By Helen Moore, Water for Life, Return Flows Newsletter The question of the day is can irrigated agriculture survive in the current political climate? Everyone has heard expressed that “water is the oil of the 21st century” and “whiskey’s for drinkin, water’s for fightin”.  Truer words have never been spoken. […]

The American Farm Bureau Foundation for Agriculture presented its second annual “Book of the Year” award to Leon Hesser for The Man Who Fed the World, his biography of Dr. Norman Borlaug. Terry Gilbert presents Leon Hesser with the American Farm Bureau Foundation for Agriculture’s 2008 “Book of the Year” […]

Oregon Department of Forestry — A newly developed economic development strategy for Oregon’s forest cluster will be presented on Dec. 10, from 1-4 p.m., at the World Forestry Center in Portland. Members of the public and interested stakeholders are invited to attend.  Oregon’s forest cluster includes firms and organizations that […]

Submitted by: Gienie Assink, Springfield, OR  Oregon counties find themselves in a budget dilemma as a result of the inability to use our O&C Lands to provide funding for public safety and federal Forest Service timberlands to provide funding for vital public services like road maintenance and schools. The reality […]

Closed Rail Line Purchased COQUILLE, Ore. – The Oregon International Port of Coos Bay has agreed to buy a rail line that was closed for safety reasons in September 2007. The port’s purchase should help coastal businesses that have been using costly alternatives to ship goods such as timber and […]

By Oregon Farm Bureau, The delight of gazing at a light-strewn, decorated live Christmas tree and the festive feeling its evergreen aroma inspires does not need to be accompanied by a nagging sense of guilt.  The Oregon Farm Bureau wants to inform consumers that despite what they may have heard […]

By Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, OR. – At its meeting in San Diego last week, the Pacific Fishery Management Council revamped West Coast commercial groundfish fishery management by adopting a system of individual fishing quotas, or IFQs, for the shoreside trawl fishery, and a system of structured harvest co?operatives […]

By Jim Welsh, Oregon Cattlemen Association Government Affairs Report Election Results Many of us in the Natural Resource industries are apprehensive, to say the least, after absorbing the results, statewide and nationally, of the November 4th elections.  The Oregon State Legislature on the House side will be composed of 36 […]

The Register Guard  GRANTS PASS — In the years after World War II, Americans packed up their young families and Army surplus camping gear and headed into the national forests to hunt, fish and hike. Going to the woods was part of what it meant to be an American. Today, […]

Oregon Depart. of Ag — Oregon agriculture boasts more than 225 different commodities, making it one of the most agriculturally diverse states in the U.S. While its total value of production may not rank as high as the mega-agriculture states of California, Texas, and Iowa, Oregon is known as a […]