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
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
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
By Wallowa County Chieftain EMMETT, Idaho -- An Idaho hunter who apparently didn't realize his wolf tag was no longer valid shot and killed a collared male wolf from northeast Oregon's Imnaha Pack.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
SALEM -- Proposed state legislation to increase Oregon water withdrawals from the Columbia River is either a "major threat" or a welcomed jobs bill, depending on who is asked. House Bill 4101 would create a task force to recommend how to use 450,000 acre-feet of new water withdrawals from the Col ...
Thursday, February 09, 2012 9:00 AM
EUGENE, Ore. -- Reducing state and federal taxes would encourage creation of jobs, the co-owner of a major Oregon agricultural enterprise says. Consumers could help, too, by purchasing farm products grown in the United States, Karla Chambers said. Chambers and her husband, Bill, own Stahlbush Isl ...
Thursday, February 09, 2012 12:00 PM
ROSEBURG, Ore. -- Cy Holcomb and Nick Williams don't have a thousand bucks in their pockets. So when the Douglas County Livestock Association announced late last year it was beginning a new program -- giving a couple of heifers to area youths -- Cy and Nick were two of several teenagers who submi ...
Thursday, February 09, 2012 10:00 AM
ROSEBURG, Ore. -- Pacific Northwest ranchers are experiencing one of the driest winters on record. With the exception of a week of rain in January that soaked part of the region, they've enjoyed many blue-sky days with temperatures several degrees higher than what has been normal during past wint ...
Thursday, February 09, 2012 12:00 PM
WENATCHEE, Wash. -- The Southern Hemisphere apple harvest is just getting started and while it looks like a large crop, fruit size is small, a factor that should bode well for U.S. apple producers. Small apples don't sell well in the U.S., and Washington has enough small fruit from its 2011 crop ...
Thursday, February 09, 2012 10:00 AM
SALEM -- Cherry farmer Jerri McAllister, of The Dalles, took a day off Feb. 6 to teach folks at the Oregon Capitol about farming. "A lot of people don't ever get to speak to a farmer," McAllister said when asked why she volunteered to serve cake at the Capitol. "I think it is important for people ...
Thursday, February 09, 2012 11:00 AM
SALEM -- Grass seed growers no longer can consider what they produce a specialty crop, according to an industry expert. "I have some bad news for you," consultant Gary Whiteaker said. "(Grass seed) is not a specialty crop. It is a commodity. "You may want it to be a specialty crop," Whiteaker ...
Thursday, February 09, 2012 6:05 PM
SALEM -- The House Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee has passed a bill providing a refundable tax credit for livestock owners who lose animals to wolves and cougars. The committee voted unanimously Feb. 9 to move House Bill 4005 with a do-pass recommendation to the House floor, with subs ...
Thursday, February 09, 2012 1:55 PM
KENNEWICK, Wash. -- The Washington wine industry has worked hard to establish a reputation for quality. It needs to continue to build that reputation to reach the next level, a noted wine economist says. "To communicate the image, that's the way to winning the wine wars," Michael Veseth, Unive ...
Thursday, February 09, 2012 12:44 PM
Weather expert Art Douglas predicts drier conditions and development of an El Niño pattern this spring and summer. Historically, El Niños tended to form later and last longer, causing the Pacific Northwest to be dry all fall, winter and spring. Currently, the weather pattern suppor ...
Thursday, February 09, 2012 11:00 AM
SALEM -- A bill to increase water withdrawals from the Columbia River could surface Feb. 14 in the House Energy, Environment and Water Committee. The committee has scheduled a public hearing on House Bill 4101, beginning at 3 p.m. in Hearing Room D at the Oregon Capitol. The bill creates a task fo ...
Thursday, February 09, 2012 11:00 AM
SALEM -- Oregon's first long-term plan for meeting future water needs is getting a warm reception, to a point. Teresa Huntsinger, a program director for the Oregon Environmental Council, said overall, the proposed Integrated Water Resources Strategy is balanced. But, Huntsinger said, the council ...
Thursday, February 09, 2012 11:00 AM
SALEM -- The Oregon House Judiciary Committee on Feb. 8 passed a bill providing three Oregon counties funding and direction to redefine agriculture and forest lands. The committee sent House Bill 4095 to the Ways and Means Committee by a 7-3 vote despite objections from the Oregon Farm Bureau and ...
Thursday, February 09, 2012 11:00 AM
Biologists tracked alpha male and sent warnings to ranchers By JOSEPH DITZLER East Oregonian Publishing Group The GPS tracking collar on the Imnaha alpha male has stopped transmitting data, curtailing a text-message warning system that gave Wallowa County ranchers the heads-up on preying wolves. ...
Thursday, February 09, 2012 10:00 AM
SALEM -- Rep. Brian Clem, D-Salem, says that he believes sponsors have the votes to get two wolf bills through the Oregon House. Getting them through the Senate, however, could be another matter. House Bill 4005 would provide livestock owners a tax credit for livestock losses to wolves. A second ...
Thursday, February 09, 2012 11:00 AM
ELLENSBURG, Wash. -- Labor lawyers believe they have found a potential breakthrough for providing guestworkers to Washington's short-handed tree fruit industry. Last December, after the Obama administration announced a change in immigration policy to aid individuals applying for a green card (per ...
Thursday, February 09, 2012 10:00 AM
Deborah Kane, a former vice president of Ecotrust, has been chosen to head USDA's Farm and School efforts. As the new national farm-to-school director, Kane will work with USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service and its Food and Nutrition Service. While at Ecotrust, Kane helped turn Oregon's farm- ...
Thursday, February 09, 2012 11:00 AM
Oregon Potato Co. will pay the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency a $66,235 penalty for failing to report an anhydrous ammonia release at the company's facility in Warden, Wash. "When unintended chemical releases occur, every minute counts if it is an emergency," Wally Moon, an EPA manager in Sea ...
Thursday, February 09, 2012 11:00 AM
SALEM -- The Senate Rules Committee on Feb. 10 will consider Gov. John Kitzhaber's appointments to the Oregon Board of Forestry. They are: * Nils Christoffersen, executive director of the Wallowa Resources, a nonprofit organization in Enterprise, Ore., that works "to design and realize a new, heal ...
Wednesday, February 08, 2012 4:13 PM
Weather expert Art Douglas predicts drier conditions and development of an El Niño pattern this spring and summer. El Niño will bring dry conditions to the Pacific Northwest later this year, Douglas said. Historically, El Niños tended to form later and last longer, causin ...
Tuesday, February 07, 2012 5:52 PM
The federal agency that regulates much of the electrical transmission in the Northwest proposed a compromise Tuesday in a dispute with wind producers who were forced to shut down last spring, when heavy runoff produced too much hydroelectric power. The Bonneville Power Administration, bas ...
Tuesday, February 07, 2012 4:31 PM
Giant cane still poses questions on energy production for PGE
Record attendance at Farm Fair opening
China market ripe for ag from Oregon
Corn prices on the rise, crop delayed
S. Korean officials debate plan to allow fresh Oregon berries
Oregon straw feeding some of the world's most expensive beef
Harmful potato disease appears in Eastern Oregon
Thousand cankers disease strikes black walnut trees
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