agriculture – Pacific Maritime Magazine

30 Jul

Port of Columbia County Finalizes Agricultural Lease

Karen Robes MeeksNews, News Briefs, PMM Online Newsagriculture, craigfcoleman, portofcolumbiacounty, portwestward

Agricultural company Craig F. Coleman Inc. is taking control of 118 acres at the Port Westward Industrial Park under a new lease agreement with the Port of Columbia County, the northwest Oregon port announced July 16. The port finalized the lease agreement with Craig F. Coleman for the land, which Lower Columbia Tree Farm previously had the timber rights to when the port acquired the property in 2009. Crops and livestock grazing are allowed under the lease. “The ground we bought will eventually be in blueberries, which is mainly what we do,” company owner Craig Coleman said. “We also raise…

Feds, Oakland Seaport Offering Agriculture Exporters Financial Relief

Karen Robes MeeksNews, News Briefs, PMM Online News, Terminal Operationsagriculture, exports, portofoakland

Agricultural exporters who ship their goods through the Port of Oakland may soon be eligible for financial incentives from the port and the federal government, the port announced June 2. The U.S. Department of Agriculture would directly pay farm exporters $200 for every agriculture container they ship and $400 for every refrigerated container they use and an additional $125 for every empty they pick up at a designated Oakland storage depot, the port said. The port in March opened a new 25-acre paved pop-up storage yard for containers off terminal. “Our partnership with the USDA to open a temporary pop-up…

USDA, Seaport Alliance Partnering on Agricultural Exports

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In an effort to help agricultural and refrigerated exports flow through the ports of Seattle and Tacoma, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Northwest Seaport Alliance are teaming up to expand access to a 49-acre “pop up” yard in Seattle that could temporarily store dry agricultural or refrigerated containers, the USDA has announced. The partnership calls for the Farm Service Agency to pay agricultural companies and cooperatives $200 per dry container and $400 per refrigerated to use the pop-up site to pre-position containers with American-grown agricultural goods, according to the NWSA. Exporters have been having a tough time moving goods…