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Starting Aug. 27, Oregon State Fair makes a comeback
By MIA RYDER-MARKS
Capital Press
SALEM — In the For-
ster Livestock Pavilion,
a cacophony of beeping
from a forklift and chat-
ter among young workers
echoes through the large
barn.
It’s fair time. Soon the
space will be full of every
sound imaginable, from
cattle’s moos to the cheers
slipping in from the His-
toric Horse Stadium next
door.
After a pause in last
year’s fair caused by the
COVID-19 pandemic, “fun
will make a comeback”
at the 157th Oregon State
Fair from Friday, Aug. 27,
through Monday, Sept. 6.
Tickets and more infor-
mation can be found at
www.OregonStateFair.org.
The fair will follow Ore-
gon’s mandated COVID-19
safety requirements. Masks
will be required for those
5 and older in all indoor
spaces and strongly recom-
mended at outdoor events.
Although not required, the
Oregon State Fair team
encourages
people
to
receive their vaccination in
advance of the fair.
Agriculture events
“We are excited about
having the state fair this
year, and getting out and
about. All of our livestock
events will go on as nor-
Mia Ryder-Marks/Capital Press
FFA members set up stalls in the Livestock Pavilion in
preparation for the 2021 Oregon State Fair.
mal,” said Jodi Rametes,
the agricultural programs
manager.
Rametes and a team of
workers, some of whom
are FFA members earn-
ing funds for their chapter,
have been setting up for the
livestock events.
“It’s fun watching the
fair come together,” Ram-
etes said.
On Aug. 27-30, the 4-H
and FFA animal events
take place.
On Aug. 31-Sept. 6,
open-class livestock events
will take place for sheep,
swine, goats, beef and hogs
in the Forster Livestock
Pavilion and Beef Barn.
More information about
agriculture and livestock
events can be found at
https://oregonstatefair.org/
livestock/
Annual attractions
The fair will also offer
classic attractions and
activities such as carni-
val rides and games and the
Fairlift that allows fair-goers
to get a birds-eye view of the
action below.
Fair-goers wishing for a
moment of zen can escape
to the “Heart of the Gar-
den,” a flower garden
donated by Green Acres
Landscape.
In Columbia Hall, the
creative living team will
have exhibits, competitions
and demonstrations of visual
arts, crafts, agriculture, culi-
nary and STEM (science,
technology,
engineering,
math).
A concert will take place
every night of the fair, with
performers ranging from the
rock band Chicago to rapper
Flo Rida.
UN panel forecasts more droughts without carbon cuts
By DON JENKINS
Capital Press
Associated Press File
A container ship in the Long Beach, Calif., harbor. Trade
regulators have determined there’s a “reasonable indi-
cation” of harm to U.S. manufacturers from imported
UAN fertilizers.
Domestic urea
manufacturers
hurt by imports
By MATEUSZ PERKOWSKI
Capital Press
U.S. trade regulators have
found there’s a “reason-
able indication” that domes-
tic fertilizer manufacturers
are injured by imports of urea
ammonium nitrate, or UAN,
from Russia and Trinidad.
The unanimous deci-
sion by the U.S. International
Trade Commission means the
U.S. Commerce Department
will now make a preliminary
determination whether to
impose duties on UAN from
those countries.
The agency is expected
to make its findings known
on Sept. 23 regarding coun-
tervailing duties, which are
imposed on subsidized prod-
ucts, and on Dec. 7 regard-
ing anti-dumping duties,
which are imposed on prod-
ucts sold below market
value.
The investigation was
started at the request of
CF Industries, one of eight
domestic UAN manufactur-
ers that supply 85% of the
U.S. demand for the prod-
uct. Domestic purchases top
$2 billion a year.
According to CF Indus-
tries, Russia and Trinidad
subsidize their UAN pro-
ducers with low-cost nat-
ural gas, which is a major
input in manufacturing the
fertilizer.
Most UAN production
occurs in the South and
Midwest, but there are facil-
ities in Oregon and Wash-
ington state as well. More
than 1,400 American work-
ers are employed in UAN
production.
Last year, the U.S.
imported about $300 mil-
lion worth of UAN from Rus-
sia and Trinidad, the subjects
of the investigation, but it also
bought nearly $100 million
worth of the fertilizer from
Canada, the Netherlands and
Egypt.
While CF Industries
claimed that Russia and Trin-
idad have “targeted the U.S.
market” with subsidized
UAN, forcing the company
to fight for market share by
reducing prices, fertilizer
distributors have argued the
company only has itself to
blame for the problem.
Scientists are moderately confident
droughts will be more severe for
Western U.S. farmers by mid-cen-
tury if global carbon emissions
remain roughly the same for the
next 30 years, according to a scien-
tific panel sponsored by the United
Nations.
Precipitation
may
actually
increase, but higher temperatures
will reduce snow cover and dry
out soils, according to the newly
released report by the Intergovern-
mental Panel on Climate Change.
Reacting to the report, University
of Washington atmospheric scientist
Cliff Mass said that Northwest agri-
culture can adjust by storing more
water for irrigators.
“We can deal with it with more
reservoir capacity,” he said. “We’ve
been lazy. We’ve used the snowpack
as a reservoir.”
Global temperatures are about 2
degrees Fahrenheit higher compared
to the 1850-1900 baseline. The cli-
mate will warm about one more
degree by mid-century, regardless
of emission trends, according to the
IPCC.
The IPCC estimates that late 21st
century temperatures will be 2.5 to
7 degrees higher than pre-industrial
averages, depending on future car-
bon output into the atmosphere.
NOAA
Average temperatures would be 7
degrees higher if emissions double
by 2050 and triple that by the end of
the century, the IPCC projects.
That scenario’s plausibility “has
been debated in light of recent
developments in the energy sector,”
according to the IPCC.
Under another high-emissions
scenario, carbon output more than
doubles by the end of the century. The
IPCC estimates temperatures would
then be about 6.5 degrees higher than
pre-industrial averages.
A mid-range scenario projects
emissions rising slightly for several
more decades and increasing late-cen-
tury temperatures by 4.8 degrees
above the pre-industrial baseline.
Two scenarios project what might
happen if carbon emissions are imme-
diately cut.
If emissions are net zero by about
2075, late-century temperatures
would be 3.24 degrees higher, the
IPCC estimates.
The lowest-emissions scenario
envisions net-zero carbon output by
about 2050. By late-century, global
average temperatures would be 2.5
degrees above the pre-industrial
standard.
Mass said the report largely
echoes studies done over the past 20
years and shows that global warning
is “not an existential threat.”
“The world isn’t going to end,”
he said. “The report’s really quite
underwhelming. It’s not as hyped as
the headlines.”
Under any emissions scenario,
scientists have “low confidence” the
West will have more severe meteo-
rological droughts caused by a lack
of rain.
Scientists,
however,
have
“medium confidence” that agricul-
tural droughts caused by soil-mois-
ture deficits will be more severe by
mid-century and late century under
the mid- or high-emissions scenarios.
Scientists have “low confidence”
that agricultural droughts will be
more severe under the lowest-emis-
sions scenario.
Scientists also have “medium
confidence”
that
human-influ-
enced climate change has increased
weather conducive to wildfires in
the West.
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