Weekend National News Focus: American Farm Bureau Federation: WASHINGTON, D.C., March 12, 2009 – The American Farm Bureau Federation joined 38 other agricultural and commodity groups in expressing strong opposition to the more than $16 billion in cuts to the farm safety net proposed in President Barack Obama’s 2010 budget. […]

Oregon Dept. Fish & Wildlife– A California sea lion, previously identified as one of the animals regularly feeding on Columbia River spring chinook in the waters below Bonneville Dam, was euthanized today. A health examination revealed the animal had a lesion of a viral origin that is indicative of cancer. […]

Oregonians In Action is hosting their annual Land-Use Forum this Saturday at the Wilsonville Holiday Inn. Issues to be covered are; 1) land use bills in the current legislative session, 2) the most recent updates on Measures 37 and 49, 3) a new panel on water law and the role […]

CORVALLIS, Ore. – The Weyerhaeuser Company Foundation has made a $500,000 gift to Oregon State University, home to one of the premier academic forestry programs in North America. The gift to the OSU College of Forestry will create an endowed scholarship fund to attract top students from diverse backgrounds to […]

Walden congratulates Klamath Falls farmer on becoming president of the National Association of Wheat Growers Congressman Greg Walden  — The National Association of Wheat Growers (NAWG) elected on Saturday Klamath Falls wheat producer Karl Scronce as the president of their national organization. “It’s great news to see Karl take the […]

The Oregon Wheat Grower’s League is putting out the full alert on two bills that would end agriculture field bunring. OWGL is encouarging all farmers to attend the Wednesday and Thursday hearings on HB 2183 and SB 528. HB 2183 reads “Allows Environmental Quality Commission to adopt rules listing additional […]

NEWPORT, Ore. – A parasitic isopod that scientists identified five years ago has all but decimated mud shrimp populations in coastal estuaries ranging from British Columbia to northern California – with the exception of a handful of locations in Oregon from Waldport to Tillamook. And those surviving mud shrimp all […]

Weekend national news focus: American Farm Bureau Federation WASHINGTON, D.C., March 5, 2009 – Global economic downturns and protectionist trade policies do not mix. That is a lesson made clear by the mistakes of depression-era trade policies of the early 20th Century. To halt a global march toward similar flawed […]

Weekend National News Focus: NCBA Disappointed with Ruling on Dust Regulation National Cattlemen’s Beef Association WASHINGTON (Feb. 25, 2009) – The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday issued a decision to deny a petition for review of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) rule that regulates dust under the Clean Air […]

By Curt Kipp, Oregon Association of Nurseries Daily Digger The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, otherwise known as the “stimulus package,” includes a 65 percent health insurance premium subsidy for eligible workers who use the COBRA program after being involuntarily terminated. This federally-paid benefit, which lasts for up […]