve the illegal dumping of subsidized Mexican sugar onto the U.S. market. In 2014 Mexico and the U.S. reached an agreement, in lieu of protective tariffs, limiting the amount and type of sugar Mexico could export into the U.S. Based on U.S. growers’ concerns that the agreement failed to address the glut of Mexican sugar on the market and increase U.S. prices, the countries recently reached a tentative agreement setting higher minimum prices for the sale of Mexican sugar into the U.S. and requiring that a greater percentage of Mexi- can sugar be shipped in an un- refined form to meet demand at U.S. refineries. Leaders of the Ameri- can Sugar Alliance said they liked many aspects of the pro- posed updated settlement but LEGAL PURSUANT TO ORS CHAPTER 819 Notice is hereby given that the following vehicle will be sold, for cash to the highest bidder, on 7/6/2017. The sale will be held at 10:00am by B.C. TOWING 1834 BEACH AVE. NE, SALEM, OR 2010 MAZDA SPEED 3, 4DR VIN = JM1BL1H30A1313436 Amount due on lien $4,105.00 Reputed owner(s) CHRISTIAN E. & KATHRYN A. SWANK NAVY FEDERAL CREDIT UNION Legal-25-2-2/#4 Sean Ellis/Capital Press Sugar beets grow in Idaho. A revised deal with Mexico will close a loophole and benefit U.S. cane and beet sugar producers. couldn’t support it. They ex- plained Mexico has the right to supply all U.S. sugar needs when its own production and existing agreements with oth- er countries are insufficient to meet demand. The Alliance argued the original version of the settlement update would open a loophole allowing Mexico to decide the form of sugar to send the U.S. — refined or unrefined — to fill unmet demand. ASA spokesman Phillip Hayes said in a June 15 press release his organization will now support the agreement because the Department of Commerce has tightened it to address the loophole. President Donald Trump “has said repeatedly that trade agreements and U.S. trade laws don’t work without strong enforcement,” Hayes said in the press release. “For too long, Mexico has been allowed to sidestep our trade laws, but those days are over.” Based on price declines following sugar dumping, ASA estimates Mexico cost U.S. sugar producers $2 bil- lion during 2013 and 2014 combined, and another $2 bil- lion since the original agree- ment was signed. LEGAL LEGAL LEGAL Public Notice Announcing Scoping Meeting Swalley Irrigation District System Improvements The United States Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service (USDA-NRCS), with assistance of The Farmers Conservation Alliance and in cooperation with the Swalley Irrigation District and Deschutes Basin Board of Control as the project sponsor, is considering improvements to aging irrigation infrastructure in the Swalley Irrigation District. Improvements under consideration may be partially funded through the Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act of 1954 (PL83-566) and will address water conservation, enhancement of aquatic species habitat, and public safety risks while supporting existing agricultural land use. Public Notice Announcing Scoping Meeting Tumalo Irrigation District System Improvements The United States Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service (USDA-NRCS), with assistance of The Farmers Conservation Alliance and in cooperation with the Tumalo Irrigation District and Deschutes Basin Board of Control as the project sponsor, is considering improvements to aging irrigation infrastructure in the Tumalo Irrigation District. Improvements under consideration may be partially funded through the Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act of 1954 (PL83-566) and will address water conservation, enhancement of aquatic species habitat and public safety risks while supporting existing agricultural land use. Public Notice Announcing Scoping Meeting Central Oregon Irrigation District System Improvements The United States Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service (USDA-NRCS), with assistance of The Farmers Conservation Alliance and in cooperation with the Central Oregon Irrigation District and Deschutes Basin Board of Control as the project sponsor, is considering improvements to aging irrigation infrastructure in the Central Oregon Irrigation District. Improvements under consideration may be partially funded through the Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act of 1954 (PL83- 566) and will address water conservation, enhancement of aquatic species habitat and public safety risks while supporting existing agricultural land use. The proposed projects are located in the north-central portion of Deschutes County. The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and the Council on Environmental Quality’s regulations at 40 CFR Parts 1500-1508 require an evaluation of potential environmental impacts associated with federal projects and actions with input from the public. You are invited to attend a public scoping open house where your input is requested. The range of resource issues and conceptual alternatives addressing system improvements to the Swalley Irrigation District will be presented and discussed. Public Scoping Open House: Date: July 6, 2017 - Thursday Time: 6:30PM to 7:30PM Location: Tumalo Community Church, (64671 Bruce Avenue, Bend OR 97703) Comments may be submitted during the public scoping period starting July 7, 2017 and ending on July 20, 2017. Additional information is available at www.oregonwatershedplans.org or the NRCS link for Public Notices: https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/ nrcs/main/or/newsroom/pnotice/ Comments may be emailed to swalleycomments@gmail.com For further information contact: Margi Hoffmann Community Relations Director Farmers Conservation Alliance 11 3rd Street, Suite 101 Hood River, OR 97031 (503) 550-3556 margi.hoffmann@fcasolutions.org The meeting location is accessible to persons with disabilities. A request for an interpreter for the hearing impaired or for other accommodations for persons with disabilities should be made at least 48 hours before the meeting to Margi Hoffman (503) 550 -3556 25-2/#4 The proposed projects are located in the north-central portion of Deschutes County. The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and the Council on Environmental Quality’s regulations at 40 CFR Parts 1500-1508 require an evaluation of potential environmental impacts associated with federal projects and actions with input from the public. You are invited to attend a public scoping open house where your input is requested. The range of resource issues andc onceptual alternatives addressing system improvements to the Tumalo Irrigation District will be presented and discussed. Public Scoping Open House: Date: July 6, 2017 - Thursday Time: 5:30PM to 6:30PM Location: Tumalo Community Church, (64671 Bruce Avenue, Bend OR 97703) Comments may be submitted during the public scoping period starting July 7, 2017 and ending on July 20, 2017. Additional information is available at www.oregonwatershedplans.org or the NRCS link for Public Notices: https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/ nrcs/main/or/newsroom/pnotice/ Comments may be emailed to wsp@tumalo.org For further information contact: Margi Hoffmann Community Relations Director Farmers Conservation Alliance 11 3rd Street, Suite 101 Hood River, OR 97031 (503) 550-3556 margi.hoffmann@fcasolutions.org The meeting location is accessible to persons with disabilities. A request for an interpreter for the hearing impaired or for other accommodations for persons with disabilities should be made at least 48 hours before the meeting to Margi Hoffman (503) 550 -3556 25-2/#4 The work being considered is located in the north-central portion of Deschutes County. The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and the Council on Environmental Quality’s regulations at 40 CFR Parts 1500-1508 require an evaluation of potential environmental impacts associated with federal projects and actions with input from the public. You are invited to attend a public scoping open house where your input is requested. The range of resource issues and conceptual alternatives addressing potential system improvements to the Central Oregon Irrigation District will be presented and discussed. Public Scoping Open House: Date: July 10, 2017 - Monday Time: 5:30PM to 7:00PM Location: Redmond Grange (3152 SW Metolius Place, Redmond, OR 97756) Comments may be submitted during the public scoping period starting July 11, 2017 and ending on July 24, 2017. Additional information is available at www.oregonwatershedplans.org or the NRCS link for Public Notices: https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/ portal/nrcs/main/or/newsroom/pnotice/ Comments may be emailed to watershed@coid.org For further information contact: Margi Hoffmann Community Relations Director Farmers Conservation Alliance 11 3rd Street, Suite 101 Hood River, OR 97031 (503) 550-3556 margi.hoffmann@fcasolutions.org The meeting location is accessible to persons with disabilities. A request for an interpreter for the hearing impaired or for other accommodations for persons with disabilities should be made at least 48 hours before the meeting to Margi Hoffman (503) 550 -3556. 25-2/#4