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Meatpacker efforts reduce worker infection rates
Washington sheriff still
ready to help trap wolves
By CAROL RYAN DUMAS
Capital Press
The North American Meat Institute
is crediting meat and poultry processors
for reducing the spread of COVID-19
among workers below infection rates
in the general U.S. population.
The Meat Institute’s analysis of
data from the Food and Environmen-
tal Reporting Network found reported
new COVID infection rates among
meat and poultry workers in Decem-
ber were one-fifth the amount in May.
Infection rates in the general popula-
tion were nine times higher during the
same period.
Using FERN’s data, the Meat Insti-
tute calculated the U.S. meat and poul-
try sector had an average of 19.91 new
reported cases per 100,000 workers per
day in December, compared to an aver-
age of 98.39 new cases per 100,000
workers in May.
Using statistics reported by the New
York Times, the Meat Institute calcu-
lated the average new case rate for the
U.S. population rose from 7.11 cases
per 100,000 people per day in May to
63.01 cases per 100,000 people per day
in December.
“This new data further demon-
strates that the more than $1.5 billion
spent on comprehensive protections
implemented this spring reversed
the pandemic’s trajectory and is pro-
tecting the selfless men and women
who have kept America’s refrigera-
tors full and our farm economy work-
ing throughout the crisis,” Julie Anna
Potts, the Meat Institute’s president
and CEO, said in a press release.
A Capital Press analysis of the
FERN data found there were 2,465
new reported cases of COVID-19
By DON JENKINS
Capital Press
Tyson Foods
Workers process beef at the Tyson Foods plant in Pasco, Wash.
among U.S. meat and poultry work-
ers in December, compared to 15,243
in May.
The number of cases per day aver-
aged 79.5 in December, compared
to 491.7 in May. The longest stretch
with no new cases reported was 18
days in December, compared to two
days in May.
The Meat Institute estimates there
are 500,000 meat and poultry plant
workers in the U.S.
Since the start of the pandemic,
meat and poultry processors have
added temperature checks and health
screenings before and during shifts
and have provided face masks, face
shields and personal protection
equipment. They’ve incorporated
social distancing where possible and
physical barriers between work sta-
tions, according to the Meat Institute.
They’ve enhanced sanitation in
break rooms, lunch rooms and other
common areas and upgraded air
sanitation and ventilation systems.
They’ve provided on-demand testing
and increased access to health ser-
vices and preventive care. They’ve
also given workers information on
safe practices at work, at home and
in the community.
“Meat Institute members stand
ready to work with the Biden admin-
istration to continue using these
proven measures and moving for-
ward to vaccinate frontline meat
and poultry workers as soon as pos-
sible and even assist in vaccine
distribution for all Americans,”
Potts said.
The Meat Institute and United
Food and Commercial Workers in late
December jointly urged state gov-
ernors to follow CDC guidance that
frontline meat and poultry workers
should be among the first to receive
COVID-19 vaccinations after health-
care workers and people in long-term
care facilities.
Idaho net farm income surges to record high
By BRAD CARLSON
Capital Press
Idaho’s net farm income
reached a record high in
2020.
“And we would have bro-
ken the record even without
COVID federal government
payments,” University of
Idaho agricultural economist
Garth Taylor said.
He presented UI’s annual
Financial Condition of Idaho
Agriculture report Jan. 7 to a
Legislature committee.
Net farm income grew in
Idaho by 38% to $3.5 billion,
reflecting a roughly 10% rev-
enue gain and a 2% drop in
expenses.
The increase was 44% in
2019, to $2.55 billion from
$1.77 billion a year earlier.
Government payments
were 18% of net farm income
in Idaho last year compared
to nearly 40% nationwide,
Taylor said. Idaho payments
rose to $646 million from
$165 million a year earlier,
when they were about 6%
of net income and included
trade relief.
Agriculture remains a
major force in the Idaho econ-
omy, helped by a big dairy
herd, a sizable food-process-
ing industry and a large, sta-
ble workforce, he said.
Idaho’s
farm
Gross
Domestic Product as a per-
centage state GDP ranks fifth
nationally. Taylor said it ben-
efits from the state’s dairy
herd, which adds 10,000 to
20,000 cows per year.
“That would be like add-
ing 10,000 to 20,000 acres of
farmland,” he said. “We can
grow not by adding acres but
by adding cows.”
Idaho’s farm-GDP growth
leads the Northwest “because
of dairy growth,” Taylor said.
Some commodity prices
rebounded after COVID-19
produced extreme volatility
from extraordinary demand-
side shifts, he said.
The
outlook
partly
depends on the extent to
which foodservice rebounds,
Taylor said. But higher land
prices, and tight supplies of
equipment and parts, indicate
Idaho farmers are optimistic.
UI reported the state’s
inflation-adjusted
cash
receipts since 1997 have
grown 80% — mostly driven
by dairy — compared to 10%
nationwide.
The milk-cow inventory
in Idaho was about 635,000
head Jan. 1 after adding more
than 16,000 in the past year.
The state ranks third in U.S.
milk production.
Cash receipts, reflecting
production and price, in 2020
increased by about 29% for
sugar beets, 17% for wheat,
13% for potatoes, 10% for
barley and 2% for milk.
Receipts fell by 9% for
hay and by 6% for cattle and
calves.
As for milk “prices fell to
$14 per cwt, forcing some
dairy producers to dump
milk before dramatic price
jumps to over $20 quelled
the need,” the report said.
Total cash receipts rose
6% to an estimated $8.5 bil-
lion, 4% below the record
set in 2014 when milk prices
were higher.
From 2019 to 2020, crop
revenues rose 15% and
exceeded the 10-year aver-
age by 14%.
Livestock revenue was
down 1% for the year and
5% above the average.
Carol Ryan Dumas/Capital Press File
Cows at Long View Dairy in Jerome, Idaho, partake in a
mid-day ration. The dairy industry helped push Idaho’s
net farm income to a record high last year.
A northeast Washington
sheriff said that he still wants
to help the state Department
of Fish and Wildlife trap and
collar wolves, though talks
so far have failed to produce
an agreement.
Stevens County Sher-
iff Brad Manke said Jan. 8
a wildlife deputy shared by
Stevens and Ferry coun-
ties could supplement state
efforts. Fish and Wildlife
has three wolf trappers for
the entire state.
“I have full confidence in
their abilities to trap wolves.
What I don’t have confi-
dence in is the amount of
time they have available for
our county,” Manke said.
“I still feel we don’t have
enough collars out there.”
Manke broached trap-
ping and collaring wolves
a year ago. Wolfpacks sat-
urate northeast Washing-
ton, and Manke said fitting
more wolves with radio col-
lars would help protect peo-
ple and property.
Manke said talks with
Fish and Wildlife “kind of
fell apart.”
The department agreed
to let Deputy Jeff Flood
trap wolves, but only under
direct state supervision and
only during lethal-control
operations, Manke said.
“Our point is to get more
collars on wolves,” he said.
Fish and Wildlife spokes-
woman Staci Lehman said
the department is interested
in working with the counties
and that the department’s
Eastern Region director,
Steve Pozzanghera, plans to
meet with Stevens County
commissioners.
The counties must be
incorporated into an agree-
ment the state has with U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service,
she said.
Manke said he thinks
his office could create its
own agreement with fed-
eral authorities. He said the
inability to reach agreement
with the state was also “a
territorial issue.”
“We’re absolutely still
interested
in it. I think
the depart-
ment
is
still proba-
bly open to
it,” he said.
Sheriff Brad Wolves are
Manke
a “constant
topic in our
community. More and more
people are seeing wolves on
a weekly basis up here.”
At a meeting Jan. 7 of the
department’s Wolf Advisory
Group, Fish and Wildlife
wolf policy leader Donny
Martorello opposed recruit-
ing help to trap wolves.
“I don’t believe that we
need outside trappers. We
have the capacity. We have
the expertise,” he said. “I’ll
put our folks up against
anybody.”
Southeast Washington
rancher Samee Charriere
suggested Fish and Wild-
life call upon outside trap-
pers to help collar at least two
wolves in packs that have a
history of attacking livestock.
Using outside trappers
will show ranchers that the
department wants to collar
wolves, she said.
“That trust in the (state)
trappers and making that
effort is absolutely broken in
the northeast as well as the
southeast,” Charriere said.
“You need to understand
the producers don’t feel
there’s a good faith effort,
and this is one thing we’re
tying to put in a document to
hold the department’s feet to
the fire,” she said.
Martorello said the
department places top pri-
ority on collaring wolves in
packs that attack livestock,
but can’t guarantee results.
“I just want you to know
they bust their ass doing this
stuff,” he said. “The reality
is we’re talking about one of
the most elusive critters on
the globe.”
To preserve battery life,
collars only periodically
transmit a wolf’s loca-
tion, maybe once every
12 hours. Over time, how-
ever, Fish and Wildlife and
ranchers gain a picture of a
pack’s movements.
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ambitious about climate change, cap and trade, low-carbon fuels and
to vastly expand the Department of Ecology’s regulatory powers
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