Saturday, February 11, 2012
Click here for RSS feedThe potato commissions of Idaho, Washington and Oregon have joined to hire a regional director of potato research. Andy Jensen assumed the position Feb. 1. According to a news release from the three commissions, Jensen will coordinate the planning and receipt of all research proposals, and m ...
Friday, February 10, 2012 4:37 PM
BOISE -- A bill that would give the Idaho Barley Commission authority to raise the grower checkoff rate has been introduced in the Idaho Legislature. The legislation, which is being backed by the Idaho Grain Producers Association, would give the commission authority to raise the grower assessm ...
Friday, February 10, 2012 4:26 PM
SODA SPRINGS, Idaho -- Monsanto Co. has given up development rights to 120 acres of key wildlife habitat to compensate for lost hunting opportunities on public land where its Blackfoot Bridge Mine is under construction. Under the terms of a deal that closed Feb. 9 with the Bureau of Land Manag ...
Friday, February 10, 2012 4:26 PM
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama's new budget predicts a $1.3 trillion deficit for the ongoing fiscal year but that would drop to $575 billion in 2018 if the president gets his wish to raise taxes and if policymakers can live within tight restraints on the Pentagon and other Cabinet a ...
Friday, February 10, 2012 4:26 PM
The trustee overseeing MF Global's liquidation said Friday that the shortfall between the funds under his control and the amount customers of the failed brokerage are expected to claim is at least $1.6 billion, incluging $700 million in customer money in Britain. The gap estimated by the ...
Friday, February 10, 2012 4:26 PM
NAPA, Calif. (AP) -- The late freezes and untimely rain impacted California's wine grape harvest just as vintners had predicted: The 2011 harvest was down 7 percent to 3.3 million tons. The preliminary harvest report was released Friday by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. It showed that ...
Friday, February 10, 2012 4:26 PM
SALEM -- The Senate Rules Committee has given its stamp of approval to three new state Board of Forestry appointments, despite objections from five natural resource groups to one of the appointees. In a letter to committee chair Sen. Diane Rosenbaum, D-Portland, the natural resource organizatio ...
Friday, February 10, 2012 4:16 PM
Sentiment for reform of the H-2A guestworker program is building in Congress, lobbyists for the U.S. apple industry say. Democrats and Republicans on the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement agree the H-2A program is flawed and they didn't a year ago, Nancy Foster ...
Friday, February 10, 2012 3:56 PM
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- The Arkansas Department of Health says a bull that died near Everton in northwestern Arkansas this week had rabies. A department news release on Friday says cases of rabies in cattle are rare. It says the last confirmed case was a cow that died in 2007 in Hempstead Count ...
Friday, February 10, 2012 2:56 PM
By Wallowa County Chieftain EMMETT, Idaho -- An Idaho hunter who apparently didn't realize his wolf tag was no longer valid shot and killed a collared male wolf from northeast Oregon's Imnaha Pack. The man was hunting for coyotes Jan. 2 when he spotted the wolf north of Emmett, near a cattle f ...
Friday, February 10, 2012 2:35 PM
LONGVIEW, Wash. -- Representatives of the EGT grain terminal and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union have signed a collective bargaining agreement, marking an end to a months-long dispute. The agreement, signed Feb. 10, addresses landside and shipside operations at EGT's new $200 milli ...
Friday, February 10, 2012 1:55 PM
BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter continues to champion his fiscal year 2013 budget proposal, dispatching lieutenants to the Legislature to argue that projected revenue justifies the spending plan he outlined last month. Budget chief Wayne Hammon has been jawboning l ...
Friday, February 10, 2012 12:06 PM
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a group of Republicans challenging California's newly drawn congressional maps. The California Citizens Redistricting Commission announced Friday that U.S. District Court Judge Stephen Wilson dismissed a challenge ...
Friday, February 10, 2012 12:05 PM
SALEM -- A top Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife official said the department believes it has the right to kill problem wolves after ranchers have exhausted nonlethal techniques to try and prevent depredation. The state's authority to kill wolves that kill livestock is being tested in the ...
Friday, February 10, 2012 11:55 AM
SALEM -- A bill clarifying the state's authority to kill two wolves responsible for numerous livestock deaths met with opposition at a legislative hearing Feb. 9. Ivan Maluski, conservation director for the Oregon Chapter of the Sierra Club, said killing wolves might be necessary in rare situa ...
Friday, February 10, 2012 11:45 AM
Bids as of 9:30 a.m.; subject to change. Bids for grains delivered to Portland, Oregon during February by unit trains and barges, in dollars per bushel, except oats, corn and barley, in dollars per cwt. Bids for soft white wheat are for delivery periods as specified. All other wheat and barley ...
Friday, February 10, 2012 10:15 AM
The Agriculture Department raised its 2012 milk production forecast in this week's World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates report after lowering it slightly a month ago. Look for output to hit 199 billion pounds, up 500 million pounds from last month's projection. Milk cow numbers were rai ...
Friday, February 10, 2012 10:15 AM
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) -- When local police arrived in riot gear to evict the Vuon clan, family members were ready with homemade land mines and improvised shotguns. In a guerrilla-style ambush reminiscent of a Vietnam War battle, they wounded six officers. But instead of drawing public conde ...
Friday, February 10, 2012 8:25 AM
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- There's reason for optimism down on the farm, providing that's a beef cattle operation in Tennessee or Kentucky. The mid-South states are the center of cow-calf beef production east of the Mississippi River. Kentucky ranks eighth nationally and Tennessee is ninth. ...
Friday, February 10, 2012 8:25 AM
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) -- A tight supply of seed corn is a growing concern for Minnesota farmers as spring planting approaches. Minnesota Corn Growers Association President John Mages says a seed dealer recently told him that if a farmer had a thousand acres of seed corn to plant and he o ...
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