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Friday, October 18, 2019
Oregon State University celebrates
opening of mass timber research lab
Facility will be
home to TallWood
Design Institute
By GEORGE PLAVEN
Capital Press
CORVALLIS, Ore. —
A new facility dedicated to
researching and testing mass
timber in commercial build-
ings is now open at Oregon
State University.
OSU celebrated the grand
opening of the A.A. “Red”
Emmerson Advanced Wood
Products Laboratory on Oct.
10 at the main campus in Cor-
vallis. The 17,500-square-foot
lab is part of the College of
Forestry’s new Oregon Forest
Science Complex, which broke
ground in 2016.
Mass timber refers to prod-
ucts such as cross-laminated
timber, or CLT, and glue-lam-
inated beams used in the con-
struction of buildings, as
opposed to steel or concrete.
While Europe has pio-
neered mass timber since the
early 1990s, Oregon became
just the first state last year to
adopt building codes that allow
for wood-framed buildings up
to 18 stories tall.
That is due in part to
research by the TallWood
Design Institute, a partnership
between OSU’s College of
OSU
OSU
Oregon State University celebrated the grand opening
of the A.A. “Red” Emmerson Advanced Wood Products
Laboratory on Oct. 10. It is part of the new Oregon
Forest Science Complex.
The Advanced Wood
Products Laboratory at
Oregon State University
will house the TallWood
Design
Institute,
a
research
collaborative
for mass timber in tall
commercial
buildings.
It includes state-of-the-
art equipment such as a
KUKA milling robot.
Forestry and College of Engi-
neering, and the University of
Oregon’s College of Design.
The Advanced Wood Prod-
ucts Lab will house the Tall-
Wood Design Institute, with 20
to 30 professors studying fire
performance, building physics
and environmental impact of
new mass timber products.
Iain Macdonald, director
of the TallWood Design Insti-
tute, said the program has close
links with Oregon’s manufac-
turing community, including
both of the state’s mass tim-
ber producers — D.R. Johnson
Lumber in Riddle, Ore., and
Freres Lumber in Lyons.
“We have also been able to
conduct structural, fire, acous-
tic and durability testing for
many of the mass timber build-
ing projects that have taken
shape around Oregon and
beyond,” Macdonald said.
The grand opening fea-
tured live demonstrations of
state-of-the-art manufacturing
equipment, such as a milling
robot used to carve mass tim-
ber beams and panels.
Anthony Davis, interim
dean of the OSU College of
Forestry, said wood construc-
tion “has to be a cornerstone in
mounting an aggressive front
in challenging our sustainabil-
ity and climate crises.”
Figures provided by the
Oregon Forest Resources Insti-
tute show it produces 26% less
greenhouse gases to make CLT
compared to steel, and 50%
less than making concrete.
“Oregon is blessed with
having some of the most pro-
ductive and diverse forests
in the world,” Davis said.
“Because of this we are better
positioned than anyone else to
serve as a bridge between our
natural resources and meeting
demands of urban growth and
renewal, while also continuing
to conserve habitat and provide
recreational access.”
The lab is named after
A.A. “Red” Emmerson, who
founded Sierra Pacific Indus-
tries in 1949. His son, George
Emmerson, graduated from
OSU in 1978 and is now the
company president. His daugh-
ter, Carolyn Emmerson Dietz,
is also president of the Sierra
Pacific Foundation and gradu-
ated from OSU in 1982.
Sierra Pacific Industries is
the second-largest lumber pro-
ducer in the U.S., and donated
$6 million toward construc-
tion the Oregon Forest Science
Complex.
The $79.5 million complex,
funded through a mix of pub-
lic and private money, will also
include the new 95,000-square-
foot Peavy Hall, which is
scheduled to open in spring
2020.
According to OSU, enroll-
ment in the College of Forestry
has steadily increased over the
last decade, with the number of
applications and admitted stu-
dents up nearly 20% in 2018.
“These new facilities repre-
sent a critical step in the path-
way toward using renewable
materials in new ways,” Davis
said. “Our mission is to use
this space as a model of how
we can pair Oregon’s intellec-
tual capacity with our natural
resources and capitalize on our
spirit of innovation.”
Apples still king of Washington agriculture
By DAN WHEAT
Capital Press
OLYMPIA — Agricultural pro-
duction in Washington dropped 2% to
$9.67 billion in 2018 with apples as the
top value commodity for the 14th year
in a row, according to the National Agri-
cultural Statistics Service.
Apples represented 23% of the
state’s total agricultural value at $2.19
billion, down 10% from $2.43 billion in
2017. The record high was $2.48 billion
in 2012.
Trade issues with Mexico, India and
China were largely responsible for the
decline in apples, said Desmond O’Ro-
urke, world apple analyst and retired
Washington State University agricul-
tural economist.
“The 2% overall decline is a normal
swing and rather insignificant given the
global market nature of many of these
commodities. It’s really a pretty strong
performance particularly on the crop
side given all the tariffs and trade vol-
atility,” O’Rourke said.
Milk remained in second place with a
value of $1.13 billion in 2018, down 5%
from 2017. Wheat stayed in third at $845
million, up 22% from the previous year.
“Wheat was up from a long-term
depressed situation. Washington wheat
value of production between 2011 and
2013 averaged $1.1 billion annually.
The $845 million is a bounce back up
from a lot of bad years,” O’Rourke said.
Potatoes, valued at $788 million,
were the fourth highest and up 15%
from the previous year. Cattle and
calves rounded out the top five with a
value of $652 million, down 3%.
These five commodities had a com-
bined value of $5.60 billion, or 58%
of the 2018 value for all commodities,
excluding government payments. In
2017, the same five commodities had a
combined value of $5.67 billion.
Hay ranked sixth at $519 million, up
0.7%. Hops were seventh at $427 mil-
lion, down 6.8%. Cherries were eighth
at $426 million, down 10.1%. Grapes
hit a record high of $361 million, up
13%, staying in ninth place.
Eggs replaced pears in 10th place at
$241 million, up 70%. Brian Bookey,
president of National Food, Everett,
one of the state’s largest egg producers
questions the accuracy of that increase.
NASS stood by the data, saying the 70%
increase in value was driven by price,
not supply. Bookey questioned that.
Pears dropped to $211 million, down
15%.
Notable commodities outside the
top 10 that showed significant increases
included onions at $178 million, up
10%, and blueberries at $139 million,
up 21%.
Barley increased 55% to $21.5 mil-
lion. Canola increased 23% to $20.3
million. They are up as wheat farmers
plant them as alternative crops, O’Ro-
urke said.
Five of the top 10 commodities
declined in value from the previous
year, including apples, cattle and calves,
hops, sweet cherries and pears.
Other notable commodities that
declined in value in 2018 were raspber-
ries at $35.9 million, down 38%, and
green peas, down 21% to $22.8 million.
Washington was the top nationwide
producer in apples, cherries, pears,
hops, wrinkled seed peas, spearmint oil
and asparagus.
Oregon was the top producer of
blueberries. Idaho was first in potatoes,
peppermint oil and barley.
California was No. 1 in apricots,
grapes, peaches, dry onions, raspber-
ries, strawberries, milk and milk cows.
Chickpea crop quality in question because of high moisture
Submitted photo
Chickpeas are shown
blooming in a field near
Kendrick, Idaho. About
a third of the Pacific
Northwest crop will have
to be dried because of
late-season rains.
crop was damaged.
Processors brought in
dryers and are accepting
crop at higher moisture lev-
els to take it through the dry-
ing process.
By DAN WHEAT
Capital Press
Integrated pest manage-
ment of alfalfa in Califor-
nia will be “profoundly”
impacted by the loss of
the pesticide chlorpyrifos
next year, research scien-
tists say.
The California Environ-
mental Protection Agency
announced Oct. 8 that vir-
tually all use of the pes-
ticide chlorpyrifos will
end next year following
an agreement between the
Department of Pesticide
Regulation and pesticide
manufacturers.
Sale of chlorpyri-
fos products in California
will end Feb. 6, 2020, and
growers will no longer be
allowed to possess or use
them after Dec. 31.
Democratic Gov. Gavin
Newsom lauded the agree-
ment as “a big win for chil-
dren, workers and public
health.”
The department was
moving toward a ban and
had declared the pesti-
cide a toxic air contami-
nant. Usage dropped more
than 50%, from 2 million
pounds in 2005 to just over
900,000 pounds in 2017,
CalEPA said. It is used to
control pests in alfalfa,
almonds, citrus, cotton,
grapes and walnuts.
“This is a major issue
for alfalfa since it is
one of the most popu-
lar wide-spectrum insec-
ticides for management
of key alfalfa pests,” Uni-
versity of California-Da-
vis forage expert Daniel
Putnam and entomologists
Rachel Freeman Long and
Ian Grettenberger wrote in
a UC-Davis Cooperative
Extension newsletter, the
Oct. 11.
They cited the alfalfa
weevil, which chews on
foliage and an aphid com-
plex that suck juices from
the plant.
While use of chlorpy-
rifos has declined, it was
still used on 153,000 acres
of alfalfa in California in
2017 and the few alter-
native pesticides are not
as effective, the scientists
wrote.
UC-Davis is working to
find non-pesticide ways to
manage weevil and aphid.
The 153,000 alfalfa
acres where chlorpyrifos
is used is 27% of Califor-
nia’s alfalfa acreage, said
Jon Paul Driver, a North-
west Farm Credit Services
hay analyst in Spokane.
“California remains the
largest dairy state and larg-
est alfalfa exporting state,”
Driver said.
But it is producing
less than half the alfalfa it
did 10 years ago, he said.
Average yield was 6 tons
per acre in 2019, the low-
est since 1979, he said.
“A change in integrated
pest management will fur-
ther weigh on total produc-
tion,” Driver said.
Consequently, produc-
tion may expand outside
California, he said.
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“The only hold-up now is
there’s only a limited num-
ber of dryers,” Scholz said.
“It looks better now than it
did maybe two weeks ago.”
Because of the high mois-
ture, the quality of the crop is
still in question, Scholz said.
Chickpeas from wetter
regions may have greater risk
of quality problems, Scholz
said. Processors have reported
the possibility of dirt damage,
discoloration and mold.
“It appears if we can get
the crop dry, it’s going to be
acceptable quality,” Scholz
said.
Chickpeas are presently
priced at 15 to 16 cents per
pound.
“Every cost you add to
the cost of production makes
that 15 cents even shorter,”
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remained unharvested at the
beginning of October, Scholz
said. The crop was planted
late, he said.
Moisture levels were up
to 18%. Processors accept a
maximum of 13% moisture.
“That put us in a quan-
dary,” Scholz said. “The pro-
ducers had a crop that was on
the ground they couldn’t cut,
and the processors wouldn’t
accept it.”
Montana
and
North
Dakota chickpea growers
also faced significant mois-
ture — “about 10 times as
much as us,” Scholz said,
adding that there was sprout-
ing in pods. He doesn’t
expect a lot of sprout in
Idaho and Washington.
He estimates more than
10% of the Pacific Northwest
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of research and member ser-
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