US Senator Ron Wyden Press Release, U.S. Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Senators Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), and Rand Paul (R-Ky.) introduced today the bipartisan, Hemp Farming Act of 2018, which would legalize and clearly define hemp as an agricultural commodity and remove it from the list […]

By Oregon Fish & Wildlife Harassment, or “hazing”, of double-crested cormorants is set to begin soon in several areas along the Oregon Coast in an effort to improve survival of juvenile salmon. Double-crested cormorants are fish-eating waterbirds that occur throughout the state. The species is an Oregon native, and is […]

Greg Walden Press Release, Rep. Greg Walden, Chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee, today secured a commitment from Energy Secretary Rick Perry to not sell off assets of the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) without Congressional authorization. During a hearing at the Energy and Commerce Committee, Walden said the Administration’s […]

By National Association of Wheat Growers, The House Committee on Agriculture released its language for its version of the 2018 Farm Bill. In response, NAWG President Jimmie Musick made the following statement: “We are glad to see that the House is taking a first step in the 2018 Farm Bill […]

Anti-aerial spray proponents increasingly are disrupting Lane County Public Meetings By Oregonians For Food and Shelter, In the aftermath of the court ruling that the aerial spray ban measure will not appear on the May ballot, members of the local Community Rights Lane County group have now turned their efforts […]

By Rick Sohn, PhD Coquille Lumber Log prices remain in 25-year record territory but have leveled off. Mortgage rates jumped as the Fed lifted the key interest rate to the highest in 10 years. Home prices continue to march upward.

Wall Street Journal Editorial, Donald Trump and his advisers spent much of Friday telling everyone that the U.S. is not in a trade war with China, but investors weren’t buying it. Equity markets took a major header, falling by more than 2% across the board. Maybe investors are starting to […]

America’s Cattlemen and Women are “Unfortunate Causalities” in Any Trade War National Cattlemen Beef Association Release, National Cattlemen Beef Association Respond to China Including U.S. Beef on Retaliatory Tariff List. Kent Bacus, Director of International Trade and Market Access for the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, issued the following statement regarding […]

By Kraig Hoene Lebanon, Oregon The debate surrounding the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) has intensified and become much more complex recently. The efforts of a handful of oil refineries to portray the RFS as an unfair law to their bottom lines has attracted political opportunists like Sen. Ted Cruz to […]

By John Newton American Farm Bureau, A 2017 Congressional Research Service report indicated that in 2015 the federal government owned approximately 640 million acres in the United States. Given that there are approximately 2.3 billion acres of land in the U.S., the federal government owns or administers programs on nearly […]