By Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, After months of public input and technical review, the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality announced today an official list of persistent, surface water  pollutants that pose a potential threat to the state’s environment and residents. The list identifies 118 toxic pollutants that come from […]

Prepare now to survive a West Coast tsunami By Pat Corcoran Oregon State University Extension Service ASTORIA, Ore. – Two weeks after tsunamis in Sumatra and American Samoa initiated by powerful earthquakes killed hundreds of people, a growing number of Oregonians are wondering how people living along the West Coast […]

By Rick Sohn, Umpqua Coquille LLC Timber Industry Report, October 19, 2009 The Western Wood Products Association economic forecast for the wood products industry, projects that we will not reach 1 million housing starts until 2012.  Log prices moved up this month, increasing the squeeze on mills.  Fortunately, there is […]

Oregon Cattlemen’s Association By Jim Welsh 1. Navigability Not Just a CWRA Issue 2.  Animal Welfare Initiatives Expected 3.  Rangeland Lease Holders Attending State Lands Board 4. DEQ’s Toxics Reduction Strategic Planning 5. OWRD Integrated Water Resources Strategy plus more… Navigability Not Just a CWRA Issue Yes, we want the […]

Energy and Water Appropriations Bill Clears Senate and Heads For President’s Desk – Bill Passed by Senate and House Includes Millions in Oregon Dredging and Alternative Energy Projects By Senator Ron Wyden: Washington, D.C. – Working to improve Oregon’s waterways and alternative energy technology capabilities, U.S. Senators Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) […]

By Stewart Truelsen American Farm Bureau Federation, This has been a good year for the critics of mainstream farming and ranching. Time magazine ran a cover story at the end of August sharply critical of modern farm production methods and the nation’s food supply. It said “food is increasingly bad […]

By US Wheat Associates, Special Report here.

By Yamhill County Farm Bureau, Katie Evers and Garrett Duyck will each receive a $1,500 college scholarship from Yamhill County Farm Bureau. Katie Evers graduated from Dayton High School and is the daughter of Gerald & Dottie Evers of Dayton.  Katie is currently a sophomore attending West Texas A&M University […]

Oregon State University Extension Service, CORVALLIS, Ore. – A newly recognized pest in Oregon continues to concern fruit growers and researchers with the recent discovery of a Spotted Wing Drosophila fly in a sample of Willamette Valley wine grapes. Since the tiny fly, Drosophila suzukii, was first confirmed in Oregon […]

Oregon Marine Reserves State Agencies Proposed Administrative Rules By Oregon Coastal Zone Management Association, HB 3013 provides that the Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife, State Fish and Wildlife Commission, State Land Board and relevant state agencies “…shall, consistent with existing statutory authoriity, implement the November 29, 2008, recommendations from […]