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Funding secured to create regenerative ranching program
By GEORGE PLAVEN
Capital Press
PORTLAND — A Port-
land-based conservation group is
forming what it says will be the
country’s largest program to sup-
port regenerative ranching across
the West.
Sustainable Northwest received
a $488,500 grant from the M.J.
Murdock Charitable Trust to
roll out the initiative, partner-
ing with Country Natural Beef to
help ranchers adopt grazing prac-
tices that build healthy soils and
improve water retention.
The program aims to include
100 ranches and 6.5 million acres
of rangeland by 2025.
“When we think about regen-
erative (agriculture), we really
start with the soil,” said Dylan
Kruse, vice president of Sustain-
able Northwest. “If you have
heathy soil, you’ll have a healthier
landscape.”
For example, rotational graz-
ing is a strategy that falls under
regenerative ranching. Livestock
are rotated frequently between
pastures, allowing forage plants
to recover and deepen their root
systems.
“You get increased carbon
sequestration, you get better water
Sustainable Northwest
A ranch in the Klamath Basin. Sustainable Northwest received a $488,500 grant from the M.J. Murdock
Charitable Trust to roll out what it says will be the country’s largest program to support regenerative
ranching across the West.
filtration and cap-
ture, you get bet-
ter nutrient man-
agement
and
better forage pro-
duction,”
Kruse
said. “That can
Dylan
help the bottom
Kruse
line for ranchers.”
In late 2020,
Sustainable
Northwest
was
awarded funding from the USDA
Natural Resources Conserva-
tion Service to put some of these
practices to the test on four Ore-
gon ranches. That project is still
underway.
But Kruse said they wanted to
go bigger. There is no single, large-
scale program looking at regenera-
tive ranching, which he sees as a
gap in the market.
“This regener-
ative space is just
exploding
right
now,” Kruse said,
citing more than
$50 billion in U.S.
organic food sales
Dan
in 2019. “Respond-
Probert
ing
to
those
demands is really significant.”
Country Natural Beef, a ranch-
ing cooperative based in Red-
mond, Ore., was founded on the
premise of marketing naturally
raised beef to local consumers.
The co-op today has 100 mem-
bers in 14 western states, and
sells beef to such supermarkets
as Whole Foods and New Sea-
sons Market.
Dan Probert, a Wallowa
County rancher and the market-
ing director for Country Natural
Beef, said the alliance with Sus-
tainable Northwest makes sense
for their members.
“We want to call out the
attributes that we have that are
important to our consumers, so
they feel good about the prod-
ucts they pick,” Probert said,
adding that ranchers today face
increased pressure and compe-
tition from plant-based meats
among environmentally minded
shoppers.
Probert Ranch is one of the
four operations working with
Sustainable Northwest under the
NRCS grant. The ranch has about
21,000 acres in the Zumwalt
Prairie near Joseph, Ore., divided
into more than 100 pastures to
facilitate rotational grazing.
Probert said he thinks of regen-
erative ranching as a “triple bot-
tom line” — promoting healthy
cows, healthy people and healthy
land. With the new regenerative
ranching program, he said Sus-
tainable Northwest will provide
them with objective data to val-
idate these claims.
“We use extensive monitoring
to tell if we’re moving toward or
away from our objectives,” he
said. “We know we have to be
ahead of the game in that space.”
Steve Moore, executive direc-
tor of the M.J. Murdock Char-
itable Trust, said the program
“provides an innovative, sus-
tainable solution that helps our
natural landscapes thrive while
simultaneously growing local
business.”
“Ranchers in the Pacific
Northwest play a vital role in
helping our region thrive but face
a variety of challenges, including
development, climbing costs, cli-
mate change and more,” Moore
said. “Organizations like Sustain-
able Northwest are doing import-
ant work to help support the indi-
viduals and families who run
these spaces.”
Joint committee
Washington farm groups gird for ergonomics II
formed to consider
workers safe, including from hazardous
motions.
HB 1837 opponents recall the last
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time L&I imposed an ergonomics rule,
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Food Safety and Inspection
Service.
Andrea Cantu-Schomus,
ODA spokeswoman, said
the program’s first set of
draft rules were evaluated
by the federal government in
January.
“We are in the midst of
making necessary changes
to meet their program
requirements,” she said.
Oregon has not had a
state inspection program
since 1971, when it was
eliminated due to budget
cuts. In 2020, the Legisla-
ture allocated $926,195 and
three full-time employees to
re-establish the program.
Currently, Oregon has
13 USDA-inspected meat
plants that are either at full
capacity or require ranchers
to drive long distances —
what are known as “process-
ing deserts.”
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Salem, Oregon
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The Oregon Meat Pro-
cessing Infrastructure and
Capacity Building Grant is
open to all Oregon meat pro-
cessors, including slaughter
facilities that fall into one of
three categories:
• Those planning to
expand capacity to include
animals raised in Oregon
and operate under the State
Meat Inspection Program.
• Those planning to build
new plants and facilities to
process animals raised in
Oregon and will operate
under the State Meat Inspec-
tion Program.
• Plants operating under
USDA inspection that are
planning to increase meat
processing from animals
raised in Oregon.
ODA anticipates its
inspection program will
begin in July, pending
approval from the USDA
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SALEM — The Ore-
gon Department of Agricul-
ture is accepting applica-
tions for $2 million in grants
to upgrade and expand meat
processing facilities.
Funding was provided
by the 2021 Legislature
to jump-start investments
while ODA revives the
state’s dormant meat inspec-
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repetitive motions or awkward postures.
Ergonomics make work safer for
everyone, Labor and Industries safety
research director David Bonauto told a
House committee.
“Basically, it’s about fitting the job
to the worker,” he said. “Ergonomics is
an expansive field. There is added liter-
ature, added solutions every year, every
day.”
Critics of the bill, which includes
Republicans and just about every busi-
ness group lobbying in Olympia,
note that L&I already offers to advise
employers on ergonomics.
They also note that L&I still has the
power to regulate repetitive motions
and awkward positions that can lead to
injuries.
In a clarifying ruling in 2006, the
state Supreme Court ruled that while
the initiative tossed out the ergonomics
rule, employers still have a duty to keep
tion program.
The six-week applica-
tion period opened Feb. 9,
and closes March 23. Grants
are capped at $500,000, and
ODA expects requests will
exceed available funds.
ODA Director Alexis
Taylor said the COVID-
19 pandemic highlighted
the need for more options
in meat processing for live-
stock raised in Oregon.
“These critical resources
will
expand
Oregon’s
regional meat processing
capacity and strengthen our
food supply chain from dis-
ruptions we saw early on in
the pandemic,” Taylor said.
“I am excited to see the pro-
posals we receive which will
support our rural economies,
open new markets for Ore-
gon products and connect
local consumers with local
producers.”
By GEORGE PLAVEN
Capital Press
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on top of other safety regulations.
The rule reached into every field.
While 57% of agricultural employers
reported having workers that lift or lower
objects while twisting, that was less than
the 76% in “public administration.”
The rule was fairly short, but the
“concise explanatory statement” was
127 pages. Workers with “caution
zone jobs” had to receive “ergonomics
awareness training.” Plus, caution zone
jobs had to be further analyzed to deter-
mine whether they were hazardous.
If hazardous, L&I had suggestions for
modifying the work. For example, ice
cream parlors were advised to sharpen
scoopers monthly or store ice cream at
no colder than 14 degrees below zero
Celsius to reduce “hand force.”
L&I advised those “harvesting rad-
ishes” to alternate between kneel-
ing and sitting in a chair. The depart-
ment suggested meatpackers replace
“manual deboning” with “machine
deboning.”
L&I had more tips for several indus-
tries, such as construction workers (use
lighter nail guns) and clerical work-
ers (smaller paper files to reduce “grip
forces”), but did single out agriculture
in its explanatory statement.
ODA accepting grant applications to expand meat processing
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byists are joining the battle to defeat a
bill that would allow the Department of
Labor and Industries to regulate work-
place tasks that could lead to tendini-
tis, strains and other muscle and joint
injuries.
House Bill 1837 would repeal a 2003
voters initiative that banned the depart-
ment from writing ergonomics rules.
Voters were reacting to an L&I rule that
required all employers to identify “cau-
tion zone jobs.”
HB 1837 passed the House 50-48 on
Feb. 14 after an eight-hour session, in
which majority Democrats rejected an
onslaught of Republican amendments.
The Senate Labor Committee will have
a hearing on the bill Feb. 23.
Washington State Dairy Federation
labor policy analyst Scott Dilley said
Friday the bill would open the way for
onerous rules similar to the ones voters
rejected almost two decades ago.
“This is something that was a huge
battle 20 years ago, and people still
remember it. It’s nothing that can be
compromised on,” he said. “This really
is a hill to die on for all employers.”
The bill’s Democratic sponsors argue
that ergonomic rules would reduce inju-
ries and compensation claims related to
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SALEM — A bill to
end Oregon’s agricultural
exemption from higher
overtime wages will be con-
sidered by a joint commit-
tee of lawmakers from both
chambers of the Legislature.
On Feb. 22, the House
Revenue Committee voted
to move House Bill 4002 to
a newly created Joint Com-
mittee on Farm Worker
Overtime, which consists of
10 members from the House
and Senate.
Six members are Demo-
crats and four members are
Republicans.
“I am hoping a rational
solution can be achieved
that works for all folks,”
said Rep. Greg Smith,
R-Heppner, a member of
the House Revenue Com-
mittee. Smith said his vote
to move the bill shouldn’t
be interpreted as support for
the legislation.
Proponents of HB 4002
argue the exemption is racist
and unfairly discriminates
against one type of workers,
but critics claim the bill will
force farmers to cut weekly
work schedules, mechanize
their processes and switch
to different crops.
Under an amended ver-
sion of HB 4002 passed
by the House Business
and Labor Committee, the
40-hour threshold for a
time-and-a-half pay rate
would be phased in between
2023 and 2027.
Farmers would also be
eligible for tax credits that
would cover part of their
overtime wage payments,
up to a total of $27 million
per year.
The tax credit would
begin next year at a rate of
75% for farmers with fewer
than 25 employees and 60%
for those with more, then
drop each year until hit-
ting 15% for both groups in
2028, its final year.
Tax credits are typ-
ically used to encour-
age certain behavior, like
building affordable hous-
ing, said Rep. E. Werner
Reschke, R-Klamath Falls,
a House Revenue Commit-
tee member.
“It shouldn’t be used to
offset a cost that’s artifi-
cially placed on produc-
ers,” Reschke said.
Supporters of HB 4002
haven’t been willing to
budge on the 40-hour
weekly threshold, while
farmers don’t see the tax
credits as a long-term solu-
tion, said Mary Anne Coo-
per, vice president of gov-
ernment affairs for the
Oregon Farm Bureau.
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By MATEUSZ PERKOWSKI
Capital Press
