By Oregon Department of Agriculture, Spread the word, not the weed. That’s the slogan being used for this year’s Oregon Invasive Weed Awareness Week to be celebrated May 16-22 as proclaimed by Governor Kulongoski. The annual weeklong observance aims to raise public awareness of the threat noxious weeds pose to […]

Bipartisan letter requests briefing on administration’s interim plans to replace WOPR. By Congressman Greg Walden WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Rep. Greg Walden (R-Ore.) wants to know how the Obama Administration plans to manage Oregon’s west side forests, including the BLM forests in Josephine, Jackson, and Klamath counties.  In a bipartisan […]

By National Association of Wheat Growers This week Senators John Kerry (D-MA) and Joe Lieberman (I-CT) released a discussion draft of their “American Power Act” legislation, proposing a cap-and-trade system for reducing U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. The 987 page bill aims to reduce emissions 17 percent by 2020 and 80 […]

American Farm Bureau Federation, WASHINGTON, D.C., May 11, 2010 – Following two years of tough economic times for livestock producers, 2010 is shaping up to be a much better year thanks to an improving economy and tighter supplies of beef, pork and poultry. “Livestock producers have seen a return to […]

Oregon Nursery Trade Association Executive Leaves for California Wine Job Association of Oregon Nurseries, Wilsonville, Ore. – Oregon Association of Nurseries (OAN) president Kevin Klupenger announced today that John Aguirre, the association’s long serving executive director, will depart for another professional opportunity in the agriculture industry. Aguirre will lead the […]

Oregon Treasury will join proxy vote action to demand environmental and safety changes at Massey Energy Action at upcoming annual meeting is example of state’s actions as a responsible shareholder Oregon State Treasurer Press Release, SALEM – Oregon will join with other shareholders of Massey Energy on May 18 and […]

Grant funds help regional effort to combat spotted wing drosophila By Oregon State University, CORVALLIS, Ore. – The effort to combat an invasive fly called the spotted wing drosophila, which threatens fruit crops in the Pacific Northwest and beyond, got a boost today with a recommendation from the U.S. Department […]

The forecasted grasshopper, Camnula pellucida, invasion could put at risk 140,00 acres and make for one fo teh worst outbreaks in 30 years.  The Oregonian reports “Hungry grasshoppers are starting to hatch in Arizona and New Mexico and could make 2010 the worst grasshopper year since the mid-1980s — consuming […]

By Oregon Department of Agriculture, Portland has its Rose Festival. Woodburn hosts a tulip festival. For the Southern Oregon city of Jacksonville, a festival is dedicated to the showy red wildflower known as Gentner’s fritillary. There are plenty of roses and tulips for everyone to enjoy, but the fritillary is […]

By Dave Hunnicutt Oregonians In Action Stanford University’s Hoover Institution recently published an interesting article entitled “Property Rights and African Poverty.”  The article, written by James Robinson, professor of government at Harvard University, traces the abject poverty in most of today’s Africa to the failure of the African people to […]