By Oregonians for Food and Shelter, Last week, OFS convened the last of four meetings between members of Marion County Farm Bureau and staff from the Pesticide Program at Oregon Department of Agriculture (ODA). Marion County members initially brought up a variety of concerns around the pesticide investigation process and […]

By Oregon Farm Bureau, Last August, Oregon’s Century Farm & Ranch Program, which is administered through the Oregon Farm Bureau Foundation for Education, honored a total of eleven farm and ranches at the Oregon State Fair. Five farms and ranches were honored as a Century Farm or Ranch and six […]

By Taxpayers Association of Oregon Foundation Finding a place to pump gas in Eugene may be harder in the future if the Eugene City Council sides with activists and bans construction of new stations as a means to curb the use of fossil fuels, according to OPB. The city has […]

By Oregon Property Owners Association, You don’t have to be a long-time Oregonian to have heard the most common complaint from NIMBY’s (Not in My Backyard), BANANA’s (Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anything) and NOTE’s (Not Over There Either) when a city tries to add new areas for houses and […]

(file EPA photo) By Oregonians for Food and Shelter EPA issued an update on the proposed Vulnerable Species Pilot (VSP), which identified approximately 1 million acres in Oregon as a pesticide use exclusion zone, purportedly to protect the Taylor’s checkerspot butterfly, a species listed under the Endangered Species Act. The […]

By Oregon Property Owners Association, We filed comments with the Deschutes County Planning Commission on the County’s effort to update its current Comprehensive Plan.  Oregon law requires every city and county in Oregon to maintain a comprehensive plan.  The plan contains the planning policies that govern land uses throughout the […]

By Oregonians for Food and Shelter, On behalf of a broad coalition of natural resource industry organizations, OFS submitted this letter to state and federal agency staff. The letter details our ongoing concerns with Oregon’s Pesticide Stewardship Partnership (PSP) and the error and misinterpretation happening with PSP data analysis and presentation. […]

By Oregon Department of Agriculture, Press Release For more than 35 years, USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service has been hosting orientation visits for foreign attachés based in Washington, to provide firsthand knowledge of the excellence and diversity of American agriculture. For this year’s tour, 28 attachés from 22 countries spent the […]

By Oregonians for Food and Shelter, The Legislature held its final “Legislative Days” of the year this week in the Capitol. Today marks the deadline for Senators and Representatives to request bills for drafting for the 2024 session. For the short session, each member gets two bills each, and drafts […]

By U.S. Senator Ron Wyden: Press Release, Farms, Food, and Fiber: Merkley, Wyden Announce Senate Passage of Major Investments for Oregon Agriculture and Rural Communities Funding included in the fiscal year 2024 Senate agriculture funding bill champions family farms, rural housing, broadband, and more Washington, D.C. – Oregon’s U.S. Senators […]