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Wednesday, May 16, 2012

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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 ...

Wednesday, May 16, 2012 10:18 AM

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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 stat ...

Wednesday, May 16, 2012 10:18 AM

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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 productio ...

Wednesday, May 16, 2012 9:08 AM

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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 ...

Wednesday, May 16, 2012 8:27 AM

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 ...

Wednesday, May 16, 2012 10:18 AM

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 ...

Wednesday, May 16, 2012 10:18 AM

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 ...

Wednesday, May 16, 2012 9:08 AM

Grass seed, nursery industries revive

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, as are nur ...

Thursday, May 10, 2012 11:00 AM

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