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Friday, May 14, 2021
Inslee signs slate of pesticide fee hikes
a commercial pesticide applicator will
rise by 13% to $243 from $215. Pes-
ticide dealers, pest control consultants
and holders of lower-level pesticide
licenses also will pay more.
Every pesticide applicator, regard-
less of classifi cation, will pay an addi-
tional $7 to support WSU’s training
and education program.
The department originally pro-
posed raising license fees by about
30%. Rep. Tom Dent, R-Moses Lake,
led an eff ort to hold increases below
15%.
“I wanted to whack it back and
have some accountability,” Dent said
Monday.
The department will form a group
of pesticide applicators and others
in the industry to talk about how the
money is spent and whether fees need
to be raised again.
Dent agreed the bill may relieve
pressure to further regulate pesticides.
“We have to educate people,” he
Environmentalists target Idaho CAFO regulations
ment in the permit for them
to even look at identifi -
able discharge points,” said
Tyler Lobdell, attorney for
the nonprofi ts, during May
6 oral arguments before the
9th U.S. Circuit Court of
Appeals.
The
environmental
groups claim that Idaho’s
CAFO permit — which can
apply to multiple operations
— relies on inspections of
manure lagoons and other
structures but not direct
monitoring of effl uent, as
legally required.
“Monitoring is not the
inspection of a piece of
equipment. Monitoring is in
By MATEUSZ PERKOWSKI
Capital Press
Two environment groups
want a federal appeals court
to rule that Idaho’s Clean
Water Act permit regula-
tions for dairies and feed-
lots unlawfully fail to mon-
itor for pollutants.
Food & Water Watch
and Snake River Water-
keeper claim the U.S. Envi-
ronmental Protect Agen-
cy’s statewide permit for
“concentrated animal feed-
ing operations” in Idaho
violates the Clean Water
Act.
“There’s no require-
regard to discharge,” Lob-
dell said.
The EPA should instead
require CAFOs to imple-
ment measures such as test-
ing for pollutants in tile
drain runoff , or comparing
pollutant levels upstream
and downstream from regu-
lated facilities, he said.
Otherwise, the agency
doesn’t actually know
whether the permit condi-
tions are working, Lobdell
said. “There’s no scientifi c
basis for that conclusion.”
Congress intended for
entities regulated under the
Clean Water Act to actually
gather compliance data, not
merely report violations, he
said.
Reporting violations is
insuffi cient, especially since
dairies often rely on auto-
mated systems for waste-
water, Lobdell said. “There
will be no one there to dis-
cover the discharge.”
The EPA countered that
it has broad discretion in
implementing the Clean
Water Act and isn’t required
to continuously monitor
effl uent from CAFOs.
“The regulations don’t
require the type of monitor-
ing the petitioners claim,”
said Ben Grillot, the gov-
ernment’s attorney.
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By SIERRA DAWN McCLAIN
Capital Press
Experts predict West
Coast sweet cherry crops
will be large this year.
California is expected to
produce a crop nearly reach-
ing the 2017 record level,
and Pacifi c Northwest grow-
ers anticipate a crop about 1
million boxes higher than the
10-year average.
Some years, growers
worry that an extra-large
Western cherry crop could
result in oversupply, driving
down prices. But this year,
many growers and industry
leaders say they aren’t too
concerned about oversupply
because consumer demand
for cherries appears to be
strong.
“Demand for cherries the
last few years has been out-
standing,” said B.J. Thurlby,
president of the Washington
State Fruit Commission and
Northwest Cherry Grow-
ers. “So, as always, we hope
there is enough demand to
keep both (California) and
the (Northwest) from back-
ing up. Right now, we think
that both the domestic and
export markets have the
ability to absorb the Pacifi c
Coast crop that we have on
the trees.”
California farms in the
southernmost
growing
regions started picking the
fi rst week of May.
“We’re looking forward
to 2021 being an excellent
year for California cher-
ries in terms of both volume
and quality,” Chris Zanobini,
executive director of the
California Cherry Advisory
Board, told the Capital Press.
Statewide, Zanobini said,
the crop prediction is 9.47
million 18-pound boxes,
near the record volume pro-
duced in 2017.
In the Pacifi c Northwest,
harvest in early districts
should begin by June 1.
Northwest Cherry Grow-
ers, based in Yakima, Wash.,
represents sweet cherry
growers across Washington,
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they aren’t too concerned about oversupply in 2021
because consumer demand for cherries appears to be
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Oregon, Idaho, Utah and
Montana. Washington pro-
duces about 85% of the crop
across that fi ve-state region.
This year, Northwest
Cherry Growers is forecast-
ing 23.8 million 20-pound
boxes, about 1 million boxes
more than the average of
22.8 million boxes.
That’s smaller than the
2017 record of 26.4 mil-
lion boxes but substantially
larger than last year’s light
crop of 19.8 million boxes.
Despite strong crop esti-
mates, cherry growers have
faced many challenges this
year.
Growers continue to
wrestle with a group of
viruses and pathogens col-
lectively called “little cherry
disease,” which leaves fruit
bitter, small and underde-
veloped. Northwest Cherry
Growers estimated inter-
vention measures to handle
the disease reduced poten-
tial crop volume this year by
about 2.5 to 3 million boxes.
Washington fruit trees
also faced frost damage
around April 10 during a
cold snap. But overall, most
growers say the bloom this
spring was big enough to
compensate for losses.
Another challenge this
year was that COVID-19
slowed export markets.
Thurlby of the cherry asso-
ciation predicts export vol-
umes in 2021 will be about
equal to those in 2020 —
28% to 30% of the overall
crop.
But domestic demand
is booming, partly driven
by U.S. shoppers turning
to fresh produce during the
pandemic.
To push cherry sales this
year, Northwest Cherry
Growers will be running the
largest marketing campaign
in its history. The organi-
zation will focus on cherry
health benefi ts.
“People already under-
stand the benefi ts of things
like blueberries,” said Pat
Sullivan, a Tri-Cities area
grower. “Now’s the time
people start realizing cher-
ries are not just a yummy
summer fruit, but a good
health food.”
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OLYMPIA — Gov. Jay Inslee
signed legislation Monday hiking fees
on pesticide companies, dealers and
applicators to raise about $2.3 million
a year for keeping records and pre-
venting drift incidents.
Senate Bill 5317 received biparti-
san support, as well as the backing of
some farm groups. Requested by the
state Department of Agriculture, the
bill responds to a push by some legis-
lators and farm groups to prevent pes-
ticide drift.
The higher fees will allow the
department and Washington State
University to train and advise more
farmers and farmworkers on spraying
chemicals.
The department will hire four addi-
tional trainers, adding to an existing
program. Also, for the fi rst time, the
department will have four employ-
ees looking for problems and off ering
help to farmers, department legisla-
tive liaison Kelly McClain said.
“Every intent is for them to pro-
vide technical assistance,” she said.
“They’re not ticket writers.”
The fees will aff ect approximately
28,700 pesticide applicators and
14,500 pesticide products. The fees
will take eff ect with 2022 licenses and
registrations.
The cost of a one-year license for
said. “You don’t want to spray any-
body ever.”
The bill’s sponsor, Sen. Judy War-
nick, R-Moses Lake, said the fees are
needed, but turned into a sensitive
subject. Cutting back the increases
should make the new fees more palat-
able, she said.
“Anytime there’s a fee involved, it
gets controversial, no matter what it’s
for,” Warnick said.
The department collects more
money from registering pesticide
products than licensing applicators.
A two-year registration for a pesti-
cide product will cost $650, up from
$350.
The department projects collect-
ing another $1.88 million a year for
registering products, while raising an
additional $257,355 through higher
license fees. WSU anticipates collect-
ing $201,439 a year.
In all, the department plans to
add the equivalent of 15 full-time
employees.
Besides the trainers and fi eld
employees, the department will hire
a toxicologist, a policy assistant, two
outreach specialists and three people
related to registering products.
The department plans to replace its
aging database of license holders and
registered products.
The fees are the pesticide pro-
gram’s sole support. The fees were
last raised in 2008.
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