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2017 raspberry crop won’t match last year’s record Growers contend with variables of weather, price and tonnage By Calvin Bratt editor@lyndentribune.com
WHATCOM — This season’s commercial red raspberry harvest is wrapping up on a mixed note. First, it follows up on a 2016 bumper crop of 75 million pounds in the county, setting a record hard to beat. Then this year there were some fairly high temperatures to contend with, many days into the 80s, when ideal for berries is around 70 degrees with a breeze. Harvesting got off to a good start right around the beginning of July, growers said then. As usual, the first
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FERNDALE — Ferndale dairy farmer Seth Snook has filed a lawsuit
Whatcom farmers demand ‘commensurate action after Seattle spill Eyes are on Department of Ecology as investigation continues By Ashley Hiruko ashley@lyndentribune.com
tion as “the result of at least six months of neglect,” court documents stated. The investigators believed at least 28 animals were starved. Specifically, the five counts of first-degree animal cruelty were in regard to five animals including a Guernsey calf, two Jersey cows, a Holstein heifer and a pig, all of which were euthanized. In May during his initial appearance, Snook, represented by Beschen, said his wife had under-
WHATCOM — Local residents have much to say about a Seattle mishap that caused millions of gallons of untreated wastewater to run into the surrounding waters and have questioned whether King County will receive “anything more than “a slap on the wrist” for the incident. Larry Helm, chair of the Whatcom Conservation District board of supervisors, sent a letter dated July 13 to the Washington Department of Ecology urging action “commensurate” with the environmental damage done by the West Point Treatment Plant earlier this year. The plant, located at Discovery Park Boulevard in Seattle, treats wastewater from businesses and homes in Seattle, north King County and parts of Snohomish County. Stormwater also flows into the plant. West Point treats around 90 million gallons of wastewater a day during the dry months and
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The 2017 red raspberry harvest using mechanical pickers in Whatcom County is wrapping up this week. (Calvin Bratt/Lynden Tribune) high-quality berries of the season were going to IQF (individual quick frozen) processing at his Berry
Acres operation, grower Frank DeVries said. In regard to price, the strength of the Ameri-
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grower Darrell Ehlers said on July 27 that the harvest was going well, although See Berries on A11
Ferndale farmer sues for defamation in animal-cruelty case Seth Snook got back six cattle of dozens; he claims Humane Society action wasn’t properly authorized
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against Whatcom County and the Whatcom Humane Society for defamation and numerous other offenses that are alleged — including conducting an investigation on his property without a legal warrant and destroying the living evidence, his cows. His lawyer, Emily Beschen, argues that animal control officers with the Humane Society worked without legal authority due to an expired Superior Court authorization to act as control officers. State law RCW 16.52.015 states that “Au-
thorizations shall not exceed three years or trustee termination, whichever occurs first.” To qualify for reappointment when a term expires, an officer must “obtain training or satisfy the court that the officer has sufficient experience to exercise the powers granted to animal control officers.” In his lawsuit, Snook is seeking reimbursement for attorney’s fees and damages and three times the value of his cows. Snook, owner of Snook Brook Farms, entered into a court agreement on July
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THUNDERBIRDS Simeon Leavitt, reporter Hello, you have probably read my reports before. If not, we are the 4H Thunderbirds Racing Pigeons Club. I have some exciting news to tell you! The races have finished, and I’m going to tell you the results. The first race was good. It was on July 15. The race results are in. First place went to Maggie McCracken, band #9719; second place to David Dow, band #1745; third place was Maggie McCracken, band #1726.
The July Federal Order Class III milk price is $15.45 per hundredweight (cwt.), down 99 cents from June but 21 cents above July 2016. The price tops California’s comparable Class 4b cheese milk price by 16 cents. It equates to $1.33 per gallon, down from $1.41 in June. The seven-month Class III average for 2017 now stands at $16.02 per cwt., up from $13.73 at this time a year ago and almost equal to $16.04 in 2015. California’s comparable July 4b cheese milk price is $15.29 per cwt., down 31 cents from June, but 62 cents above a year ago. The 4b seven-month average stands at $15.14, up from $13.02 a year ago and $14.41 in 2015. August started with strengthening dairy prices, but then reversed. The cheddar blocks climbed to $1.7875 per pound on Aug. 1, the highest level since Feb. 2, but then closed on Aug. 4 at $1.6975, down 5.75 cents on the week and 11.75 cents below a year ago. The barrels shot up 11.5 cents Tuesday, hitting $1.66, the highest price
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Snook: Six remaining animals were returned to him Continued from A9
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since Feb. 8, but finished the week at $1.53, down 2.5 cents, 35 cents below a year ago, and a still-toohigh 16.75 cents below the blocks. Midwest cheese producers report that milk supplies are still available but noticeably lower, according to Dairy Market News. Many Western cheese producers report there is plenty of milk available and processing facilities are at or near full capacity. Butter was also on a roller-coaster. After all, it is fair season, and a lot of product made its way to the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. It climbed to $2.7375 per pound Thurs-
day but closed Friday at $2.73, up a penny on the week and 46 cents above a year ago. Butter makers continue to report that weekly sales are improved from last year. Butter supplies are comfortable and domestic butter demand is good. International demand seems to be picking up due to higher foreign prices. Cash Grade A nonfat dry milk closed Aug. 4 at 86.25 cents per pound, up a quarter-cent on the week and 3 cents above a year ago. The Northwest Dairy Association made these price projections for the Class III price and Pacific Northwest blend price: Month Class PNW III Blend July $16.45 $16.50 (current) Aug. $16.45 $17.00 Sept. $17.00 $17.40 Oct. $17.20 $17.30 Nov. $17.20 $17.30 Dec. $16.90 $16.90 Jan. $16.70 $16.50 Feb. $16.60 $16.50 Lee Mielke, of Lynden, is editor of the Mielke Market Weekly. Whatcom County has about 100 dairy farms.
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and conducted an investigation, without Snook’s knowledge and prior to receiving a warrant. Crowley later delivered a warning letter, on April 10, to Snook and asked that he “let [his] dairy operation go,” court documents state. A defense motion speaks of email exchanges between Itle, Crowley and Bruck. In one email conversation between Itle and Crowley, on April 8 Itle wrote, “We need to move on this soon. Thanks for your efforts to connect with [Snook]. I’m getting a lot of pressure from FSA guy Houston and his attorneys to produce a report and have a plan.” Snook sent a text message to Crowley on April 17, days after receiving the warning letter, with plans of selling his cows on April 19 during a dairy sale, and potentially giving “[his] girls a chance to go on for a career in dairy rather than fast food,” screen captures of the text message from Snook show. “Yes, that’s fine,” Crowley responded. It was during the evening of April 18 and morning of April 19 that from 22 to 24 of his cows were seized and two others shot on his property at 6804 Kickerville Rd., unbeknownst to Snook. In May, Snook petitioned to have his animals returned, but later was told that all animals seized had been killed by the Whatcom Humane Society. This was found to be untrue and Snook eventually had his six remaining animals — a Jersey cow and calf, Holstein cow and calf, and Guernsey type calf — returned to him, court documents state.
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Spill: Estimated to have cost $49 million to $57 million Continued from A9 provides secondary treatment for up to 300 million gallons a day during the rainy season. On Feb. 9, a mechanical malfunction with both the pumps that push treated wastewater out of the plant and a float switch that signals water levels within the plant to operators caused over 235 million gallons of untreated wastewater, including 30 million gallons of raw sewage, to be released into Puget Sound over a span of three days — an obvious detriment to Orcas and other marine species. The incident was recently estimated by engineering firm CH2M to have caused $49 million to $57 million of total losses. Helm wrote that Whatcom County livestock operators and users of manure have been subject to significant regulatory oversight for the past two decades — and they expect others be held to similar standards. Addressed to Maia Bellon, director of the Washington Department of Ecology, Helm wrote, “While [livestock operators and users of manure] understand and agree that it is important to protect the environment and this is a necessary cost of business, it is difficult to accept if they feel others, like King County, are not held to the same expectations.” 42nd District State Rep. Vincent Buys, R-Lynden, who serves on the House Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee in the Legislature, also spoke out against the spill back in March. “Aside from the very real and potential im-
Berries: Whatcom now state’s top blueberry producing county too Continued from A9
pacts the spill could have on aquatic ecosystems and the vitality of Puget Sound, I find the lack of outrage from some over this disaster concerning,” Buys wrote in a legislative update. “Folks in rural counties like ours have been heavily scrutinized by politicians, the state Supreme Court and anti-sprawl groups for the minimal (and some would argue, insignificant) impacts domestic wells and septic systems have on water quality. Yet these same groups haven’t uttered a word about February’s sewage spill. The lack of consistency is baffling.” Ecology uses a process of information gathering and evaluation of the non-compliance before deciding on appropriate enforcement action, the agency’s website states. Factors that play into the decision include: impacts to water quality and public health, seriousness of violations, responsiveness to the violation, recurrence prevention and history of compliance. The latest failure at West Point was just one of several that has occurred at the plant since being constructed in 1966. In 2009, another malfunction caused a bypass gate to open and again caused millions of gallons of sewage to flow into nearby waters. The county was fined $24,000 by the Department of Ecology. No word has been given on what consequences the treatment plant and King County will face. A decision by Ecology is planned to be made sometime during the fall, a representative from the department said.
tonnage could be down somewhat and it was still too early to say about price. It was the assessment of Henry Bierlink, executive director of the Lynden-based Washington Red Raspberry Commission, last week that “2017 will be down in both volume and price, (but) quality is excellent.” How it works Each year in the berry growing business, it’s an interplay of volume, quality and price in determining whether it all pencils out to success. A 20-mile radius around Lynden — especially when counting in fields in lower British Columbia — is far and away the capital of growing red raspberries for processing in North America. Whatcom consistently accounts for at least twothirds of the U.S. total. Records were set last year, and the county is responsible for about 90-95 percent of the statewide total. However, 2015 was an off year, as drought conditions dropped the county crop to about 50 million pounds. Surging blueberry plantings probably put local blueberry tonnage above raspberries in that year. The market responds to supply. In 2015 the return on a short raspberry crop was a healthy $1.22 per pound. Then in last year’s bounty the overall price across different grades of processing settled down to about 85 cents per pound, according to numbers of the National Agricultural Statistics Service. The average price paid to raspberry farmers over the last 10 years (2007-16) is just over 87 cents per pound. After a very wet 2017 spring set back plants’ fruit set, the local weather
The county blueberry harvest, approaching raspberries in tonnage, will continue through August. (File photo) warmed and dried out starting in mid-May. Moderate rain fell in June, but by early July DeVries was saying the crop could use some rain. Six-tenths inch came July 20-22. Wakefield variety Todd VanMersbergen, whose family has about 100 acres each of raspberries and blueberries, said Friday that both the quality and tonnage in raspberries this summer have been good, especially for the new Wakefield variety. Harvesting of the standard Meeker crop was due to wrap up last week while Wakefield could go another week. Plantings of the locally developed new variety from Northwest Plant Company are starting to produce in force. “It just remains to be seen how the market accepts it,” Van Mersbergen said. Blueberries could be a different story this year. “As a rule, (tonnage) is down,” VanMersbergen said. He estimated the drop could be 10 percent for their crop, but he has heard of it being off 25 to 30 percent in places. In the Northwest, blueberry plants seem to have suffered from several different “odd weather” impacts, from a dry September to
the hard winter and a wet spring, Van Mersbergen guesses. In other parts of the country, there were other weather variables. But it adds up to a hope across the industry of a “strong market,” he said. The Blue Crop harvest will continue all of August. Blueberries surge Whatcom is now also the top blueberry producing county in Washington, at about 52 million pounds a year, according to the Washington Blueberry Commission. Production has been on a steep climb across the state. From 18.4 million pounds in 2006 it soared to 120 million pounds last year, and 2017 was expected to add 10 million more pounds — at least when a forecast was put out in June. The total value of the crop is estimated to exceed
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WHATCOM — In an effort to accurately depict the agriculture industry of the county, the Whatcom Business Alliance is collaborating with Whatcom Family Farmers to offer a new tour of three farms. The chartered tour of Enfield Farms, Twin Brook Creamery and Edaleen Dairy of the Lynden area will be on Thursday, Aug. 24. The meeting time is at 11:30 a.m. for a locally sourced lunch at 1408 Willey’s Lake Rd. The tour departs at 12:45 p.m. Registration is required and may reach capacity. It’s possible to register on the www.whatcombusinessalliance.com website. Also, an economic impact study will be released on the tour, and public officials and industry experts will be available for interviews. This is a new event separate from the Whatcom County Farm Tour that is offered Sept. 9-10 by Sustainable Connections.
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Larry Stap holds a glass bottle of his Twin Brook Creamery’s chocolate milk on a July 17 media visit to the Double Ditch Road farm. Twin Brook will again take visitors for both the Aug. 24 tour organized by the Whatcom Business Alliance and Whatcom Family Farmers as well as the Sept. 9-10 Whatcom Farm Tour of Sustainable Connections. (Calvin Bratt/Lynden Tribune)
September is Eat Local Month WHATCOM — September is again Eat Local Month for Sustainable Connections and the Whatcom Food Network. At the height of harvest season, it means a variety of activities “to celebrate the bounty in Whatcom’s backyard, and support the folks who grow, raise and prepare
our food by eating locally.” Each week comes with its own events, prizes and ways to delight in local foods and flavors. Here is an overview: • Whatcom Food Fest the weekend of Sept. 8-10 features six distinct events, including a Farm Tour Brunch at Goat Mountain Pizza and a Farms, Fishers & Fermentation Fete at Boundary Bay Brewery, both in Bellingham. • The Sept. 9-10 Whatcom Farm Tour, expanded to both Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.,
offers free and self-guided visiting to 13 farms across the county, a mix of vegetable, meat, cheese, berry and flower producers. North county stops include: Appel Farms, Twin Brook Creamery, Boxx Berry Farm, BelleWood Acres, Triple Wren Farm, Cloud Mountain Farm Center and MyShan Dairy. • On Saturday, Sept. 16, is the Downtown Market Walk, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., an exploration of Bellingham’s local food scene. Check out grocers,
SPOKANE — The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service announced July 7 that the agency will award $1 million to the Stillaguamish Tribe for an innovative project in dairy nutrient management. In Washington State, the Stillaguamish Tribe was the lone recipient of a nationally funded Conservation Innovation Grant. “The CIG program provides seed money to help spur cutting-edge projects,” said NRCS Washington’s Acting State Conservationist Alan McBee. “We are excited to partner with the Stillaguamish Tribe and see the results of this state-ofthe-art project.” The tribe proposes to demonstrate successful implementation of an markets and specialty food shops and play “market walk” bingo for the chance to win prizes. • Seafeast on Saturday, Sept. 23, is a chance to learn about local maritime heritage and the fishing and seafood industries, and to sample seafood fare. It’s free on the Bellingham Bay waterfront. • Nineteen restaurants participate the week of Sept. 24-30 in preparing specials made with at least 50 percent local ingredients.
emerging animal nutrient treatment system for dairy farms. The technology, originally developed to address human waste in developing countries, is now being adapted to treat dairy nutrients. “The machine is going to be a template, a prototype you can set up anywhere,” said Pat Stevenson, environmental manager for the Stillaguamish Tribe. “Our hope is that with this technology we can move away from storing manure in lagoons that can leak into the watershed.” The advanced distillation and nutrient separation processor converts dairy wastewater into clean, distilled reclaimed water, with liquid ammonia and nutrient-rich solid material byproducts that can be used for agricultural purposes. “Dairy manure, failing septic tanks and fecal impacts from other mammals and birds all combine to lead to closed shellfish beds,” said Stevenson. “The dairy processor will also remove excess nutrients such as nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium that have been attributed to increasing ocean acidification.” The system will be built by Janicki Bioenergy of Sedro-Woolley at Natural Milk Dairy in Stanwood. With a herd of about 3,000 cows, Natural Milk Dairy is the largest dairy farm in the watershed. “Being a good steward of our natural resources is important to dairy farmers because we have a holistic relationship with the land, water
and all our resources,” said Jeremy Visser, owner of Natural Milk Dairy. NRCS is investing in 33 projects nationwide through the CIG program. Public and private grantees — including non-governmental organizations, American Indian tribes, academic institutions and local government entities — will leverage the federal investment by at least matching it. CIG is funded through the Environmental Quality Incentives Program. The maximum grant is $2 million per project, and the length of time for project completion is three years. The CIG projects are designed to engage EQIPeligible producers in onthe-ground conservation activities that speed up the transfer and adoption of innovative conservation technologies and approaches. The NRCS uses CIG to work with other public and private entities to accelerate transfer and adoption of promising technologies and approaches to address some of the nation’s most pressing natural resource concerns. Cooperating partners on the Stillaguamish Tribe’s project include the Washington State Dairy Federation, the Alliance for Puget Sound Natural Resources, the Nature Conservancy, Janicki Bioenergy, Washington State Conservation Commission, American Farmland Trust and the Northwest Dairy Association/Darigold Inc. For more information about the CIG program, visit www.nrcs. usda.gov.
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6211 Northwest Road Ferndale, WA | (360) 380-2699 | www.boxxberryfarm.com
STORE AND U-PICK ARE OPEN
Fresh Blueberries & Pickling Cucumbers! Processed Berries for sale in store
Raspberries, Blueberries • Homemade Jams, Syrups & Pies
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Green Earth Technology 774 Meadowlark Road, Lynden
360-354-4936
Meadowlark Rd.
Pole Rd.
Hannegan
M-F 7:30am-4:30pm, Saturday 8am-1pm
Serving Whatcom & Skagit Counties Since 1967
360-384-5487 • 360-734-8818 Residential & Commercial
Medium and Fine Bark For Your Landscaping Needs Sawdust Shavings • Hog Fuel • Cedar Chips • Bark Mulch www.facebook.com/starkenburgshavings
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1546 Slater Rd. Ferndale, WA, 98248
License #GLACIPL858KO
Cascade Blueberry Farm Agritourism • Farmers Market • Farm Stand • Phone Orders • Wholesale
Family owned and operated since 1985. Farm stand open 10am to 6pm, seven days a week, - May 1st to October 1st Vegetable starts, hanging baskets, vegetables and blueberries available in season. (Blueberries avail. Aug. 1st) Kevin & Bianca Maddux - kamaddux@hotmail.com
2667 Willeys Lake Rd., Custer • 360-366-5188