California Farm Bureau By Steve Adler The California Legislature concluded its 2013 legislative activity last week, sending a number of bills to the governor and putting the skids on others that may reappear in the coming year. Gov. Brown has until Oct. 13 to sign or veto bills passed by […]

By Oregon Farm Bureau SB 863, the bill which keeps regulation of agricultural seed production at the state and federal levels passed both chambers of the legislature today and is on its way to the governor’s desk. This is an enormous win for farm and ranch families in Oregon. Thank […]

By Oregonians for Food and Shelter Seed Preemption Bill Part of Special Session Package NOW is the time to contact your legislator and urge them to support LC-5 of the special session package of bills (SB-633 from the 2013 Regular Legislative Session). We assure you that we would not ask […]

Brothers Regain Control of Oregon Onion Company By Oregon Family Farm Association Bob and Rick Hale, leading a group of investors in an eight-figure deal, have regained control of the largest onion-growing and processing company in the U.S.. Based in Hermiston, Oregon, River Point Farms has about 520 full-time employees […]

National Corn Growers Association Corn Commentary features a post authored by Minnesota Corn Growers Association President Tom Haag that originally ran on MinnesotaFarmingGuide.com. Corn Views: Back off the Renewable Fuels Standard, it’s working If I told you there was a piece of legislation that has reduced America’s dependence on foreign […]

Roaming Wolf Settling Down? Natural Resource News Note: The gray wolf, dubbed “OR-7” by the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, may have finally chosen a home. His travels have been tracked thanks to a GPS collar. In September, 2011 he left the Imnaha pack in Northeast Oregon and crossed […]

Excerpts from Bend Bulletin Op-Ed… Rural Oregon faces problems that go far beyond a collapse in the housing market, however. Ranching, the mainstay of places like Mitchell and Condon, is becoming an old man’s business — the average age of the American farmer is over 57 — and young people […]

by Rex Storm, Forest Policy Manager Associated Oregon Loggers BLM Ordered to Increase Timber Sale: On June 26, the DC federal district court ordered the BLM to sell the volume amount specified in its 1995 forest plans, and stop using a flawed computer model to predict exaggerated owl use in […]

By American Farm Bureau Federation AFBF reacts to inflammatory attacks in privacy lawsuit. AFBF’s Tracy Grondine reports. Grondine: The American Farm Bureau Federation recently responded to the inflammatory tactics of several environmental activist groups who have asked to intervene in AFBF’s Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the Environmental Protection […]

Defazio, Walden & Schrader on Obama O&C veto threat Natural Resource News Note: The White House announced this week a veto threat of the pending O&C timber bill that is expected soon.  Below are three statements from three Oregon Congressmen working together to pass county help in Oregon. Congressman Peter […]