Thursday, June 20, 2013
Click here for RSS feedThe U.S. Supreme Court has refused to review a lawsuit launched by Sagebrush Rebellion icon Wayne Hage against the federal government over property rights. Hage's battle with the U.S. Forest Service dates back to the 1970s and eventually led to the filing of a lawsuit in 1991 alleging the agency h ...
Wednesday, June 19, 2013 9:35 AM
GREAT FALLS, Mont. (AP) -- The Bureau of Land Management must consider a wider range of grazing alternatives, including some that provide more protections for public land, when it reviews permits in the Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled. ...
Wednesday, June 19, 2013 8:04 AM
POCATELLO, Idaho (AP) -- Idaho Farm Bureau Intermountain Grain and Livestock Report for Tuesday, June 18. POCATELLO -- New Crop: White wheat 6.00 (down 65); 11.5 percent winter 6.61 (steady); 14 percent spring 7.45 (down 1); barley 9.58 cwt (steady); hard white 6.61 (steady); BURLEY -- New Crop: ...
Wednesday, June 19, 2013 7:54 AM
SALEM -- The Senate Rules Committee on June 18 unanimously moved a bill with a do-pass recommendation that keeps in motion an agreement on managing wolves in Oregon reached recently between ranchers, the environmental community and the governor's office. The agreement, reached in May, is contin ...
Tuesday, June 18, 2013 3:43 PM
Crooked Calf Syndrome (CCS) is a malformation of calves resulting from cows grazing certain species of lupine during early pregnancy. Typical skeletal deformities in these crooked calves include twisted or bowed limbs, spinal column deviations and cleft palate. These deformities can either reduce ...
Tuesday, June 18, 2013 10:43 AM
YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) -- West Nile virus has turned up in two samples of mosquitoes collected in Yakima County. The state Health Department says the virus turned up almost a month earlier than in previous years. The virus is spread by mosquito bites, so people are advised to wear insect repellan ...
Monday, June 17, 2013 9:51 AM
ANDERSON, Calif. -- For Sarah Davis, a journey into FFA involvement started with her family. The 15-year-old high school student from here didn't grow up on a farm, but her uncle did. Her older brother, Daniel, started in FFA as a high school freshman, prompting Sarah to join soon afterward. Now ...
Thursday, June 13, 2013 11:44 AM
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- A federal judge on Wednesday moved a South Dakota beef processing company's defamation lawsuit against ABC News back to state court. Beef Products Inc. sued American Broadcasting Companies Inc. and ABC News Inc. for defamation in September over its coverage of a me ...
Thursday, June 13, 2013 10:03 AM
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- A beef cow in south central North Dakota that originated in Texas has tested positive for bovine tuberculosis in initial tests. State animal health officials say the cow has been removed from the herd and killed. Results of additional testing are expected within two mont ...
Thursday, June 13, 2013 10:03 AM
Thailand's pork producers rallied June 11 in front of Government House, the seat of Thailand's government, against plans to import U.S. pork and pork offal. The protesters presented 100 pig heads as part of a ritual to seek divine blessings for their cause, according to media reports. Some of t ...
Wednesday, June 12, 2013 2:03 PM
WASHINGTON -- The Senate passed the farm bill on June 10, putting pressure on the House of Representatives to pass its version quickly. "We need to get this done. It has to be done by Sept. 30," when the current farm bill extension expires, Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Debbie Stabenow, D ...
Wednesday, June 12, 2013 12:42 PM
CENTERVILLE, Wash. -- Two farmers in Klickitat County have opened a state-licensed slaughter facility for poultry, rabbits and fowl to serve south central Washington and north central Oregon. Renee Kreinbring owns Gateway Farm near Centerville about nine miles southwest of Goldendale. Mary Wils ...
Tuesday, June 11, 2013 10:30 AM
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- Here's a head-scratcher for you: In August, sheep in Massachusetts will begin drinking water from the Beartooth Mountains as part of an experiment to better understand the record of climate change preserved in fossilized teeth. Daniel Green, a graduate student in the Depart ...
Monday, June 10, 2013 10:07 AM
The Canadian government on June 7 signaled it may impose retaliatory tariffs on more than three dozen American commodities, including beef, pork, rice, corn, apples, cherries and wine, as a result of the U.S.' mandatory country-of-origin labeling law. Canada's ministers of trade and agriculture ...
Friday, June 07, 2013 4:17 PM
SACRAMENTO -- A slightly watered-down bill to crack down on cattle rustling is in the state Senate after breezing through the Assembly on a series of unanimous votes. The bill by rancher and Assemblyman Frank Bigelow, R-O'Neals, seeks to increase penalties for livestock theft, which he and Califo ...
Friday, June 07, 2013 11:36 AM
SACRAMENTO -- About 75 students in 4-H are converging on the state Capitol here to learn how government works. The organization's annual California Focus conference June 14-18 will involve youngsters in a mock primary election, meetings with their actual representatives, a visit to an appeals c ...
Thursday, June 06, 2013 10:52 AM
MOUNTAIN HOME, Idaho -- Dairy and livestock operators can glean a lot of knowledge from "lagoon guru" Steve Harris at a two-day workshop, July 24 and 25, scheduled for Mountain Home. Harris is the president and owner of H&S Environmental, Mesa, Ariz. He has worked with wastewater operators ...
Tuesday, June 04, 2013 10:49 AM
SALEM -- A House committee has approved a bill advancing a recently reached settlement for wolf management in Oregon. Among other provisions, House Bill 3452 provides Oregon ranchers the first "permit-less take" since wolves gained protections under the federal Endangered Species Act in 1973. ...
Monday, June 03, 2013 4:57 PM
BEIJING (AP) -- The force behind China's biggest takeover of an American company is a 71-year-old meat-packing entrepreneur dubbed "China's Chief Butcher" by the press who built an empire on his country's voracious appetite for pork. The $4.7 billion bid for Smithfield Foods by Wan Long, cha ...
Friday, May 31, 2013 8:34 AM
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- A judge agreed Thursday to allow an eastern New Mexico rancher to sell his herd of allegedly emaciated cattle to a Texas buyer after a state agency seized livestock from his drought-stricken ranch. A Tucumcari district attorney told the Albuquerque Journal Thursday that D ...
Friday, May 31, 2013 8:23 AM
American beef industry representatives hope a world body's upgrade of the United States' risk status for bovine spongiform encephalopathy to "negligible" will expand existing markets while removing barriers in places such as China. The Scientific Commission for the World Organization ...
Thursday, May 30, 2013 11:02 AM
SALEM -- A bill that establishes new penalties for owners of certain estray livestock is headed to the desk of Gov. John Kitzhaber. House Bill 2025 stipulates that an owner of estray cattle, equine and bison that knowingly or recklessly allows the livestock to run at large is subject to a fine ...
Thursday, May 30, 2013 11:13 AM
SALEM -- At first, House Speaker Tina Kotek thought a bill introduced in May that required transportation workers to properly dispose of road kill in wolf country was a joke. "I told her it's not a place holder or a joke," Rep. Bob Jenson, R-Pendleton, said. "For ranchers in wolf country, this ...
Wednesday, May 29, 2013 10:50 AM
Several environmental groups have filed a legal complaint claiming that USDA sheep research in Idaho disrupts the recovery of threatened grizzly bears. The environmentalists allege that the U.S. Sheep Experiment Station near Dubois, Idaho, has become a "black hole for carnivores," with continue ...
Tuesday, May 28, 2013 10:59 AM
In 1913, 51 cattle ranchers met in Baker City to form the Oregon Cattle and Horse Raisers Association. One hundred years later, the group, now the Oregon Cattlemen's Association, returns to Baker City to celebrate a century of advocating for Oregon cattle producers. The three-day celebration of ...
Tuesday, May 28, 2013 9:48 AM
TORONTO (AP) -- Canada said Thursday that it is considering retaliatory measures against the United States in a dispute over meat-labeling rules that Ottawa and the World Trade Organization consider discriminatory. The Canadian government said that new U.S. country of origin labeling regulation ...
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