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Friday, July 23, 2021
NW Oregon county approves rezoning farmland for industrial park expansion
By GEORGE PLAVEN
Capital Press
CLATSKANIE, Ore. —
Columbia County commis-
sioners have approved rezon-
ing 837 acres of high-value
farmland for industrial use
despite concerns over its
potential impact on neighbor-
ing farms and salmon habitat.
It is the third time since
2014 commissioners have
approved the rezone. The
decision was previously
remanded twice by the Ore-
gon Land Use Board of
Appeals.
At least one environmental
group is already pledging to
again appeal to LUBA, which
could take months to review
the case.
The property in question
was purchased by the Port of
Columbia County in 2010. It
is adjacent to the Port West-
ward Industrial Park along the
Columbia River.
Officials are seeking to
rezone the land to attract
new tenants that can utilize
the port’s deepwater dock,
which provides 4,000 feet of
waterfront access for large
cargo ships. The dock is also
self-scouring, meaning it
never has to be dredged.
Opponents fear whether
new fossil fuel developments
may pollute the air and water,
harming endangered salmon
and contaminating farms
within a vulnerable, low-ly-
ing area.
Jim Hoffmann, who farms
175 acres of organic blueber-
ries roughly 2 miles down-
stream of Port Westward,
condemned the commis-
sion’s vote on July 14 as “a
travesty.”
“The port and the county
are turning back the clock on
Oregon’s land use progress
with plans to pave over wet-
lands on the floodplains of
the Lower Columbia River,”
Hoffmann said, adding the
port’s plans will put local
crops like berries, spearmint
and peppermint at risk.
Dan Serres, conservation
director at Columbia River-
keeper, echoed Hoffmann’s
comments and said the group
Harold Hutchinson
The Port Westward Industrial Park is at the center of a
controversy involving local farmers.
plans to appeal.
“We think the county com-
mission and the port have
made a big mistake,” Serres
said.
Scott Jensen, a planner at
the port, said the rezone appli-
cation was submitted with no
specific project in mind.
“We really have not been
talking to people about spe-
cific projects, because we
want to make sure we have
the land first,” Jensen said.
“We’re doing this work so that
private businesses don’t have
to go through and do this type
of work on top of their regular
development timeline.”
However, Northwest Inno-
vation Works, the company
behind a rejected methanol
refinery in Kalama, Wash.,
does have a lease option that
was approved by the port in
2019 to build a facility within
part of the rezoned land at Port
Westward, which has raised
worries about the site becom-
ing a hub for fossil fuels.
Part of the rezone was also
set aside for two new agri-
cultural leases, with Seely
Mint leasing 211 acres and
and Columbia River Ranch
leasing 243 acres for cattle
grazing.
Port Westward is already
home to three gas power
plants operated by Portland
General Electric, and a load-
ing facility operated by the
Massachusetts-based Global
Partners Inc. to ship etha-
nol and biodiesel across the
Pacific Ocean.
Jensen said the port
expected there would be an
appeal, and is prepared to
return to LUBA.
Farmland in Oregon is
broadly protected under state
land use planning laws —
specifically Goal 3, which
requires counties to identify
land for “exclusive farm use.”
Rezoning farmland requires
what is known as a Goal 3
exception.
The port’s first stab at
rezoning was approved
in 2014. Columbia River-
keeper and Mike Seely, a
local mint farmer, appealed
that decision, which was
USDA focuses on meat, poultry market competition
By CAROL RYAN DUMAS
Capital Press
USDA
last
week
announced plans to address
competition in meat and
poultry markets by strength-
ening enforcement of the
Packers and Stockyards
Act, expanding process-
ing capacity and opportu-
nities for small processors
and ensuring accurate origin
labeling.
USDA Secretary Tom
Vilsack said he was moti-
vated to address issues in
the meat and poultry sec-
tors because 90% of Ameri-
can farms don’t generate the
majority of income for the
farmers who own them.
“To me that is a wake-up
call and the need for us to
focus on more, new and bet-
ter markets,” he said during
a virtual conference call on
Tuesday.
That means markets that
are more open, transpar-
ent, competitive and fair, he
said.
Vilsack was joined by
Sens. Chuck Grassley,
R-Iowa, and Jon Tester,
D-Mont., who have champi-
oned market reform.
Grassley said he’s long
been working to fix anti-
competitive practices in the
industry and has been wait-
ing for USDA secretaries
and both Republican and
Democratic administrations
Carol Ryan Dumas/Capital Press File
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack is working with two
Midwest senators to increase competition in the live cat-
tle marketplace.
to take action.
“We want to beef up
enforcement and expand
transparency,” he said.
The actions USDA is tak-
ing fit in with his efforts to
reform the cattle market
through legislation, he said.
“I’ve raised concerns
about the lack of transpar-
ency that’s making it hard
for farmers to get a fair
price,” he said.
Cattle producers are los-
ing money on each head
of cattle while packers are
profiting up to $1,200 per
head, he said.
“These farmers have
every reason to be fed up
with the anticompetitive
practices in the market-
place,” he said.
The system is clearly
broken when there’s high
demand for beef and con-
sumers are paying high
prices while cattle produc-
ers are barely making ends
meet, he said.
Tester said USDA’s
efforts are a giant step in the
right direction.
“We’ve seen rural Amer-
ica dry up, diminish, blow
away and we asked our-
selves why. And I can tell
you the answer is pretty
obvious to me. We don’t
have competition in our
marketplace and capitalism
and markets depend upon
competition and fairness to
stay strong, and we just hav-
en’t had that,” he said.
It hasn’t just impacted
cow-calf producers and
small and medium-sized
feeders in particular, it’s
also put the boots to con-
sumers, he said.
“We need to make sure
that we have competitive
markets and fair prices,” he
said.
It’s been clear for 50 or
60 years there aren’t com-
petitive markets in the U.S.
meat industry, he said.
“Right now there are four
companies that control 80%
of the meat processing in
America. Man, oh man, it
doesn’t take a statistician
to figure out that there’s not
a lot of competition in that
system,” he said.
The meat industry is so
consolidated that longtime
family farms are having a
hard time staying afloat, and
consumers are seeing meat
prices skyrocket, he said.
Expanding processing is
a big step in the right direc-
tion because more capacity
means more competition, he
said.
“All people want in this
marketplace is fairness. We
don’t have that now,” he
said.
That’s why he and Grass-
ley have been working on
bills to address the issue, he
said.
There’s no silver bullet to
fix the problems of consoli-
dation in the meat industry,
he said.
remanded by LUBA.
The port re-submitted its
application in 2017, this time
identifying five potential uses
for the land. They include for-
estry and wood products; dry
bulk commodities; liquid bulk
commodities; natural gas; and
break bulk cargo.
Again, Columbia County
approved the request, and
again it was remanded by
LUBA on appeal from
Columbia Riverkeeper and
1,000 Friends of Oregon.
Though LUBA agreed the
five proposed uses do depend
significantly on Port West-
ward’s dock, and no alterna-
tive sites could reasonably
accommodate them, the port
did not do enough to show
compatibility with surround-
ing farms and habitat.
The question of compati-
bility remains at the heart of
the dispute.
“The scale of this is really
big, and resource impacts
are significant,” Serres said.
“It will be interesting to see
how LUBA treats this for a
third time.”
USDA moves
to streamline
drought claims
By CAROL RYAN DUMAS
Capital Press
USDA is authorizing emergency procedures to help
agricultural producers impacted by extreme drought
conditions.
USDA’s Risk Management Agency is working
with crop insurance companies to streamline and
accelerate the adjustment of losses and issuance of
indemnity payments to crop insurance policyholders
in affected areas.
The new crop insurance flexibility is part of
USDA’s broader response to help producers impacted
by drought, in the West, Northern Great Plains, Carib-
bean and other areas.
The emergency procedures will authorize insur-
ance companies to expedite claims, enabling produc-
ers to plant a new crop or a cover crop.
Emergency procedures allow insurance compa-
nies to accept delayed notices of loss in certain sit-
uations, streamline paperwork and reduce the num-
ber of required representative samples when damage
is consistent.
The flexibility will reduce burdens on both insur-
ance companies and producers to help mitigate
drought effects, the agency said in a press release.
Producers should contact their crop insurance
agent as soon as they notice damage. The insurance
company must have an opportunity to inspect the crop
before the producer puts their crop acres to another
use.
If the company cannot make an accurate appraisal
or the producer disagrees with the appraisal at the time
the acreage is to be destroyed or no longer cared for,
the insurance company and producer can determine
representative sample areas to be left intact and main-
tained for future appraisal purposes.
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2001 UTIL REEFER TRLR
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LASYONE
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FORD MOTOR CREDIT COMPANY
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2885 NATIONAL WAY WOODBURN, OR
1999 PROWL RT
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OSTROM
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2885 NATIONAL WAY WOODBURN, OR
2013 HONDA CR V UT
VIN = 5J6RM4H37DL069834
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RANSOM
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2885 NATIONAL WAY WOODBURN, OR
2019 NISS ROGUE UT
VIN = KNMAT2MV9KP504442
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TAYLOR MAE DARE
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2885 NATIONAL WAY WOODBURN, OR
2017 TOYT COA 4DR
VIN = 5YFBURHE1HP718935
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ANA & FERNANDO B DE HARO
PRESTIGE FINANCIAL SERVICES INC
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2885 NATIONAL WAY WOODBURN, OR
2019 KIA FOR 4DR
VIN = 3KPF24AD4KE097467
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SARAH J GAINEY & BILLI JO AMOS
OREGON COMMUNITY C.U
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for cash to the highest bidder, on
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2885 NATIONAL WAY WOODBURN, OR
2017 CHEV CRUZE 4DR
VIN = 1G1BC5SM8H7213951
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AUSTIN FRANK GOSSER
RIVERMARK COMMUNITY C.U
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GUZMAN-ARROYO
ONPOINT COMMUNITY C.U
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OF PUBLIC MEETING
The USDA Natural Resources
Conservation Service (NRCS)
announces a meeting of the
Washington State Technical
Advisory Committee (STAC) on
Thursday, July 29, 2021 from
9:30am to 12:30pm. This meeting
will be held by teleconference. For
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2885 NATIONAL WAY WOODBURN, OR
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2885 NATIONAL WAY WOODBURN, OR
1999 PROWLER 22FT R.T
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2885 NATIONAL WAY WOODBURN, OR
2019 WWTI TRL
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ADRIAN & MAURILIO PORTILLO
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2885 NATIONAL WAY WOODBURN, OR
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2885 NATIONAL WAY WOODBURN, OR
2006 FRHT M2-112 TRK
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ADAMS TRANSPORT INC
DCFS USA LLC
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2885 NATIONAL WAY WOODBURN, OR
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ANDREA DAWN HUNT
OREGON COMMUNITY CREDIT UNION
