Lumber industry sees hopeful signs of slow recovery starting in 2010 By Western Wood Products, PORTLAND, Ore. – Western sawmills, mired in historic lows in housing and lumber demand, should see signs of a recovery in 2010 after five straight years of losses, according to a forecast released by Western […]

Written by William A. Van Vactor Miller Nash Law Firm, Introduction In 2005, recognizing that Oregon’s land use system needed to be updated to reflect current times, Governor Ted Kulongoski and the Oregon legislature created the Big Look Task Force to review Oregon’s land use planning system. The Task Force […]

NCBA Member Testifies During Congressional Estate Tax Hearing By National Cattlemen’s Beef Association WASHINGTON (Nov. 4, 2009) –Arthur Uhl, member of the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) and chairman of NCBA’s Tax and Credit Committee, testified today during a U.S. House of Representatives Small Business Committee hearing on the estate […]

Statement by Bob Stallman, President, American Farm Bureau Federation, Regarding Ballot Measure Victories In Ohio and Texas WASHINGTON, D.C., November 4, 2009 – “Our congratulations go out to the Ohio and Texas Farm Bureaus this morning for the leadership roles they played in important and meaningful victories on ballot measures […]

From Curt Kipp, Digger Blog Oregon Association of Nurseries The consortium looking into this is called Comprehensive Automation for Specialty Crops (CASC), and has a Web site at www.cascrop.com. Here’s a video on the subject from Washington State University:

By Oregon Tax News, The federal government spends about the same amount of money funding environmental lawyers as it does to protect endangered species according to an investigation conducted by a Wyoming lawyer who defends farmers and ranchers involved in environmental lawsuits. According to the Capital Press, Karen Budd-Falen was […]

POLL: Public Doesn’t Support Total Ocean Bans, Believes in Reasonable Regulation to Accommodate Fishing and Also Protect Species By Alliance for Communities of Sustainable Fisheries, National Study Highlights: – An overwhelming majority of U.S. residents support legal recreational fishing (90%) with most of that being strong support. Additionally large majority […]

By Oregon Invasive Species Council, SALEM, Oregon—Non-native cordgrass begs the question, “Just how bad can a grass be?” You may not want to know the answer. Although wild hogs, quagga and zebra mussels, and yellow starthistle tend to grab the invasive species spotlight, lesser known species, such as non-native cordgrasses […]

Oregon Wheat Growers League The Oregon Wheat Growers League County Presidents have begun to schedule their annual fall events, designed to educate growers on issues and programs pertinent to the farm operation. Following is an outline of the schedule to date. An OWGL update and business meeting may be conducted […]

Western Wood Products Association Economic Forecast Delivered October 12, 2009, to Oregon Forest Industries Council By Rick Sohn, Umpqua Coquille LLC At the 2009 annual meeting of Oregon’s industrial forest landowners, the Oregon Forest Industry Council, Mr. Butch Bernhardt, Director of Information Services from Western Wood Products Association, spoke about […]