By Oregon Department of Agriculture, Portland has its Rose Festival. Woodburn hosts a tulip festival. For the Southern Oregon city of Jacksonville, a festival is dedicated to the showy red wildflower known as Gentner’s fritillary. There are plenty of roses and tulips for everyone to enjoy, but the fritillary is […]

By Dave Hunnicutt Oregonians In Action Stanford University’s Hoover Institution recently published an interesting article entitled “Property Rights and African Poverty.”  The article, written by James Robinson, professor of government at Harvard University, traces the abject poverty in most of today’s Africa to the failure of the African people to […]

By Oregon Association of Nurseries, Digger Blog, It was predicted more than a year ago that as the economy recovered, a trucking shortage would develop due to truck owners having sold their idled trucks overseas. Now, according to Packer, that is exactly what has happened. For the first time in […]

Producers of Wheat, Corn, Pork, Beef Team Up to Push for FTAs By National Association of Wheat Growers Pending free trade agreements that are the key to maintaining producers’ market opportunities in Colombia, Panama and South Korea were the top priority at a number of press events held in Washington […]

Bob Stallman President American Farm Bureau We’re all familiar with the typical B-rate horror flick where you just know the young starlet will stumble on a broken tree branch while being chased by the bad guy. Although you see it coming and know her demise is inevitable, you still want […]

By Rick Sohn Umpqua Coquille LLC Good news as we near the one-year anniversary of the lows for lumber, logs, housing starts, and building permits.  Prices jumped for lumber and logs.  But why are lumber prices similar to the time when we had around 2 million annual housing starts, yet […]

Greg Walden applauds drought aid for Klamath, Jackson, Deschutes, Lake counties By Congressman Greg Walden, WASHINGTON, D.C. — Rep. Greg Walden (R-Ore.) today released the following statement after the USDA announced that farmers in Klamath, Jackson, Deschutes, and Lake counties will be eligible for disaster assistance programs to help relieve […]

Oregon Nurseries Applaud Senate Tree Planting Bill By Oregon Association of Nurseries Wilsonville, Ore. — The Oregon Association of Nurseries today praised Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) for introducing a Senate version of the Small Business Environmental Stewardship Assistance (SBESA) Act of 2010.  The legislation recognizes the role of trees in […]

Senate Bill Would Extend Ethanol Tax Incentives by Cindy Zimmerman Domestic Fuel.com A bill has been introduced in the Senate to extend tax incentives for ethanol set to expire at the end of this year. Senators Charles Grassley (R-IA) and Kent Conrad (D-ND) introduced the bipartisan GREEN Jobs Act of […]