Washington’s 2010 Agricultural Value Second Highest on Record Washington Farm Bureau October 17, 2011 – 3:14pm The value of Washington’s 2010 agricultural production reached $8.25 billion (including government payments), 13 percent above the 2009 revised figure of $7.30 billion. This is the second highest value on record-second only to 2007’s […]

— Groups Still Support Legislation to Prevent Future Threats By National Cattlemen’s Beef Association WASHINGTON – The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) and the Public Lands Council (PLC) welcomed news from Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa Jackson that the decision has been made to retain the current coarse particulate […]

Rethinking Food Day Priorities By Ken Corn Commentary National Corn Growers Association On Oct. 16, the U.S. Food and Agriculture Organization did what it always does on its birthday, celebrate World Food Day by calling attention to the problem of world hunger. This year, it was marked in 150 countries […]

Newsline Interview By American Farm Bureau Federation The Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction is supposed to find $1.2 trillion in budget cuts. AFBF Farm Policy Specialist Mary Kay Thatcher discusses how much of that will likely come from agriculture funding. AFBF’s Johnna Miller reports. Miller: The House and Senate […]

Rep. Bruce Hanna Named “Most Valuable Legislator” by OFS By Oregonians for Food and Shelter (SALEM, OR) – Oregon House Co-Speaker Bruce Hanna (R-Roseburg) was named as the 2011 Session’s Most Valuable Legislator by Oregonians for Food and Shelter (OFS), a prominent statewide coalition of natural resource and agricultural based […]

Timber and grazing groups ask Supreme Court to review forest road case Permits not needed to control sedimentation PORTLAND, OR—The American  Forest Resource Council (AFRC), together with a 6 other associations representing federal forest and rangeland resource businesses and families, has filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court […]

Ag inspections suffered in wake of 9/11 By Kurt Kipp, Daily Digger Associated Oregon Nurseries If you fly on an airplane, then you have experienced firsthand how U.S. security priorities changed following 9/11. A huge new agency, the Department of Homeland Security, was created and given broad powers to stop […]

Forest Policy Briefs by Rex Storm, Forest Policy Manager Associated Oregon Loggers Politically-Correct Biomass: Chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, Nancy Sutley, visited John Day in August to tour only those forest industries deemed to offer politically-correct jobs subsidized by federal taxpayer debt. Sutley met with the […]

In a rarity, a California sawmill reopens By California Farm Bureau Dignitaries will gather in Sonora tomorrow (Wednesday) to celebrate the reopening of a sawmill that had been closed for two years. It’s a rare occasion in a state where more than 80 sawmills have closed in the last 20 […]

By Corn Commentary National Corn Growers Association The Pixar movie sequel “Cars 2″ has been out since June, but I just got a chance to see it this past weekend and while it got some bad reviews, I thought it was hilarious and an interesting commentary on big oil and […]