By Oregonians for Food and Shelter There is plenty of drama coming out of the State Capitol this week. On Tuesday, Secretary of State Shemia Fagan resigned and continues to face scrutiny for her outside consulting work. In the Legislature, things have certainly heated up. The House spent Monday and Tuesday debating divisive […]

American Farm Bureau Federation American Farm Bureau Federation President Zippy Duvall today emphasized the importance of the farm bill during testimony before the Senate Agriculture Committee’s Subcommittee on Commodities, Risk Management, and Trade. The hearing focused on commodity programs, credit and crop insurance. President Duvall told lawmakers that the wide-ranging […]

By Oregon State Representative Cyrus Javadi, I finally received a response from Governor Kotek regarding my March 7th letter regarding the devastating impacts of the Oregon Department of Forestry’s (ODF) Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP). Her response was less than I had hoped for. In essence, the Governor acknowledged that this […]

By Oregonians for Food and Shelter The frenzy of policy issues has narrowed in the last couple of weeks as we inch toward the next major deadline. In order for a bill to be heard in its second chamber committee by the second chamber deadline of May 19, it has […]

National Association of Wheat Growers, NAWG Testifies to House Agriculture Subcommittee During “Producer Perspective on the 2023 Farm Bill” Hearing Washington, D.C. (April 26, 2023) – National Association of Wheat Growers President and Klamath Falls, OR wheat farmer Brent Cheyne, testified in front of the House Agriculture Subcommittee on General […]

By U.S. Senator Ron Wyden: Oregon Delegation Urges Commerce to Declare Fishery Resource Disaster in Oregon The National Marine Fisheries Service is already expected to close all Oregon commercial ocean fisheries for Chinook salmon through August Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley and U.S. Representatives Earl […]

Biden Administration Report on Mature and Old Growth Forests Underscores Need for Proactive Forest Management By American Forest Resource Council President Travis Joseph had the following to say regarding the Biden Administration’s announcement on policies relating to mature and old growth forests on federal lands: “This announcement and year-long effort […]

By American farm Bureau Federation, Wall Street rules intended for publicly traded companies should not extend to family farms. That is the message the American Farm Bureau Federation and six other agricultural groups sent to the Securities and Exchange Commission. The SEC proposed a rule to require public companies to […]

Representative Anna Scharf, 19 Bipartisan Legislators, Send Letter to Governor Kotek Highlighting Alternative Land Options to Farmland Letter Comes in Response to The Semiconductor Bill – Senate Bill 4 By Oregon State Representative Anna Scharf,  SALEM, OR – Today, Representative Anna Scharf (R-Amity) and 19 legislators from both sides of […]

By Eric Shierman our new Governor signed SB 4 into law, the appropriation of money for federal semiconductor grant applications and a dramatic, though temporary, deregulation of Oregon’s urban growth boundary. I have not been thrilled with this bill. The subsidies look like a waste to me, but the biggest, […]