4 CapitalPress.com Friday, February 19, 2021 FFA seeks new CEO, seizes virtual opportunities By SIERRA DAWN McCLAIN Capital Press FFA has faced major changes during the COVID-19 pandemic, including national leadership transitions and new virtual opportunities. At a Northwest Agricultural Show virtual session Tuesday, FFA panel- ists talked about changes within the organization. Despite COVID-19, they said, FFA’s membership is growing. Moving to vir- tual and hybrid formats has been chal- lenging but has opened new opportuni- ties for students. On the national level, FFA’s CEO since 2016, Mark Poeschl, resigned in mid-January and the orga- nization is expected to announce a new CEO by mid-summer. “A lot is changing this year,” said Briana Tanaka, former FFA student and the event moderator. When Poeschel stepped down last month, neither he nor the organization commented publicly on his reasons for leaving. “It’s been my distinct honor to serve in this role since August 2016. I know I haven’t always made everyone happy; I know there have been challenges we have faced during my tenure, but my intentions have been for the best inter- ests of FFA and our student members,” Oregon FFA President Grace Adams, Dayton Poeschel said in a statement at the time. In the virtual session, Brian Field, president of Harvest Capital Com- pany and chairman of the National FFA Foundation’s President Advisory Coun- cil, told attendees that Poeschel left FFA “on very strong financial footing and poised for the future in a way that we’ve never seen before — very, very strong, and very fiscally ready to expand.” Now, Field said, “a CEO search is going on.” Field said he anticipates FFA will announce a new CEO around July. In the meantime, he said, “FFA is alive and well and in very good shape.” According to panelists, FFA has around 776,000 members and continues growing — even during the pandemic. Grace Adams, a recent high school graduate and Oregon’s current FFA president, said although she sympa- thizes with people’s frustration with COVID-19 lockdowns, she’s tired of people assuming her year “sucks.” In fact, Adams said, it’s been an amazing year for FFA. Adams said she’s been able to teach virtual agriculture curriculum to stu- dents across Oregon, build a wider net- work, organize “safe” business and industry tours and even hosted an online statewide leadership camp. “It’s been a different experience,” she said, citing challenges. “But we’ve also had new opportunities.” Not all FFA students come from a rural background. One of the panelists, Isabelle James, said she grew up in an urban community and estimated she’s never had a backyard larger than about 20 by 20 square feet. “FFA opened me to ag,” she said. Joining the organization opened her mind to a whole world of career possi- bilities. She said her heart is currently set on becoming a veterinarian. Field agreed that FFA has helped stu- dents, regardless of their backgrounds, succeed in agricultural careers. He said that as virtual options continue to expand, he expects the organization to continue thriving. Oregon irrigators fear legislation would erode due process By MATEUSZ PERKOWSKI Capital Press Irrigators would no lon- ger be able to automatically block certain water shut- offs under a bill that Oregon farm groups claim would endanger due process rights. Under the “automatic stay” provision of Oregon water law, an irrigator can file a lawsuit to immediately stop the enforcement of a government order against pumping or diverting water. The mechanism — called a harmful loophole by detractors and a neces- sary protection by defend- ers — has repeatedly come under fire in the Legislature in recent years. House Bill 2244 would prevent irrigators from invoking the automatic stay against shut-offs spe- cifically intended to pre- serve in-stream water rights owned by tribal govern- ments and state agencies. Proponents argue that HB 2244 makes a nuanced change to the automatic stay provision rather than elim- inating it altogether, but opponents say it simply cre- ates unfair preferences for specific types of water rights holders. The bill’s supporters say revising the automatic stay Mateusz Perkowski/Capital Press File Irrigators are defending a legal mechanism that au- tomatically blocks enforcement orders against water pumping and diversions in Oregon. tecting and preserving water rights, ask the question why it isn’t used anywhere else in the arid West.” Defenders of the auto- matic stay provision counter that it ensures irrigators have a chance to challenge poten- tially incorrect enforcement orders before they can take a steep economic toll. “This is not a loop- hole as it’s been charac- terized by the bill’s pro- ponents. It’s a necessary procedure for due process,” said Sarah Liljefelt, attorney for the Oregon Cattlemen’s Association. While every state has dif- ferent water enforcement procedures, they all have mechanisms in place to pro- vide irrigators with due pro- cess before depriving them of private property, she said. The core of the issue isn’t about senior water rights holders versus junior ones, but rather about the govern- ment’s burden to prove that enforcement orders are jus- tified, Liljefelt said. “Since there is no due process prior to that shut- off, due process is not sat- isfied without the ability to stay the order and seek judi- cial review,” she said. Proponents have praised SB 2244 for making nar- row reforms to the auto- matic stay process, but the proposal actually just “adds insult to injury,” said Dom- inic Carollo, attorney for the Water for Life irrigator group. Giving preferential treat- ment to certain in-stream water rights at the expense of all others in Oregon raises constitutional questions about equal protection under the law, he said. Sierra Dawn McClain/Capital Press File An Oregon dairy barn. Dairies are among the busi- nesses facing food safety fee hikes. Oregon lawmakers urged against hiking food safety fees By MATEUSZ PERKOWSKI Capital Press Farmers, processors and grocers are encourag- ing Oregon lawmakers to restore food safety fund- ing with general tax rev- enues rather than sharply increase maximum fees on their industries. In 2017, the Legislature shifted more of the respon- sibility for funding the state’s food safety inspec- tion program to regulated businesses, such as dairies, egg handlers, bakers and grocery stores. Their license fees now represent 75% of the pro- gram’s funding, up from 60% before the fee struc- ture was changed. The bal- ance comes from the state’s general fund, which comes from taxes on individuals and companies. The state Department of Agriculture, which over- sees food safety, is now ask- ing lawmakers to “reverse the downward trend” in the program’s budget by hik- ing maximum license fees by 15% in mid-2022 and another 15% in mid-2023. “This downward trend has occurred over time and has slowly eaten away at the reserves that were able to offset the short- falls, which helped to alle- viate any fee increases,” said Lauren Henderson, ODA’s assistant director, during a recent legislative hearing. Due to the 2017 change in funding responsibili- ties, an additional $1.4 mil- lion in costs were shifted to licensed entities, which has since quickly depleted the program’s cash balance, he said. “It takes forever to get a savings built but it only takes your roof leaking to make it go away.” The Oregon Farm Bureau, Oregon Dairy Farmers Association, Northwest Grocery Asso- ciation and the proces- sor group Food Northwest are now asking lawmakers to return to a more equal funding mix for the food safety program. “We are placing more of the burden on the backs of our farmers and ranch- ers at a time they can’t afford it,” said Mary Anne Cooper, OFB’s vice presi- dent of public policy. The agriculture indus- try is already struggling with the economic toll of the coronavirus pandemic while natural resource agencies are proposing fee hikes, she said. “This is one of the most significant we’ve seen across any pro- gram area.” The ODFA wants law- makers to allocate more general fund dollars to food safety rather than approve the fee increases proposed by farm regula- tors in Senate Bill 33. “As crafted, we oppose the current bill but invite constructive conversa- tions about the appropriate increases in fees coupled with sufficient general fund appropriations for the food safety program,” said Tami Kerr, ODFA’s execu- tive director. Food Northwest, which represents processors, said that ODA does an excel- lent job administering the food safety program and wants to see the agency well-funded but cannot support the proposal. “I’m in an awkward position because I can’t ever remember testifying in opposition to an ODA budget request, but that’s where I’m at today,” said Craig Miller, the group’s government affairs director. The shortfall in food safety funding was caused by the changed funding mix, which effectively caused money collected from fees to be shifted toward other purposes, he said. “Those general fund dollars should be refunded back into the program.” LEGAL PURSUANT TO ORS CHAPTER 87 Notice is hereby given that the following vehicle will be sold, for cash to the highest bidder, on 03/01/2021. 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Marty Wilde, D-Eugene, the bill’s chief sponsor. Irrigators who believe that water regulators aren’t justified in seeking a water shut-off can still file a motion for a preliminary injunction, he said during a recent legislative hearing.