By Oregon Farm Bureau Agriculture & Business Groups Call on BOLI for Free Sick Leave Seminars Express Disappointment on $25 Fee for Training Seminars Portland: “We are disappointed that BOLI would not only delay their implementation seminars until after the effective date of the new statewide paid sick leave law […]

By Oregon Cattlemen Association On January 4, 2016 Oregon ranchers Dwight and Steve Hammond have left their homes to report to a federal prison. Both ranchers are faithful, long term Oregon Cattlemen’s Association members. Many have asked where the association stands on the Hammond’s predicament. The Oregon Cattlemen’s Association has […]

By National Association of Wheat Growers House Votes to Stop WOTUS Rule, Veto Looms The U.S. House of Representatives voted 253-166 in support of S.J. Res. 22, a resolution of disapproval of the Waters of the United States (WOTUS) regulation. Under the Congressional Review Act, the House and Senate can […]

Oregon Congressman Greg Walden’s impassioned video has been seen over 125,000 times. Congressman Walden talks directly about the Oregon standoff, failures of federal land management, judicial failings and also the story behind the Hammond Family. Watch the video below.

By Rick Sohn, PhD Umqua Coquille LLC Timber Industry Report December 28, 2015 Mortgage rates remain favorable for homebuyers and warm winter temperatures favor homebuilding, for now. Log prices are high and out of balance with low product prices. Online Mortgage loans are the new kid on the block. Recent […]

By American Farm Bureau Federation The average consumer today may be three to four generations removed from the farm, but they are far from indifferent when it comes to knowing how their food gets to the table. People want the facts about their food–and being entrusted with those facts can […]

There is a standoff in Oregon between the federal government and several hundred defenders of the Hammond family. It made a top story on NBC News (see below). Also, the protest leader, Ammon Bundy of Citizens for Constitutional Freedom, spoke in a rare interview to Fox News (see clip below). […]

By Oregon Department of Agriculture Oregon agriculture’s large impact on the state’s economy is reaffirmed by an updated analysis and report released by Oregon State University. The OSU study, commissioned by the Oregon Department of Agriculture, quantifies the contributions of producers, processors, and others in a variety of economic snapshots […]

California Farm Bureau After more than a decade of negotiations with a variety of stakeholders, the end-of-year deadline for the U.S. Congress to pass legislation approving and funding the Klamath Basin settlement agreements is expected to come and go without final action, leaving the future of the basin’s water supply […]

Associated Oregon Industries Oregon’s largest business advocate On November 3, 2015, President Obama issued a memorandum to the Secretaries of Defense, Interior and Agriculture, and the Administrators of the Environmental Protection Agency and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration directing them to revise their existing policies to incorporate a new “net […]