FOURTEEN The Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, June 7, 1979
F armers favor grasshopper spraying
An overwhelming majority
of landowners present at a
special meeting Monday night
voted to spray grasshoppers.
Sign up and payment of the
40 cents per acre required by
the landowner will be held
Thursday evening, June 7, at
the County Extension Office in
Heppner. Registration will
begin a p.m.
Lana,.ners from the Uma
tilla County line through
Butter Creek and Sand Hol
low, south through Willow
Creek and Hinton Creek, and
west through Rhea Creek to
the Gilliam County line indi
cated interest in the coopera
tive spray program and a
steering committee composed
of Merlin Hughes, Ned Clark,
Dean Wright, Jean Bennett,
Kite Healy, Bob McLaughlin
and Don Robinson volunteered
to contact landowners and
sign up participants in the
program.
The cooperative spray pro-
Livestock
promising
Perspectives on the future
as it appears in the coming
decade of the 1980's was the
subject by Oregon livestock
leaders at the annual meeting
of the Oregon Farm and Land
Institute a division of the
National Association of Real
tors in Baker, June 1.
Speaking for the cattle
industry was Jordan Valley
rancher Bill Ross, president of
the 3,200 member Oregon
Cattlemens Association. Other
speakers were Baker County
rancher Ermie Davis, Harney
County cattle producer
Charley Otley and the execu
tive vice president of the
cattlemens association, Don
ald Ostensoe.
The consensus of the speak
ers was that there are many
' favorable and promising as
pects for the beef cattle
industry in this country during
the next ten years. However,
they agreed that government
policies both domestic and
foreign could cause disrup
tions and problems and that
the future of this nation's
livestock industry was heavily
dependent on well organized
and industry-wide initiatives,
both on a state and national
level.
It was noted that there are
consideably fewer, but larger,
cattle operations and in order
for the average cattle pro
ducer to exist, they will have
to be better managers and
marketers to succeed. Energy
problems were viewed as one
of the prominent factors all
agriculture will have to con
tend with.
Ross said that cattle feeders
have been in a better than
average profit situation for a
period of some time, but a less
favorable period could lie
ahead. This is because of the
increased competition for
fewer stocker-feeder cattle
and higher replacement costs
being a major stumbling
block. However, Ross added,
both feeders and producers
will be operating in a climate
in which trie long range beef
price trend is up.
The Oregon Cattlemens As
sociation president said the
reduced numbers of slaughter
cattle points to troublesome
times for the beef packing
industry. Combining the prob
lem of reduced supplies with
the fact that some plants are
much more modern and
efficient and it is possible to
predict that some packers
doubtless will drop out of
business in the months and
years immediately ahead. It is
estimated that as many as 250
packing houses out of the
present 1,200 -throughout the
nation could go down the tube
within the next several years.
Ross also indicated that it was
quite possible, perhaps during
the mid 1980's, that the cattle
industry will probably go
through another herd liquida
tion phase of the cattle cycle.
Ross said that the beef
industry can produce more
beef than it can sell at a profit
in this country, and the cattle
industry will be dependent in
the future on foreign markets
which are being developed.
gram requires participation of
a minimum of 10,000 acres in
a solid block. The State of
Oregon pays one third of the
cost and the Federal Govern
ment pays one third of the
cost. The landowner pays the
remaining one third of the
cost.
Landowners should survey
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their property to determine
the extent of the grasshopper
infestation. If interested, they
should contact one of the
above steering committee
members.
Preliminary estimates indi
cate that as much as 200,000
acres could be included in the
cooperative spray program in
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Morrow Counly, reports Kerr
and Nordheim, Morrow
Counly Extension Agents.
Forty-five landowners at
tended Monday night's session
and were told by specialists,
Dick Penrose and Ken Goeden
of the State Dept. of Agricul
ture, that except for higher
elevations, the infestation is
present locally. The spray
used will be ULV Malathion
which will be atomized to
allow a finer concentration
with eight ounces per acre.
There will be no water or oil
added, officials said.
Because the spray has been
proven harmful to bees and
fingerling trout in shallow
waters, persons with bee hives
or fish in the spray area
should advise .the Extension
office.
The spray can also taint car
paint, specifically on GMC
cars, but according to the
officials, the problem can be
solved by washing the vehicles.
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