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Friday, March 12, 2021
Washington Farm Bureau still ‘no’ on carbon tax
By DON JENKINS
Capital Press
OLYMPIA — Senate Demo-
crats are pushing a carbon tax that
goes farther than previous pro-
posals in shielding farmers from
higher fuel costs, but the scheme
hasn’t won over the Washington
Farm Bureau.
A carbon tax would raise the
cost of distributing or buying gas-
oline, diesel and natural gas. The
tax would not apply to all fuels.
Fuels burned in tractors and other
on-farm equipment would be
exempt. That’s been a staple of
carbon tax proposals.
The new proposal also would
exempt fuel used to transport farm
goods on highways. The exemp-
tion would expire in five years.
The five-year grace period will
“provide the agricultural sector
with a feasible transition period,”
according to Senate Bill 5373.
The Farm Bureau says the bill
unrealistically assumes that in
five years heavy trucks will run
on alternative fuels.
At a hearing on March 4, Farm
Bureau director of government
relations Tom Davis acknowl-
edged the favorable treatment, but
said the organization steadfastly
opposes taxing greenhouse gases.
“The Farm Bureau has a clear
policy opposing a carbon tax and
that has been in our policy book
for many years,” he said.
Majority Democrats in the
House and Senate are considering
several bills to increase the cost
of fossil fuels. The carbon-tax bill
has 13 sponsors, all Democrats.
Although the bill in its current
form is not likely to pass, some
elements could be incorporated
into legislation that does eventu-
ally pass this Legislature.
The tax would start at $25 per
metric ton of carbon, adding an
estimated 22 cents to a gallon of
gasoline. The tax would increase
every year by $5 plus inflation.
The tax is projected to raise more
than $2 billion a year and grow.
The money would flow into
several accounts, including a
“Just Transition Account.” Work-
ers thrown out of work by the tax
could be in line for “full wage
replacement.”
Policy and fiscal reports on the
bill set no goals for reducing car-
bon emissions. The bill depends
on taxing fossil fuels until at least
2050 to pay the debt on almost $5
billion in borrowing.
The borrowed money would
fund projects recommended by an
“environmental justice and eco-
nomic equity panel,” an unelected
body that would be appointed by
Gov. Jay Inslee.
At the start of the video hear-
ing, the bill’s prime sponsor,
Sen. Liz Lovelett, D-Anacortes,
reported that 1,015 people had
signed in “pro” and 204 “con” on
the bill.
She attributed some of the dis-
sidence to “misinformation” that
“came out on the agricultural
Cattle price forecast for 2021
Timber group, counties challenge
delay of spotted owl decision
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vated. Beef cow slaughter
is running 5% higher year
over year, and dairy cow
slaughter is up 4%, he said.
Fed slaughter for beef
production should have
peaked in 2020 but the
COVID-19
pandemic
slowed harvest, which was
down 2.7% year over year.
There are a record number
of cattle on feed today and
a sizable kill in 2021, up
2.2%, is expected in 2021.
“So we’ve got more cat-
tle in the system, we think
that we’ll harvest more cat-
tle, particularly in the first
half of the year,” he said.
Big supplies on feed
in the front end, heavy
weights and plenty of
tonnage are a head-
wind for cattle prices, but
2021 could very much
be a “tale of two halves,”
he said.
Tighter calf crops in
2019 and 2020 should
allow for tighter on-feed
numbers
and
tighter
slaughter numbers through
the second half of 2021 and
on into 2022 and beyond.
On top of that, carcass
weights should drop back
from the record-high rates
in 2020 as feeders become
current, he said.
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MID OREGON FEDERAL CREDIT UNION
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JP MORGAN CHASE BANK NA
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sonal Representative.
DATED and first published March
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UNITIS COMMUNITY CREDIT UNION
The American Forest Resource Council, a timber indus-
try group, along with counties in Oregon, Washington
and California, are challenging the Biden administra-
tion’s decision to delay removing millions of acres of
critical habitat for the threatened species.
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NOTICE TO INTERESTED PERSONS
NOTICE IS HERBY GIVEN that the
undersigned has been appointed
Personal Representative of the
above estate. All persons having
claims against the estate are re-
quired to present them to the un-
dersigned attorney at: 319 Sixth
Street SW, Albany, OR 97321 with-
in four months after the date of
the first publication of this notice,
as stated below, or such claims
may be barred.
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By CAROL RYAN DUMAS
Capital Press
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IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF
WILLIAM R. FRANCIS, deceased.
Case No.: 21PB00073
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CattleFax forecasts
better prices in 2021
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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF
THE STATE OF OREGON FOR
THE COUNTY OF MARION
PROBATE DEPARTMENT
Fed steer
Source: CattleFax
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2020 average
implementation of the rule
from March 16 to April 15,
pending further review.
According to the law-
suit, the delay was illegal
because the public was not
notified, and the Interior
Department did not provide
a reasonable, lawful justifi-
cation for doing so.
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SARA ABUKHATER
NAVY FED CU
average price
range
(Dollars per hundredweight)
science, and common sense
at a time when unprece-
dented and severe wildfires
threaten both owls and peo-
ple from Northern Califor-
nia to Washington state,”
Fite said.
However, the Biden
administration
recently
announced it would delay
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TOYOTA MOTOR CREDIT CORP
Class
Tightening cattle sup-
plies, strong exports, flat
meat and poultry produc-
tion and a growing popula-
tion paint a positive picture
for cattle prices in 2021.
On the supply side, the
industry liquidated roughly
1.2 million head of inven-
tory in 2019 and 2020 after
a 6 million-head expan-
sion over the previous five
years. What’s ahead will
depend on Mother Nature,
said Kevin Good, Cat-
tleFax vice president of
industry relations.
“You have to assume
that Mother Nature is going
to be working against us as
we think about drought,
particularly in the western
half of the United States
over the next six months
plus,” he said during the
National Cattlemen’s Beef
Association Winter Reboot
conference.
The inflationary cost
of feed and roughage will
also work against expan-
sion, he said.
Cow slaughter has been
elevated the last couple
of years, and CattleFax
assumes it will remain ele-
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PORTLAND — Federal
protections for the northern
spotted owl are again head-
ing to court.
The American Forest
Resource Council, a tim-
ber industry group, along
with counties in Oregon,
Washington and California,
are challenging the Biden
administration’s decision to
delay removing millions of
acres of critical habitat for
the threatened species.
The lawsuit was filed
March 5, and includes the
Association of O&C Coun-
ties, representing local gov-
ernments that benefit from
timber revenues generated
from Oregon and California
Revested Lands sprawled
across Western Oregon.
Several other counties,
including Douglas County
in Oregon, Siskiyou County
in California, and Lewis
and Skamania counties in
Washington, also joined the
lawsuit individually.
It is the latest twist in the
saga over protections for
the spotted owl, which was
listed as a threatened spe-
cies in 1990.
Initially, the U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Service set
aside 6.9 million acres
of critical habitat in old-
growth
forests
along
the Pacific Coast where
the birds nest. That was
reduced to 5.8 million acres
in 2008, before increasing
to 9.5 million acres under
a new management plan for
the species in 2012 — an
area roughly twice the size
of New Jersey.
The AFRC led a group
of plaintiffs challenging
the expanded habitat des-
ignation, and in 2018 the
USFWS agreed to reexam-
ine protections for the spot-
ted owl.
At first, the agency pro-
posed removing 205,000
acres of critical habi-
tat in 15 Western Ore-
gon counties. But then,
days before leaving office,
the Trump administra-
tion approved a 3.5-mil-
lion acre reduction, nearly
one-third of the total habitat
designation.
Lawson Fite, an attor-
ney for the AFRC, said the
Trump administration’s rul-
ing lifted logging restric-
tions in areas where there
are, in fact, no owls cur-
rently nesting and were pre-
viously set aside for tim-
ber in the Northwest Forest
Plan.
“The 2021 designation
aligns (northern spotted
owl) critical habitat with
federal law, modern forest
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By GEORGE PLAVEN
Capital Press
side.” Lovelett did not elaborate.
Through a spokeswoman Fri-
day, Lovelett said she was refer-
ring to an email the Farm Bureau
sent to members.
The Farm Bureau said that
for farms to get funding for
carbon-sequestration
proj-
ects they “must” pay prevail-
ing wages, pensions and other
benefits to workers, full time or
seasonal.
Lovelett’s complaint was that
bill doesn’t absolutely require the
benefits. The bill states that proj-
ects that meet the labor standards
will be “prioritized.”
Davis said Friday that he
believes the Farm Bureau fairly
characterized the bill. “I would
stand by that,” he said.
