Legislative Update By Oregonians for Food and Shelter   The Legislature is off to a measured start this year as the first week of official business kicked off Tuesday. It was a relatively quiet week in the Capitol as Committees plan their schedules and sort through the approximately 3000 bills […]

By U.S. Senator Ron Wyden, Press release, The programs receiving funding today will support the region’s farmers and ranchers under a new Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the Bureau of Reclamation and the Klamath Water Users Association (KWUA), as well as the Klamath Project Drought Response Agency (KPDRA)—which was created […]

Agricultural Overtime Threshold Decreasing in the New Year By Hannah LaChance & Lex Shvartsmann Barran Liebman, January 8, 2025 — Among the flurry of legal changes that took effect January 1, 2025, employers should be aware of an updated overtime threshold for agriculture workers that was included in these changes. […]

By Oregon State Representative Court Boice, Are we prepared for the 2025 Fire Season? Have we learned from the tragic 35-year California and Oregon Catastrophic Fire History? Most recent estimates are $150 BILLION to bring Los Angeles back and rebuild! These fires are what happens when the Elite Progressive Ideologies […]

OR-OSHA’s New Farmworker Housing Rules Will Force Out Farmworkers, Shutter Family Farms By Oregon Farm Bureau, New Rules Exceed Federal Housing Standards Salem, Ore – OR-OSHA adopted updates to its Division 4 – Ag Labor Housing (ALH) rules. While this marks an end to regulatory uncertainty after a tedious and […]

By Oregon State Representatives Ed Diehl, David Gomberg, Virgle Osborne and State Senator-elect Bruce Starr Four state lawmakers say that the DOGE should ground the plan to kill more than 450,000 barred owls long protected by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act SALEM, Ore. – A bipartisan group of Oregon state […]

By Oregonians for Food and Shelter, As we gear up for a busy 2025 at OFS, we wanted to take a moment to reflect on our work and achievements in 2024! Check out our 2024 Year in Review to learn about the various issues we engaged on last year, and […]

By U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden’s bill to preserve more than 1 million acres of wilderness in the Owyhee Canyon Lands in Eastern Oregon and introduce more flexibility into its established grazing management system passed the U.S. Senate by unanimous consent Friday night. “The holiday celebrations can […]

By American Farm Bureau Federation, American Farm Bureau Federation President Zippy Duvall commented today on the ping pong of court orders that ended with a court-ordered reprieve from Treasury Department reporting requirements for many small businesses. Earlier this month, a federal court halted the Beneficial Ownership Information (BOI) reporting requirement […]

By Oregon Department of Agriculture, The Oregon Department of Agriculture (ODA), with significant input from Oregon’s dairy industry and processors, is launching its milk testing and monitoring program this week. The program aims to protect farms, farmworkers, and communities from H5N1 avian influenza. Select processors will begin collecting raw (unpasteurized) […]