By Oregon Small Business Association A Portland grocery chain has filed a lawsuit against Country Natural Beef of Redmond after a 2019 E. coli outbreak sickened several people and forced a recall of beef sold in its New Seasons Market stores. The $2.7 million lawsuit, filed in Multnomah County Circuit […]

By American Farm Bureau Federation, Backlogs at U.S. ports and container shortages are disrupting the supply chain. Micheal Clements shares more on how those issues are impacting agriculture. Clements: Delays in the shipping industry have a direct impact to the bottom line of farmers and ranchers. American Farm Bureau Federation […]

By Kevin Hecteman California Farm Bureau, — LandIQ uses weather stations such as this one (left) to double-check evapotranspiration data collected from publicly available satellite observations. Photo/Courtesy of LandIQ As California weathers another drought, tools that can help farmers and ranchers maximize the water they do get are being sharpened. […]

By Oregon Family Farm Association, Exports of agriculture from Oregon farms increased 25 percent during the past six years, according to an Oregon State University economic analysis report. The new report showed the number of small farms in Oregon increased significantly since 2015, partly because of more hemp growers entering […]

By American Farm Bureau Federation, A coalition of more than 80 agricultural groups filed formal objections this week regarding EPA’s rule to revoke all tolerances of the pesticide chlorpyrifos. Micheal Clements shares what the rule means for agriculture. Clements: A large coalition of agriculture groups wrote to the Environmental Protection […]

Seneca acquired by California forest products company By Oregon Small Business Association, A California forest products company has acquired Seneca, a Eugene-based company that had owned more than 130,000 acres of land in Douglas County and employed about a dozen people here. Sierra Pacific Industries announced last that it had […]

  By Christine Souza California Farm Bureau, The struggle over management of water supplied through the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta continues as the Biden administration seeks a reversal of rules put in place by agencies under the Trump administration. Last week, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation sent a letter to federal […]

By National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) and Public Lands Council (PLC) criticized the Biden administration’s unilateral decision to put sweeping federal designations on millions of acres surrounding the Bears Ears National Monument and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Utah. After months of rhetoric touting their […]

By Oregon Family Farm Association, Although record-breaking September rainfall has curbed much of the danger from wildfires, the moisture proved too little for dry drought-damaged communities in eastern and southern Oregon, according to the Oregonian/Oregon Live. The 2021 wildfire season has ended in five of the Oregon Department of Forestry’s […]

Assessing Western Drought Conditions: Round 2 By Oregon Farm Bureau, This survey has been designed by the American Farm Bureau Federation to gather state and member level data regarding the persistent drought conditions across the west. This is the second iteration of this survey. You can take the survey here.