Friday, November 20, 2009
. "It's common sense ... that agriculture would be given the priority, but the opposite has happened." In Washington, D.C., Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced the launch of the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, a new agency modeled after the National Science Foundation and th ...
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Editorial Production agriculture has taken some heavy hits in recent years, including field worker fatalities that turned California regulators loose on farmers with a flurry of regulations. So it's good to see an agriculture employer, Gallo Family Vineyards with headquarters in Healdsburg, is ...
Thursday, November 19, 2009 9:57 AM
How does cap and trade stop pollution? Let me get this straight. (Companies like) Sierra Pacific Industries own thousands of acres of non-polluting trees. So the "politicos" have decided that they can sell carbon credits to the polluters so that the polluters don't have to stop their pollution ...
Thursday, November 19, 2009 10:04 AM
There are several fee-shifting statutes that allow an aggrieved citizen to recover an award of costs and attorney fees in a legal action involving the federal government. The administrative Equal Access to Justice Act and the judicial Equal Access to Justice Act are just two. The standar ...
Thursday, November 19, 2009 10:00 AM
The estate tax has for years compromised a family's ability to successfully transfer their agricultural businesses to the next generation of farmers or ranchers. The estate tax was originally passed as part of the Emergency Revenue Act of 1916, and was part of the nation's preparation for Worl ...
Thursday, November 19, 2009 10:02 AM
Editorial Most experts agree that it's only a matter of time before the cost of borrowing money goes up. That's bad news for farmers and ranchers who depend on both short- and long-term loans to capitalize their operations. Producers plagued by low prices will have to squeeze by on tighter ...
Saturday, November 14, 2009 12:03 PM
Editorial Exactly 35 years ago this Saturday, four state organizations joined forces to create a new national group, the American Agri-Women. "Beset with many serious problems, American agriculture, as a fragmented industry, lacked a single voice through which to speak to bring about effec ...
Saturday, November 14, 2009 12:03 PM
During 2008, the Idaho dairy industry generated an estimated $2.15 billion in milk sales. That amounts to 34 percent of Idaho's farm cash receipts, which places dairy ahead of all other agricultural commodities produced in Idaho. Obviously, life down on the farm is changing. In turn ...
Saturday, November 14, 2009 12:03 PM
Government and your health It seems that every time the news gets dull, it is livened up with another story of unsanitary conditions in the meatpacking industry. This started about 120 years ago with writers known as muckrakers, and led to Pure Food and Drug laws and federal meat-grading and in ...
Thursday, November 19, 2009 9:53 AM
. The fundamental problem in states such as California, Oregon and Washington state is the initiative process has run wild. Ever since 1978, when Proposition 13 passed in California, measures that dictate tax rates, set state policies and make other laws have proliferated. Some of them are ...
Saturday, November 07, 2009 10:03 AM
Editorial It's fascinating to watch the California Legislature's special session on water. Not only is the future of Central Valley irrigated agriculture at stake, but the long-simmering soap opera of a state divided over the notion of a peripheral canal keeps bubbling up. The canal, many ...
Saturday, November 07, 2009 10:03 AM
We heartily agree with Tom Mallams' statement that appeared in your newspaper regarding potential dam removal: "The public must have complete information so it can reach an informed decision." Unfortunately, that's about all we can agree with as Mr. Mallams' article included much misinformation ...
Saturday, November 07, 2009 10:03 AM
Spin is on dam removal The most aggressive media blitz in the history of the state of Oregon is in progress. This effort reminds me of an overly aggressive, obnoxious salesman, trying to sell an inferior product to an unsuspecting public. The impression is being put forward that dam removal is ...
Saturday, November 07, 2009 10:03 AM
Editorial In farm country, perhaps no two animals are more different than a dairy cow and a hog. Yet their owners find themselves in strikingly similar circumstances these days. For many dairy farmers and pork producers, an accurate description of their circumstances is "dire." Milk ...
Saturday, October 31, 2009 1:04 PM
. "My goal is to see as much as I can." Ag groups have been accommodating, and are taking the opportunity to show an up-and-comer with a promising future in state leadership as much about California's $36 billion farming industry as she wants to see. Her fact-finding has paid off. She said ...
Saturday, October 31, 2009 1:04 PM
Advocates of mandatory country of origin labeling -- mCOOL -- continue to believe the justification and primary purpose of this law is to impede, reduce or otherwise stop imports of Canadian or Mexican beef and live cattle. They also believe, incorrectly, that restricting trade through increasing re ...
Saturday, October 31, 2009 5:04 PM
, is doing a great job of informing its readers of subjects untouched by regular media -- at least not by media in the Seattle metropolitan area. Maxine KeeslingWoodinville, Wash. ...
Saturday, October 31, 2009 5:04 PM
. "I don't think we have any idea how much money is being spent. But I think it's huge." There's more. She found that three environmental groups -- Western Watersheds Council, Forest Guardians and the Center for Biological Diversity -- filed more than 700 lawsuits against the U.S. government fr ...
Saturday, October 24, 2009 11:03 AM
Editorial It's encouraging to review last week's water news in California, a state beset by three years of drought and dogged by political infighting that threatens efforts at physical fixes to domestic and agricultural water systems clearly in need of help. It wasn't just the first Pacifi ...
Saturday, October 24, 2009 11:03 AM
The most aggressive media blitz in the history of Oregon is in progress. This effort reminds me of an overly aggressive obnoxious salesman trying to sell an inferior product to an unsuspecting public. The dam removal and Klamath Basin Restoration Agreement seem to be continually forced along i ...
Saturday, October 24, 2009 11:03 AM
Environmentalists use taxes against us We have a long history of good people forming nonprofit groups to address problems, but few nonprofits declare victory after meeting their original goal. Those that disband often do so because of financial pressures. Raising money for overhead and ad ...
Saturday, October 24, 2009 11:03 AM
Editorial There was a glimpse at a right way, and a quixotic example of another way to bring this country safer food in the week just past. The right way was a deal the warehouse store giant Costco made with Tyson over testing beef trimmings before they are turned into ground beef patties. ...
Saturday, October 17, 2009 10:04 AM
Editorial Mention Michael Pollan's name to a group of conventional ranchers or farmers and you'll hear no shortage of harsh opinions. Pollan, a journalist and University of California-Berkeley professor, is the author of "The Omnivore's Dilemma" and other books and essays critical of moder ...
Saturday, October 17, 2009 10:04 AM
Editorial Save the farms! States across the West have attempted to do just that, but each in its own way. Oregon has developed the most elaborate system of state-controlled land-use laws and goals, but California's Williamson Act and Washington's and Idaho's efforts aim to do pretty much the sa ...
Saturday, October 17, 2009 10:04 AM
There is no shortage of difficulties for those of us in the newspaper business. There are sources to call, stories to write and deadlines to be met. But every newspaper publisher will tell you that the most daunting problem is getting the paper from the press into the readers' hands. If the pa ...
Saturday, October 17, 2009 10:04 AM
Editorial It's another typical water year in the Klamath Basin, which straddles Oregon and California. Water is scarce. Despite sporadic fits of fall rain, migrating salmon in one upstream tributary of the mighty stream remain "kegged up" in deep water pools, waiting for enough runoff to make t ...
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