A8 The BulleTin • Friday, FeBruary 12, 2021
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Today is Friday, Feb. 12, the 43rd
day of 2021. There are 322 days
left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On Feb. 12, 1973, Operation
Homecoming began as the first
release of American prisoners of
war from the Vietnam conflict
took place.
In 1809, Abraham Lincoln, the
16th president of the United
States, was born in a log cabin
in Hardin (now LaRue) County,
Kentucky.
In 1818, Chile officially pro-
claimed its independence, more
than seven years after initially
renouncing Spanish rule.
In 1909, the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored
People was founded.
In 1912, Pu Yi (poo yee), the last
emperor of China, abdicated,
marking the end of the Qing
Dynasty.
In 1914, groundbreaking took
place for the Lincoln Memorial
in Washington, D.C. (A year later
on this date, the cornerstone
was laid.)
In 1924, George Gershwin’s
“Rhapsody in Blue” premiered in
New York.
In 1959, the redesigned Lincoln
penny — with an image of the
Lincoln Memorial replacing two
ears of wheat on the reverse side
— went into circulation.
In 1999, the Senate voted to ac-
quit President Bill Clinton of per-
jury and obstruction of justice.
In 2000, Hall of Fame football
coach Tom Landry, who’d led
the Dallas Cowboys to five Super
Bowls, died in Irving, Texas, at
age 75.
In 2003, the U.N. nuclear agency
declared North Korea in violation
of international treaties, send-
ing the dispute to the Security
Council.
In 2013, At the Grammy Awards,
Adele took home all five awards
she was nominated for, including
album (“25”), as well as record
and song of the year (“Hello”).
In 2019, Mexico’s most notorious
drug lord, Joaquin “El Chapo”
Guzman, was convicted in New
York of running an industri-
al-scale smuggling operation; a
jury whose members’ identities
were kept secret as a security
measure had deliberated for six
days. (Guzman is serving a life
sentence at the federal super-
max prison facility in Florence,
Colorado.)
Ten years ago: Thousands of
Algerians defied government
warnings and dodged barricades
in their capital, demanding dem-
ocratic reforms; demonstrations
continued in Yemen as well.
Death claimed actors Betty Gar-
rett, 91, and Kenneth Mars, 75.
Five years ago: Pope Francis,
while en route to Mexico, em-
braced Patriarch Kirill during a
stopover in Cuba in the first-ever
meeting between a pontiff and
the head of the Russian Ortho-
dox Church. New York Mets
reliever Jenrry Mejia became
the first player to receive a life-
time ban under Major League
Baseball’s drug agreement after
testing positive for a perfor-
mance-enhancing substance for
the third time.
One year ago: Holland America
Line said a cruise ship, the MS
Westerdam, which had been
barred from docking by four
governments because of fears
of the coronavirus, would arrive
the next day in Cambodia. In Ja-
pan, officials confirmed 39 new
cases on a cruise ship that had
been quarantined at Yokohama,
bringing the total number of cas-
es on the Diamond Princess to
174. A second case of coronavirus
was confirmed in the U.S. among
evacuees from China; the person
had been aboard a flight from
Wuhan that arrived the previous
week at a military base in South-
ern California.
Today’s Birthdays: Movie direc-
tor Costa-Gavras is 88. Basketball
Hall of Famer Bill Russell is 87.
Actor Joe Don Baker is 85. Author
Judy Blume is 83. Former Israeli
Prime Minister Ehud Barak is 79.
Country singer Moe Bandy is 77.
Actor Maud Adams is 76. Actor
Cliff DeYoung is 75. Actor Michael
Ironside is 71. Rock musician
Steve Hackett is 71. Rock singer
Michael McDonald is 69. Actor
Joanna Kerns is 68. Actor Zach
Grenier is 67. Actor-talk show
host Arsenio Hall is 65. Actor
John Michael Higgins is 58. Actor
Raphael Sbarge is 57. Supreme
Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh
is 56. Actor Christine Elise is 56.
Actor Josh Brolin is 53. Singer
Chynna Phillips is 53. Rock mu-
sician Jim Creeggan (Barenaked
Ladies) is 51. Actor Jesse Spencer
is 42. Rapper Gucci Mane is 41.
Actor Sarah Lancaster is 41. Actor
Christina Ricci is 41. Actor Jenni-
fer Stone is 28. Actors Baylie and
Rylie Cregut (TV: “Raising Hope”)
are 11.
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— Associated Press
• Weekly federal supplemen-
tal benefits of $300. They had
been $600 for four months in
2020, and a diversion from the
Federal Emergency Manage-
ment Agency kept payments
going for five more weeks
through Sept. 5.
• A balance from federal
funds, instead of the state trust
fund, under Work Share pro-
grams for employees whose
hours have been cut 20% or
40%.
“From the summaries I’ve
seen of what is being discussed
right now, I didn’t see brand-
new programs being created,
which is certainly a more chal-
lenging issue than just extend-
ing the time frame of some
of the programs,” Gerstenfeld
told reporters Wednesday on a
weekly conference call.
“Of the vastly more compli-
cated options that have been
discussed in the past, it does
not look like those proposals
are actively being talked about
now. So that is promising.”
Some proposals would have
capped benefits at a share of an
employee’s former wage.
Gerstenfeld also said he
hopes Congress will act before
the March 13 cutoff. Congress
let the supplemental benefits in
the coronavirus relief act expire
July 25, and all benefits expired
one day before then-President
Donald Trump signed the cur-
rent extension Dec. 27.
The Employment Depart-
ment was able to continue
many benefit payments un-
interrupted, but some people
are having to wait for benefits
because federal law imposed
some new identity require-
ments for claims.
“Certainly, the more lead
time we have, the easier it will
be,” Gerstenfeld said.
“One of the problems we
face is the timing of knowing
what the program is and being
able to get guidance from the
Department of Labor before
the benefits are supposed to be
paid. We will have to wait and
Animals
Continued from A7
He laughed.
Imagine a Boeing 747 air-
craft parked by a cargo ter-
minal at dawn. A crew loads
1,000 pigs. Inside the plane, the
pigs move inside large wooden
crates two or three stories tall
and balanced for weight.
Because pigs breathe heavily,
it’s hot and humid inside. Ani-
mal handlers on board say they
can’t get the smell of manure
out of their clothes afterward.
Getting pigs to the airport is
complex and expensive: blood
tests, often $300 per pig, exten-
sive paperwork, quarantine pe-
riods of 30 to 60 days.
Exporters estimate it can
cost up to $18,000 just to char-
ter an airplane, and Newcom
estimated another $600 fee per
pig — not counting what the
customer pays the breeder for
the animal.
The biggest buyers last year
were Canada, Central and
South America and parts of
Asia.
Dairy
Martin Sieber, CEO and
president of U.S. Livestock
Genetics Export Inc., said de-
mand for American dairy cows
is “huge and increasing.”
The U.S. Department of
Agriculture estimates the U.S.
exported 50,261 dairy cows,
mainly Holsteins and Jerseys,
last year.
Upright
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“We’re going to keep doing
that, so I’m hoping that as time
goes on people won’t just as-
sociate us with farmhouse but
more with traditional beers.”
Upright will also continue
to produce a handful of IPAs,
a style that has become more
Blueberries
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The alliance said that a
growing volume of blueber-
ries, particularly from Canada,
Mexico and South America,
was surging into U.S. grocery
stories in the spring and fall.
The flood of foreign fruit de-
presses what should be prof-
itable early and late harvest
prices for American growers,
Clayton Agri-Marketing Inc./via Capital Press
Swine are loaded for the flight to China in 2017.
Tony Clayton, exporter and
president of Clayton Agri-Mar-
keting Inc., said there’s swelling
interest in U.S. dairy genetics
in the Middle East. Days before
talking with the Capital Press,
Clayton put together a ship
load of thousands of cattle to
Pakistan.
Vietnam, too, is an emerging
market.
Large volumes of dairy cows
are typically moved via ship on
journeys that can take weeks.
The market for dairy semen
has also catapulted. Between
1980 and 2019, according to
the National Association of
Animal Breeders Inc., dairy
semen export sales increased
1,015%.
Although artificial insem-
ination is expanding, experts
say live shipments will con-
tinue because many buyers
aren’t willing to wait years for
animals to mature, and many
countries still lack the infra-
structure and knowledge to
handle the practice.
Where’s the beef?
During fiscal year 2020, ac-
cording to trade data, breeding
cattle exports were worth $69
million.
Demand for beef is grow-
ing in the Middle East. Buyers
often want live animals rather
than semen because that short-
ens rearing time, lessens wa-
ter needs and meets demand
for freshly slaughtered “halal”
meat butchered and prepared
as prescribed by Islamic law.
International buyers are
most likely to purchase from
states with few disease issues,
like those without Bluetongue,
a viral disease in ruminants.
One top breeder, Angus
rancher Darrell Stevenson in
common in the taproom in re-
cent years.
Ganum said the new loca-
tions will allow Upright to re-
main focused on low-volume
brewing with tap and bottle
sales inhouse. The brewery
will remain in the basement,
which, even with the taproom
gone, isn’t big enough for a
canning line, he said, so can-
ning is not being considered.
And even if he did have
room, canning and distribu-
tion wouldn’t be in the future.
“I don’t want to do that,” Ga-
num said. “I just want to get
back to making our 1,000 bar-
rels a year like we were prepan-
demic and survive and thrive
on that.
“It’s less fun to run a brewery
the alliance argued.
Food makers and blueberry
farms with international op-
erations argued that prices
were being set by competition
among U.S. farmers and that it
was wrong to blame imports.
“The U.S. blueberry indus-
try is healthy and thriving,” the
Blueberry Coalition for Prog-
ress and Health said in a state-
ment reacting to the commis-
sion’s decision.
“Restricting blueberry im-
ports into the U.S. would have
limited consumers’ access to
these healthy, delicious, and
nutritional berries with no
benefit to U.S. producers.”
The Trump administration
asked for the trade commission
to investigate, possibly leading
to trade protection measures
such as tariffs or quotas.
The trade commission voted
5-0 to not purse trade actions.
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see what ultimately is passed to
see what we need to do in our
systems to implement the new
programs.”
D.C. disagreement
President Biden has pro-
posed extending these pro-
grams for about six more
months, to the end of the fed-
eral budget year on Sept. 30.
He also proposes to increase
the weekly supplemental ben-
efit from $300, which is at the
federal minimum wage, to
$400.
Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden,
the Democrat who now leads
the Senate Finance Commit-
tee, has said he would like a
$600 supplemental benefit, the
same amount he secured in the
coronavirus relief act for four
months last year. But he says he
supports the rest of what Biden
wants.
Wyden reacted Wednesday
after Federal Reserve Chair-
man Jerome Powell spoke in
New York about the U.S. eco-
nomic outlook.
“Even more troubling, Chair
Powell emphasized that while
the situation has improved for
upper-income workers, there
has been no progress for work-
ers of more modest means.
That bears repeating — there’s
been no progress for those
workers who are the least fi-
nancially secure,” Wyden said.
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Humane concerns
While the live animal trans-
port industry continues grow-
ing, so does the number of its
critics.
Animal rights groups such
as PETA and Compassion in
World Farming call for an all-
out ban on live animal trans-
ports, saying livestock can be
treated poorly and even die.
They have a point. Cargo
vessels carrying livestock are
twice as likely to be lost by
sinking or grounding com-
pared to ships carrying just
about anything else, based on
a decade’s worth of maritime
data. During the past decade,
60 people and thousands of an-
imals have drowned.
Maritime experts say this is
because the global live animal
fleet is the oldest shipping fleet
in the world and suffers corro-
sion from animal waste.
Veterinarians say America
has fewer ship integrity issues
than most nations because the
U.S. Coast Guard is “vigilant”
in examining ships.
Even so, about 300 veteri-
narians around the world have
formed an association called
Vets Against Live Animal Ex-
port, or VALE. Many of them
formerly worked aboard ships
transporting livestock.
Susan Foster, an Austra-
lian veterinarian who worked
for years in a mixed animal
and dairy practice, is VALE’s
spokeswoman.
She said animals are much
safer traveling by airplane than
by ship. Planes have incidents
too, including mass deaths
from ventilation problems, but
that’s rare.
“If I had to be an animal, I
would want to be transported
by plane,” said Foster.
that way, anyway,” Ganum said.
“Plus, I just don’t want to walk
into a store and see (Upright
beer) at the end of the aisle at
room temperature. That stuff
kills me.”
Whenever the new spaces
open, and as Upright moves
farther down the road of
U.K.-inspired bitters, milds,
pale ales and dry stouts and
German-inspired dunkels,
schwartzbiers and altbiers, to
name a few, Ganum said he’s
excited to continue the brew-
ery’s evolution and growth, both
physically and philosophically.
“I’d love for folks to view
Upright as an unfussy brewery
that’s focused,” he said, “but
still playful and not shy about
expressing our character.”
Montana, said his family has
been exporting cattle for gen-
erations. Stevenson recalls hav-
ing many foreign guests visit
his farm when he was little. He
even met his wife through the
industry; she was an exporter’s
daughter.
Stevenson has shipped thou-
sands of animals to Russia, Uz-
bekistan and elsewhere over the
past decade. Once, he said, he
had 95 semitrucks lined up with
cattle waiting to board a ship.
“Exporting animals isn’t a
get-rich-quick scheme, but it’s
a good way to add a little extra
profit if it’s done right,” he said.
Goats
The Western U.S. has strong
dairy goat genetic lines.
Clayton, the exporter, said he’s
seeing “quite a bit of interest” in
live Alpines, Nubians, Toggen-
burgs and Saanens across the
Middle East and Africa.
“But we’re battling for cargo
space. With Amazon online or-
ders and now the COVID vac-
cine, we’re in competition for
space on airlines,” said Clayton.
Meat goats, including Amer-
ican Kikos originally from
New Zealand, are in demand.
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