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 […]

By Helen Moore, Water for Life, Since Oregon became a state in 1859, the Oregon Legislature has met on a biennial basis in accordance with specific provisions set forth in the Oregon Constitution. However, in 2007, the Legislature decided that it should move to a system of annual legislative sessions. […]

Baird Announces Green Jobs Grant for Southwest Congressman Brian Baird, Washington D.C. – Congressman Brian Baird is pleased to announce today that the U.S. Department of Labor awarded $5,000,000 in grant funding to the Oregon Manufacturing Extension Partnership for its proposed Renewable Northwest (ReNW) Energy Training Partnership program. The ReNW […]

Lincoln’s Support Key to Reining in Regulations By American Farm Bureau Federation WASHINGTON, D.C, January 21, 2010 – Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) announced today that she would co-sponsor a resolution to disapprove the Environmental Protection Agency’s effort to regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act. Lincoln’s […]

By Guest Blogger Tyler Anderson Stoel Rives LLP, Attorneys at Law The issue of sodium content in food has been a hot topic in recent months, as our own Ken Odza has blogged about in reporting on the class action lawsuits filed against Denny’s in New Jersey and Illinois. Now […]