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Wednesday, June 19, 2013

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Longtime FFA advisor retiring in August

PALOUSE, Wash. -- There were a lot of tears in Garfield-Palouse High School when Buddy Carter announced his plans to retire this summer. "From both sides," Carter said, noting he told his students before he told anybody else. Carter, who turns 64 in July, has served as Garfield-Palouse FFA advis ...

Wednesday, June 19, 2013 8:44 AM

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Oregon

State fair bill goes to governor for signature

SALEM -- The Oregon House has given its unanimous support to a bill that creates a public corporation to run the Oregon State Fair and Expo Center. Senate Bill 7 is the state's l ...

Wednesday, June 19, 2013 3:16 PM

House passes ODA budget

SALEM -- The House has sent the Oregon Department of Agriculture's proposed 2013-15 budget to the desk of Gov. John Kitzhaber. The House on June 19 passed the budget, containe ...

Wednesday, June 19, 2013 2:26 PM

Senate panel OKs renewal of timber county funding

GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) -- A U. S. Senate committee on Tuesday endorsed legislation to extend federal subsidies for timber counties one more year, and to protect more wilderness ...

Wednesday, June 19, 2013 7:33 AM

Oregon field day to cover water efficiency, sweet potato trials

ONTARIO, Ore. -- A tight water year in the region could turn a presentation on water efficiency into the highlight of the Malheur County experiment station's annual Summer Farm F ...

Wednesday, June 19, 2013 9:05 AM

Idaho

Second potato supply lawsuit moved to Idaho

A grocery supplier's federal lawsuit filed in Kansas alleging United Potato Growers of America and some cooperative members artificially inflated prices through cartel-like effo ...

Wednesday, June 19, 2013 9:35 AM

Global sugar consumption to increase, study predicts

Global sugar consumption is projected to increase from 166 million tons to 203 million tons in the next seven years, according to a report released this week by Rabobank's food ...

Wednesday, June 19, 2013 9:05 AM

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Salatin to address permaculture series in Moscow

Joel Salatin, local-food advocate, farmer and author, will deliver an all-day workshop from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. June 29 at the Latah County Fairgrounds in Moscow, Idaho. During his m ...

Wednesday, June 19, 2013 8:34 AM

Intermountain Grain & Livestock

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 ...

Wednesday, June 19, 2013 7:54 AM

California

Fresno County grapes exceed $1 billion in value

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) -- A new report finds that for the first time in history, a Fresno County crop -- grapes -- has exceeded $1 billion in production value. Fresno County's annua ...

Wednesday, June 19, 2013 7:44 AM

Rice industry satisfied with farm bill provisions

SACRAMENTO -- State and national rice industry representatives say the Farm Bill now being considered in the U.S. House of Representatives is about the best that growers could h ...

Tuesday, June 18, 2013 10:43 AM

Spending bill includes funding for citrus disease research

FRESNO -- A Florida congressman who serves on the House of Representatives Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee announced he has secured funding in a spending bill for additiona ...

Tuesday, June 18, 2013 1:12 PM

UC scientists receive $450,000 to study pesticide alternatives

SALINAS, Calif. -- Two University of California scientists here have received about $450,000 in state grants for research to improve crop yields and reduce pesticide-associated ris ...

Tuesday, June 18, 2013 1:02 PM

Opinion

Facts, fiction blur in debate

Editorial To critics of genetically modified crops, the discovery of an acre or so of unauthorized Roundup Ready wheat in an Oregon field was a worst-case scenario come true. R ...

Friday, June 14, 2013 12:00 AM

Federal agency hides too much

Editorial The Oregon Farm Bureau has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Labor seeking public records concerning the department's use of "hot goods" orders. In Febru ...

Friday, June 14, 2013 12:00 AM

Safety rules would kill some onion farms

Editorial We have commented before on this page that we have major concerns about the new Food Safety Modernization Act, the regulations for which are currently in the comment pe ...

Friday, June 14, 2013 12:00 AM

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Agriculture should move 'beyond conventional'

Recently some farmers have begun using the term "beyond organic" as a new label to set their products apart from other "(merely) organic" alternatives. This is, as one farmer fr ...

Friday, June 14, 2013 12:00 AM

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