From State Senator Jason Atkinson Office, Salem – The Senate voted 27  to 1 on Thursday to override Governor Ted Kulongoski’s veto of Senate Bill 545.  The successful veto override expresses the will of the Oregon Senate that the executive branch seriously consider the benefits of producing trout in pathogen […]

American Forest Resource Council Below are three highlights from their January Newsletter.  Read the complete newsletter here. 1. Murrelet Delisting Denied 2. FS/BLM Budget Support 3. Forest Management Legislation Murrelet Delisting Denied On January 21, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) published a notice in the Federal Register denying […]

Oregon Cattlemen Association 2010 Issue Brief 1.    Air Quality – Rule making and legislation •    DEQ GHG Rule making for 2009 HB 2186:  This rulemaking by DEQ is in process and those of us who opposed this legislation during the 09 Session are following the progress.  OCA invited Andy from […]

SB 1060, Navigability & Public Access to Private Property Oregon Farm Bureau, SB 1060 will be the largest private property grab of the special session.  The bill grants access to the public to beds and banks up to the high water mark on “floatable” water ways throughout Oregon.  Floatable is […]

By Rick sohn Umpqua Coquille LLC Building Permits were up and logs were more affordable for mills, last month.  However, unsold inventories and interest rates also went up, and housing starts were down.  See four-year price tracking and discussion of lumber, logs, housing starts and permits, unsold home inventory, and […]

By National Association of Wheat Growers, President Barack Obama’s first State of the Union address, given Wednesday, contained an unexpected defense of trade and a renewed commitment to the trade agenda that wheat growers hope portend more aggressive action in this policy area.In a passage about creating jobs and maintaining […]

By Oregon Department of Ag. One month of decent weather and good fishing has carried Oregon’s Dungeness crab fishery into the new year with a boat load of momentum. In just four weeks following the crab season’s opening, Oregon crabbers have harvested about 15.6 million pounds. Last season’s entire eight-and-a-half […]

2010 Century Farm & Ranch Award Applications and 2010 Sesquicentennial Award Applications Are Now Available By Oregon Agricultural Education Foundation (Salem, Or) – Applications are now being accepted for the 2010 award year of the Century Farm & Ranch Program, a statewide recognition program honoring farmers and ranchers who have […]

Walden, Barton ask SEC Chair Schapiro to explain how global warming action plan improves safety, security for investors SEC: Never mind Madoff;What are we doing about global warming? From Greg Walden, WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Reps. Greg Walden, (R-OR)., ranking member of the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee, and Joe Barton, […]

By Washington State Nursery and Landscaping Association WSNLA has learned that an identify fraud scheme is targeting landscape firms. A firm receives a fax that says it is from the United States Department of Transportation and that the Department requires certain information in order to qualify the firm as a […]