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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.”
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“That does not mean the
junior water right holder
is without recourse in
this case,” Wilde said. “It
just restructures how that
recourse would occur.”
Ed Goodman, attorney
for the Klamath Tribes, said
Oregon’s automatic stay
provision is an anomaly that
turns due process on its head,
since senior water rights
holders aren’t even notified
that their enforcement action
has been blocked.
“I get a puzzled look from
attorneys who practice water
law in other states any time
I mention this bizarre auto-
matic stay process,” he said.
“If it’s so necessary to pro-
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process is necessary to cor-
rect the injustice suffered by
the Klamath Tribes, who’ve
been prevented from enforc-
ing their water rights by the
provision.
“This is contrary to
almost every proceeding in
court, where the preliminary
injunction must be supported
by a showing of a likelihood
of prevailing,” said Rep.
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.
