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September 1, 2017
Eastern Idaho grain growers short on storage
This year, his business has
been strong statewide.
“A lot of (growers) still
have last year’s crop,” Ad-
ams said, adding that ade-
quate storage provides grow-
ers with marketing options
and helps them avoid selling
at a loss.
Foster is still storing
about half of his 2016 barley
crop. He recently built a new
160,000-bushel storage, but
he’s also had to temporarily
store barley in his fi elds, us-
ing bags that each hold 15,000
bushels — roughly the pro-
duction of 100 acres.
Foster said he’ll move
grain from the bags into per-
manent storage as quickly as
he frees space. Anheuser-Bus-
ch pays him to store the grain,
and he believes the company
has done everything possible
to help growers, but Foster
By JOHN O’CONNELL
Capital Press
RIRIE, Idaho — Boyd
Foster just fi nished harvest-
ing a 2017 grain crop that he
said yielded well and pos-
sessed outstanding quality —
but he has no good place to
store much of his production.
Like many grain farmers
in Eastern Idaho, Foster is
still coping with the fallout
of a bumper 2016 crop. A lot
of that grain has carried over
into the current harvest, re-
sulting in a regional storage
shortage.
Storage is tightest in East-
ern Idaho’s barley production
areas, where growers with
Anheuser-Busch contracts
were asked to hold onto
their grain much longer than
normal while the company
worked through its invento-
Courtesy of Boyd Foster
Ririe, Idaho, grower Boyd Foster stores his barley in massive
sacks, each with the capacity to hold 15,000 bushels, due to a
storage shortage resulting from the carryover of 2016 grain into the
current harvest.
ries. Many wheat growers
also kept grain, waiting for
a price rally, and elevators
reported receiving a lot of
2016 grain right before this
harvest.
Mike Adams, with Adams
Grain Bins in Ririe and Je-
rome, said there’s been big
demand for building new
storage facilities in Eastern
Idaho for the past two years.
said carrying over 2016 crop
has presented both labor and
cash-fl ow challenges.
Anheuser-Busch offi cials
did not respond to a request
for comment.
Ririe grower Clark Hamil-
ton still has about a quarter of
his 2016 barley on the farm.
He, too, is experimenting with
storage bags as a short-term
solution. He rented a special
implement from a neighbor to
fi ll the bags.
“If Anheuser-Busch is
going to be using more on-
farm storage, I’ll defi nitely be
looking at building more stor-
age,” Hamilton said, adding
he raised a strong 2017 crop.
Ririe Grain & Feed man-
ager Lee Andersen said his
facility dumped soft white
wheat — which is now valued
lower than other grain class-
es — outside in a pile to make
room for barley and other
wheat.
He said growers have
brought in some malt-quality
barley to sell as feed to make
space for their new crop. Oth-
ers have been selling marginal
2017 malt as feed.
The good news, said Idaho
Wheat Commission Execu-
tive Director Blaine Jacob-
son, is the state’s grain grow-
ers haven’t had problems with
starch degradation, measured
by the falling numbers test,
and quality has generally been
outstanding. He said ample
soil moisture helped growers
raise strong fall wheat crops.
Spring wheat yields were in
line with the fi ve-year aver-
age in southeast Idaho, but
were down about 15 percent
from average in southwest
and Northern Idaho due to
heat stress, he said.
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Four calves have
been attacked
since mid-June
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measures and has met the de-
partment’s prerequisite for
lethal action,” WDFW wolf
policy coordinator Donny
Martorello said. “Our goal is
to change the pack’s behav-
ior before the situation gets
worse.”
The fi rst three depredations
occurred on Bureau of Land
Management grazing lands,
while the fourth occurred on
a U.S. Forest Service grazing
allotment in the Colville Na-
tional Forest. The bones of a
fi fth calf were found within a
quarter-mile of the fourth calf.
WDFW said wolves likely
killed the animal, but scaven-
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that could have defi nitively
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ment of Fish and Wildlife an-
nounced Aug. 25 that it will
shoot wolves from a second
pack that is attacking cat-
tle this summer in northeast
Washington.
WDFW Director Jim Un-
sworth authorized the “incre-
mental removal” of wolves
from the Sherman pack, which
wildlife investigators say have
attacked at least four calves in
Ferry County since June 13.
WDFW shot two wolves in
the Smackout pack in Stevens
County in July.
The department did not
specify how many wolves it
planned to kill, though depart-
ment policy calls for one to
two wolves to be culled initial-
ly to try to stop depredations.
The fourth depredation by
the Smackout pack was con-
fi rmed Aug. 24, meeting the
threshold for the department to
consider lethal removal. The
threshold is four depredations
within 10 months or three dep-
redations within 30 days.
In this case, the four dep-
redations occurred over 12
weeks.
The department said that
it does not believe additional
non-lethal measures would
stop the attacks.
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concerted efforts to protect
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in the Sherman pack at the end
of 2016. The department says it
has no evidence the pack pro-
duced pups.
Culling the pack will not set
back wolf recovery in Wash-
ington, according to the de-
partment. Recovery goals have
been met in northeast Wash-
ington, but wolves will remain
a state-protected species until
they spread throughout the
state.
The calves attacked by the
Sherman pack were born out-
side wolf territory and trucked
to grazing lands, according to
the department.
On May 9, before the calves
arrived, fi ve range riders under
contract with WDFW started
patrolling the area to look for
signs of wolves. There are no
wolf dens or rendezvous sites
in the area, according to the de-
partment.
In late July, three more
range riders were added. Also,
the rancher, his family and fi ve
employees have been watching
for wolves, according to the de-
partment.
WDFW said radio-collar
data contributed to investiga-
tors’ conclusions that the calves
were attacked by wolves in the
Sherman pack.
One calf survived an attack
by wolves, but was euthanized
by the rancher because of its
injuries. It suffered a broken
right shoulder, and numerous
cuts and punctures. A necropsy
showed massive hemorrhaging
below the wounds, according
to WDFW.
ELLENSBURG, Wash. —
Hay exporters are beginning
to rebound from more than
two years of oversupply and
low prices, but they say busi-
ness is still lacking.
“Overall quality is up but
demand is fl at to down and
shipments are down because
of a rapid price increase.
Export volume is down ver-
sus this time last year,” said
Mike Hajny, owner of Hajny
Trading, an Ellensburg hay
exporter.
“The timothy market has
improved. Alfalfa continues
to be underpriced in export
markets. There continues to
be more processing capacity
for export than demand. We
need more growth in export
markets,” said Mark T. An-
derson, president of Anderson
Hay & Grain Co., a large West
Coast exporter in Ellensburg,
Wash.
While prices have im-
proved they are still low for
growers and exporters com-
pared to their costs, Anderson
said.
Exporters lost money on a
lot of hay last winter to clear
out an inventory build-up
caused by a union work slow-
down at West Coast seaports
in 2014 and 2015. A long,
cold winter and cool spring
increased domestic feeder hay
demand and helped reduce
stockpiles.
In the Columbia Basin, the
price of premium export al-
falfa increased from $120 to
$180 per ton in less than six
months.
The sharp price increase
met some overseas buyer
resistance and while Japan,
South Korea and China be-
gan buying more U.S. hay
they will also be looking for
cheaper alternatives, Hajny
said.
“Pricing in China contin-
ues to be low compared to
U.S. market conditions,” An-
derson said.
The average farmgate
price of big bale premium
timothy was $245 per ton in
the Columbia Basin on Aug.
18 and $155 to $175 for alfal-
fa, according to the USDA.
Shawn Clausen, a Warden,
Wash., grower, said hay pric-
es are now slumping because
corn and wheat prices fell
in just the last two to three
weeks. At lower prices, grain
will be attractive to overseas
livestock owners who nor-
mally buy hay, he said.
Exporters are leery of buy-
ing hay at $175 per ton and
being unable to sell it profi t-
ably overseas, he said.
Third-cutting alfalfa in the
Columbia Basin was compro-
mised in quality by about two
weeks of smoke from British
Columbia wildfi res, Clausen
said.
“It created a false cloud
cover. The sun didn’t come
through and that created
high humidity and a lot more
bleached out hay that took
a couple more days drying
time,” he said.
Oregon wine industry census shows more acreage, wineries
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Oregon’s winemakers re-
ported a 12 percent sales in-
crease to $529 million, plant-
ed 2,400 more acres of grapes
and opened 23 more wineries
in 2016, according to an an-
nual census commissioned by
the Oregon Wine Board.
The growth came despite a
6 percent drop in production,
slipping to 79,782 tons from
the 84,782 tons harvested in
2015.
Not to worry, said Steve
Thomson, CEO of Cristom
Vineyards and the wine
board chairman. For one
thing, the 2014 and 2015
vintages were unusually
large, and 2016 was closer
to normal — although the
2017 yield is shaping up as
another big one.
More important, he said, is
the price per ton is increasing
and the state’s “pricing pow-
er” is intact. In other words,
the state’s winemakers con-
centrated from the early days
on quality rather than quan-
tity, and consumers remain
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