Ag Journal | Summer 2019

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Water levels on par with predictions

Ohio farmer survives soybean entrapment ■ Survey sees biggest U.S. honeybee winter die-off yet ■

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Water flows from an irrigation sprinkler in a field off Hanson Road.

Water supply staying on par with predictions of 75 percent Page 4

Ohio farmer survives soybean entrapment Page 6

Survey sees biggest U.S. honeybee winter die-off yet

Growers hope standards straighten out hemp industry

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Holding steady

Daily Record File

Water flows from an irrigation sprinkler in a field off Hanson Road.

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Water supply staying on par with predictions of 75 percent

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rorationing for valley farmers appears to be on par with what was predicted in the last few months, holding steady near the prediction of 75 percent.

Water supply for the season will satisfy senior water rights holders, while junior water rights holders will receive 72 percent of their entitlements according to a river operations system status on June 24.

“The snow in the mountains melted close to 3 1/2 weeks earlier than normal,” Yakima Project River Operations Manager Chuck Garner said in a press release dated June 6. “The reservoirs are only about 83 percent full and filling slowly.”

Garner went on to say in the

release that the bureau expects the reservoirs to stop filling two to three weeks earlier than usual and will experience a shortfall. He recommended that water conservation always be a part of water usage in the basin, especially in seasons with low water supply like this one.

As of June 24, the status report notes the inflow to the five reservoirs within the basin is at 57 percent of average, with releases at 67 percent of average.

The report also states the reservoirs received 3.12 inches of precipitation from June 1 to June 24, and that precipitation in the basin for the water year to date is at 91 percent of average. Total storage volume in the basin is at 86 percent of average and is currently holding at 821,141 acre-feet. The June 6 river operations report notes Lake Kachess,

Keechelus and Cle Elum only hold a 3 percent chance of reaching the full pool. As a result, the report states the Cle Elum fish passage will not operate this season.

Bureau hydrologist Chris Lynch said May turned out to be pretty good for precipitation. During that time, he said the basin reservoirs were at 127 percent of average.

“That wasn’t uniformly distributed,” he said. “It didn’t raise all boats, so to speak. It helped us not to lose much ground, but it didn’t help us catch up per se. It was a good thing, but a little too late.”

Lynch said the reservoir levels are lower this year than in 2004, but that year had similar runoff conditions. Other similar years include 2016 and 2018. Lynch focuses on similarities in runoff conditions between various years to predict what may come for the

season. He said the biggest influencer in the comparison is when the snow effectively runs out.

“I use them to model what’s coming into the reservoirs,” he said. “I adjust the outflow to represent what’s going to happen this year.”

Now that the snow is gone for the most part, Lynch said the bureau has a more straightforward way of estimating how much water will be available for users and how long it will last. He said it is also easier to predict how the rivers in the basin will respond going into the summer stretch.

“They’re less dependent on snowpack because there’s none to use now,” he said. “Earlier on, we were using snowpack and precipitation and some unknowns.

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‘Like quicksand

By MITCH STACY Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The sea of shifting soybean kernels had risen to Jay Butterfield’s knees inside a tall grain bin on his Ohio farm.

“I knew I was in trouble then,” the 70-year-old said. “Because it’s just like being in quicksand or cement.”

Sometimes a job becomes so routine and familiar that carelessness creeps in. That’s the way it happened on Butterfield’s 116-acre farm north of Cincinnati.

Soybeans that came out of the field last November were

damp, didn’t dry well and weren’t flowing smoothly out of an opening in the bottom of the 30-foot-tall, corrugated steel bin. Just before 4 p.m. on May 30, Butterfield scaled the ladder on the outside and climbed down into the shadowy bin with a length of plastic pipe to break up the damp clumps. He wore no harness or safety equipment. He had done the same thing without incident the previous day and on other days.

“You think it’s not going to happen to you,” said the secondgeneration farmer.

Butterfield climbed down and stood on top of the hard legumes, poking and breaking

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them up to better facilitate the flow. He was near the bottom of the bin when he got stuck.

Then the crop that was piled up around the sides started to shift.

“The beans went out from under my feet and sucked them down that fast,” he said. “Then they started rolling on top of me.”

Butterfield had multiple problems. He was close enough to the bin’s bottom to put his foot on the rotating auger, which helps sweep out the beans and threatened to suck him down into it. The machinery stripped the leather off one of his steeltoed boots and ripped the lace out.

He hollered to his brother-inlaw Eddie Demaree for help. By the time the first rescue squad arrived, Butterfield was buried up to his chest with his arms in the air.

Within about 10 minutes, he was covered up to his chin.

Despite the warnings, a couple dozen people, give or take, die from being buried in grain every year in the U.S. Butterfield’s friend Charlie Groh died in a corn bin in 2013 in a neighboring township. Butterfield readily acknowledges he should have known better.

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Ohio farmer survives soybean entrapment

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Rescue personnel shovel soybeans out of the bottom of a bin during an effort to rescue farmer Jay Butterfield, who was buried up to his neck inside. He became buried up to his neck while trying to break up clumps of soybeans in the bin on his farm in Ross Township, Ohio.

There’s a wider range of possible outcomes. Now we kind of know better what we actually have.”

Although the bureau sometimes concludes its monthly river operations meetings in July, Lynch said the conditions this year will cause it to continue having updates further into the summer.

“All the water is important,” he said.

“How much people actually get is important, so we need to keep updating it probably every couple of weeks to make sure we’re on track.”

Lynch said he expects the prorationing percentage for junior water rights holders to change again by the time the next river operations meeting is held on July 3.

“I don’t think we’ve totally settled in yet,” he said. “We’re hoping that we have, but it could fluctuate a bit still.”

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Soybean Continued from Page 6 Such accidents are so common that “grain entrapment” has a lengthy Wikipedia page. A study from Purdue University noted that 2010 was a particularly hazardous year for grain bin accidents, with 59 entrapments and 26 deaths. Last year, 30 grain entrapments were documented, with half the victims dying.

Males under 18 are especially susceptible.

It happens so often, in fact, that fire departments in farming regions undergo special training and acquire equipment just for these situations. One such crew, comprised of members of the Reily Township volunteer fire department, was near Butterfield’s farm.

“We got them on the road immediately,” said Steve Miller,

the Ross Township fire chief who headed the overall rescue effort.

Before long there were no fewer than 52 rescue personnel from a dozen agencies on the scene.

Ross Township firefighterparamedic Ron Stenger is a technical rescue specialist trained in helping get people out of enclosed spaces. He was the first one in. A rope was dropped that then was tied around Butterfield’s arms. He was given oxygen. Rescuers sprinkled water inside to keep the dust down and lessen the risk of combustion.

Butterfield started wondering about the squad having to pull him out by his arms and how that would probably hurt a great deal. His chest was being squeezed, and he was breathing

the dust generated by the crop.

Loved ones were trying to keep his wife Genevra, who has had some health problems, up at the house, so she would stay calm.

But she saw the hubbub and came down anyway. The yard filled with others who arrived to watch.

Reily Township brought the key materials for rescue: panels to create a tube inside the bin.

Rescuers lowered the panels inside and assembled the tube around Butterfield to keep him from being squeezed any more or buried by the beans.

Once that was put together, getting the still wet soybeans out was slow going. A rescue auger kept clogging. A vacuum truck, which arrived with a police escort, came to suck them out.

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Two holes were cut in the side of the bin and people grabbed shovels and went to work.

“I knew as soon as I got that wall around me that I had a chance,” Butterfield said. “For two hours I thought I was a dead man.”

At about 7 p.m., three hours after the effort began, Butterfield was brought out through one of the holes in the side. He was helicoptered to a Cincinnati hospital as a precaution but was released the next day without any serious complaints.

That evening some of his farmer friends worked until midnight shoveling his soybeans into a truck to get them to market.

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Growers hope standards straighten out hemp industry

By GILLIAN FLACCUS Associated Press AURORA, Ore. — A unit of wheat is called a bushel, and a standard weight of potatoes is called a century. But hemp as a fully legal U.S. agricultural commodity is so new that a unit of hemp seed doesn’t yet have a universal name or an agreed-upon quantity.

That’s one example of the startling lack of uniformity — and accountability — in an industry that’s sprung up almost overnight since the U.S. late last year removed hemp from the controlled substances list.

A global hemp research lab announced Thursday in Oregon, coupled with a nascent national review board for hemp varieties and a handful of seed certification programs nationwide, are the first stabs at addressing those concerns — and at creating accountability by

standardizing U.S. hemp for a global market.

“If you look at a lot of financial markets, they’re all saying, ‘People are investing in this, and we have no idea what to divide it by,” said Jay Noller, head of Oregon State University’s new Global Hemp Innovation Center. “We have hemp fiber. What is it? What’s the standard length?”

Oregon State’s research hub will be the United States’ largest and will offer a certification for hemp seed that guarantees farmers the seed they’re buying is legitimate and legal. That’s a critical need when individual hemp seeds are selling for $1.20 to $1.40 each — and an acre of crop takes up to 2,000 seeds, Noller said.

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Continued from Page 11 A meeting in Harbin, China, in early July will bring together members of the global hemp industry to start to hash out critical details such as what to call a unit of hemp seed or the standard length of hemp fiber, Noller said.

Other countries, such as China, have been growing hemp for years, but the industry lacks a universal standard countries can apply to trade, he said.

“This is the first time in U.S. history where we have a new crop that’s suddenly gone from prohibited to no longer prohibited,” Noller said. “We have never had something like this.”

Hemp growers like Trey Willison applauded the move toward greater transparency in a booming market.

Some novice farmers are falling prey to seed sellers who secretly, or even unwittingly, market seed that

grows into “hot” cannabis plants, with THC levels too high to market legally as hemp, he said.

Hemp and marijuana are both cannabis plants but have different THC levels. Marijuana, illegal under federal law, refers to plants with more than a trace of THC. Hemp has almost no THC — 0.3% or less under U.S. government standards.

States with hemp programs test for THC in the crops, but do so after the plants are grown and close to harvest. Crops that test over the THC limit for hemp must be destroyed — and farmers with bad seed might not know until it’s too late, Willison said.

In one case last year, an Oregon seed seller marketed seeds on Craigslist as having a 3-to-1 CBD to THC ratio — but unbeknownst to farmers, the THC levels were still too high to be legal, he said.

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The seeds “look identical, and you can’t tell them apart until four months into the year, when you know something’s wrong,” he said.

“A bunch of farms failed, and it originated in Oregon.”

Other sellers are marking up the cost of what he called “garbage seed” as much as 1,000 times, said Willison, who started Unique Botanicals in Springfield, about 100 miles (160 kilometers) south of Portland, after leaving his marijuana-growing business due to a glut of weed in the Oregon market.

“A lot of people say, ‘Is your seed certified?’ and there’s no such thing as certified seed right now. There’s no test, there’s no oversight. ...

There’s no proof of where the seed is coming from,” he said.

“They’re trying. It’s at the very beginning, for sure, but they are trying to do something about this mess.”

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Survey sees biggest US honeybee winter die-off yet

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer WASHINGTON, D.C. — Winter hit U.S. honeybees hard with the highest loss rate yet, an annual survey of beekeepers showed.

The annual nationwide survey by the Bee Informed Partnership found 37.7% of honeybee colonies died this past winter, nearly 9 percentage points higher than the average winter loss.

The survey of nearly 4,700 beekeepers managing more than 300,000 colonies goes back 13 years and is conducted by bee experts at the University of Maryland, Auburn University and several other colleges.

Beekeepers had been seeing fewer winter colony losses in recent years until now, said

Maryland’s Dennis vanEngelsdorp, president of the bee partnership and co-author of Wednesday’s survey.

“The fact that we suddenly had the worst winter we’ve had ... is troubling,” vanEngelsdorp said.

Some bees usually die over winter, but until the past couple decades, when a combination of problems struck colonies, losses rarely exceeded 10%, he said.

Bees pollinate $15 billion worth of U.S. food crops. One-third of the human diet comes from pollinators, including native wild bees and other animals, many of which are also in trouble, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

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Year-to-year bee colony losses, which include calculations for summer, were 40.7%, higher than normal, but not a record high, the survey found.

“The beekeepers are working harder than ever to manage colonies but we still lose 40-50% each year... unacceptable,” Swiss bee expert Jeff Pettis, who wasn’t part of the survey, said in an email.

For more than a decade, bees have been in trouble with scientists blaming mites, diseases, pesticides and loss of food.

This past winter’s steep drop seems heavily connected to the mites, vanEngelsdorp said.

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Other areas have been converted to corn and soy crops, which don’t feed bees, she said.

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