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Northwest state agriculture directors are calling for the Environmental Protection Agency to revise its methods for establishing no-spray buffers for Western state waterways. In setting buffers for the first group of pesticides reviewed under a court order, EPA failed to consider the economic i ...
Friday, March 19, 2010 3:08 PM
ASHLAND, Ore. (AP) -- The Ashland City Council will not join the U.S. Forest Service as a defendant in a lawsuit over thinning in the Ashland watershed. Councilwoman Kate Jackson says the thinning project is essential to the health of the watershed, but the city's legal department ...
Friday, March 19, 2010 3:08 PM
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- A for-profit subsidiary of Portland-based EcoTrust has sold its first carbon credits from Washington forest land it owns. The deal puts more than 3,000 acres on Washington Olympic Peninsula into the market for credits designed to offset business and government ...
Friday, March 19, 2010 9:29 AM
The sugar beet industry expressed relief after a federal judge on March 16 denied an effort to block the use of genetically engineered seeds this season. "We're excited, we're glad," said Vic Jaro, president and CEO of Amalgamated Sugar Co. in Boise. "That turns us loose; our growers can ...
Saturday, March 20, 2010 9:08 AM
PORTLAND, Ore. -- Hay exporter Rollie Bernth doesn't suffer from a deficiency of overseas customers. The problem is transporting his hay across the Pacific Ocean, said Bernth, president of the Ward Rugh hay company in Ellensburg, Wash. "We're not able to get hay shipped," Bernth said ...
Saturday, March 20, 2010 10:09 AM
Oregon State University's College of Agricultural Sciences is proposing to merge some departments and change its name as part a university-wide strategic alignment initiated last year by Provost Sabah Randhawa. Under the proposal, the College of Agricultural Sciences would become the Coll ...
Saturday, March 20, 2010 8:08 AM
With many consumers these days pondering where their food comes from, agriculture is eager to tell its story to the non-farm public. Spurred by legislative and economic challenges as well as marketing opportunities, many agricultural voices can be heard as farmers, ranchers and commodity ...
Saturday, March 20, 2010 10:09 AM
The sage grouse isn't listed as an endangered species, but federal officials hope to help ranchers protect the bird's habitat and avoid that fate. "We have a window of time that we can take steps proactively to help the bird's habitat," USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service Chief Da ...
Saturday, March 20, 2010 10:09 AM
CHRISTMAS VALLEY, Ore. -- When Gary Perkins heard that solar companies were buying nearby fields and planning to fill them with commercial solar arrays, the Christmas Valley alfalfa farmer snapped up two parcels in front of his log cabin. He didn't want to see the sagebrush replaced by so ...
Saturday, March 20, 2010 10:08 AM
A leader in Pacific Northwest wheat breeding is leaving Oregon State University. OSU wheat breeder Jim Peterson in May will become vice president of research for France-based farmer cooperative Limagrain Cereal Seeds. Peterson will help the company build a U.S. wheat breeding progra ...
Saturday, March 20, 2010 10:09 AM
PORTLAND -- The Food Innovation Center, Oregon's only urban experiment station, is "well poised" to survive the current budget crisis, said station superintendent Michael Morrissey. The station "is doing better in product development than I would have thought, given what the economy is d ...
Saturday, March 20, 2010 10:09 AM
Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski has issued a drought declaration for Klamath County, expanding irrigation opportunities for growers facing potentially the worst drought since 2001. The executive order allows irrigators to apply for emergency water use permits. In addition to Klamath County, it ...
Saturday, March 20, 2010 10:08 AM
GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) -- Klamath Basin farmers will get some water for crops this year, but far less than they hoped for after protected fish get what they need to survive the drought. U.S. Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Mike Connor said Thursday it hopes to send at least 30 percent ...
Saturday, March 20, 2010 1:29 PM
The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service announced today that funding is available to help Klamath Basin farmers avoid soil loss. Under a special drought initiative, farmers are eligible to receive between 75 and 90 percent of the cost of establishing cover crops to decrease topsoil loss. ...
Saturday, March 20, 2010 11:29 AM
Oregon State University's College of Agricultural Sciences is proposing to merge some departments and change its name as part a university-wide strategic alignment initiated last year by Provost Sabah Randhawa. Under the proposal, the College of Agricultural Sciences would become the Coll ...
Friday, March 19, 2010 10:19 AM
Sam and Toni Rudnick run a small full-service custom feedlot near Hermiston, Ore., and they couldn't be happier. "I like the challenge. Every day is like being in the big game, and at the end of the day to have survived is really rewarding," Sam Rudnick said. At Reata Ranches, the Ru ...
Friday, March 19, 2010 1:09 AM
PENDLETON, Ore. (AP) -- It's been a drier than normal winter in northeast Oregon, but it's too soon for wheat farmers to panic. Tammy Dennee, executive director of the Oregon Wheat Growers League, said growers are watching their rain gauges and paying close attention to weather forecasts. ...
Friday, March 19, 2010 12:49 PM
BEND, Ore. -- Hundreds of goats browse through a field, nibbling and foraging through the available fare. These aren't just any goats, though they are the work force of Lariat Ranch Ecological Services. The business, based in Powell Butte, owns nearly 400 head of Spanish Boer and San Clemente g ...
Friday, March 19, 2010 1:09 AM
A federal judge in California has struck down an effort to block the planting of genetically engineered sugar-beet seeds this spring, but this may be the last season growers can plan on planting the crop for a while. In a ruling filed today, Judge Jeffrey White denied a motion by the Cent ...
Thursday, March 18, 2010 1:09 PM
GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) — The Pacific smelt, a small silvery fish that was a staple of Northwest American Indian tribes when the Lewis and Clark expedition arrived, is getting federal protection because it's been declining toward extinction due to global warming and other factors.The fish, al ...
Thursday, March 18, 2010 11:09 AM
CHRISTMAS VALLEY, Ore. (AP) -- When Gary Perkins heard that solar companies were buying nearby fields and planning to fill them with commercial solar arrays, the Christmas Valley alfalfa farmer snapped up two parcels in front of his log cabin. He didn't want to see the sagebrush replaced ...
Thursday, March 18, 2010 2:49 PM
Farmers and ranchers are eager to tell their story to the non-farm public, and both fear and hope are their motivators. On one hand, public misconceptions about food production and agricultural practices and proposed burdens such as cap and trade are prompting many farmers to take to the ...
Saturday, March 13, 2010 10:09 AM
GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) -- The Oregon Supreme Court on Thursday kept alive claims by Klamath Basin farmers that the federal government should pay them for shutting off water to crops in 2001 to help protected fish survive a drought. A federal appeals court had asked the state Supreme Co ...
Saturday, March 13, 2010 2:28 PM
Nursery groups from California and Oregon have filed suit against South Carolina, seeking to overturn regulations that limit plant shipments to that state. Plaintiffs in the case -- the California Association of Nurseries and Garden Centers and the Oregon Association of Nurseries -- filed ...
Saturday, March 13, 2010 10:09 AM
Sugar beet growers are already planting genetically modified seed even though a federal judge is expected to rule any day on an injunction that could bar further planting and use of the crop. Some beets have already been planted in the Amalgamated Sugar Co.'s growing area, said Duane Gran ...
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