As an Oregon dairy farmer, I've seen struggles from the pandemic and stress on food supply firsthand. When the pandemic hit, consumers and farmers were anxious about food security, especially when supply chains were interrupted, but people also became more aware of where their food was comin…
The Green New Deal, climate and economic justice legislation popularized by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, should include funding for cultured-meat research. This new form of protein is grown from …
It happens every year: Come August, the University of Idaho springs to life as students and faculty return for fall classes in Moscow and at our centers around the state.
Over the last three years I have pointed out the occasions where people in pictures are not identified.
For more than three months Oregon has largely been ruled by emergency executive orders in response to the COVID-19 outbreak.
With all due respect, our friends at Harvard University are wrong.
As the COVID-19 pandemic has forced many of us to work, communicate and connect in completely new ways, it has also laid bare many of the pre-existing inequities in our society — chief among t…
I can say with certainty, there is no food industry relationship in the world that goes back farther than the relationship between U.S. wheat producers and the Japanese flour milling industry.
Farmers and ranchers feed our state, our nation and, in fact, our world. You work long hours to provide essential resources for us all, and in these challenging times, I want you to know that …
Fire is the rapid oxidation of burnable materials in a chemical process requiring oxygen, heat, and fuel, and a source of ignition.
In trying to create opportunities for domestic workers who lost their jobs because of the response to the COVID-19 pandemic, President Trump may have dealt a crushing blow to contractors respo…
The year was 1933, in the depths of the Depression and 15 million Americans were out of work and hungry.
The Washington State Grange is concerned that students are able to access the most nutritious food available as part of the school meal program — access free from misconception, but based on science.
As a parent I recently stared at a screen with a survey. The survey had two little check box options:
Those of us who live in the West have become all-too-familiar with catastrophic wildfires. Each summer, too many of our communities are susceptible to the devastating impacts of these threats.…
Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley should support federal funding for cultured-meat research. For those unaware, cultured meat is grown from cells, without slaughtering animals. It has the po…
Environmental advocates are howling over the Trump administration’s proposed update of rules that govern the National Environmental Policy Act — the first since its implementation in 1978.
For citrus growers around the world, huanglongbing represents a deadly threat. The disease, also called citrus greening disease or yellow dragon disease, originated in China and has spread to …
As members of the communities we serve, Farm Credit has seen first-hand the powerful role that entrepreneurship can play in transforming communities. Just like their urban counterparts, rural …
Farmers have long been good stewards of their land. They can also be good stewards of the Earth.
On July 1, the United States-Mexico-Canada Trade Agreement was officially implemented. The USMCA offers a fair free trade agreement that focuses on modernization and impartiality.
It was heartening to see Capital Press’ feature — “Oregon Women for Ag.” Women have always been a part of agriculture and critical members of the farming enterprise, and we are pleased to see …
Feeding America is a tough job, but U.S. farmers, ranchers, orchardists, dairy operators and food processors rise to the occasion every day. Together, they produce plenty of affordable food fo…
While the government’s decision is good news for ranchers, fruit growers and other opponents, this is unlikely to be the last word.
The Oregon Family Farm Association requested two bills be introduced into the 2017 Oregon Legislative session that could have saved NORPAC farmers tens of millions of dollars. Unfortunately, S…
Two recent developments in separate court cases involving glyphosate herbicides deserve comment.
Statistics can be misleading or, at best, present an incomplete picture.
One more time, dairy farmers thought their pay price would really rebound when they were told the Class III price (used to make cheese) for June was going to be $21.04 per hundred pounds.
What we eat, and how we grow it, is critical to maintaining our health as we seek to recover from a global pandemic
As a career forester and near daily observer of forest management plans and their physical application for more than 45 years, I have seen the results of both natural events and management’s p…
The declaration stands the test of time, its ideas are just as relevant to patriots and tyrants today as in 1776.
Who will fill my shoes? Who’s going to be the next one to plant the seeds, and grow and harvest the crops? Who will feed the calves and milk the dairy cows when farmers are no longer here or n…
Farming is not famed for its predictability.
To save our Constitutional Republic we need to restore liberty and the principles contained in the Declaration of Independence. These principles include:
National Cattlemen’s Beef Association representative Kaitlynn Glover misrepresents the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918 in her comments in the Capital Press’ June 25 article, “NCBA, PLC furth…
Earlier this month the U.S. Supreme Court rightfully put a decisive end to a bit of mischief that, if let stand, environmentalists would have used to hobble any number of projects.
Cattle ranchers in Oregon’s wolf country face a dilemma when a calf or cow turns up dead: Report it to the state Department of Fish and Wildlife and time the response with a calendar, or ignor…
There is much controversy, pro and con, over the trail proposed along a railroad right-of-way in Yamhill County, Ore. Much is not considered.
A lot can be learned from remedial, manual tasks on the farm. But as a 14-year-old in the heat of the summer a couple of decades ago, like most teens, I was not interested in life lessons. I w…
What do herbicide resistance and the COVID-19 pandemic have in common? They are both biological problems that require social cooperation to manage.
It is an honor unlike any other. The World Food Prize puts the spotlight not on a beautiful actress or handsome actor, but on a person who has made significant contributions to the Most Import…
We are constantly amazed by the way the media torture stories related to agriculture.
MOSCOW, Idaho — The 6.5-magnitude earthquake on March 31 near Stanley in south-central Idaho sent a ripple-effect of situations for researchers to explore.
A recent letter, with respect to the coronavirus, criticizes the Capital Press for being “unscientific.” This is a common and arrogant error, for the writer to assume than anyone who differs f…
June Dairy Month started out as a way to distribute extra milk during the warm months of summer. The commemoration was established in 1937 by grocer organizations sponsoring “National Milk Mon…
The next time you snack on an apricot, add huckleberries to your smoothie or eat pumpkin pie, thank a pollinator and thank farmers, ranchers and private forestland owners who work hard to crea…
The Yamhill County commissioners are hell-bent on converting a three-mile stretch of abandoned railroad into a recreational trail.
Capital Press is to be commended for its continued, professional reporting on the importance of our family farmers and ranchers, what they do for our Nation and the many challenges they face o…
The Boise River is the lifeblood of Idaho’s Treasure Valley, providing irreplaceable natural, social, recreational and economic value to our community. We each benefit from the river every day.
Those left unemployed by Oregon’s response to the coronavirus have suffered cruelly and needlessly at the hands of the bureaucracy.
Sometimes, you just have to take a stand. After all of the talk, all of the lawsuits, all of the promises, sometimes you need to stand up and say with a clear and unwavering voice, “This is wrong.”
COVID-19: the virus that has taken over everyone’s lives. Whether you have it, are scared of it, are quarantining because of it, have lost your job, closed your business, or are still working …
I was dismayed to read the recent editorial by this newspaper on the coronavirus. The anti-science approach by this organization, that purports to support and understand agriculture, was incom…
Your editorial staff would have appeared much more intelligent had they written the editorial on the financial markets on March 19 based on their predictions, rather than publishing it on May …
On May 23, Grant County received permission from the Washington State Department of Health (DOH) to move to Phase 2 of the Governor's "Safe Start Washington" plan. In my recommendation to the …
