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Gov. Brown's revised budget impacts CDFA, timber harvest plans
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The revised budget proposal that Gov. Jerry Brown submitted this week would cut an additional $2.5 million from the state Department of Food and Agriculture and make changes in timber harvest plans. The proposal also envisions a tax on lumber that would support regulatory a ...More sheep killed by wolf in E. Oregon
Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife agents have confirmed that a wolf is responsible for the death of three more sheep in Umatilla County. The depredation occurred on the morning of May 12 in a small pen near the house of a private landowner in the Weston Mountain area. One adult ram sheep wa ...Washington state advising 25 cities about dwindling water
ELLENSBURG, Wash. (AP) -- A study of dwindling water supplies in 25 Eastern Washington communities shows that some of their municipal wells could go dry as soon as a decade. State officials say the problem is not an immediate crisis but a looming one. They are working to better educate th ...Top Stories
Shasta College farm has an eye on sustainability
REDDING, Calif. - A local community college farm here has its eye on sustainability - for more reasons than one.
Shasta College instructors and students refurbished a 1960s-era milling machine with a hammer mill for chopping hay and a tub grinder for processing feed grains.
The college grows all ...
Malheur County voters opt to support research station
ONTARIO, Ore. -- Malheur County farmers expressed relief over the passage of a ballot measure May 15 that will help ensure the future of Oregon State University's research station and extension office near Ontario.
A measure that will raise $365,000 for OSU's experiment station and extension an ...
With large PNW fruit crops forecast, enough pickers the big worry
Large crops and labor are on the minds of many in the Washington tree fruit industry.
Good bud set, a warm spring without major freezes, good pollination and increasing production from newer plantings fuel anticipation of large cherry, pear and apple crops.
A near record 20.3-million-box Pacific N ...
Idaho
Idaho event to unite growers, school food service directors
School food service directors can't seem to get enough of Corby Garrett's Saturn peaches. Nicknamed donut peaches, they're about an inch thick and 4 inches in diameter, with white flesh -- and they're intensely sweet.
Thanks to Idaho's Farm to School program, Garrett Ranches, a 400-acre fruit far ...
Aide to Reid says farm bill could come to floor in June
An aide to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said the senator hopes to bring a draft of the 2012 farm bill to the Senate floor next month. "The farm bill is a top priority for Sen. Reid, and he hopes to be able to bring it to the floor in June," Adam Jentleson, Reid's communications director ...Land O'Lakes reduces milk supply through incentives and buyouts
Land O’ Lakes has offered buyouts to some of its California member dairies in an effort to address a “significant increase” in Golden State milk production. “Land O'Lakes offered its members a number of options that were intended to address the situation,” Jean ...California
Shasta College farm has an eye on sustainability
REDDING, Calif. - A local community college farm here has its eye on sustainability - for more reasons than one.
Shasta College instructors and students refurbished a 1960s-era milling machine with a hammer mill for chopping hay and a tub grinder for processing feed grains.
The college grows all ...
Gov. Brown's revised budget impacts CDFA, timber harvest plans
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The revised budget proposal that Gov. Jerry Brown submitted this week would cut an additional $2.5 million from the state Department of Food and Agriculture and make changes in timber harvest plans. The proposal also envisions a tax on lumber that would support regulatory a ...Aide to Reid says farm bill could come to floor in June
An aide to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said the senator hopes to bring a draft of the 2012 farm bill to the Senate floor next month. "The farm bill is a top priority for Sen. Reid, and he hopes to be able to bring it to the floor in June," Adam Jentleson, Reid's communications director ...Oregon
Malheur County voters opt to support research station
ONTARIO, Ore. -- Malheur County farmers expressed relief over the passage of a ballot measure May 15 that will help ensure the future of Oregon State University's research station and extension office near Ontario.
A measure that will raise $365,000 for OSU's experiment station and extension an ...
With large PNW fruit crops forecast, enough pickers the big worry
Large crops and labor are on the minds of many in the Washington tree fruit industry.
Good bud set, a warm spring without major freezes, good pollination and increasing production from newer plantings fuel anticipation of large cherry, pear and apple crops.
A near record 20.3-million-box Pacific N ...
More sheep killed by wolf in E. Oregon
Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife agents have confirmed that a wolf is responsible for the death of three more sheep in Umatilla County. The depredation occurred on the morning of May 12 in a small pen near the house of a private landowner in the Weston Mountain area. One adult ram sheep wa ...Washington
With large PNW fruit crops forecast, enough pickers the big worry
Large crops and labor are on the minds of many in the Washington tree fruit industry.
Good bud set, a warm spring without major freezes, good pollination and increasing production from newer plantings fuel anticipation of large cherry, pear and apple crops.
A near record 20.3-million-box Pacific N ...
EPA urges common sense for spill plan
RITZVILLE, Wash. -- The Environmental Protection Agency is advising farmers to use common sense when considering whether their farm meets requirements for a fuel spill prevention plan.
"If you lost the entire contents of any single tank, where would it go?" said EPA on-scene coordinator Greg Weig ...
Washington state advising 25 cities about dwindling water
ELLENSBURG, Wash. (AP) -- A study of dwindling water supplies in 25 Eastern Washington communities shows that some of their municipal wells could go dry as soon as a decade. State officials say the problem is not an immediate crisis but a looming one. They are working to better educate th ...Opinion
Grass seed, nursery industries revive
Editorial
Grass seed growers and nurserymen in Oregon's Willamette Valley were hit hard when the housing industry hit the skids, and they have had a tough go the last three years or so.
There are signs that seed inventories that had been piling up in barns around the valley are starting to move, a ...
Roman EPA has PR problem
Editorial
If any federal agency needs a good public relations firm, it's the Environmental Protection Agency. The EPA needlessly gives itself more black eyes than any other federal agency. The Internal Revenue Service is warm and fuzzy compared to the EPA.
Most recently, a video surfaced of a regi ...
Mom instrumental to farm's success
Mom has farmed with my dad in Madras, Ore., since 1989. They manage roughly 500 irrigated acres of carrot seed, grass seed, alfalfa, peppermint and wheat. To grasp how exceptional my mother is, you have to understand the path she took to become a farm mom.
In the 1980s, my parents gave up a comfo ...