By Oregon Family Farm Association, Oregon farmers struggling to survive financially after severe hot weather and drought conditions in 2021 must wait even longer for relief—despite passage of a Senate bill that set aside $40 million to help them. The Oregon Disaster Assistance Program opened for applications May 9, five […]

By National Pork Producers Council, WASHINGTON, D.C., Mar. 28, 2022 – The U.S. Supreme Court at its Mar. 25 conference agreed to hear a case brought by the National Pork Producers Council and the American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) against California’s Proposition 12, which bans the sale of pork from […]

By National Cattlemen’s Beef Association The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) condemned the unfunded and duplicative Meat and Poultry Special Investigator Act of 2022, which was marked up by the House Agriculture Committee. “Cattle producers strongly support effective oversight of the meatpacking sector, but the special investigator bill does nothing […]

By Oregon Sheepherders Association, Draft Ballot Title issued for new IP#3. Initiative Petition #3, filed for the 2024 General Election, received a draft ballot title from the Attorney General — Criminalizes injuring or killing animals, including killing for food, hunting, fishing; criminalizes breeding practices. Exceptions. The draft ballot title and […]

By Oregon Family Farm Association, A former skateboarder descended from Cherokee and Grand Ronde grandmothers grows the world’s most expensive spice in a community northwest of Portland. Tanya Golden of North Plains set up Golden Tradition Saffron in 2018 two 30-foot-by-95-foot greenhouses on her parents’ property, according to The Oregonian/OregonLive. […]

American Farm Bureau Federation American Farm Bureau Federation President Zippy Duvall commented today on a bipartisan letter from members of Congress expressing concerns about the Security and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) proposed rule, “The Enhancement and Standardization of Climate Related Disclosures for Investors.” The proposal would require public companies to report […]

Oregon State University Extension Office Sudden oak death (SOD), caused by a non-native pathogen Phytophthora ramorum, has killed more than 1 million oak and tanoak trees in 15 coastal counties in California and thousands of tanoaks in Curry County, Oregon. The pathogen also causes foliar blights on many native shrub […]

By National Association Wheat Growers, The Administration announced that it would be making a $6 billion disaster relief payment through the Farm Service Agency’s (FSA) new Emergency Relief Program for crop years 2020-2021 available to farmers to offset crop yield and value losses. FSA will be sending out pre-filled applications […]

By Healthy Forests, Healthy Communities On Earth Day, President Joe Biden signed an Executive Order recognizing the role that federal forests play “in combating climate change and the importance of maintaining their resilience.” In their news coverage, the media largely focused on provisions aimed at “protecting old growth forests.” As […]

By Oregonians for Food and Shelter, EPA’s registration review process has ramped up lately, with a number of widely used products being proposed for restrictions. EPA recently issued a proposed decision for the herbicide diuron that would terminate all uses on food and feed crops, non-food agricultural sites (e.g., ornamentals) and […]