Ag Regulatory Update By Oregonians for Food and Shelter, This week, the natural resource organizations serving on Oregon’s Pesticide Stewardship Partnership Advisory Group since the Advisory Group’s inception, including OFS, Oregon Farm Bureau, Oregon Association of Nurseries, and Oregon Forest Industries Council, submitted a resignation letter and withdrew our support […]

By Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife, KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. — Salmon are making exciting progress in their return to the upper Klamath Basin, with fisheries biologists from ODFW and The Klamath Tribes celebrating a series of firsts as salmon reach areas where they have been absent for over a […]

Governor’s Executive Order on Working Lands By Oregonians for Food and Shelter, Yesterday, Governor Kotek issued Executive Order 25-26, which directs Oregon’s natural-resource agencies to take coordinated action to strengthen the resilience of Oregon’s natural and working lands and waters in response to climate change. The order tasks the Oregon […]

Oregon Announces $755K Award to Grain Mill Project that Strengthens Food Supply Chain Infrastructure By Oregon Department of Agriculutre, Oregon Department of Agriculture (ODA) is announcing an additional award of $755,077 to Northwest Mills and Specialty Grains (DBA Cairnspring Mills) for a grain milling infrastructure project at Coyote Business Park, […]

Merkley, Wyden Announce $28.5 Million to Strengthen and Defend Oregon Communities from Wildfire Threats By U.S. Ron Wyden, Press Release Washington, D.C. – Oregon’s U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden announced today $28,512,515 is coming to Oregon for six projects across the state to help make communities more resilient […]

By Oregon Farm Bureau, The U.S. Department of Labor announced significant, positive changes to federal H-2A policy. While the details for what this means for Oregon’s farmers are still being ironed out, a few things are clear – namely that it is strange to hear “good news” and “new labor […]

AFRC and Calforests Urge Forest Service to Rescind Roadless Rule to Restore Forest Health and Wildfire Resilience The American Forest Resource Council, The American Forest Resource Council (AFRC) and the California Forestry Association (Calforests) submitted formal joint comments to the U.S. Forest Service in support of rescinding the 2001 Roadless […]

By Oregon State Representative Court Boice, ROGUE RIVER, Ore. — As crews heroically worked to contain and extinguish the Moon Complex and Paradise Fires, Representative Court Boice (R-Gold Beach) stepped up to help mobilize frontline firefighters by coordinating transport along the Rogue River, drawing on his deep knowledge of the river’s geography […]

Legislative Update By Oregonians for Food and Shelter, The month-long Special Session ended this past Monday, when the Senate finally had sufficient attendees and votes to approve the gas tax, payroll tax and vehicle registration package, meeting the Constitutional 3/5th supermajority requirement. However, the fate of the package is still […]

By Oregon Small Business Association of Oregon, A 25-year-old Guatemalan man living in Woodburn, Ore., is challenging his detention by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents who arrested four of seven workers during a raid on an Oregon blueberry farm. Before dawn on Aug. 7, ICE agents in unmarked SUVs stopped […]