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April 11, 2018 - Environmentalists disrupting public meetings. Police called.

Anti-aerial spray proponents increasingly are disrupting Lane County Public Meetings By Oregonians For Food and Shelter, In the aftermath of the court ruling that the aerial spray ban measure will not appear on the May ballot, members of the local Community Rights Lane County group have now turned their efforts […]


April 10, 2018 - Log prices at 25-year record. Home prices up.

By Rick Sohn, PhD Coquille Lumber Log prices remain in 25-year record territory but have leveled off. Mortgage rates jumped as the Fed lifted the key interest rate to the highest in 10 years. Home prices continue to march upward.


April 9, 2018 - Warnings for Ag in China showdown

Wall Street Journal Editorial, Donald Trump and his advisers spent much of Friday telling everyone that the U.S. is not in a trade war with China, but investors weren’t buying it. Equity markets took a major header, falling by more than 2% across the board. Maybe investors are starting to […]


April 6, 2018 - Ranchers: Causalities in China trade war

America’s Cattlemen and Women are “Unfortunate Causalities” in Any Trade War National Cattlemen Beef Association Release, National Cattlemen Beef Association Respond to China Including U.S. Beef on Retaliatory Tariff List. Kent Bacus, Director of International Trade and Market Access for the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, issued the following statement regarding […]


April 5, 2018 - Back the Renewable Fuel Standard

By Kraig Hoene Lebanon, Oregon The debate surrounding the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) has intensified and become much more complex recently. The efforts of a handful of oil refineries to portray the RFS as an unfair law to their bottom lines has attracted political opportunists like Sen. Ted Cruz to […]


April 4, 2018 - 3 fixes to Federal ownership of Western land

By John Newton American Farm Bureau, A 2017 Congressional Research Service report indicated that in 2015 the federal government owned approximately 640 million acres in the United States. Given that there are approximately 2.3 billion acres of land in the U.S., the federal government owns or administers programs on nearly […]


April 2, 2018 - Wyden to Trump: Don’t sell dam assets

U.S. Senator Ron Wyden Press Release Oregon’s U.S. Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley and a bipartisan group of their colleagues urged federal officials to oppose Trump’s Fiscal Year 2019 budget scheme that would auction off the transmission assets of the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) and other Power Marketing Administrations […]