July 28, 2017
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Washington
Committee updates wine research priorities
By DAN WHEAT
Capital Press
Courtesy of WAWG
Representatives of the Washington Association of Wheat Growers,
Washington State Department of Agriculture and Washington State
University met with Ray Starling, White House special assistant for
agriculture, trade and food assistance, sixth from the left.
Wheat growers say
falling number funding
request progressing
By MATTHEW WEAVER
Capital Press
Washington wheat farm-
ers’ request for money for
research on falling number
problems is progressing in
Washington, D.C., the state
association executive direc-
tor says.
Washington Association
of Wheat Growers repre-
sentatives traveled to Wash-
ington, D.C., the week of
July 17 to meet with legis-
lators and representatives of
USDA’s Agricultural Re-
search Service, Natural
Resource
Conservation
Service, Risk Management
Agency and the Department
of the Interior.
“It was probably one of
the best trips that I’ve been
on for advocacy,” said Mi-
chelle Hennings, executive
director of WAWG.
The wheat growers’ ap-
propriations request for $1
million from USDA ARS
to study the accuracy of the
falling number test survived
House and Senate agricul-
ture committee markups, but
still must go through other
steps in the budget process.
“This is a big win for
wheat,” Hennings said. “We
just need to keep advocating.
We are being heard but that
doesn’t mean we shouldn’t
keep going over there.”
WAWG’s request for $2
million in National Insti-
tute of Food and Agriculture
and Agriculture and Food
Research Initiative grants
to study quality loss in soft
white wheat went through
House appropriations. The
request is advancing, Hen-
nings said.
Washington State Depart-
ment of Agriculture Director
Derek Sandison also attend-
ed WAWG’s meetings, advo-
cating for funding to conduct
falling number research.
Hennings said she hasn’t
heard any instances of fall-
ing number problems this
year, but it’s still early in the
harvest season.
“We’re crossing our fin-
gers that hopefully this year
farmers will not have to deal
with that devastating factor,”
she said.
WAWG emphasized trade,
crop insurance, research and
conservation during meet-
ings with decision makers.
The organization met
with Ray Starling, special
assistant to President Don-
ald Trump for agriculture,
trade and food assistance.
Sarling told WAWG
members that the Trump
administration understands
trade for agriculture, Hen-
nings said.
Washington State Univer-
sity President Kirk Schulz
attended the meeting, Hen-
nings said.
“It shows (decision mak-
ers) how much we use WSU
for our research and how
important these funds are
so they can help us prevent
wheat quality issues,” Hen-
nings said.
WAWG is inviting Ag-
riculture Secretary Sonny
Perdue and U.S. Trade Rep-
resentative Robert Ligh-
thizer to visit the Pacific
Northwest in the fall. Hen-
nings hopes to convey the
importance of the various
wheat varieties grown and
of the region’s port system
for shipping grain overseas
and to the Midwest.
WAWG will next go to
Washington, D.C., in Sep-
tember with National Asso-
ciation of Wheat Growers
representatives. Hennings
said the organization intends
to be in D.C. “quite often,”
speaking with legislators
about farm bill priorities.
“This is a very important
time for us to get our mes-
sage out,” she said. “We’ve
been there with good timing,
and I think that has made a
big difference.”
YAKIMA, Wash. — A
research project shows wine
grape quality doesn’t suffer
when vineyards are pruned
and thinned mechanically, but
another year is needed to de-
termine the effects on the wine
that is produced.
The project is related to
research priorities recently up-
dated by the Washington State
Wine Commission’s research
advisory committee.
“A lot of growers use a
mechanized pre-pruner that
knocks off the big stuff and use
hand crews to clean things up,”
said Melissa Hansen, the com-
mission’s research program
manager.
The test is no hand touch at
all, and so far there’s no differ-
ence in grape or juice composi-
tion from total mechanization,
she said.
While vineyards producing
grapes for the most premium
wines can afford hand labor,
this shows promise for mid-
Dan Wheat/Capital Press
Wine grape harvest last September at Milbrandt Vineyards’ Clifton Hill Vineyard near Mattawa, Wash.,
where mechanized harvesters have long been used. Researchers are looking at the effects of mecha-
nized pruning and thinning on grapes and the wine they produce.
tier wine producers turning to
greater mechanization as hand
labor becomes higher-priced
and harder to find, Hansen said.
The updated priority list,
released July 21, includes a
range of issues challenging
the wine industry, including
improving the efficiency of
vineyard water use and work-
ing toward improving wine
quality through fermentation
management in the winery.
The committee used the
results of an industry-wide
survey to update the priorities
which are categorized: fer-
mentation management, aroma
and flavor compounds, winery
waste, viticulture production
efficiency and profitability, pest
control, climate impacts on site
and viticulture, mechanization
options, and emerging issues.
The survey was conducted
in April. More than 150 respon-
dents ranked research topics
and provided research sugges-
tions.
“The priorities help re-
searchers submit relevant pro-
posals that address the needs of
industry,” Hansen said, adding
the annual exercise helps en-
sure emerging issues are not
overlooked.
Third-party damage exempted from growers’ production history
Changes begin with
2017 crop year
By MATTHEW WEAVER
Capital Press
SPOKANE
VALLEY,
Wash. — Growers with crop
insurance will no longer be
penalized for damage to their
crop caused by someone else.
The USDA Risk Manage-
ment Agency is now offering
third-party damage and fire
exemptions — under certain
criteria — for events such as
chemical drift caused by a
neighbor or a fire caused by
a cigarette tossed out the win-
dow of a passing car.
“They’re all to some extent
unavoidable and they’re also
uninsured,” said Ben Thiel,
director of the USDA Risk
Management Agency office in
Spokane Valley, Wash. “They
sustained damage, it’s not in-
surable, there’s no indemnity
for these types of damages.”
In the past, the damage
went on a farmer’s production
history report, which is used
to establish crop insurance
coverage.
Farmers can now report
their production as always,
but exclude the acres affected
by third-party damage, said
Rick Williams, senior risk
management specialist.
Such situations are fairly
rare, Thiel said, but “for those
affected, it’s a huge deal.”
Pacific Northwest grow-
er associations requested the
change, Thiel said.
“There’s a lot of things
the farmer is dealing with,
psychologically and emo-
tionally and financially,”
Thiel said. “To have just one
more thing being piled onto
it — ‘Here I’m getting pe-
nalized for something that’s
no fault of my own.’”
The farmer is responsible
for reporting and providing
information about a loss in
a timely manner to the crop
insurance agent. The chang-
es start with the 2017 crop
12 month waiver
3 years at 1.9%
year, Thiel said.
The program works for
any crop under crop insurance
nationwide, Thiel said. The
agency is educating crop in-
surance companies about the
changes.
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