State legislators promote ‘anchor baby’ bill Oregon Association of Nurseries Curt Kipp, Daily Digger We reported yesterday that several newly-elected state Legislatures are itching to take on the issue of immigration in the new year. This morning we received word (via CNN video below) that a group called State Legislators […]

Natural Resource News Note: The website BigThink.com has created a intruiging chart showing Federal land as percentage of total state land area. The total acres of federal land amounts to 650 million acres of land – nearly 30% of its total territory. Below is a list of the top ten […]

By Oregon Farm Bureau, become a member DREAM ACT: Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act While the US House of Representatives passed the DREAM Act (216-198) in mid December, it went nowhere in the Senate just a few days later. The Senate was not able to invoke cloture […]

Press Release, On May 25th, 2010, the online arm of Upstream, a newspaper for the international oil and gas industry, reported that British Petroleum had started top-kill procedures on the Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico. “The company said that the operation, which will pump heavy mud down the […]

Timber Industry Report By Rick Sohn, Umpqua Coquille LLC, Log prices staged an 11% recovery, while studs held steady. Murphy Company opened the Rogue River plywood plant, anticipating recovery. Unsold inventory dropped slightly. These are good signs locally. See below for details and a five-year-span of prices and analysis of […]

Deceptive Videos Unfairly Attack Farmers Animal Agriculture Alliance December 15, 2010 – Farmers and ranchers dedicate their lives to the health and well-being of their animals in order to ensure that the food they produce for the public- and their own families- is wholesome and safe. Animal care is a […]

5,000 Afghan Families to Benefit American Soybean Association December 20, 2010… Saint Louis, Missouri…The American Soybean Association’s (ASA) World Initiative for Soy in Human Health (WISHH) and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) representatives participated today in the final preparations of a shipment of soy flour to Afghanistan. The 3,525 50-pound […]

California adopts landmark Cap-and-Trade Stoel Rives LLP by Allison C. Smith After a marathon 10-hour public hearing, the California Air Resources Board voted 9-to-1 to adopt the state’s landmark Cap-and-Trade Program. My colleague, Lee Smith, and I spent the day at the packed California EPA auditorium, monitoring the hearing. Over […]

NCBA Opposes Nomination of Federal Judge with Ties to Animal Activists National Cattlemen’s Beef Association The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) sent a letter to U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) opposing the nomination of Judge Benita Pearson to the United States District […]

By Cyndie Sirekis American Farm Bureau Federation As 2010 fades away, Farm Bureau and its farmer and rancher members around the nation are reflecting on some hard-fought victories. One of these is reform of estate taxes. With passage of the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization and Job Creation Act of […]