By Rick Sohn Ph.D Umpqua Coquille LLC Timber Industry Report November 26, 2014 Log prices may have set a new record!!! Lumber prices remain strong. Mortgage interest rates are near 4 percent again, and homebuilding is still above the one million mark. More recent statistics of lumber manufacturing, home construction, […]

By Oregon Dept. of Agriculture The Oregon Department of Agriculture has issued two civil penalties totaling $16,000 in connection with a pesticide application this summer that left an estimated 1,000 bees dead at a north Eugene apartment complex. An investigation performed by ODA’s Pesticides Program determined that Glass Tree Care […]

By American Forest Resource Council   Legislation is Unanimously Opposed by Oregon’s Forest Products Industry, Opposed by the O&C Counties, and Lacks Support from Reps. DeFazio, Schrader, and Walden and Governor Kitzhaber Groups representing Western Oregon’s timber industry have sent a letter to the Chairwoman and Ranking Member of the […]

By Daily Digger Oregon Association of Nurseries The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a new voluntary Drift Reduction Technology (DRT) program. The agency hopes to encourage the use of verified, safer pesticide spray products to reduce exposure and pesticide movement while saving farmers money in pesticide loss. Annually, up to […]

By Cindy National Corn Growers Association Corn prices may be lower but eternal optimist Dr. Lowell Catlett says it’s still the best of times right now for agriculture. “Historically, there’s never been a better time to be in agriculture,” said Catlett this week at the Bayer CropScience 2014 Corn and […]

California Farm Bureau By Christine Souza Photo/Christine Souza:  Farmer Kenny Watkins of Linden, right, watches as Louis Victoria, a Rural Crimes Division detective with the San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Department, marks the battery of a new piece of farm equipment with the farm’s individual owner-applied number. An owner-applied number helps […]

By US Dept. of Agriculture Corn earworms, also known as cotton bollworms, migrate at night, making them notoriously hard to track. Farmers worried about controlling infestations have to make educated guesses about the pest’s movements, based on reports from other areas and past experience. Guessing wrong can be expensive: The […]

By American Farm Bureau Federation Baseball and modern agriculture share some common ground, in fact, as agriculture’s fast-paced technological advancements are getting the industry in the game of leveraging data. Take, for example, the movie “Moneyball,” the story of the Oakland Athletics (A’s) baseball team and general manager Billy Beane. […]

Healthy Forest, Healthy Communities Nearly 80 percent of Skamania County, Washington is managed by the U.S. Forest Service, along with three wilderness areas and the Mt. St. Helens National Monument. Environmental lawsuits and regulations meant to protect the forests have instead led to widespread decay. Forest health has declined due […]

By American Forest Resource Council Investigative reporter for The Oregonian Rob Davis released a 2-part series on forestry herbicide use. Unfortunately, instead of relying on facts to drive the reporting, Mr. Davis seems to have started his investigation with the end result already in mind. The report relies on speculation […]