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Judge in Seattle to
rule on wolf removal
USDA pays $2.9 billion in aid
to farmers, mostly in Midwest
By SIERRA DAWN MCCLAIN
Capital Press
In the three weeks since
USDA opened applications
for its $16 billion farm aid
program, the department
has disbursed $2.9 billion in
direct payments to more than
220,000 farmers nationwide
whose businesses were dis-
rupted by COVID-19.
As of June 15, USDA’s
weekly report shows the
agency has approved $129
million in payments to Cal-
ifornia producers, $52 mil-
lion to Idaho producers, $27
million to Washington pro-
ducers and $23 million to
Oregon producers.
The program, known as
the Coronavirus Food Assis-
tance Program, or CFAP,
is handled by the USDA’s
Farm Service Agency offices
nationwide.
“We’re very appreciative
for aid to farmers through
this tough time,” said Shelby
Myers, economist for the
American Farm Bureau
Federation.
Sierra Dawn McClain/Capital Press
Dairy cows in Cloverdale, Ore. Farmers across the nation
have received $2.9 billion so far in direct federal aid for
COVID-19, but many farms are still in need of help.
By far, the biggest chunk
of aid is flowing to the Mid-
west. Outpacing their coun-
terparts in every other state,
Iowa farmers have received
around $314 million, fol-
lowed by Nebraska produc-
ers at $207 million, and Illi-
nois, Kansas and Minnesota
each with more than $150
million.
Agricultural experts say
Midwest farms are likely
receiving more aid for a few
reasons.
First, measured by popu-
lation, many Midwest states
have more farms. Accord-
ing to the 2017 Census of
Agriculture, for example,
Oregon has around 37,000
farms, while Iowa has more
than 87,000 farms.
This difference in the
number of operations trans-
lated into more applicants
from Midwest states. Cali-
fornia and Idaho had a little
over 2,000 applicants each;
Oregon and Washington had
By DON JENKINS
Capital Press
around 1,000 each.
In contrast, more than
30,300 Iowa producers have
applied.
Agricultural
finance
experts say fewer applica-
tions from Western farmers
may also have to do with less
USDA infrastructure in the
region. Washington state, for
example, has 25 Farm Ser-
vice Agency offices where
farmers can apply for aid,
while Iowa has more than 40.
A third reason is that
many West Coast crops,
such as apples, several types
of wheat, nursery stock and
numerous specialty crops
were excluded from the orig-
inal aid package, so many
Western farmers were ineli-
gible to apply.
Even among Western
states, some farmers have
expressed concern that cer-
tain states have received
more aid than others. For
example, California and
Idaho have similar numbers
of applicants, but Idaho pro-
ducers have received less
than half as much aid.
WDFW to target Togo wolf pack
By DON JENKINS
Capital Press
Washington Fish and
Wildlife plans to kill as
many as two wolves in a
pack that has a history of
attacking cattle in the Ket-
tle River range in northeast
Washington.
The Togo pack, which
has four adult members,
injured a calf, the depart-
ment confirmed June 6. It
was the first attack of the
year by the pack, but the sev-
enth in the last 10 months.
The department’s protocol
calls for considering lethal
removal after four attacks in
10 months.
Fish and Wildlife Direc-
tor Kelly Susewind autho-
rized lethal control June 19.
The department was to start
the operation Tuesday.
One wolf in the pack is
wearing a radio-tracking
collar placed on it by the
Colville tribe.
Fish and Wildlife said
the rancher whose calf was
WDFW
A wolf in the Togo pack in Ferry County in northeast
Washington. The pack has attacked another calf.
injured has tried to prevent
the attacks. Range-riders
have watched the cattle reg-
ularly. Twice, a range-rider
camping near the herd hazed
wolves at night by yell-
ing, shining a spotlight and
shooting into the air.
The department said kill-
ing the wolves would not
harm the state’s goal of hav-
ing wolves spread through-
out the state. Most of Wash-
ington’s wolves are now
concentrated in northeast
Washington, particularly in
Ferry and Stevens counties.
By waiting until Tuesday
to start the lethal-removal
operation, Fish and Wild-
life fulfills a pledge it gave
a Thurston County judge in
2018. The delay gives wolf
advocates time to seek an
emergency court order stop-
ping the operation.
The Center for Biolog-
ical Diversity, which has
sought such an order in pre-
vious cases, issued a state-
ment, saying the depart-
ment was rushing to lethal
removal. The organization,
however, did not plan to
seek a restraining order, an
attorney for the group said
Monday.
In a previously sched-
uled hearing, wolf advocates
were due to argue in King
County Superior Court on
Monday that Fish and Wild-
life’s lethal-removal proto-
col for wolves was imple-
mented without enough
public comment or environ-
mental study.
Fish and Wildlife killed
one Togo wolf in 2018
because of the pack’s attacks
on cattle. Susewind reautho-
rized lethal control last sum-
mer, but no wolves were
removed.
A judge in Seattle said
Monday he may rule within
two weeks on whether the
Washington Department
of Fish and Wildlife can
continue shooting wolves
to protect livestock.
King County Superior
Court Judge John McHale
presided over a 3 1/2-hour
video conference on the
legality of lethal control
in the eastern one-third of
Washington, where wolves
are not federally protected.
Claire Loebs Davis, an
attorney for wolf advo-
cates, asked the judge
to bar Fish and Wildlife
from killing wolves until
the department studies
the environmental conse-
quences and firms up its
rationale.
Fish and Wildlife’s
lawyer, Amy Dona, asked
McHale to reject what
she called an invitation to
micromanage wolf recov-
ery. The department needs
lethal control to foster tol-
erance in northeast Wash-
ington, she said. “It’s full
of wolves.”
Wolf advocates and
environmental groups are
challenging Fish and Wild-
life’s killing of wolves on
several fronts. Monday’s
court hearing was the most
extensive yet on whether
the department should sus-
pend the practice and con-
duct a public review that
could take years.
King County residents
John Huskinson and Gene-
vieve Jaquez-Schumacher,
and Tim Coleman, direc-
tor of the Kettle Range
Conservation Group, filed
the lawsuit last August to
prevent Fish and Wildlife
from removing the OPT
wolf pack in Ferry County.
McHale issued a tempo-
rary restraining order, but
it was a few hours after the
department had eliminated
the pack.
The hearing Monday
was on the broader issue
of whether Fish and Wild-
life has skirted the State
Environmental Policy Act
and Administrative Pro-
cedure Act. At the end
of the hearing, McHale
asked both sides to submit
their desired conclusions.
He said he hoped to rule
within a week after that.
Fish
and
Wildlife
argues it doesn’t have
to do an environmen-
tal review before remov-
ing dangerous wildlife,
including wolves. Dona
said the department con-
cluded shooting the OPT
pack was the only way to
stop chronic attacks on
cattle.
“We were beyond
chronic. We were in poten-
tial hyper-chronic mode,”
she said.
The cattle were grazing
in the Colville National
Forest and belonged to
the Diamond M Ranch —
identified in court as “Pro-
ducer X.” Fish and Wild-
life also culled packs on
the same grazing allotment
the previous three years.
Loebs Davis said the
department was refusing
to recognize a brutal cycle
and reconsider its approach
to wolf management.
She argued the ranch
took minimal steps to pre-
vent the attacks, a claim
Dona disputed. The depart-
ment determined putting
more riders on the allot-
ment wouldn’t stop the
depredations, Dona said.
“Range-riding is not a
silver bullet. They’re not
everywhere. They’re not
cattle baby-sitters,” she
said.
Fish
and
Wildlife
Director Kelly Susew-
ind decides when to use
lethal control, guided by
what the department calls
a non-binding “protocol.”
Wolf advocates argue the
protocol amounts to a pro-
gram that should have
been subjected to public
vetting, like other govern-
ment actions.
The protocol calls for
Susewind to consider lethal
removal after three depre-
dations in 30 days or four
in 10 months. It’s not a firm
line. The department says
it considers whether the
attacks can be curbed with-
out shooting wolves.
Susewind on Friday
authorized the killing of
up to two wolves in the
Togo pack in Ferry County.
The pack had attacked at
least seven calves over 10
months, according to the
department.
Vietnam lowers wheat tariffs, raising U.S. farmers’ hopes
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Vietnam is not currently in line
for a bilateral free trade agreement
with the U.S., Henry said.
Discussions with the United
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As those talks progress, the
U.S. wheat industry would like to
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move from purchasing rice as their
primary carbohydrate into more
high-end baked goods. This means
purchasing higher quality wheat,
including soft white wheat primar-
ily grown in the Pacific Northwest,
hard red spring wheat and hard red
winter wheat, Henry said.
The next step is to find ways to
further reduce tariffs, Henry said.
Competing wheat suppliers to
Vietnam are now down to no tariffs
because of preferential trade agree-
ments, he said.
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“They’re not a Top 10 cus-
tomer, but they’re right outside of
it,” he said. “If they would con-
tinue to grow, they’re certainly not
outside the realm of being in that
category one day.”
Vietnam purchases 3 million to
5 million tons of wheat each year.
The U.S. has been able to tap
further into the market because of
reduced production in Australia,
Henry said.
As
Vietnam’s
individual
incomes increase, consumers
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iffs on U.S. agricultural prod-
ucts, and U.S. wheat farmers hope
that means more opportunities for
sales.
“We went from a 5% tariff down
to a 3% tariff,” said Dalton Henry,
vice president of policy for U.S.
Wheat Associates, the overseas
marketing arm for the industry.
That might not seem like much
of a reduction, he said, but it’s
significant.
“The reality is, when you’re
talking about shipping vessels at
50,000 or 60,000 tons, and 5% on a
lot of wheat would be somewhere
in the $12 to $15 range per ton, that
becomes real money pretty fast,”
he said.
Vietnam has purchased more
than 450,000 tons of U.S. wheat
during the last year, a record and
nearly double the long-term aver-
age, Henry said.
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