By Oregon Small Business Association The price of corn is up 33%, and America’s reserves of corn have declined nearly fifty percent since March. Soybean prices are up 13%, and wheat costs 23% more than it did at the beginning of the year. Plus, drought is getting dryer across the […]

Celebrity Chefs Forget a Pinch of Humility, Whip Up Bitter Baloney By Cathryn, Corn Commentary. National Corn Growers Association This election year, Americans are already growing increasingly agitated with pompous, self-important celebrities who feel an uncontrollable desire to pontificate upon politics. Qualified only by having played a politician in a […]

By U.S. Meat Export Federation For the second time in two years, South Korea’s top cooking magazine, Cookand, joined with the U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF) for a blind taste test conducted with panels of food industry experts and consumers to determine which pork would be preferred by Koreans when […]

Oregon pursues biocontrol of brown marmorated stink bug By Oregon Department of Revenue In some ways, it’s a race against time. It appears the potentially devastating brown marmorated stink bug is spreading in Oregon and populations of the insect pest are expected to jump over the next couple of years. […]

Oregon Cattlemen’s Association sets up Fire Victims Relief Fund –Devastation from wildfires are threatening structures, cattle and homes of Oregon ranchers By Oregon Cattlemen Association In response to the devastating fires occurring in Harney and Malheur counties, the Oregon Cattlemen’s Association has set up a fire victim’s relief fund as […]

Forest Policy Briefs by Rex Storm, Forest Policy Manager Associated Oregon Loggers When Wilderness Isn’t Wilderness: When the US Forest Service wants to act fast to protect natural resources, it can. But, when it needs to act fast to prevent catastrophic timber loss to pests or fire, it predictably fails […]

By Guest Submission A Lomakatsi Restoration Project crewmember decided to try to find his own way home from the woods on June 7, got lost, and ended up spending 8 hours walking ten miles back to a friend’s house in town. The Lomakatsi crew was piling brush on the west […]

Clean Water Act Guidance Document – Stop the “Flood” of Regulation By Oregon Farm Bureau AFBF has launched their STOP THE FLOOD OF REGULATION Campaign. The goal is to prevent EPA from finalizing their Guidance Document, which would remove the word navigable from the Clean Water Act. Removal of this […]

National Cattlemen’s Beef Association  The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) made clear its position on any attempt by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to lower the coarse particulate matter (PM) standard as part of the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) during one of two public hearings hosted by EPA. […]

By American Farm Bureau Federation Citing a lack of data to support limiting antibiotic use in livestock, the American Farm Bureau Federation has told the Food and Drug Administration that it is concerned with proposals that would restrict antibiotic use based on unproven theory. AFBF submitted comments to FDA on […]