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Friday, September 2, 2022
Onion trials boosted by ample
water at OSU Malheur station
By BRAD CARLSON
Capital Press
Sierra Dawn McClain/Capital Press File
Washington state has proposed new rules for farms and
ranches with livestock.
Washington farms
fret over Ecology’s
potential to regulate
ONTARIO, Ore. — Bran-
don Leon liked what he saw
on the Oregon State Univer-
sity onion research plots —
and during the hour’s drive
from Boise.
“I see water everywhere,”
he said, referring to Treasure
Valley irrigation canals visi-
ble from Interstate 84.
In contrast, California’s
onion growers are impacted
by that state’s tight supply
of water, said Leon, based
in Tipton, Calif., with seed
company Hazera.
The water supply to the
southeastern Oregon-south-
western Idaho crop was
unexpectedly good following
an unusually wet spring. The
region supplies about a quar-
ter of the country’s fall stor-
age onions.
But the crop faced its
share of challenges such
as early cold, high winds
that forced some replanting
and a quick transition from
cold to hot. The number of
100-degree days broke the
2003 record.
“It has been stressful
on the onions,” Erik Feib-
ert, a senior faculty research
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Mike Hansen of Sakata Seed America, OSU Malheur
Experiment Station’s Kyle Wieland and Erik Feibert
talk Aug. 24 at the onion variety day..
assistant at OSU’s Malheur
Experiment Station, said at
the annual Onion Variety
Day Aug. 24.
Kyle Wieland, farm man-
ager at OSU-Malheur, said
this year had more hot nights
than usual, giving onions less
of a reprieve from the hot
days.
Feibert said this year has
been good for putting vari-
eties to the test. Some have
shorter or longer maturation
periods. Harvest technique,
bulb size and color, and mar-
ket usage also vary.
Brad Watson, production
manager with J.C. Watson
Co. in nearby Parma, Idaho,
said he looks for onion qual-
ities including shape, size,
consistency and disease
resistance.
He said the selection
of desired characteristics
increased in recent years, and
“not everybody wants the
same thing.”
Wieland said bench-
mark, highest-quality plants
and bulbs often are found at
field’s edge, where compe-
tition comes from one side
only.
Feibert said the control
of thrips, a major insect pest
for onions, has been effec-
tive this year. Factors include
fine-tuned chemical mix-
tures, and optimizing how
and when they are applied.
Stuart Reitz, who directs
the experiment station, said
this is the third year a tall
tractor sprayer has been used.
It allows precise insecticide
and fungicide applications
through the season.
Previously, staff could
only do a couple of sprays.
Subsequent
applications
were done by aircraft, which
“on our little field were never
effective,” he said. The new
sprayer “really helps out.”
Reitz said the field day
showcased 58 varieties.
Growing-degree days, or
heat units, are ahead of the
30-year average by a few
days but remain behind 2021,
he said. Prolonged high heat
arrived about a month early
last year.
Onion plants do not grow
well in temperatures below
50 or above 86 degrees, Reitz
said.
Leon said all of a sea-
son’s variables will influence
onions’ growth and quality.
Lyndon Johnson of
Caldwell, Idaho, seed pro-
ducer Crookham Co. said
that while the number of
big bulbs likely will fall
below long-term averages
in the region, “the quality is
there.”
Washington farm groups
and some Republican leg-
islators continue to push for
written guarantees that the
state Department of Ecology
won’t force small farms to
have CAFO permits.
Ecology is revising the
permit and says it remains
focused on regulating large
farms that let manure reach
water. Only 24 livestock
operations in the state have
CAFO permits.
Nevertheless,
Ecology
proposes to require any live-
stock operation, no matter
how small, to get a permit
if the department judges it
a “significant contributor of
pollutants.”
Ecology has that power
now and has used it once.
The potential to regulate any
farm has raised concerns that
were absent when Ecology
revised the permit more than
five years ago.
Distrust in expanding gov-
ernment authority underlies
the new concerns, said John
Stuhlmiller, ex-CEO of the
Washington Farm Bureau,
who recently submitted com-
ments to Ecology on behalf
of Farm Bureau chapters as a
consultant.
“We’ve seen other agen-
cies do things we never
believed they would,” he
said.
A CAFO — concentrated
animal feeding operation —
confines and feeds livestock
for at least 45 days a year. If
a large CAFO releases pol-
lutants into water, it must get
a permit and follow rules to
prevent another discharge.
Ecology gives small
farms, such as dairies with
fewer than 200 mature cows
or a poultry farm with fewer
than 9,000 chickens, more
leeway, but can still require
a permit if the department
decides the discharges are
too much or too frequent.
Environmental groups,
hostile to dairies, continually
push for stricter rules on what
they call “factory farms.”
The Washington State Dairy
Federation pushes back on
behalf of commercial dairies.
When Ecology recently
solicited public comments on
a new CAFO permit, many
small farms and ranches said
they were worried about get-
ting caught up in the battle.
Since Ecology can desig-
nate any farm a significant
contributor of pollutants, it
could crush small ones with
fees, expensive rules and
potential fines, according to
the comments.
Five Republican senators
asked Ecology to “clarify
who is responsible to comply
with this permit in order to
prevent subjective enforce-
ment actions.”
“We were very pleased
at the number of comments
and the passion,” said Mark
Herke, president of the Farm
Bureau chapter in Yakima
and Klickitat counties.
“People are a lot more
engaged than five years ago,”
he said. “Ecology will say,
‘Oh, you don’t have anything
to worry about.’ Well, then
don’t leave this hair-trigger
over our heads.”
An Ecology spokes-
woman pointed to a state-
ment on the department’s
website. According to the
statement, CAFO permits are
for farms with a large num-
ber of animals.
“If we see a manure prob-
lem (at a smaller farm), we
will refer you to our local
partners, such as conserva-
tion districts, to advise you
on how to protect water
quality,” Ecology states.
Stuhlmiller said Ecology
could ease some concerns
by writing such assurances
into the permit.
“It doesn’t say that,”
Stuhlmiller said. “Ecology’s
authority needs to be con-
strained by rigorous legal
protections for landowners,
and we don’t see that.”
Farm Bureau chapters
in Benton, Grant, Klick-
itat, Okanogan, Thurston
and Yakima counties signed
comments from Stuhl-
miller to Ecology asking
the department to exclude
small farms or at least fur-
ther define what makes
a small farm a significant
polluter.
Okanogan County Farm
Bureau President Dick
Ewing said he’s concerned
the CAFO regulations will
become a tool to cut green-
house gases by reducing
livestock agriculture.
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S281706-1
USAID purchases $68M of Ukraine wheat
By MATTHEW WEAVER
Capital Press
The U.S. will provide more than $68
million to the United Nations World
Food Program to purchase, move and
store up to 150,000 metric tons of
Ukrainian wheat to help respond to the
food crisis gripping parts of Africa.
Speaking on background, a U.S.
Agency for International Development
spokesperson said the purchase does
not replace any purchases from U.S.
farmers.
“By purchasing food in countries
closer to those in greatest need, USAID
is making the best possible use of tax-
payer dollars by ensuring shipping
costs are lower,” the spokesperson said.
“In addition, grain procured in Ukraine
can more quickly reach the areas in
need given proximity and shorter trans-
port routes.”
Twenty million tons of grain in
Ukraine’s Black Sea ports are ready to
go, and they have been stuck there due
to Russia’s blockade of the Black Sea,
the spokesperson said.
“In order to save lives, humanitar-
ians need access to all available grain
stores to deliver to the populations that
need it most,” the spokesperson said.
“As we hope Putin will continue to
uphold his end of the deal and let the
grains out, we are working in partner-
ship with the Ukrainians to explore all
options to help more grains get onto the
market.”
The 150,000 metric tons of grain
will move in a series of shipments in the
coming weeks from Black Sea ports.
The first humanitarian shipment of
23,000 metric tons of Ukrainian grain
out of the Black Sea was Aug. 16. It
will be distributed as part of emergency
food rations by the end of the year.
The purchase likely won’t have
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Grain silos in the port of Odesa, Ukraine. Ukraine and Russia have re-
sumed grain shipments.
much impact on the global market,
Northwest market analysts said.
“I think it’s more just (public rela-
tions) than anything,” said Byron
Behne, senior merchant at Northwest
Grain Growers in Walla Walla, Wash.
“This is just another way of giving
(Ukraine) some money, it just looks
a little better than a pure giveaway of
money. I don’t know that it’s all that dif-
ferent in the end.”
U.S. wheat farmers might ques-
tion the use of taxpayer funds to buy
Ukrainian wheat for donation, said Dan
Steiner, grains merchant for Morrow
County Grain Growers in Oregon, but
Russia and Ukraine have a logistical
freight advantage over the U.S.
The U.S. wheat industry needs
demand, Steiner said. Ideally, about 15
million bushels to 16 million bushels
need to be exported from the U.S. per
week.
“We’re already behind. ... We need
something other than the traditional
core business,” he said. “Right now
we think the price is low enough, we
should be making some sales. On a
world level, we’re still too high.”
In April, USAID and USDA
announced a rare full drawdown of
the Bill Emerson Humanitarian Trust
(BEHT), $282 million, as part of a
$670 million effort to purchase U.S.
wheat and other American food com-
modities as food aid. USDA provided
$388 million in additional funding
through the Commodity Credit Corpo-
ration to cover ocean freight transporta-
tion, inland transport, internal transport,
shipping and handling, and other asso-
ciated costs.
Recent purchases by the CCC of
U.S. white wheat for donation are
expected to be a big part of demand for
the fall, Behne said.
The U.S. has provided nearly $7.6 bil-
lion in assistance to respond to the global
food security crisis since the beginning
of Russia’s war against Ukraine.
“We will continue to work to meet
the needs of the people made even more
vulnerable due to Russia’s war against
Ukraine,” a USAID press release states.
“U.S. grown commodities play an
important role in meeting global grain
needs and will continue to be a critical
component of U.S. food assistance pro-
grams around the world,” the USAID
spokesperson said.
