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Friday, August 13, 2021
Scoular plant, grower program
target barley food, feed segments
By BRAD CARLSON
Capital Press
Barley production for the food and
feed segments could increase in Idaho
with help from a soon-to-open pro-
duction plant and a new program for
farmers.
The Scoular Co. by early October
plans to open a 15,000-square-foot
plant in Jerome to produce a barley
protein concentrate for use in aquacul-
ture and pet food.
Separately, the Omaha, Neb.-based
company announced a program to
encourage farmers to plant more bar-
ley as a rotation crop. Barley MVP pro-
gram off erings include risk-manage-
ment tools and seed varieties.
Idaho led U.S. barley production in
2020. Planted acres totaled 530,000.
Idaho Barley Commission Execu-
tive Director Laura Wilder said 75-80%
of the crop is grown for malting.
“There is potential to grow those
food barley and feed barley markets,
and that is something Scoular is focus-
ing on,” she said. Meanwhile, the fairly
new protein-concentrate segment is
growing.
“The company’s expanded focus
on barley and initiatives around their
new barley protein concentrate facility,
as well as feed barley and food barley,
will increase total Idaho barley acres,”
Wilder said. “That’s good news for the
industry.”
Andy Hohwieler, Scoular trade
unit manager in Twin Falls, said local
farmers this year converted more than
NAWG
National Association of Wheat Growers CEO Chan-
dler Goule measures wheat in a North Dakota fi eld
to estimate yield and assess drought stress.
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Construction of Scoular’s barley protein concentrate manufacturing plant
progressed Aug. 3 in Jerome, Idaho.
12,000 acres to barley for these sectors.
Most was south-central Idaho ground
where wheat, corn or other crops grew
previously. The new barley was grown
for feed and food sectors.
“The water situation we’re in this
year created a lot of interest in barley
because it is a lower water-input crop,”
he said.
Demand could exceed 50,000 acres
of production in the next fi ve years,
Hohwieler said.
He said Scoular, through Bar-
ley MVP, aims to connect growers to
new markets and off er a wide range
of price- and risk-management tools
— such as a forward contract, a basis
contract against corn futures, or a mini-
mum-maximum price contract.
“The more tools we can off er grow-
ers when it comes to marketing, the
more successful the producer could
be,” Hohwieler said.
Scoular’s presence in Idaho includes
several grain handling facilities, a live-
stock ingredient and custom blending
plant in Jerome, and a trading offi ce in
Twin Falls.
The new Jerome building is on 4
acres south of the existing plant. It’s
expected to initially create about 13
new jobs and process about 1.9 million
bushels of barley annually for the com-
pany’s Emerge protein concentrate. A
liquid feed supplement for cattle feed-
ers will be co-produced.
“We see barley as a crop that has tre-
mendous potential,” Hohwieler said.
PETA calls for investigation of Idaho rodeo
By CAROL RYAN DUMAS
Capital Press
People for the Ethi-
cal Treatment of Animals
is calling for an investiga-
tion into the use of fi reworks
during a July 24 event at the
Pioneer Days Rodeo in Oak-
ley, Idaho, a rural commu-
nity southeast of Burley near
the Utah border.
A video of the wild cow
riding event shows fi re-
works, including what
appear to be Roman candles,
being fi red within the arena.
Some appear to be hitting
cows and participants in a
chaotic scene of frightened
animals and cowboys trying
to control the cows.
PETA said blasting
Roman candles inside the
arena caused terrifi ed cows
to run frantically in circles as
fl aming projectiles hit them.
The organization sent a letter
to Cassia County Prosecuting
Attorney McCord Larsen and
Sheriff George Warrell call-
ing on them to investigate.
“Horrifi c footage doc-
uments that cows franti-
cally fl ailed and ran in cir-
cles as they desperately tried
to evade countless fl am-
ing projectiles, many of
which appeared to be aimed
directly at them. Some even
bounced off their heads and
bodies,” PETA said in the
letter.
The letter also said rodeo
board member Cache Taylor
stated in a media interview
that the fi reworks have been
a regular part of the show
for years “with the intent to
make the cows more wild.”
In the interview with
KTVB of Boise, Taylor said
fi reworks have been used
outside the arena in past
years to highlight the show
and make it more exciting.
The fi reworks can make the
cows harder to catch and
harder to saddle, he said.
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and those using the fi reworks
were not a part of the group
that puts on the rodeo, he
said.
Taylor did not immedi-
ately return a request for
comment from Capital Press
Aug. 3.
PETA said it wants crim-
inal
cruelty-to-animals
charges fi led against those
responsible and a ban on the
rodeo’s use of pyrotechnics
around the cows.
“Rodeos are traumatic
and dangerous enough for
animals even without the
use of fi reworks to whip the
animals into a frenzy for the
enjoyment of the crowd,”
Stephanie Bell, PETA senior
director of cruelty casework,
said in a press release.
When asked for comment,
Cassia County Prosecut-
ing Attorney Larsen said, “I
don’t comment on any ongo-
ing cases.”
County Sheriff Warrell
did not immediately return
a request for comment on
Aug. 3.
NAWG CEO: Washington
crop hit hardest by drought
By MATTHEW WEAVER
Capital Press
Over
the
summer,
National Association of
Wheat Growers CEO
Chandler Goule toured six
wheat-producing
states.
He says Washington wheat
farmers hold a dubious
distinction.
“I hate to tell you this,
but Washington still wins,”
he told the Capital Press
by phone Aug. 4. “You all
still have the shortest wheat
that’s got the most heat
stress on it of all the states
I’ve been to, but every state
is clearly showing signs of
major drought and stress
issues in the crops.”
Goule toured Wash-
ington, Oregon and Idaho
in June, and visited North
Dakota, South Dakota and
Minnesota at the end of July.
Goule anticipates help
from the federal govern-
ment, and welcomed con-
gressional funding ear-
marked for drought relief
assistance.
He is “very confi dent”
Senate and House appro-
priations bills will cross
Biden’s desk, citing a bipar-
tisan approach in both
chambers.
The crop insurance pro-
gram will also provide
relief.
President Joe Biden’s
administration is the fi rst,
Democrat or Republican,
in 21 years to not cut crop
insurance in its budget, he
said.
“That gives us a little bit
of comfort that the admin-
istration realizes the impor-
tance of that program, espe-
cially coming out of such a
bad year,” Goule said.
Goule expects all grow-
ers who qualify for crop
insurance will be able to
remit their full policy. He
declined to give an estimate
for total crop insurance pay-
ments industry-wide.
The industry will main-
tain its “strong drum beat”
about the importance of
crop insurance, Goule said.
“We’re going to have six
states that are going to have
major claims this year,”
Goule said. Parts of Kansas,
Oklahoma and Texas are
also aff ected.
Goule doesn’t anticipate
the usual fi ght over crop
insurance funding from
longtime opponents this
year.
“When you’re look-
ing at political strategy
and you’re trying to fi nd
money, it’s always easy to
attack a program when it’s
not in use because we’re
having plenty of rainfall,”
he said. “If I was in oppo-
sition to crop insurance,
which I am not, this would
not be the year I would try
to attack it.”
Crop insurance fund-
ing is a permanent bill not
included in the Farm Bill,
but discussed at the same
time as the Farm Bill. Goule
expects Farm Bill discus-
sions to begin in 2022.
“I think we’re going to
get a pass this year, but we
defi nitely should not let our
guard down,” he said.
The industry will discuss
a permanent disaster pro-
gram in the Farm Bill.
“We need to be very
careful, but very pragmatic,
about how we want to struc-
ture (a program),” Goule
said. “One year you may
have a fl ood, one year you
may have drought and one
year you may have fi re. A lot
of times, crop insurance and
disaster assistance doesn’t
cover things like fi re. If your
crop goes up in smoke, lit-
erally, you’re not covered.
Just a lot of things we need
to look at as we develop
those programs.”
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