Natural Resource News Note: The Oregonian newspaper featured a front page article on the problems of Measure 49 which is the measure that brought limits to landowner compensation but promised a fast-track process.  Three years later, few new homes have been approved and built under the new system with landowners […]

No Reason to Fear Our Food Supply By Mark, National Corn Growers Association This week we are supposed to be afraid of eating eggs. Apparently we have about a 1 in 20,000 chance of getting salmonella from eating eggs. The odds are slightly higher that you will die in a […]

Livestock Producers Fear GIPSA Rule’s Vagueness and Unintended Consequences By National Cattlemen’s Beef Association FORT COLLINS (Aug. 27, 2010) – Beef and pork producers rallied against USDA’s Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration’s (GIPSA) proposed federal rule on the buying and selling of livestock at a public meeting held in […]

More push to get legislation giving the public the right to recreate on privately-owned banks and uplands along non-navigable waterways By Bill Moshofsky Oregonians In Action, During the 2010 special session of the legislature, Senator Alan Bates of Jackson County introduced a  bill that gave the public (1) the right […]

By State Senator Jason Atkinson, Last year, California ended the practice of dredge mining in its rivers. With the ban in effect, out-of-state miners have flooded into southern Oregon rivers armed with $25 permits issued by the state. I’ve a long history with “The New 49’ers,” the miners association that […]

NCBA Applauds Senate Approval of Mandatory Price Reporting — NCBA Calls for House to Support Transparency in the Marketplace National Cattlemen’s Beef Association WASHINGTON (Aug. 6, 2010) – Well into the evening yesterday, Aug. 5, 2010, the U.S. Senate reauthorized by unanimous consent the Livestock Mandatory Price Reporting Act (LMPR), […]

Wall Street Journal Editorial: 8/27/10 Excerpts from the Wall Street Journal Editorial on Arkansas Senator Blanche Lincoln farm aid problems… Last year heavy rain damaged cotton and rice crops across the South. The 2008 farm bill, passed by a Democratic Congress, created the Supplemental Revenue Assistance Program (SURE) to aid […]

Virus kills deer in Corvallis neighborhood By Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife CORVALLIS, Ore. – Adenovirus Hemorrhagic Disease (AHD) is the likely cause of death in as many as 20 black-tailed deer in a Corvallis neighborhood over the past month, according to pathology tests conducted by state veterinarians. Since […]

U.S. Agriculture Paying Price for Inaction on Mexican Trucks By American Farm Bureau Federation, WASHINGTON, D.C., August 19, 2010 – Mexico’s trade retaliation against the United States is expanding in size and scope due to the U.S. government not meeting obligations to allow Mexican trucks to operate in the United […]

Tansy ragwort re-emerges in Oregon, but still controllable Biocontrol should keep the noxious weed in check By Oregon Department of Agriculture Farmers and ranchers in Western Oregon this summer are noticing patches of the telltale bright yellow flowers of tansy ragwort- a noxious weed once the scourge of the 1970s. […]