By Oregonians for Food and Shelter Legislative Update Last week started off with a packed hearing on Confined Animal Feeding Operations. (CAFOs) Monday morning in the Senate Committee on Natural Resources. Oregon agriculture showed up strong for this hearing, which will carry over next Monday morning March 13th. Thanks so […]

Oregon Congresswoman Lori Chavez-DeRemer Press Release, Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer (OR-05) recently joined Reps. Tracey Mann (KS-01), Jimmy Panetta (CA-19), and 26 of her colleagues in support of the Family Farm and Small Business Exemption Act. This bipartisan legislation seeks to restore exemptions for family farms and small businesses under the […]

By Oregonians for Food and Shelter, Last week has been a busy one in Salem as the last few hundred bills are rolling out and legislators are busy reviewing, amending and voting on bills in committees. The deadline to pass bills out of their first committee is just a month […]

By American Farm Bureau Federation, American Farm Bureau Federation President Zippy Duvall spent four and a half hours before the House Agriculture Committee Tuesday outlining the challenges facing America’s farmers and ranchers. Duvall joined five other agriculture industry leaders in testifying and taking questions from lawmakers during the hearing titled […]

By State Representative Jeff Helfrich SALEM, OR – Today, the House Committee on Housing and Homeless advanced HB 2001, a housing package that included $5 million in funding for agricultural workforce housing, a priority for Vice-Chair Jeff Helfrich (R-Hood River). Representative Helfrich released the following statement: “I appreciate the bipartisan […]

By Oregon State Representative Ed Diehl, Press Release SB 795 We need to voice SUPPORT for Senate Bill 795 to give state forest lands BACK to the county! Let the local citizens be in charge of their local forests. As you may know, the Board of Forestry is proceeding with […]

By American Farm Bureau Federation, The Department of Agriculture expects farm sector income to decline in 2023. Micheal Clements shares the data. Clements: USDA’s February Farm Income Report shows net farm income, a broad measure of farm profitability, is currently forecast at $137 billion in 2023. American Farm Bureau Federation […]

By Healthy Forests, Healthy Communitees The 2021 South Yaak Fire scorched portions of Montana’s Kootenai National Forest, underscoring the need for proactive and preventative active forest management to reduce future risks to local forests, nearby communities, indigenous resources, wildlife habitat, water resources and other values. The U.S. Forest Service responded […]

By Oregonians for Food and Shelter, Last week was a busy one in the Capitol for OFS. On the Senate side, the Senate Committee on Natural Resources held a hearing on SB 530, a bill that seeks to increase carbon sequestration on “natural and working lands” but lacks an appreciation […]

By National Association of Wheat Growers, As Congress gears up for Farm Bill reauthorization, the National Association of Wheat Growers (NAWG) and U.S. Wheat Associates (USW) are announcing advocacy tools and resources to engage with their legislators on the Expanding Agricultural Exports Act (S. 176) and Agriculture Export Promotion Act […]