By Oregonians for Food and Shelter,   OFS was busy in the Capitol this week, with a public hearing Tuesday on the proposed fertilizer regulatory program in SB 747. OFS led a broad coalition, submitted our own letter, and joined a phenomenal group of legislators, farmers, and agronomists opposing this ill-conceived […]

By Oregon State Representative Court Boice, Press Release, Our state has multiple well managed Lumber and Plywood Mills with full capacity to send critical wood products to Los Angeles. However, those Oregon companies and employers must have a consistent Douglas Fir Timber supply! The answer is clearly our O&C Forests […]

Legislative ACTION ALERT: Oppose new fertilizer restrictions THIS TUESDAY! By Oregonians fro Food and Shelter SB 747, put forward by a Southeast Portland legislator, would require every landowner in the state with more than 200 acres of irrigated agricultural land to register and annually report fertilizer use, with a goal […]

By Oregon State Senator Daniel Bonham, Last November, Oregon approved its largest solar farm project in the state, and potentially the nation’s, on nearly 10,000 acres of farmland in Morrow County. Due to a loophole in state law protecting our farmland, these passive landgrabs are set to continue. Why is […]

Legislative Update By Oregonians for Food and Shelter   The Legislature is off to a measured start this year as the first week of official business kicked off Tuesday. It was a relatively quiet week in the Capitol as Committees plan their schedules and sort through the approximately 3000 bills […]

By U.S. Senator Ron Wyden, Press release, The programs receiving funding today will support the region’s farmers and ranchers under a new Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the Bureau of Reclamation and the Klamath Water Users Association (KWUA), as well as the Klamath Project Drought Response Agency (KPDRA)—which was created […]

Agricultural Overtime Threshold Decreasing in the New Year By Hannah LaChance & Lex Shvartsmann Barran Liebman, January 8, 2025 — Among the flurry of legal changes that took effect January 1, 2025, employers should be aware of an updated overtime threshold for agriculture workers that was included in these changes. […]

By Oregon State Representative Court Boice, Are we prepared for the 2025 Fire Season? Have we learned from the tragic 35-year California and Oregon Catastrophic Fire History? Most recent estimates are $150 BILLION to bring Los Angeles back and rebuild! These fires are what happens when the Elite Progressive Ideologies […]

OR-OSHA’s New Farmworker Housing Rules Will Force Out Farmworkers, Shutter Family Farms By Oregon Farm Bureau, New Rules Exceed Federal Housing Standards Salem, Ore – OR-OSHA adopted updates to its Division 4 – Ag Labor Housing (ALH) rules. While this marks an end to regulatory uncertainty after a tedious and […]

By Oregon State Representatives Ed Diehl, David Gomberg, Virgle Osborne and State Senator-elect Bruce Starr Four state lawmakers say that the DOGE should ground the plan to kill more than 450,000 barred owls long protected by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act SALEM, Ore. – A bipartisan group of Oregon state […]