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Friday, July 30, 2021
Drought, heat pinch Owyhee
County cattle producers
Scott Jensen/UI
Joyce Ranch range cattle outside Murphy, Idaho.
ducer recently sold an entire
crop, not notably high in
quality, to a Nevada cus-
tomer for about $200 a ton,
up from $130-$140 a year
ago.
Cattle grazing on win-
ter range also may find slim
pickings.
“With very limited
spring moisture this year,
and so far what’s been basi-
cally non-existent (rain)
through summer, there is
very little feed on those
winter ranges for cows
going into next winter,”
Jensen said.
Ranchers are dealing
with lower creek and spring
flows in some areas.
Chad Nettleton, of Joyce
By DON JENKINS
Capital Press
tleton estimated flow at
65% of average.
“We’re probably look-
ing at having to cut back on
some cattle,” he said.
Bachman’s
Bruneau-
area cattle operation is irri-
gated by the free-flowing
Bruneau River. Valley-wide
this year, “we are only
going to be able to deliver
half the allocated acres
of water,” and “half our
acres in Bruneau are going
to be dry for the next two
months,” he said.
The river runs short
of water most years. He
expects it to run dry this
year about a month and a
half early.
“The last time it was this
low, this early, was 1992,”
Bachman said.
He also runs cattle near
Mountain City, Nev. There,
irrigation water from the
Owyhee River was shut off
July 20.
Adam Duckett of the
Duckett Ranches feedlot in
the Murphy-Melba, Idaho,
area said October-Decem-
ber is the traditional busy
period.
Now, many custom-
ers are asking to deliver a
month earlier than usual.
By BRAD CARLSON
Capital Press
Ranch outside Murphy, said
he has seen creeks “drying
up in July like it’s Septem-
ber.” And crews have had
to haul water to some range
where they typically do not.
“Feed density isn’t what
it oftentimes is,” Nettleton
said. Some cattle will move
to get needed nourishment,
“and others, if it’s not easy
enough, will come back in
worse shape.”
He is also seeing many
more Mormon crickets
than usual. They eat grasses
including seed heads.
Joyce Ranch also faces
drought-related challenges
in lowland pastures to
which Sinker Creek sup-
plies irrigation water. Net-
Washington outlaws add-
ing hemp extracts, such
as CBD, to food, but the
Department of Agriculture is
setting up a program to help
residents in other states get
the illicit ingredient.
At the direction of state
lawmakers, the department’s
food-safety program will
certify the purity of Wash-
ington-made hemp extract.
Hemp-derived substances
will still be banned in food
in Washington, but will have
the state’s seal of approval
as they enter interstate com-
merce and the food supply.
Hemp policy expert Joy
Beckerman of Hemp Ace
International said the rule is
indicative of the industry’s
unsettled nature as states act
in the absence of firm fed-
eral direction.
“Nothing makes sense in
this revolution right now,”
she said. “The crazy part is
they (Washington policy-
makers) are not allowing
hemp extract to be used in
this state, especially when
they’re taking the time and
care to write this rule.”
With almost no opposi-
tion, the Legislature passed
a bill this year to allow hemp
processors to voluntarily pay
to be inspected and certified
by the agriculture depart-
ment, like food processors.
The bill was pushed for-
ward by the Industrial Hemp
Association of Washington.
The association’s director,
Bonny Jo Peterson, said pro-
cessors were being shut out
of other states because they
weren’t licensed.
“It was an industry need,”
she said. “This will allow
producers to supply proces-
sors with material for mar-
kets that the processors were
having trouble entering.”
While encouraging hemp
ingestion elsewhere, the bill
affirmed that CBD and other
hemp cannabinoids are pro-
hibited in food in Washing-
ton. The ban won’t be lifted
until the federal government
drops its opposition to hemp
extract in food, according to
the bill.
Although widely avail-
able, CBD-infused food and
drinks violate the Federal
Food, Drug and Cosmetic
Act, according to the Food
and Drug Administration.
Hemp seeds and hemp seed
oil are safe to consume, the
FDA states.
The FDA’s enforcement
appears limited to send-
ing warning letters to com-
Legislation addresses investment in water infrastructure
By CAROL RYAN DUMAS
Capital Press
U.S. Sens. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho,
and Michael Bennett, D-Colo., have
introduced a bill to reform tax provi-
sions they say are hindering investment
in water infrastructure.
The Water and Agriculture Tax
Reform Act of 2021 would revise a
provision in the tax code restricting the
ability of mutual ditch and irrigation
companies to raise capital for infra-
structure investment.
Current law dictates that mutual
ditch and irrigation companies must
receive 85% of their income from
shareholder investment to maintain
their nonprofit status.
The bill would allow them to
receive income for operations and
maintenance from other sources and
still keep their nonprofit status. How-
ever, those proceeds must be used for
maintenance and capital improvements
of their systems.
The cost of maintaining and oper-
ating aging water infrastructure has
skyrocketed in recent years, forc-
ing higher price tags on farmers and
ranchers, Crapo said in announcing the
legislation.
Those costs have made it impos-
sible for many irrigation companies
WASHINGTON,
D.C.
— USDA is providing up to
$200 million in relief to tim-
ber harvesting and timber
hauling businesses that have
experienced losses due to
COVID-19.
Loggers and truckers can
apply for assistance through
USDA’s
Farm
Service
Agency through Oct. 15.
The Pandemic Assistance
for Timber Harvesters and
Haulers program (PATHH) is
administered by FSA in part-
nership with the U.S. Forest
Service.
The assistance applies to
timber harvesting and haul-
ing businesses that experi-
enced a gross revenue loss of
at least 10% between Jan. 1
and Dec. 1, 2020, compared
to the same period in 2019.
The pandemic caused a
major disruption for loggers
and timber haulers includ-
ing lack of access to mills,
according to USDA.
Individuals or legal enti-
ties must be a timber har-
vesting or timber hauling
business in which 50% or
more of its gross revenue is
derived from cutting timber,
transporting timber or pro-
cessing of wood on-site on
forest land.
Payments will be based on
panies that make extrava-
gant health claims. The FDA
has sent four warning letters
this year, including three to
businesses touting CBD as a
cure for COVID.
The agriculture depart-
ment is in the early stages
of writing a rule to gov-
ern certification of hemp
extract. The program likely
will have fundamental food-
safety measures, such as
rodent control, and clean-
ing and hygiene standards,
Assistant Director Steve
Fuller said.
Fuller said he considers
the state’s continuing ban
on hemp extracts in food as
positive.
“I have open-ended
questions about cannabi-
noid extracts in our tradi-
tional food products, and I’d
like to see those questions
answered,” Fuller said.
The FDA has approved
CBD as the active ingredient
in a prescription drug to treat
severe forms of epilepsy.
The agency says it hasn’t
heard anything yet to change
its opposition to non-pre-
scription uses.
Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore.,
introduced a bill last spring
to allow hemp extracts in
food and diet supplements.
The legislation has not
received a hearing.
Beckerman said hemp
extract in food is legal in
some states and illegal
in others, and its status is
unclear in many.
She cautioned farmers
against seeing Washington’s
hemp extract-certification
program as a reason to grow
hemp for CBD. The market
for hemp extract remains
oversupplied, she said.
“I wildly discourage all
farmers unless they’re expe-
rienced and have a contract
from growing for hemp
extract,” she said.
the applicant’s gross revenue
received from Jan. 1 through
Dec. 1, 2019, minus gross
revenue received from Jan. 1
through Dec. 1, 2020, multi-
plied by 80%.
FSA will issue an initial
payment equal to the lesser of
the calculated payment amount
or $2,000 as applications are
approved.
A second payment will be
made after the signup period
has ended based upon remain-
ing PATHH funds.
The maximum amount a
person or legal entity may
receive directly is $125,000.
For more information, con-
tact a local FAS office or visit
farmers.gov/pathh .
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gation companies. And there’s a lot
of money to be made through such
things as hydropower projects and
wheeling water to recharge the aqui-
fer, he said.
That money could be used to lower
assessments to water users. Increases
in assessments can be pretty substan-
tial if a water company, for example,
needs to buy new equipment, he said.
Losing the tax-exempt status is a
problem for private, nonprofit canal
companies. It’s not a problem for irri-
gation districts, which are quasi-mu-
nicipal entities with tax-exempt status,
he said.
The legislation also addresses
another threat to irrigation companies’
tax-exempt status.
Those companies frequently oper-
ate on a one-share, one-vote basis,
but the Internal Revenue Service has
indicated they must now operate on
a one-shareholder, one-vote basis to
maintain their tax-exempt status.
The legislation specifies compa-
nies will not jeopardize their tax-ex-
empt status by continuing to oper-
ate on a one-share, one-vote basis in
accordance with state law.
Companion legislation was intro-
duced in the House by Reps. Ken
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D-Colo.
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to operate solely on member income.
Many have been forced to put off criti-
cal infrastructure improvements, while
others have lost their tax-exempt status.
“Existing tax laws punish mutual
ditch and irrigation companies’ invest-
ment in much-needed water infrastruc-
ture projects necessary for maintaining
a thriving agriculture sector,” he said.
In addition, water has become
increasingly scarce in western states.
Many local and state efforts have
responded by promoting reuse and
water leasing to improve efficiency.
Those efforts are impeded because
generating non-member income can
jeopardize an irrigation company’s tax
status.
“Facing intense drought, farmers
and ranchers in the West are relying
on water infrastructure now more than
ever to keep their land productive,”
Bennett said.
The bill helps ensure ditch and irri-
gation companies are able to keep crit-
ical water infrastructure in good work-
ing condition, he said.
Paul Arrington, executive director
and general counsel for Idaho Water
Users Association — which supports
the bill — said the issue is critical for a
lot of IWUA members.
Over time, opportunities have
expanded for private ditch and irri-
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Ranchers in Owyhee
County, Idaho, are feeling
the heat — and the drought.
“She’s pretty tough right
now as far as that goes,” said
Lynn Bachman, who man-
ages Bachman Land and
Livestock near Bruneau.
The July 22 U.S. Drought
Monitor pegged condi-
tions in the large, high-des-
ert county in the southwest
corner of Idaho as moderate
in the north and severe in
the south and east. Extreme
drought persists on the east-
ern edge.
“At least in several areas
of Owyhee County, we are
starting to run out of grass,”
said Scott Jensen, a Uni-
versity of Idaho Extension
livestock educator. “So that
feed supply is definitely on
the low side now.”
The hay market is
tightening.
“Other drought-affected
areas of the West are buying
up hay to try to meet their
needs,” the Marsing-based
Jensen said. “What’s going
on across quite a bit of the
West is impacting us here.”
He said a local hay pro-
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