{"id":4425,"date":"2026-06-28T12:12:59","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T20:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klamathid.org\/home\/?p=4425"},"modified":"2026-06-28T14:21:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T22:21:24","slug":"fred-simon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klamathid.org\/home\/2026\/06\/28\/fred-simon\/","title":{"rendered":"Fred Simon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container has-pattern-background has-mask-background nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1248px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><!-- ================================================================ -->\n<!-- K.I.D. FEATURED GROWER  -  Fred Simon  (Director, Fifth Division)  -->\n<!-- Paste into a single Avada Code Block on a NEW WordPress page.      -->\n<!-- Suggested URL: \/home\/home\/klamath-irrigation-district-our-featured-growers\/fred-simon\/ -->\n<!-- All styles scoped under .kid-grower  -  search \"EDIT ME\" to update. -->\n<!-- ================================================================ -->\n\n<div class=\"kid-grower\">\n\n  <!-- Breadcrumb back to Featured Growers -->\n  <a class=\"kid-grower__back\" href=\"https:\/\/klamathid.org\/home\/home\/klamath-irrigation-district-our-featured-growers\/\">\n    <span aria-hidden=\"true\">\u2190<\/span> All featured growers\n  <\/a>\n\n  <!-- ===== Header ===== -->\n  <header class=\"kid-grower__head\">\n    <span class=\"kid-grower__eyebrow\">Featured Grower & Board Director<\/span>\n    <h1 class=\"kid-grower__title\">Fred Simon<\/h1>\n    <p class=\"kid-grower__hook\">A farmer who shows up \u2014 for his crop, his Board, and his neighbors.<\/p>\n  <\/header>\n\n  <!-- ===== Magazine layout: left rail (photo + facts) + story ===== -->\n  <div class=\"kid-grower__layout\">\n\n    <!-- LEFT RAIL: photo + at-a-glance -->\n    <aside class=\"kid-grower__rail\" aria-label=\"Photo and quick facts\">\n      <figure class=\"kid-grower__figure\">\n        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"kid-grower__photo\"\n             src=\"https:\/\/klamathid.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Fred.jpg\"\n             alt=\"Fred Simon raising his right hand to take the oath of office as a Klamath Irrigation District director, in front of the District\u2019s agriculture banner and the American flag.\">\n        <figcaption class=\"kid-grower__caption\">\n          Fred Simon takes the oath of office as Director for the District\u2019s Fifth Division.\n        <\/figcaption>\n      <\/figure>\n\n      <div class=\"kid-grower__card\">\n        <p class=\"kid-grower__card-h\">At a glance<\/p>\n        <dl class=\"kid-grower__facts\">\n          <div><dt>Role<\/dt><dd>Director, Fifth Division<\/dd><\/div>\n          <div><dt>Board<\/dt><dd>K.I.D. Board of Directors<\/dd><\/div>\n          <!-- EDIT ME: confirm current term (sworn in Jan 2023; three-year term). -->\n          <div><dt>Sworn in<\/dt><dd>January 2023<\/dd><\/div>\n          <div><dt>Operation<\/dt><dd>Simon Brothers Hay & Grain<\/dd><\/div>\n          <div><dt>Based in<\/dt><dd>Malin, Oregon<\/dd><\/div>\n          <div><dt>Raises<\/dt><dd>Hay, grain & cattle<\/dd><\/div>\n          <div><dt>Also served<\/dt><dd>Klamath Project Drought Response Agency (2024)<\/dd><\/div>\n        <\/dl>\n        <a class=\"kid-grower__btn\" href=\"https:\/\/klamathid.org\/home\/our-team\/\">Meet the full team<\/a>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/aside>\n\n    <!-- MAIN STORY -->\n    <main class=\"kid-grower__main\">\n\n      <p class=\"kid-grower__lead\">\n        Down where the Klamath Basin\u2019s open farmland runs up against the high desert, just\n        shy of the Oregon\u2013California line, sits the town of Malin and the family that has\n        long worked the ground around it. This is Fred Simon\u2019s home \u2014 the place he\n        farms, the community he serves, and the neighbors he shows up for. He grows hay and\n        grain, runs cattle, and holds a seat on the board of Klamath Irrigation District. But ask\n        around the Basin, and you\u2019re just as likely to hear about the year he turned his own\n        farm into a lifeline for ranchers who had nowhere else to turn.\n      <\/p>\n\n      <!-- Rooted in Malin (farm\/family) -->\n      <section class=\"kid-grower__block\" aria-labelledby=\"kid-farm-h\">\n        <h2 class=\"kid-grower__h2\" id=\"kid-farm-h\">Rooted in Malin<\/h2>\n        <p>\n          Fred Simon\u2019s roots run deep in this corner of the Basin. He grows hay and grain\n          and runs cattle on the family operation near Malin, and he\u2019s part of\n          <strong>Simon Brothers Hay and Grain<\/strong> \u2014 a farming and trucking outfit the\n          family built and still runs, moving the Basin\u2019s hay and grain down the road and\n          across the region. It\u2019s the kind of work that starts before sunup and doesn\u2019t\n          punch a clock.\n        <\/p>\n        <p>\n          Like every operation out here, the Simons have weathered the hard run of drought and\n          water shut-offs that have tested the Basin in recent years. For a farming family,\n          reliable water isn\u2019t a line item \u2014 it\u2019s the difference between a\n          standing crop and a field of dust. That truth is a big part of what pulled Fred toward\n          the work of protecting it.\n        <\/p>\n      <\/section>\n\n      <!-- On the Board -->\n      <section class=\"kid-grower__block\" aria-labelledby=\"kid-board-h\">\n        <h2 class=\"kid-grower__h2\" id=\"kid-board-h\">Answering the call to serve<\/h2>\n        <p>\n          In January 2023, Fred was sworn in as Director for the District\u2019s\n          <strong>Fifth Division<\/strong>, elected by his fellow patrons to carry their voice.\n          <!-- EDIT ME: confirm Fred's current term. A three-year term from Jan 2023 runs\n               through early 2026; if he was re-elected, update the year and the \"At a glance\"\n               card to reflect the current term. -->\n          It isn\u2019t a seat he took for the title. Serving on the board means helping make\n          good on the District\u2019s promise to the Basin\u2019s farms \u2014 to acquire,\n          maintain, and deliver the water they depend on, and to stand up for that water before\n          the agencies and lawmakers who decide its future.\n        <\/p>\n        <p>\n          That fight has carried him all the way to Washington,\u00a0D.C., where he has spoken\n          directly to Congress on behalf of Klamath Basin water rights \u2014 pressing for the\n          certainty that lets a farming family plan a season, and a future.\n        <\/p>\n      <\/section>\n\n      <!-- Hay convoys -->\n      <section class=\"kid-grower__block\" aria-labelledby=\"kid-hay-h\">\n        <h2 class=\"kid-grower__h2\" id=\"kid-hay-h\">When the Basin needed him most<\/h2>\n        <p>\n          The summer of 2021 brought the Basin to its knees. For the first time, the Bureau of\n          Reclamation delivered no irrigation water at all \u2014 and then the Bootleg Fire tore\n          through, burning more than 400,000 acres of grazing land and taking barns and winter\n          hay with it. Ranchers watched their feed vanish and faced an impossible choice: find\n          hay, or sell off the herds they had spent lifetimes building.\n        <\/p>\n        <p>\n          Fred Simon couldn\u2019t stand by. A year earlier, when wildfires scorched the\n          Willamette Valley, Klamath Basin farmers had loaded up hay and sent it west to help.\n          Now, working with <strong>Timber Unity<\/strong>, Fred helped bring that kindness home.\n          He turned his own Malin farm into the staging ground for convoy after convoy of donated\n          hay \u2014 roughly <strong>1,000 tons<\/strong> in all \u2014 and personally saw to the\n          local deliveries, about 500 pounds a cow, enough to carry an animal through a month. For\n          a great many families, it was the help that let them keep their herds, and their\n          footing.\n        <\/p>\n\n        <!-- Stat row -->\n        <ul class=\"kid-grower__stats\">\n          <li class=\"kid-grower__stat\">\n            <span class=\"kid-grower__stat-num\">1,000<\/span>\n            <span class=\"kid-grower__stat-label\">Tons of donated hay delivered to the Basin<\/span>\n          <\/li>\n          <li class=\"kid-grower__stat\">\n            <span class=\"kid-grower__stat-num\">~500 lbs<\/span>\n            <span class=\"kid-grower__stat-label\">Hay per cow \u2014 about a month of feed<\/span>\n          <\/li>\n          <li class=\"kid-grower__stat\">\n            <span class=\"kid-grower__stat-num\">400,000+<\/span>\n            <span class=\"kid-grower__stat-label\">Acres of grazing land burned in the Bootleg Fire<\/span>\n          <\/li>\n        <\/ul>\n      <\/section>\n\n      <!-- Pull quote -->\n      <blockquote class=\"kid-grower__quote\">\n        <p>\u201cThese are our farmers, and they need help.\u201d<\/p>\n        <cite>Fred Simon, on the 2021 hay relief effort<\/cite>\n      <\/blockquote>\n\n      <!-- Beyond the District -->\n      <section class=\"kid-grower__block\" aria-labelledby=\"kid-beyond-h\">\n        <h2 class=\"kid-grower__h2\" id=\"kid-beyond-h\">Still showing up<\/h2>\n        <p>\n          The next year, Fred carried that same instinct onto another board. Through 2024, he\n          served on the <strong>Klamath Project Drought Response Agency<\/strong>, which steers\n          federal relief funds \u2014 including a multi-year allocation from the Bureau of\n          Reclamation \u2014 to irrigators left without surface water. It was one more way to\n          soften the blow of a dry year for the families who feel it first.\n        <\/p>\n      <\/section>\n\n      <!-- Closing -->\n      <section class=\"kid-grower__close\" aria-labelledby=\"kid-close-h\">\n        <h2 class=\"kid-grower__h2 kid-grower__h2--plain\" id=\"kid-close-h\">Why we feature him<\/h2>\n        <p>\n          Fred Simon is exactly the kind of neighbor this Basin runs on. He works the land, he\n          carries his community\u2019s water rights to the people who decide them, and when the\n          worst came, he opened his own gate to help. That\u2019s the spirit Klamath Irrigation\n          District is proud to stand behind \u2014 the farmers who feed the country, and look\n          after one another while they do it.\n        <\/p>\n      <\/section>\n\n      <!-- More photos -->\n      <!-- EDIT ME: I could not see these two images, so they have no captions yet.\n           To add a caption, type your description between the <figcaption> ... <\/figcaption>\n           tags below (one per photo). To swap a photo, replace the src URL. -->\n      <section class=\"kid-grower__gallery\" aria-labelledby=\"kid-gallery-h\">\n        <h2 class=\"kid-grower__h2 kid-grower__h2--plain\" id=\"kid-gallery-h\">More photos<\/h2>\n        <div class=\"kid-grower__gallery-grid\">\n          <figure class=\"kid-grower__gfig\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"kid-grower__gimg\"\n                 src=\"https:\/\/klamathid.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/20260426_190025-scaled.jpg\"\n                 alt=\"Fred Simon, Klamath Irrigation District director.\">\n            <figcaption class=\"kid-grower__gcap\"><\/figcaption>\n          <\/figure>\n          <figure class=\"kid-grower__gfig\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"kid-grower__gimg\"\n                 src=\"https:\/\/klamathid.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/20260501_085954-scaled.jpg\"\n                 alt=\"Fred Simon, Klamath Irrigation District director.\">\n            <figcaption class=\"kid-grower__gcap\"><\/figcaption>\n          <\/figure>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/section>\n\n      <!-- In the news (source stories) -->\n      <section class=\"kid-grower__news\" aria-labelledby=\"kid-news-h\">\n        <h2 class=\"kid-grower__h2 kid-grower__h2--plain\" id=\"kid-news-h\">In the news<\/h2>\n        <p class=\"kid-grower__news-intro\">\n          A few stories that chronicle Fred Simon\u2019s work on the District Board and his\n          relief efforts in the Basin:\n        <\/p>\n        <ul class=\"kid-grower__newslist\">\n          <li>\n            <a class=\"kid-grower__newsrow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldandnews.com\/news\/appointments-made-during-drought-response-agency-meeting\/article_12383070-d8ac-11ed-95e7-279e7608aed1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\n              <span class=\"kid-grower__news-src\">Herald and News<\/span>\n              <span class=\"kid-grower__news-name\">Appointments made during Drought Response Agency meeting<\/span>\n              <span class=\"kid-grower__news-desc\">Fred Simon is sworn in as a director for Klamath Irrigation District.<\/span>\n            <\/a>\n          <\/li>\n          <li>\n            <a class=\"kid-grower__newsrow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.capitalpress.com\/ag_sectors\/livestock\/convoy-delivers-hay-donations-to-southern-oregon\/article_4c4ae39c-fc54-11eb-acce-6f479561b7bf.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\n              <span class=\"kid-grower__news-src\">Capital Press<\/span>\n              <span class=\"kid-grower__news-name\">Convoy delivers hay donations to Southern Oregon<\/span>\n              <span class=\"kid-grower__news-desc\">Hundreds of tons of donated hay reach Basin ranchers, distributed at Malin during the 2021 drought and Bootleg Fire.<\/span>\n            <\/a>\n          <\/li>\n          <li>\n            <a class=\"kid-grower__newsrow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.capitalpress.com\/free\/timber-unity-rural-working-oregonians-who-care-about-other-people\/article_de3667b8-1b21-11ec-897d-cb2724a00653.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\n              <span class=\"kid-grower__news-src\">Capital Press<\/span>\n              <span class=\"kid-grower__news-name\">Timber Unity: \u2018Rural, working Oregonians who care about other people\u2019<\/span>\n              <span class=\"kid-grower__news-desc\">The volunteer effort that brought hay and supplies to Klamath Basin farmers and ranchers.<\/span>\n            <\/a>\n          <\/li>\n          <li>\n            <a class=\"kid-grower__newsrow\" href=\"https:\/\/capitalpress.com\/2020\/11\/05\/timber-unity-we-are-givers-not-takers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\n              <span class=\"kid-grower__news-src\">Capital Press<\/span>\n              <span class=\"kid-grower__news-name\">Timber Unity: \u2018We are givers, not takers\u2019<\/span>\n              <span 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