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Trout sales lag pre-pandemic levels Updated Senate bill retains
By CAROL RYAN DUMAS
Capital Press
mandatory cash cattle trade
Sales of trout produced in
the U.S., at $97.3 million in
2021, were up 1% from the
previous year, when the pan-
demic sparked a 13% drop.
Sales in 2021 were still
down 11% from 2019’s
pre-pandemic levels.
The vast majority of the
sales are food-size fish, 12
inches and longer, which
accounted for $89.9 million
in sales in 2021, according to
USDA National Agricultural
Statistics Service.
Those sales were up 2%
from low comparables in
2020, when the pandemic
hit. Sales of food-size trout
dropped 12% year over year
in 2020, despite a 2% increase
in price. And those sales in
2021 were still down 9%
from 2019.
“During the pandemic,
people stopped going out to
restaurants,” said Linda Lem-
mon, a fish producer and exec-
utive secretary of the Idaho
Aquaculture Association.
That’s where a lot of those
fish are sold. Some restau-
rants switched to drive-thru
and takeout, but those offer-
ings didn’t necessarily include
fish, she said.
“When there was a lock-
down, people didn’t go out
and sales dropped off,” she
said.
Nationwide, the number
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Trout sales are down from pre-pandemic levels, the
NASS reports.
of pounds of food-size trout
sold in 2021 totaled 44.8 mil-
lion, up 0.7% from the previ-
ous year but down 12% from
2019.
Pandemic-related declines
in Idaho — which produces
about 68% of U.S. food-size
trout — were probably higher
than the national numbers,
said Gary Fornshell, retired
University of Idaho Extension
educator for aquaculture.
Almost all of Idaho’s
trout is sold for food, while
other states sell a lot to rec-
reation-based markets. He
heard some Idaho producers
lost up to 50% of their mar-
ket, he said.
“The primary constraint
was the loss of markets and
having to make the transition
from foodservice to retail,” he
said.
USDA didn’t publish num-
bers on pounds sold of Idaho
trout for 2020, but that num-
ber was 21.7 million in 2021.
Prior to the pandemic,
from 1991 to 2019, Idaho’s
average pounds sold were
over 39 million, he said.
The lost sales in 2020
interrupted trout producers’
production cycles, Lemmon
said.
It takes 10 months to a year
to grow out fish, and produc-
ers stopped hatching out eggs
because they couldn’t afford
to feed the fish, she said.
“The industry is still in tur-
moil trying to recover; some
people will go out of busi-
ness,” she said.
Pandemic
assistance
helped, but that only goes so
far, she said.
“Look at how many restau-
rants went out of business.
You can only put so much in
the freezer and keep it for so
long,” she said.
The pandemic has really
hit the people who raise and
process fish hard, she said.
One positive in the report
is a substantial increase in
eggs sales in 2021, Fornshell
said.
At 501.3 million, egg sales
were up nearly 42% from
2020, according to USDA.
Sales of trout 6-12 inches
totaled $6.16 million, down
8% from the previous year
and down 17.2% from 2019.
The number of trout 6-12
inches totaled 4.89 million,
down 28% from 2021 and
down 46.3% from 2019.
Sales of trout 1-6 inches
totaled $1.21 million in 2021,
up 20% year over year but
down 1.4% from 2019. The
number of trout 1-6 inches
sold totaled 5.03 million, up
5% year over year but down
12% from 2019.
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Cattle producers have
become increasingly vocal
about the lack of robust
price discovery in the fed
cattle market and their abil-
ity to receive a fair price for
their cattle.
They point to the declin-
ing number of participants
in the competitive cash
market, which establishes
the “going rate” for cat-
tle based on market condi-
tions and is used as a base
rate in alternative marketing
arrangements.
Participation in that
market has dwindled over
the years as buyers moved
to formula pricing, forward
contracts and longer-term
marketing agreements.
Cattle producers have
called for increased par-
ticipation in the negotiated
cash market and access
to the details of alter-
native marketing agree-
ments. But they have also
disagreed on the extent to
which government should
be involved.
On Monday, Sens. Chuck
Grassley, R-Iowa; Jon Tes-
ter, D-Mont.; Deb Fischer,
R-Neb.; and Ron Wyden,
D-Ore., released an updated
version of a bill they intro-
duced in November to
accomplish those goals.
Among other things, the
Cattle Price Discovery and
Transparency Act of 2022
would establish approved
pricing mechanisms, man-
date regional minimum cash
purchases and establish a
publicly available cattle con-
tract library of alternative
marketing arrangements.
The bill is getting mixed
reviews from cattle produc-
ers and beef processors.
National Farmers Union
is in full support.
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U.S. Cattlemen’s Associ-
ation is hopeful it will estab-
lish a fair cattle market but
is reviewing the bill.
The American Farm
Bureau Federation and
National Cattlemen’s Beef
Association support a cattle
contract library but oppose
mandatory cash sales.
R-CALF USA has con-
cerns about the lack of
immediate and substantive
requirements for minimum
cash trade, and the North
America Meat Institute
strongly opposes the bill.
Rob Larew, NFU pres-
ident, said the bill would
shed light on the market and
bring about greater fairness.
“Fair and competitive
markets rely on price dis-
covery and transparency.
For farmers and ranchers
to bargain effectively with
packers, they need access
to reliable, accurate pricing
information,” he said.
Brooke Miller, U.S. Cat-
tlemen’s Association presi-
dent, said the industry needs
to restore marketplace fun-
damentals and implement
guardrails to prevent the
industry from capsizing.
“USCA stands with
county, state and national
producer associations across
the U.S. in supporting man-
datory cash trade minimums
… ,” he said.
Ethan Lane, vice presi-
dent of government affairs
for National Cattlemen’s
Beef Association, said that
despite overwhelming feed-
back in opposition to a cash
mandate, the bill would sub-
ject cattle producers to a
business-altering govern-
ment edict.
“This is an indication of
just how far the sponsors of
this bill have strayed from
the wishes of the majority of
cattle producers around the
country,” he said.
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“It is time for the spon-
sors to finally consider the
perspectives of all those
who this bill would impact,
not just those in their own
backyards — and we are
ready to have that conver-
sation whenever they are,”
he said.
Bill Bullard, R-CALF
CEO, said his organiza-
tion remains concerned
that USDA would have
two years to set minimum
cash trade levels and that it
would set and keep them at
inappropriate levels.
“We were hoping Con-
gress would provide a mea-
sured response to this seri-
ous crisis, and we will
continue wading through
this complicated proposal to
determine if it provides any
meaningful reform worthy
of America’s independent
cattle producers’ support,”
he said.
Julie Anna Potts, Meat
Institute president, said the
bill calls for radical govern-
ment interference and con-
voluted mandates.
“If this bill becomes
law, there will be cattle
producers who want alter-
native marketing arrange-
ments but will instead be
forced to sell on the cash
market, and the industry
will turn back time to the
days of commodity cat-
tle, or worse, to govern-
ment-controlled markets,”
she said.
Farm Bureau did not
immediately respond to
Capital Press’ request for
comment, but issued a state-
ment in January on the pre-
vious bill introduced in
November.
“We support the major-
ity of this legislation, but we
cannot support mandatory
cash sales,” Zippy Duvall,
Farm Bureau president, said
at the time.
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