Greg Walden organizes bipartisan backing for job-creating forest landscape restoration projects By Congressman Greg Walden, Estimates from proposals say Lakeview project would create more than 80 jobs; Southern Blues project would create more than 150 jobs U.S. Rep. Greg Walden has organized a bipartisan letter to USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack […]

Below is a press release from National Cattlemen’s Beef Association

Looking to 2012: Long To-Do List, Little Appetite in Election Year By National Association of Wheat Growers Members of Congress are headed back to Washington, D.C., from a holiday break, but how much they will accomplish before leaving in early August for full-time campaigning remains very much in question. The […]

Dungeness crab season opens Jan. 15 on Oregon’s southern coast By Oregon Dept. of Fish and Wildlife NEWPORT – Commercial and sport Dungeness crabbing opens Jan. 15 from Gold Beach south, making all of the ocean off Oregon now open to crabbing. The ocean commercial Dungeness crab season in Oregon […]

By American Farm Bureau Federation Farmers need to commit their time, energy, money and best thinking if they want to stop the proliferation of federal regulations that threaten their businesses, a U.S. Chamber of Commerce official said today at the American Farm Bureau Federation 93rd Annual Meeting. “This isn’t academic […]

Windpower has killed 2,000 golden eagles in California & 500 other birds in Virginia proding conservationist to call for new guidelines. By Oregon Tax News, New federal rules instructing wind companies on how to better monitor and reduce the number of wildlife deaths from wind turbines are being worked on […]

Projects advance solar, wind energy development on public lands; Will deliver power for 112,500 homes, support over 600 jobs and generate millions in local tax revenue Dept. of Interior Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced the approval of two renewable energy projects that further advance President Obama’s initiative for […]

By Rick Sohn Umpqua Coquille LLC Weaker log and stud prices are seasonally expected, while homebuilding statistics increased, unsold inventory dropped, and mortgage rates continued near record lows. See below for details and a six-year span of prices and analysis of lumber, logs, housing, and mortgage statistics. Information and interpretation.

Bill Conerly, Conerly Consulting, Businomics Wood products demand is far more sensitive to the economy than demand for almost any other product. The outlook for the next two years is moderately positive, at least compared to the weak domestic markets we’ve seen since the downturn began. Log export markets look […]

by Cindy, Corn Commentary National Corn Growers Association Corn growers and the grain-based ethanol industry got a late Christmas present last week when a Federal District Court judge in Fresno, California sided with America’s ethanol industry in ruling that the State of California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) violates the […]