Congressman Greg Walden, Boosting economic opportunities, ag research in Eastern Oregon Earlier this year, the House unanimously passed a bill I wrote to boost economic opportunities in Hermiston and allow important agriculture research to continue at the OSU research station there. Since the Senate hasn’t passed it yet, I worked […]

By Oregonians for Food and Shelter OFS Voters’ Guide – A Message From Scott Dahlman We have heard from a significant number of our members that our OFS Voters’ Guides were not delivered prior to the election, and for some members, not even until early December. Please accept our sincerest […]

By American Farm Bureau Federation America’s farmers and ranchers are ready for Congress to act swiftly to restore tax provisions essential to boosting small businesses and rural economies, according to the American Farm Bureau Federation. In a letter to House and Senate leaders, Farm Bureau urged members of both chambers […]

By Rick Sohn Ph.D Umpqua Coquille LLC Timber Industry Report November 26, 2014 Log prices may have set a new record!!! Lumber prices remain strong. Mortgage interest rates are near 4 percent again, and homebuilding is still above the one million mark. More recent statistics of lumber manufacturing, home construction, […]

By Oregon Dept. of Agriculture The Oregon Department of Agriculture has issued two civil penalties totaling $16,000 in connection with a pesticide application this summer that left an estimated 1,000 bees dead at a north Eugene apartment complex. An investigation performed by ODA’s Pesticides Program determined that Glass Tree Care […]

By American Forest Resource Council   Legislation is Unanimously Opposed by Oregon’s Forest Products Industry, Opposed by the O&C Counties, and Lacks Support from Reps. DeFazio, Schrader, and Walden and Governor Kitzhaber Groups representing Western Oregon’s timber industry have sent a letter to the Chairwoman and Ranking Member of the […]

By Daily Digger Oregon Association of Nurseries The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a new voluntary Drift Reduction Technology (DRT) program. The agency hopes to encourage the use of verified, safer pesticide spray products to reduce exposure and pesticide movement while saving farmers money in pesticide loss. Annually, up to […]

By Cindy National Corn Growers Association Corn prices may be lower but eternal optimist Dr. Lowell Catlett says it’s still the best of times right now for agriculture. “Historically, there’s never been a better time to be in agriculture,” said Catlett this week at the Bayer CropScience 2014 Corn and […]

California Farm Bureau By Christine Souza Photo/Christine Souza:  Farmer Kenny Watkins of Linden, right, watches as Louis Victoria, a Rural Crimes Division detective with the San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Department, marks the battery of a new piece of farm equipment with the farm’s individual owner-applied number. An owner-applied number helps […]

By US Dept. of Agriculture Corn earworms, also known as cotton bollworms, migrate at night, making them notoriously hard to track. Farmers worried about controlling infestations have to make educated guesses about the pest’s movements, based on reports from other areas and past experience. Guessing wrong can be expensive: The […]