By Oregon Department of Agriculture, As the nation’s top producer of Christmas trees, Oregon wants to maintain its reputation for providing a clean and healthy product. With that in mind, officials with the Oregon Department of Agriculture will return to Hawaii next month for a second straight year to monitor […]

Natural Resource Note, Oregon is looking to enact policy changes to the state’s medical marijuana laws. Among the items discussed was security, background checks and a $4,000 license fee. The Oregonian reports, The requirements, crafted by state policy makers, police and marijuana advocates, are designed to provide oversight of an […]

  By Daily Digger Oregon Association of Nurseries ODA to lift temporary dinotefuran rule, replace with label restrictions The Oregon Department of Agriculture plans to lift temporary restrictions on the use of the insecticide dinotefuran, effective Dec. 24. These rules will be replaced with new, Oregon-specific label restrictions. The decision […]

By American Farm Bureau Federation The November World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates report released by the Agriculture Department forecasts a record corn crop. November’s WASDE report projected the 2013 corn crop at 13.989 billion bushels will be a record crop, if realized, and more than a 3.2 billion bushel […]

By Barry Bushue, President Oregon Farm Bureau As Oregonians, we all face economic challenges that are difficult to surmount. Tragically, when it comes to economic decline, poverty, hunger, and despair in our rural communities, a substantial amount of the harm comes from our own federal government and its lack of […]

Energy Secretary says he’s not taking over BPA By Natural Resource News Note: Despite hiring scandals at Bonneville Power, the U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz stated that he is not seeking to take control of the troubled administration despite taking over some of their functions. The Oregonian reports. The […]

By Daily Digger Oregon Association of Nurseries State drafting rules for industrial hemp production Officials with the Oregon Department of Agriculture are drafting rules that could allow for the industrial production of hemp by next spring, according to a reportin the Oregonian newspaper (Portland, Ore.). Although industrial hemp comes from […]

  By American Farm Bureau Federation The American Farm Bureau Federation’s 28th annual informal price survey of classic items found on the Thanksgiving Day dinner table indicates the average cost of this year’s feast for 10 is $49.04, a 44-cent price decrease from last year’s average of $49.48. “The cost […]

Oregonians for Food and Shelter A couple of weeks ago, The Oregonian printed a guest opinion written by two professors at Linfield College entitled Eco-sabotage should not be mistaken for eco-terrorism. In the piece, the authors wrote “She freed wild horses at the BLM corral in Burns while her friends […]

By American Farm Bureau Federation Poultry and livestock farmers declared victory on Wednesday when a federal court ruled in favor of West Virginia poultry farmer Lois Alt in a lawsuit she brought against the Environmental Protection Agency. The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia ruled that […]