By American Farm Bureau Federation The American Farm Bureau Federation said that a House proposal to extend the current farm bill for one year fails to move the nation any closer to securing a comprehensive, long-term farm bill and the organization would stand in opposition. American Farm Bureau Farm Policy […]

By Rick Sohn, Umpqua Coquille LLC Too good to be true? This 2005-looking homebuilding boomlet is taking shape in July, 2012 at River Run, in Spokane, WA (see picture below). These houses are all sold. Four-year trends of lumber, logs, housing, and mortgage statistics are shown below. Interpretation.

ODFW to deploy drone aircraft to monitor birds at Haystack Rock on Oregon coast By Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife High winds, rocky terrain, salt water and seabirds can make flying on the Oregon Coast challenging, even dangerous under the best of circumstances. For a team of researchers from […]

ODA advises ranchers and land managers to watch for weeds if they replant seeds By Oregon Department of Agriculture Wildfires this month have already devastated more than 800,000 acres of rangeland in southeastern Oregon. Ranchers and land managers don’t want to get burned a second time by invasive noxious weeds […]

By Oregon Small Business Association The price of corn is up 33%, and America’s reserves of corn have declined nearly fifty percent since March. Soybean prices are up 13%, and wheat costs 23% more than it did at the beginning of the year. Plus, drought is getting dryer across the […]

Celebrity Chefs Forget a Pinch of Humility, Whip Up Bitter Baloney By Cathryn, Corn Commentary. National Corn Growers Association This election year, Americans are already growing increasingly agitated with pompous, self-important celebrities who feel an uncontrollable desire to pontificate upon politics. Qualified only by having played a politician in a […]

By U.S. Meat Export Federation For the second time in two years, South Korea’s top cooking magazine, Cookand, joined with the U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF) for a blind taste test conducted with panels of food industry experts and consumers to determine which pork would be preferred by Koreans when […]

Oregon pursues biocontrol of brown marmorated stink bug By Oregon Department of Revenue In some ways, it’s a race against time. It appears the potentially devastating brown marmorated stink bug is spreading in Oregon and populations of the insect pest are expected to jump over the next couple of years. […]

Oregon Cattlemen’s Association sets up Fire Victims Relief Fund –Devastation from wildfires are threatening structures, cattle and homes of Oregon ranchers By Oregon Cattlemen Association In response to the devastating fires occurring in Harney and Malheur counties, the Oregon Cattlemen’s Association has set up a fire victim’s relief fund as […]

Forest Policy Briefs by Rex Storm, Forest Policy Manager Associated Oregon Loggers When Wilderness Isn’t Wilderness: When the US Forest Service wants to act fast to protect natural resources, it can. But, when it needs to act fast to prevent catastrophic timber loss to pests or fire, it predictably fails […]