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.

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

By American Farm Bureau Federation The following statement on possible trade retaliation by China against U.S. farm exports may be attributed to American Farm Bureau Federation President Zippy Duvall: “If the trade situation continues to deteriorate, our lives as farmers and ranchers will become more difficult. America’s farmers and ranchers […]

By Oregon Family Farm Association Severe water shortages and mountain snowpack levels less than half of average prompted a drought declaration for the Klamath Basin and the offer of federal assistance to help farmers curtail wind erosion on their land. Earlier this month, Governor Kate Brown signed the drought declaration […]

By Association of O&C Counties The Association of O&C Counties (AOCC) recognized Congressman Greg Walden for his role in securing a funding offset for the extension under the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self Determination Act (SRS). The funding is included in the recent budget agreement reached by U.S. House […]

By The American Forest Resource Council, AFRC Applauds Bipartisan Agreement on Federal Wildfire Funding, Forest Management Solutions.  The American Forest Resource Council (AFRC), a trade association representing logging and milling companies in the West, today applauded a bipartisan agreement to include federal wildfire suppression and forest management reforms in the […]