BUSINESS & AG LIFE
THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 2020
THE OBSERVER & BAKER CITY HERALD — 3B
RANCH
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The three sisters are the
fourth generation to grow
up on the ranch and their
children will be the fi fth.
The family presence in
Wallowa County extends
to their great-grandfather,
as Henry Schaeffer and his
father Samuel Schaeffer
homesteaded in the area
after crossing the country
in the early 1870s. They
worked as cattle ranchers
and blacksmiths.
“We have so much love
for this place and commit-
ment to this ranch that was
our great-grandad’s,” Nora
Hawkins said.
Mary Hawkins has two
children: son, James, 6,
and daughter, Anna, 3.
Nora Hawkins’ daughter,
Myrna, is 9 months and
rode along with mom in a
back harness.
“It’s about our kids
having the experience of
growing up on the land
like we did and learning
to do chores,” Mary Haw-
kins said.
The sisters noted they’re
also backcountry outfi t-
ters and Nora Hawkins is a
licensed midwife.
“This is a small
ranch,” Mary Hawkins
said. “Our operation is
not the primary income
for the families, but it’s
a way to stay involved in
making food.”
The processing facility,
which was set up in 2016,
is licensed to process up
to 20,000 birds a year. So
far, they have done 5,000-
6,000 a year, May through
November. The ranch
and are counting on it. It’s
perfect really, not only for
those out of our area that
have signed up, but when
the weather is less than
ideal around here, people
are able to not only sup-
port a local business that
makes them feel good when
they walk in the doors and
workout, but when stuck at
home, they won’t miss out.”
Brown has yet to release
an outline for what Phase
2. Some of the sources said
Phase 2 for their business
would look like having
more people with less
restrictions.
Photo by Bill Bradshaw/EO Media Group
Nora Hawkins shows some of the few rabbits she keeps
in hutches at the Hawkins Sisters Ranch just outside of
Wallowa on Friday, May 22, while packing her 9-month
old child, Myrna. Hawkins raises most of her meat rabbits
in “bunny barns,” she said, which give the animals more
room to move and makes them easier to manage.
processes 150-200 pas-
ture-raised, locally grown
chickens two days a week
and will harvest birds for
the fi rst time this season
this week. The ranch also
processes poultry and rab-
bits for others. Customers
call ahead and bring their
own birds or rabbits for
processing at the ranch’s
facility.
“More than half of what
we do is people having
their own chickens pro-
cessed — extra roosters
and backyard chickens —
as well as turkeys and rab-
bits,” Mary Hawkins said.
Nora Hawkins over-
sees the meat rabbits
raised on the ranch, mostly
in “bunny barns,” as she
called them.
She raises New Zea-
land/Rex cross meat rab-
bits. They dress out at
about 3-4 pounds each and
sell for $6.75 a pound.
“It’s a historic self-suffi -
ciency meat that lost popu-
larity during World War II
with the rise of the indus-
trialized,” she said. Con-
taining many vitamins and
minerals, rabbit meat is “a
very healthy, whole pro-
tein,” she said.
Hawkins ranch sells its
meat onsite. Customers
can call or email to reserve
a case. Prices and cuts are
available on the business’
website.
While their way of
raising and processing
poultry and rabbits for
meat may be environmen-
tally friendly, that’s not
necessarily their fi rst pri-
ority, Mary Hawkins said.
“It’s more about con-
tributing to the commu-
nity,” she said.
Photo by Sabrina Thompson/EO Media Group
Peak Lifestyle Studio in downtown La Grande has had
customers return to take classes in person under Phase
1 of reopening. Phase 2 could allow the fi tness estab-
lishment to allow more participants in classes.
Coronavirus fallout will haunt U.S.
economy for years, offi cials say
By Jeff Stein
The Washington Post
WASHINGTON —
Fallout from the coro-
navirus pandemic will
shrink the size of the
U.S. economy by roughly
$8 trillion over the next
decade, according to new
projections released by
the Congressional Budget
Offi ce on Monday.
In a letter to U.S. law-
makers, the CBO said the
U.S. economy will grow
by $7.9 trillion less from
2020 to 2030 than it had
projected in January. That
amounts to a 3% decline
in U.S. gross domestic
product compared with its
initial estimate.
The stark illustration of
the pandemic’s potential
economic impact comes
one week after White
House offi cials confi rmed
that they would not release
their own updated pro-
jections this summer in
their annual “mid-session”
budget review.
The pandemic will
hamper U.S. economic
growth by reducing the
amount of consumer
spending and closing
numerous businesses,
the CBO said. Part of the
impact will be mitigated
by the more than $2 tril-
lion the federal govern-
ment has already approved
in emergency spending
for households and
businesses.
“Business closures and
social distancing mea-
sures are expected to cur-
tail consumer spending,
while the recent drop
in energy prices is pro-
jected to severely reduce
U.S. investment in the
energy sector,” said
Phillip Swagel, the CBO
director and former eco-
nomic expert at the Amer-
ican Enterprise Institute,
a conservative-leaning
think-tank.
The pandemic’s impact
on the U.S. economy has
been swift. The unemploy-
ment rate jumped from
3.5% in February to 14.7%
in April. Tax revenues
plummeted, government
spending skyrocketed
and the economy quickly
contracted after years of
growth.
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