The Oregon Wheat Grower’s League is putting out the full alert on two bills that would end agriculture field bunring. OWGL is encouarging all farmers to attend the Wednesday and Thursday hearings on HB 2183 and SB 528. HB 2183 reads “Allows Environmental Quality Commission to adopt rules listing additional […]

NEWPORT, Ore. – A parasitic isopod that scientists identified five years ago has all but decimated mud shrimp populations in coastal estuaries ranging from British Columbia to northern California – with the exception of a handful of locations in Oregon from Waldport to Tillamook. And those surviving mud shrimp all […]

Weekend national news focus: American Farm Bureau Federation WASHINGTON, D.C., March 5, 2009 – Global economic downturns and protectionist trade policies do not mix. That is a lesson made clear by the mistakes of depression-era trade policies of the early 20th Century. To halt a global march toward similar flawed […]

Weekend National News Focus: NCBA Disappointed with Ruling on Dust Regulation National Cattlemen’s Beef Association WASHINGTON (Feb. 25, 2009) – The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday issued a decision to deny a petition for review of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) rule that regulates dust under the Clean Air […]

By Curt Kipp, Oregon Association of Nurseries Daily Digger The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, otherwise known as the “stimulus package,” includes a 65 percent health insurance premium subsidy for eligible workers who use the COBRA program after being involuntarily terminated. This federally-paid benefit, which lasts for up […]

By Terry Witt & Paulette Pyle Oregonians for Food and Shelter Legislative Update 2/27, It took seven weeks into the 2009 Oregon legislative session to really start feeling the frenzy and concerns that typically appear during every session.  Bills are now dropping like flies as the deadline for submitting new […]

Oregon agricultural sales increased overall in 2008 By Oregon Department of Agriculture Marion County remains the runaway leader, two eastern Oregon counties have cracked the top three, and more than half of Oregon’s 36 counties have reported an increase in agricultural sales in 2008 according to statistics released by Oregon […]

Timber Industry Report By Rick Sohn, Umpqua Coquille LLC Stimulus Package Flash!!! While it has not made the headlines, The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act does include forest projects for job creation.  Nationwide, the stimulus plan calls for $500 million of expenditures by the BLM, and $1.15 billion by the […]

By Jim Welsh, Oregon Cattlemen Association BELOW IS A REVIEW OF THE TOP EIGHT ISSUES BEING ADDRESSED IN THE OREGON LEGISLATURE; Klamath Dam Removal Update A hearing and work session was scheduled for SB 76 this week. This legislation has not passed out of committee at this time due to […]

Department of Fish and Wildlife –   Wildlife managers from Washington and Oregon will resume efforts next week to remove California sea lions that prey on federally protected salmon and steelhead in the Columbia River. That effort, initiated last year, is intended to protect threatened and endangered fish runs from a […]