GAO Report Triggers Crop Insurance Debate by Ferd Hoefner National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition On Thursday, April 12, the U.S. Government Accountability Office released a report detailing ways to better target federal crop insurance subsidies. The targeting would aim to get some control on rapidly escalating taxpayer costs while also reducing […]

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By American Farm Bureau Federation Retail food prices at the supermarket increased slightly during the first quarter of 2012 with protein staples – meats and cheese – showing the greatest increase in price, according to the latest American Farm Bureau Federation Marketbasket Survey. The informal survey shows the total cost […]

Is Your Farm Truck Legal? — Find out on April 19th! By Oregon Farm Bureau Thurs. Apr. 19th, 6pm 832 NE NE 223rd Ave Wood Village OR 97060 Two farm trucks will be in the parking lot next to the Country Mutual Insurance office for a mock-inspection by Oregon Department […]

By Oregonians For Food and Shelter In a short conference call today, US EPA announced that they are denying the petition of the NRDC to cancel 2,4-D and revoke all its’ tolerances. Stating that the Agency had conducted a thorough evaluation of all the available data, the public inputs submitted […]

Timber Industry Report By Rick Sohn Umpqua Coquile  LLC Spring is here! Studs are up. Unsold Inventory is down, and Housing starts/building permits are at or near their highs. Four-year trends of lumber, logs, housing, and mortgage statistics are shown below. Information and interpretation. Studs are up $20 since last […]

Washington Supreme Court Clarifies The Status of Dedicated Lands, Adverse Possession Law By Clayton Graham Davis, Wright & Tremaine LLP, Oregon law firm A recent opinion by the Washington Supreme Court has provided some guidance on what legal interest in land is transferred to the public upon dedication of land […]

By Oregon Dept. of Fish & Wildlife ODFW collared a 96-pound male wolf from the Wenaha pack today in northwestern Wallowa County. The wolf was released in good condition. Wolf OR12 was fitted with a GPS collar and is the only wolf in the Wenaha pack currently collared. This pack […]

By Corn Commentary National Corn Growers Association While the numbers released in the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Crop Progress report might not have appeared stunning at first glance, closer examination shows that farmers across the Corn Belt are planting earlier than normal. The report, which indicated that planting was three-percent […]

By Renewable Fuels Association Following on a warning from Fatih Birol, the International Energy Agency’s Chief Economist, that world crude prices are threatening the global economy, the Global Renewable Fuels Alliance (GRFA) is calling on the G20 to enact aggressive biofuels policies that reduce our crippling reliance on crude oil. […]