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Agriculture Quarterly OREGON DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE • SPRING 2021 • ISSUE 420 THEAGRICULTURE QUARTERLY Know Your 2021 Legislative Oregon Taste Oregon Mink Farm Compost Before Update Connects Consumers Quarantine Lifted 1 Planting 2 10 Oregon 3 to Fresh Oregon 4 Coming Soon Women Chosen Grown Food for Farm2Food Vaccines for Oregon Accelerator Agricultural Workers KNOW YOUR COMPOST BEFORE PLANTING BY ANDY ZIMMERMAN As the temperatures warm and minds shift to gardening, from 2020, have also collaborated to reduce the risk be aware of what you’re adding to your soil. of compost contamination in the future. This includes A little research now can help you avoid headaches later. working with the compost industry to step up prevention efforts, submitting comments to the EPA on the herbicide One of the things consumers can do to avoid potential involved in the issues, and conducting education to herbicide contamination is to ask compost suppliers about herbicide users. their steps to ensure they offer a safe product. OSU Extension also published “Herbicide-Contaminated “Some compost suppliers perform what is called Compost and Soil Mix: What You Should Know — and What a bioassay to check their product for herbicide You Can Do About It” to assist consumers. It discusses contamination,” said Toby Primbs, ODA’s Pesticide how to identify herbicide damage and other causes of Enforcement Program Manager. “A bioassay is basically plant damage, the steps you can take should you notice a a test of compost to determine if there is herbicide problem and your options. contamination. This test is performed by growing a sensitive plant — for example, pea plants — to see if the To report suspected pesticide contamination: compost affects the plant’s growth.” • Call: 503.986.4635 Also, keep in mind composts are soil amendments, so • Email: [email protected] mix the material into the soil. Don’t plant directly into the • Visit: https://oda.direct/PesticideFertilizerComplaints compost. For more information about compost, go to: “Composts can vary some depending on what organic • https://catalog.extension.oregonstate.edu/em9307 material is utilized to produce the compost so that • https://catalog.extension.oregonstate.edu/em9308 one might see some different results from different composts,” Primbs said. “Having too much compost in your mix can lead to issues such as stunted or stressed 5 KEYS TO SUCCESS plants.” 1. Before you purchase a bulk load of compost or “How to Use Compost in Gardens and Landscapes,” an soil mix, contact the vendor. Ask how they handle Oregon State University Extension publication, offers herbicide contamination risk. Have they reduced ways to select the compost that fits your needs, how to potential sources of contamination? Bioassay tests use it, and how to avoid problems. use plants such as peas grown in the compost or soil In 2020, the Oregon Department of Agriculture found mix to check for abnormal growth caused by herbicide some garden soil/compost products contaminated contamination. Chemical lab testing might not indicate with the herbicide clopyralid after the agency received herbicide contamination. complaints. 2. Perform your own bioassay test. Ideally, test the Clopyralid is a type of herbicide that kills broad-leaved material before applying a compost or soil mix product weeds such as dandelions, clover, and thistle. Trade names for products containing clopyralid include: to your garden or landscape. Confront, Curtail, Redeem, and Stinger. Clopyralid affects 3. Watch your plants for herbicide injuries such as only susceptible plants, which include: legumes (peas, distorted growth and cupped leaves. beans, lupine), composites (sunflowers, marigolds, 4. If you observe these symptoms, rule out other sources lettuce), nightshades (tomatoes, potatoes, peppers), and buckwheat. of herbicide damage. Were herbicides applied nearby? Could that have damaged your plants? Clopyralid can cause symptoms in susceptible plants at low levels, and it breaks down slowly during the 5. Contact the vendor if you determine that composting process, especially if temperatures are not contaminated compost or soil mix is the cause. Letting adequately high. them know about the situation helps others avoid the ODA, the Department of Environmental Quality, and problem. the others involved in responding to the contamination Source: Oregon State University 2021 Legislative Update TEN OREGON WOMEN WERE CHOSEN The Oregon FOR THE FIRST WOMEN’S FARM2FOOD Legislature ACCELERATOR convened the BY ANDREA-CANTU SCHOMUS 81st Legislative Session on Earlier this month, the National Association of State Departments January 21 of Agriculture (NASDA) Foundation, in partnership with the Oregon this year, not Department of Agriculture (ODA) and the Washington State Department in Salem but of Agriculture, launched the first Women’s Farm2Food Accelerator. The online. The Farm2Food Accelerator will help women farmers and entrepreneurs with State Capitol food and beverage products explore expanding into new markets. remains closed The NASDA Foundation chose due to COVID-19 10 applicants from both mitigation Oregon and Washington. measures, and much of the ODA Director, Alexis Taylor Elise Higley owns and operates legislative Oshala Farms near Grants business is being conducted virtually. Pass with her husband Jeff. With over 2,000 bills introduced, She was chosen as one of committees have been busy collecting Oregon’s participants. Elise public testimony and debating policy makes 80 different varieties matters before them. Legislators are in of herbal teas. She grows all the building for floor votes and limited in- her own ingredients from seed, person business. So far, no announcement harvests, dries, and processes has been made on increasing in-person each of her teas on her 150- work during the session. acre farm. Elise says she is Significant issues put forward by the honored to be chosen and Governor and Legislators are in debate looks forward to learning how this session. Policy considerations range to take her business to the from wildfire recovery and prevention, next level. “We just launched Jeff and Elise Higley social justice reform, housing accessibility, our product line nationally,” environmental and natural resource said Elise. “I hope to learn all about the requirements for nutritional concerns, and agency budgets. The labeling, so we can better market our products at a national level.” Oregon Department of Agriculture (ODA) Participants will receive training beginning in March and finishing up in is tenatatively scheduled to present our September on the topics of marketing, product development, food safety, agency budget in mid-April. The traditional packaging and pricing, and pitching to buyers. The valuable training will budget presentation is done in person over help women farmers and entrepreneurs launch new products or enhance the course of about two or three days, but existing products. Also, Oregon participants will be connected to a this year’s virtual format is new to us. We network of local resource providers, guest lecturers, and instructors. are working hard to ensure our agency and all the services we provide are represented In its first year, the Accelerator focuses on supporting women farmers who accurately. grow specialty crop ingredients for a value-added product. A value-added product is defined as a product that has changed in its physical state or In addition to policy and budget work, form, such as milling wheat for flour or making strawberries into jam. the legislature will conduct the once-in- Specialty crops include fruit, vegetables, herbs, and nuts. Participants are a-decade process of redistricting state also owners/operators of small-scale businesses with less than $500,000 and federal district maps. Redistricting is in annual gross sales and less than 20 employees. the process by which new congressional and state legislative district boundaries are drawn. The Senate and House Special 2021 NASDA FOUNDATION WOMEN’S FARM2FOOD Committees on Redistricting have begun ACCELERATOR OREGON PARTICIPANTS: their work on redrawing the district • Pleasant Valley Organics, • R & Arie LLC, lines. A statewide public engagement Gresham, OR Portland, OR session has begun to collect feedback and » » testimony from all Oregonians. To find out Aurora Ashkar Reeba Daniel more information and how to be a part • Circle A Bees, • Margalaxy LLC, of this process, please visit https://www. La Grande, OR Portland, OR oregonlegislature.gov/redistricting. » Caroline Barnes » Margaux Miller The 2021 Legislative Session • Oshala Farm, • Chow This! LLC, constitutionally ends on June 27, 2021. Grants Pass/Appelgate, OR Milwaukie, OR There is a lot of work to be done between now and then. I appreciate all the » Elise Higley » Maria Rice engagement and support of Oregon’s • Minto Island Growers LLC, • Kiger Island Blues, agriculture community. Salem, OR Corvallis, OR Sincerely, » Elizabeth Miller » Mindi (Marilyn) Miller • Chef Kristen Inc, • Elysian Acres, Jacksonville, OR Jefferson, OR Alexis M. Taylor » Kristen Lyon » Jennifer Skouras OREGON TASTE CONNECTS CONSUMERS TO FRESH OREGON GROWN FOOD Courtesy of LORI WARNER-MCGEE, DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR FOR JAMES BEARD PUBLIC MARKET The first statewide directory of fresh local food producers in Oregon launched this week as a public service in support of Oregon’s local food systems. OregonTaste. com is a free searchable online directory that promotes the state’s farmers, ranchers, fishers and other food producers
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