THE BAKER COUNTY PRESS — 3
FRIDAY, AUGUST 19, 2016
Business & Ag
County: Graffiti issue
Friday, August 12, 2016 — Eastern Oregon
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Prior to a significant
discussion about graffiti,
among other topics were
concerns from Sappington
about mailboxes being
shot at in the Virtue Flat
Mine area, which he said
is a federal offense. He
said the County needs to
respond in some man-
ner, and he said that signs
indicating that the mine,
and certain areas, are not
open to the general public,
are being made.
Ash and Lohner began
a discussion about area
graffiti, and Ash said the
old Lime plant, just off
I-84, is one of the major
sites where individuals are
trespassing, and defacing
structures with graffiti. He
encouraged the County
to start prosecuting for
trespassing, and for caus-
ing damage (he said there
are No Trespassing signs in
the area), in order to keep
individuals away from the
property.
Lohner also encour-
aged the County to enforce
trespassing and other laws,
— Weekly Hay Report —
Prices trended generally steady compared to week
ago prices. Most demand lays with the retail/stable
hay. Many hay producers are selling or have al-
ready sold most of their first and second cutting hay,
and are working on later cutting(s) resulting in
higher volumes of hay moving. All prices are in
dollars per ton and FOB unless otherwise stated.
Tons Price Range Wtd Avg
Alfalfa — Large Square Supreme
280 135.00-135.00 135.00
Alfalfa / Orchard Mix — Small Square Premium
5 185.00-185.00 185.00
USDA Market News Service—AMS.USDA.gov
— Cattle Market Report —
Wednesday, August 10, 2016
Vale, Oregon
Cattle sold through the auction: 298
Todd Arriola / The Baker County Press.
Sheriff Travis Ash addresses the Commissioners while Baker City Police Chief
Wyn Lohner waits seated to add to the discussion.
and he said that the graffiti
issue is edging closer and
closer to the City, some-
thing he pointed out in a
letter to the Board. “The
last thing I want to see, is
it end up in our commu-
nity. I know you gentle-
man don’t want to see that,
either, much less, out in the
County,” Lohner said. He
echoed Ash’s comments,
and he asked the County to
bolster security at the Lime
plant, to keep people away
from the property, to pros-
ecute any violators, and to
draft a graffiti ordinance to
address the issues.
SEE GRAFFITI PAGE 5
Marijuana informational
meeting held in Huntington
Steer Calves
300-400# Bulk 152.00-168.00 Top 171.00
400-500# Bulk 141.00-150.00 Top 152.00
500-600# Bulk 138.00-153.00 Top 156.00
Heifer Calves
300-400# Bulk N/A Top N/A
400-500# Bulk N/A Top N/A
500-600# Bulk 123.00-131.00 Top 132.00
Yearling Steers
600-700# Bulk 127.00-138.00 Top 139.00
700-800# Bulk 122.00-137.00 Top 141.50
800-900# Bulk 123.00-135.00 Top 136.75
900-1,000# Bulk N/A Top N/A
Yearling Heifers
600-700# Bulk 122.00-131.00 Top 135.00
700-800# Bulk N/A Top N/A
800-900# Bulk 119.00-128.00 Top 129.75
900-1,000# Bulk N/A Top N/A
BY EILEEN DRIVER
Thin Shelly Cows 61.00 - 71.00
Butcher Cows 72.00 -79.00
Butcher Bulls 75.00-86.00
Pairs Young N/A
Hfretts. 86.00-102.00
Stock Cows Young - N/A
Eileen@TheBakerCountyPress.com
Do to the overwhelm-
ing requests from other
Eastern Oregon cities and
towns about how Hunting-
ton was faring since allow-
ing Marijuana businesses
to open here, a meeting
was held on Thursday, Au-
gust 11 at the VFW Hall.
Deputy City Recorder
Shellie Nash said,” We
wanted to dispel the er-
roneous information these
towns were getting about
what was happening in
Huntington and answer all
their questions about what
ordinances we put in place
such as time, place and-
manner, business license
regulation and taxes all at
one time.”
Three different cities
reported to Huntington
officials that they were
hearing from at least one
official in the County that
Huntington’s crime rate
had tripled, that property
values had fallen and that
children are afraid to
leave their yards because
of the influx of marijuana
users. That official did not
respond to communication
in time for print.
Huntington wanted to
show those concerned that
this was simply not the
case, that crime rates are
the same, property values
have actually risen and the
children are still free to
roam the parks and town
as usual.
An invitation was sent
out to all City officials and
League of Oregon City
members to attend a
Marijuana Industry Social
Gathering & Tour and
RSVPs came back imme-
diately.
All who attended were
given copies of all ordi-
nances and resolutions
Huntington has passed to
allow and regulate their
marijuana industry and to
gain the taxes allowed by
the state.
Present to answer ques-
tions for the City of Hun-
tington was City Recorder
ProducersLivestock.com
541-473-3136
— Log Price Report —
Price per 1,000 board feet: Northeast Oregon
Eileen Driver / The Baker County Press.
City officials from around eastern Oregon toured Burnt River Farms, among
other locations.
Tracy McCue, Deputy
City Recorder Shellie Nash
and City Councillor Eileen
Driver.
To answer questions
concerning the businesses
themselves was Shawn
Mckay of Burnt River
Farms, Jeremy Breton and
Steven Meland of Hot Box
Farms and Nick Ducote of
Ducote Consulting. Present
to learn and ask questions
was Marie Oden and Doro-
thy Jordan from Monu-
ment, Samantha Rowan,
Julie Mckinney and Kathy
Vinson from Sumpter,
Nick Green from John
Day, Judy Erwin of Hines
and Patty Verbovanec and
Ron Verbovanec from
Mitchell.
Nick Ducote from
Ducote Consulting out
of La Grande handed out
the results of independent
research studies done by
UCLA, Regis Univer-
sity, University of South
Florida, University of
Colorado and the New
York City Criminal Justice
Agency that showed that
crime rates surrounding
marijuana dispensaries
were lower than in the rest
of the surrounding areas.
Studies by the Los Ange-
les Police Department and
the Denver Police Depart-
ment also showed that
statistically burglary and
robbery rates for dispensa-
ries are on par with phar-
macies and considerately
lower that of liquor stores
or banks.
After the question and
answer period attendees
were taken on a tour of Hot
Box Farms, which is a new
dispensary currently reno-
vating the former Candy’s
Corner market, to show the
“skeleton” of what it takes
to make the business and
product inside secure.
Then the tour went to
Burnt River Farms, a
commercial grow opera-
tion currently operating in
Huntington, where they
got to see the crops in the
growth stage and got infor-
mation on the seed to store
controls put in place by the
state and how it helps keep
the “black market” from
infiltrating the industry.
From there they were
given a tour of Hunting-
ton’s current dispensary
420ville by owner Scott
Matthews.
Scott took them through
and showed them how the
safeguards put in place
keep everything very or-
derly and safe for not only
the town but the customers
and workers as well.
While all those who
attended have varying
degrees of interest in the
different parts of the mari-
juana industry, some in
the retail side, some in the
manufacturing or agricul-
tural side, all went away
with more knowledge of
the industry as a whole
and found that Huntington
hasn’t changed as a com-
munity, other than it has
several new businesses and
their original business are
busier and more of their
citizens are working and
more jobs are becoming
available.
They also learned that
the only downside for
Huntington so far are
parking issues, the lack of
available rental housing as
more and more people are
wanting to move here and
a need for more commer-
cial property.
Currently the local log market is flooded with
fire salvage logs. The log buyer for Malheur
Lumber Co. stated they have all the logs they
need under contract and are not accepting any
new purchases. BCC/LLC of La Grande has
receive so many burned fire salvage logs they
are no longer accepting logs at the La Grande
log yard. Any additional pine logs have to be
delivered to the Elgin Log yard cut in plywood
lengths and to a 8 inch top. For these pine
logs cut in plywood lengths, BCC is offering
$280.00/mbf. They are also paying $420.00/
mbf for Doug Fir & Western Larch. For White
Fir they are offing $325.00/mbf. At the Pilot
Rock Saw Mill BCC is offing $360.00/mbf for a
12 to 15 inch top, for 16 to 19 inch top $400.00/
mbf & offing $425.00/mbf for 20 inch plus top
Courtesy of Arvid Andersen,
Andersen Forestry Consulting
— Precious Metals Report —
Price per ounce, USD
Gold: $1,352.30
Silver: $19.84
Platinum: $1120.00
Palladium: $699.98
Bloomberg.com
— Ag Commodities —
Corn: $337.25/bu/USD
Wheat: $439.50/bu/USD
Soybeans: $1007.25/bu/USD
Oats: $187.20 bu/USD
Rough Rice: $10.44/cwt/USD
Canola: $465.60 CAD/mwt
Live Cattle: $113.40/lb./USD
Feeder Cattle: $142.78/lb./USD
Lean Hogs: $59.85/lb./USD
Bloomberg.com