Information provided by USDA Economic Research Service Above: Equals annual average price for crops. Highlights Net cash income is expected to fall about 28 percent, to a level just below its previous 10-year average.

By Karla Kay Edwards Cascade Policy Institute Oregon is a leader in the “buy local food” movement, and buying fresh produce from local farmers’ markets and community supported agriculture (CSA) could become an even stronger trend in our state. People not only want to know where their food is coming […]

The Bend Bulletin ran an article this week taking in various opinions on what is the most environmentally best Christmas tree a family should buy.   Nationally, during the popular NY Rockefeller Christmas Tree lighting ceremony they are asking people to Text for a Tree to raise donations for tree planting.  […]

Oregon Joins Select Group of States in Calling for Reform of Federal Toxic Substances Control Act BY Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, Federal legislation may be introduced soon; EPA administrator also supports reform Oregon Department of Environmental Quality Director Dick Pedersen today signed a statement of principles calling for reform […]

By Oregon Dept. of Agricultre, Prices and lifestyle alter what Americans eat Americans are eating a little less beef and pork, but more poultry. They like their cheese, but drink less fluid milk. Yogurt consumption is up, ice cream consumption is down. And, perhaps surprisingly, total fruit and vegetable consumption […]

By Rick sohn Umpqua Coquille LLC Housing construction is still down near World War II levels, but unsold home inventories decreased a full percentage to 6.5% as mortgage rates dropped below 5%.  Lumber prices are up.  See the 3-year price tracking and discussion of lumber, logs, housing starts and permits, […]

By Natural Resource Report, A sluggish economic climate, low wholesale prices and less consumer demand all spell trouble for Christmas tree farms across Oregon. In 2008, 7.34 million trees were sold in Oregon, propelling a $110 billion industry and the No. 1 producer of Christmas trees in the U.S. That […]

By Oregonians for Food and Shelter There will be some new faces in Salem when the February “special session” convenes.  Senator Margaret Carter resigned to take a newly created post as Deputy Director at the Department of Human Services.  She has been replaced by former Representative Chip Shields.  Shields is […]

By Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, TILLAMOOK, Ore. – Hungry people along Oregon’s north coast will eat a little better this holiday season, thanks to the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife and a coalition of volunteers who delivered more than 500 pounds of salmon to the local food […]

A pest never before found in the United States has been detected in California’s Napa Valley. By Kurt Kipp, Daily Digger Oregon Association of Nurseries, The European grapevine moth, Lobestria botrana, which feeds primarily on the flowers and fruits of grape plants (Vitis spp.) and spruge laurels (Daphne gnidium). Other […]