OSU creates small-kerneled hazelnut for confection market By Oregon State University Extension Office Wepster produces small, round kernels, making it ideal for the chocolate industry. (Photo by Becky McCluskey.) Oregon State University has developed a new high-yielding, blight-resistant hazelnut for the baking and chocolate industries. Known as Wepster, or OSU […]

By Laura Murphy, ACLU & Fred Smith, Competitive Enterprise Institute If you hang everyone, the old saying goes, you will catch some guilty people. That adage points to the fatal flaw of an employment-verification program tucked into several recent immigration-reform proposals in Congress. The E-Verify program—which several states are experimenting […]

National Farmers Union  National Farmers Union (NFU) President Roger Johnson issued the following statement today, following the U.S. Postal Service’s (USPS) announcement to stop delivering mail on Saturdays starting Aug. 1: “We are disheartened to hear the USPS’s announcement that Saturday mail deliveries will cease later this year. National Farmers […]

By Cindy National Corn Growers Association A leading environmental activist and critic of genetically modified food recently announced the error of his ways and his conversion to being a supporter of biotech crops. “I apologise for having spent several years ripping up GM crops. I am also sorry that I […]

Washington State Farm Bureau (1) Keep Agriculture Whole Agriculture is a major economic engine in Washington, providing 160,000 jobs and driving $46 billion into the state’s economy. As the nation and the state struggle to pull out of the recession, supporting this vital industry is important to the economies of […]

Timber News Update by Rex Storm, Forest Policy Manager Associated Oregon Loggers USFS Forester Says Forests at Risk: Kent Connaughton, US Forest Service Regional Forester who manages 16 national forests in OR & WA, in January addressed the both Oregon Board of Forestry and The Oregonian newspaper editorial board. Connaughton […]

A California sea lion with a fish caught just below Willamette Falls in the spring of 2011. Sea Lion hazing crew – ODFW Photo – ODFW will haze California sea lions at Willamette Falls By Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife In an attempt to reduce predation on federally listed […]

By Rick Sohn, PhD Umpqua Coqullie LLC New records for lumber, logs, housing starts, building permits, and unsold inventory, while mortgage rates remain low.  Consistent annual improvement  is expected.  Five-year data of lumber, logs, housing, and mortgage statistics are shown below.   Prices in Dollars per Thousand Board Feet Jan‘13 […]

By National Association of Wheat Growers Resolving to change our habits or reach new goals in a new year is only human. And for humans in many countries, one of the most common resolutions is to lose weight. That’s why the health clubs and fad diet promoters are on the […]

By Cindy National Corn Growers Association Newspapers, online sources and television reports alike have spent days now terrifying a hungry public with reports that party food favorite buffalo chicken wings will be in short supply this Super Bowl. Linking the supposed shortage to a variety of factors, from the drought […]