State Releases Nitrate Reduction Plan for Lower Umatilla Basin By Oregonians for Food and Shelter Four Oregon state agencies [Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ), Oregon Department of Agriculture (ODA), Oregon Water Resources Department (OWRD), and Oregon Health Authority (OHA)] released their Nitrate Reduction Plan for the Lower Umatilla Basin […]

House Republicans Call for Changes to Wildfire Prevention Policies By Oregon House Republican Office, SALEM, Ore. – House Republican Leader Jeff Helfrich (R-Hood River) and state Representatives Ed Diehl (R-Stayton) and E. Werner Reschke (R-Klamath Falls) are calling for legislative action to improve wildfire prevention and suppression efforts next session. […]

By Oregonians for Food and Shelter, After the Oregon Court of Appeals invalidated the Environmental Quality Commission’s 2021 rules establishing Oregon’s Climate Protection Program, the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality started working on an updated rule to reduce carbon emissions. Following a rulemaking advisory committee process with various stakeholders this spring, DEQ […]

By Oregon Family Farm Association, Environmentalists are heralding new Oregon state rules that govern people who raise sheep, chickens, cows, and other animals as a needed clarification to prevent abuse by large livestock farms, but Ag trade groups say they place an unnecessary burden on farmers, according to Oregon Public […]

By Oregonians for Food and Shelter,   After the Oregon Court of Appeals invalidated the Environmental Quality Commission’s 2021 rules establishing Oregon’s Climate Protection Program, the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality started working on an updated rule to reduce carbon emissions. Following a rulemaking advisory committee process with various stakeholders […]

By Oregon Farm Bureau, Press Release, Mark your calendars for Saturday, September 7th, and get ready to show off your shooting skills at the annual Farm Bureau Trap Shoot & BBQ. Join us at Albany Gun Club for an afternoon filled with friendly competition, delicious food, and great company—all for […]

By Oregon Small Business Association Foundation, Oregon researchers partnering with PacifiCorp at a Wyoming wind farm hope painting one of the three fiberglass blades in 30 wind turbines black may save more birds and bats from dying in collisions, according to KLCC. A study in Norway showed painting one blade […]

U.S. Senator Ron Wyden, Press Release, U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley today urged the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to provide additional management flexibility and key investments for a full recovery of the rangelands that have been devastated during recent […]

By Oregonians for Food and Shelter OFS joined hundreds of other organizations around the U.S. in requesting an extension from EPA on the comment period for the recently released Draft Insecticide Strategy. The Draft contains 700 pages of highly technical information, and the resulting Final Strategy will have a significant […]

By Oregon State University Extension Office, Nick Andrews, Oregon State University Extension Service’s organic vegetable specialist, is one of the university’s resident experts on cover crops and a founding board member of the Western Cover Crops Council Cover crops are not grown to be eaten or sold — rather they […]