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4 CapitalPress.com March 23, 2018 Certification goes beyond organic By CAROL RYAN DUMAS Capital Press Dan Wheat/Capital Press Jake Johnson, shop foreman at Columbia River Steel Supply in East Wenatchee, Wash., lifts angle iron steel on March 20. Steel suppli- ers are already raising prices in anticipation of 25 percent tariffs on most imported steel set to take effect March 23. New tariff sparks ag steel price increases By DAN WHEAT Capital Press Agricultural steel users are already seeing higher pric- es due to President Donald Trump’s proposed 25 percent tariff on imports. Mark De Kleine, an agri- cultural engineering consul- tant in Prosser, Wash., said he found big price jumps in just a few days when sourcing trellis wire for orchards. “A 25 percent increase in steel — that’s going to be passed down to the consumer and be difficult for the ag in- dustry. There’s a lot of steel in one acre of trellis,” De Kleine said. Bud McIntyre, manager of Moses Lake Steel Supply in Moses Lake, Wash., said he’s seen 20 percent hikes but that increases are “all over the board because not everyone is going at the same time and rate.” Inventory and type of steel also factors into the price. Coil, tubing and pipe, most of which are imported, are increasing the most, he said. “Steel that was $40 per hun- dredweight a month ago is in the mid-$50s now,” he said. Trump announced a 25 per- cent tariff on steel imports and a 10 percent tariff on aluminum imports on March 8, effective March 23, with exemptions for Mexico and Canada. The action was recommended in a U.S. Department of Commerce study, released Jan. 11, that steel imports are “weakening” the U.S. economy and threaten “to impair national security.” Foreign competition has reduced U.S. steel production and tariffs should reduce im- ports to a level that will enable U.S. steel mills to operate at 80 percent or more of their rated production capacity, Com- merce Secretary Wilbur Ross concluded. Since 2000, foreign com- petition and displacement of domestic steel by “excessive imports” have resulted in the closure or idling of 10 basic oxygen furnace facilities, the study said. That’s a 50 percent reduction and a 35 percent de- crease in steel industry employ- ment and caused the industry to operate on average with nega- tive net income since 2009, the study said. Previously, Presidents George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter and Richard Nixon all used quotas or tariffs on steel imports at less than the current import pene- tration level, which is greater than 30 percent, the study said. Clinton and Reagan each did so three times, Carter twice. “Hopefully, this (tariff) will spark some ability for the U.S. to produce more steel,” McIn- tyre said. “Yes, it will be painful for awhile but if we can stay the course in the long run it will be beneficial.” Moses Lake Steel Supply is a fairly small steel distributor and owns Columbia River Steel Supply in East Wenatchee. The company buys mostly domestic steel, with some from Nucor Steel plants in Seattle and Utah. “They have taken some price increases on angle iron, flat bar and channel material but not nearly as bad as tubing and piping,” McIntyre said of Nucor. Some companies are using the situation as “an opportunity to make money,” but steel pro- ducers and processors are most- ly basing prices on what they figure their replacement cost of the material will be, he said. Price increases will be seen on steel fence posts, barbed wire, components of tree fruit packing lines — “anything made out of steel,” he said. Steve Case, purchasing agent for Wilson Orchard and Vineyard Supply, Yakima, said he buys some stakes, wire and steel posts from Canada, which is exempt. The Regenerative Organ- ic Alliance, led by the Rodale Institute, is launching a cer- tification program focused on holistic agriculture that its sponsors say goes beyond simple sustainability. The Regenerative Organ- ic Certification will stand on the shoulders of the National Organic Program, and only products certified organic by USDA are eligible. But ROC will raise those standards and fill in the gaps of that program that evolved by either design or default, said Jeff Moyer, executive director of the Rodale Institute. R O C will address the standards consumers perceive to be part of NOP through its three pillars of soil health, animal welfare and social fairness, he said. “It’s important to think about what it really means to be regenerative; it’s more than just a word,” he said. Rodale’s work to support and strengthen organic stan- dards has always been based on a standard of continuous improvement to resources. But that concept was given up in the National Organic Program, or NOP, which al- lows the use of chemicals, he said. The ROC will address continuous improvement in soil health and also go further than NOP in addressing an- imal welfare. It will also in- clude social fairness for pro- ducers and workers, which isn’t an aspect of the NOP conversation, he said. Rodale’s founder, J.I. Rodale, was the first to link Online https://regenorganic.org/ healthy soil to healthy food to healthy humans, he said. “Too often we don’t pay attention to that,” he said. Rodale’s son, Robert Rodale, later recognized that farming by organic princi- ples could mitigate climate change, he said. “Farming can either cre- ate some of the world’s great- est challenges or solve them. Regenerative organic agri- culture is our opportunity to solve them,” he said. Healthy soil, clean air and clean water are just as important as yield and profit, and people and communi- ties matter, he said. ROC will link together all the values that matter to consumers to improve the health of the planet and peo- ple around the world, he said. Spearheading the effort along with Rodale are Dr. Bronner’s — a major brand of natural soap worldwide committed to social justice and environmental sustain- ability — and Patagonia, an outdoor company commit- ted to environmental activ- ism. ROC was created with the intent for the standard to become adopted by compa- nies and producers on a broad scale and has already gotten a lot of attention from other brands, Moyer said. Some brands will use the ROC logo and label, and oth- ers will use it as an internal control that food, fiber and other products are produced in accordance with their val- ues and the values of their customers, he said. Ocean Spray seeks FDA approval for health claim Ocean Spray is asking the Food and Drug Administra- tion to let it claim that cran- berries may help prevent re- LEGAL legal-10-3-1/999 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE STATE OF OREGON FOR THE COUNTY OF MARION Probate Department IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF Ann D. Vasconi, Deceased No. 18PB00331 NOTICE TO INTERESTED PERSONS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above estate. 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The industry also has tried to brand itself as “America’s original superfruit.” Dignan declined to say how much Ocean Spray spent preparing the petition to the FDA. Ocean Spray last fall announced it will spend $10 million over the next five years on researching the an- tibacterial properties of cran- berries. “Both Ocean Spray and LEGAL NOTICE OF OREGON MINT COMMISSION BUDGET HEARING Notice is hereby given that a public hearing will be held pursuant to ORS 576.416 (5), on Thursday, April 26, 2018 at 10:00 a.m., at the White Buffalo Bistro, 4040 Westcliff Drive, Hood River, Oregon upon a proposed budget for operation of the Mint Commission during the fiscal year July 1, 2018 through June 30, 2019. At this hearing any producer of Oregon Mint oil 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. 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The claim is that the daily consumption of cranberries, cranberry juice, dried cranberries and pow- dered cranberry may help prevent — though not treat — recurring urinary tract infec- tions in healthy women. To back the claim, Ocean Spray stresses three studies that concluded women who received a daily dose of cran- berry juice or capsules were 20 percent to 58 percent less likely to suffer a new infec- tion than women who took a placebo. Ocean Spray funded the most recent and largest of the three studies. Some 185 wom- en with a history of recent infections drank cranberry juice, while 188 women were served a placebo. After 24 weeks, 39 of the women who drank cranberry juice suffered new infections, compared to 67 women who drank the pla- cebo, according to an abstract of an article published in 2016 in the American Society for Nutrition. The study’s authors were associated with Ocean Spray, Boston University School of Medicine and Biofortis Clin- ical Research, a research or- ganization based in Illinois. They concluded that drinking cranberry juice lowered the number of new infections in healthy women. Since 1994 committed to agriculture & farmers worldwide Cattlemen’s Tour to Hawaii OCT. 28 - NOV. 4: Share your knowledge with Hawaiian cattlemen & enjoy the islands and people. Contact us for details on airfare, lodging, ground transportation, transfers, attractions and sightseeing. 12-3/102 Capital Press Ocean Spray petitioned the FDA in September to use the claim in its advertising. The FDA has indicated it will make a decision by Oct. 5 and recently put the request out for public review. As of Tues- day, the FDA had not received any comments. The comment period ends May 7. Ocean Spray, whose mem- bers include growers in Wash- ington and Oregon, seeks to make a “qualified health claim.” Scientific evidence must support the statement, though it doesn’t have to meet a more rigorous standard to make an “authorized health claim.” The cranberry industry has 503-534-3654 • Anglatin@anglatin.com • anglatin.com .COM 12-3/102 By DON JENKINS occurring episodes of urinary tract infections in women. Cranberries have long been a folk remedy for such afflictions. 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