BOARDMAN, Ore. — A federal bankruptcy judge in California will allow the proposed sale of Lost Valley Farm to proceed as scheduled, despite objections from Oregon state agencies over who will clean up millions of gallons of wastewater and manure at the failed dairy.
SALEM — The Northwest Ag Show is at the Oregon State Fair and Exposition Center through Friday.
The Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board has approved new administrative rules for the state Agricultural Heritage Program, a voluntary grant program to preserve working farms and ranches.
SALEM — Despite misgivings about the proposal’s economics, a final review committee has recommended awarding an Oregon transportation grant to an intermodal facility in the Treasure Valley.
SALEM — Momentum is building behind a proposed intermodal facility in Millersburg, Ore., to receive grant funding from Oregon transportation officials.
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon's snowpack is below normal again and data shows the state is reaching historically normal levels less often.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon wildlife officials have started killing sea lions that threaten a fragile run of winter steelhead in the Willamette River.
The three Northwest legislatures go to work this month, addressing a wide variety of issues that will impact their state’s farmers and ranchers. In Oregon and Washington, the changing climate …
Inspections start in spring; small producers exempt
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Environmental groups in Oregon announced Monday they have withdrawn from talks on how to manage the state's rebounding wolf population because of what they called a "brok…
Though some Oregon farmers are worried about facing accusations of contaminating marijuana with pesticides, state investigation records show such allegations have been relatively scarce.
For the second time, the Oregon Land Use Board of Appeals has turned back a decision in Columbia County to rezone 837 acres of farmland for industrial development and expansion at Port Westward.
ROSEBURG, Ore. (AP) — Oregon State Police Fish and Wildlife officers are seeking information on the person or people who shot and killed an adult bald eagle in Douglas County.
The Umatilla Basin is nearly ready to break ground on two of three new water pipelines that will run from the Columbia River into four critical groundwater areas, part of a proposal to recharg…
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A new law that goes into effect Jan. 1 means people in Oregon will be able to harvest and eat roadkill.
For the first time in several years, Oregon reigns as the nation’s leading producer of blueberries, reclaiming a top spot the state lost to Washington several years back.
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Marijuana could take the next step toward joining pinot noir and craft beer on Oregon's list of famous exports, under a proposal likely to go before state lawmakers in the n…
SALEM — Seven finalists from across the state are seeking to become the 2019 Oregon Dairy Princess Ambassador, a program started 60 years ago by the Oregon Dairy Women to promote the dairy ind…
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The last year was a 12-month champagne toast for the legal marijuana industry as the global market exploded and cannabis pushed its way further into the financial and cul…
BEND, Ore. (AP) — A new state report says Bend would be the center of the state's emergency response in the worst-case scenario of a catastrophic earthquake along the Cascadia Subduction Zone …
MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) — Authorities say gray wolf OR-7's Rogue Pack has killed another cow at a northeastern Jackson County ranch, marking the seventh confirmed livestock kill attributed to the p…
SALEM, Ore. — The Oregon Department of Agriculture will not seek additional authority to regulate canola during next year’s legislative session.
SPOKANE, Wash. — Vince Peak and Eric Kobe are the innovators behind Share.Farm, a new smart phone application that helps local farmers find potential customers, and vice versa.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — High winds and heavy rains knocked out power to 17,000 people in northwestern Oregon, and winter warnings went into effect in western Washington.
Hemp Ag Solutions, of Tangent, Ore., is perfecting best management practices to help industrial hemp farmers expand their acreage and meet growing demand.
ROSEBURG, Ore. — Members of Communities for Healthy Forests said at a recent year-end meeting they are making progress in getting their message across to governmental agencies and the public r…
A coalition of environmental groups is asking Oregon lawmakers for a moratorium on industrial-size dairies, after the state recently approved the ill-fated Lost Valley Farm near Boardman, Ore.
SALEM, Ore. — When Chris Sarles joined Oregon Fruit Products as CEO five years ago, the longtime West Salem, Ore., company was already looking to leave its original facility and move into a ne…
JOSEPH, Ore. — Wallowa County irrigators and fish managers got an early Christmas present when they learned Oregon Gov. Kate Brown’s proposed budget includes $16 million to repair and replace …
Due to Oregon’s pesticide testing regime for marijuana and its high value, growers of more conventional crops worry about getting blamed for contamination.
SALEM — Gov. Kate Brown was eager on the campaign trail to tell voters she would represent all regions of the state.
Just two months into the new water year, Oregon is already lagging behind in precipitation and snowpack across much of the state, deepening concerns about another difficult drought year in 2019.
Brown needs to find $2.6 billion more than is already being paid in state taxes to cover her proposals for the state’s next two-year budget.
Oregon State Sen. Cliff Bentz, R-Ontario, is confident that proposed carbon cap and trade legislation will pass the Legislature in 2019.
At Wednesday’s Hermiston Farm Fair, the conference room at the Eastern Oregon Trade and Event Center was packed with growers and scientists listening to Phil Hamm talk about potatoes.
A continued shortage of Christmas trees from Oregon growers will likely mean higher prices this season for consumers.
The Northwest is already seeing the effects of climate change, according to a new national climate assessment. The 1,600-page report outlines dire consequences across the country as global tem…
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Pinot noir is one of the finickiest grapes, but with proper nurturing it produces an amazing wine. Officials in Oregon and at a U.S. government agency are similarly finicky,…
A lingering shortage from Oregon growers means Americans will once again pay more for Christmas trees this holiday season.
WASHINGTON (AP) — An internal watchdog has cleared Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke of wrongdoing following a complaint that he redrew the boundaries of a national monument in Utah to benefit a s…
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The Oregon Liquor Control Commission has recommended for a California winery to lose its licenses to distribute wine or do retail business within the state.
Attorneys for the federal government and an Oregon farmer accused of Clean Water Act violations have told a judge the dispute is “settled in principle.”
EUGENE, Ore. — The need was ahead of the plan for David and Jane Kelly when they established Oregon Horse Rescue in 2013. They were in the midst of buying their horse sanctuary when they came …
ROCKVILLE, Ore. — When Mike Greeley was 12, he shot his first sage grouse on his father’s Malheur County cattle ranch near the Idaho border.
GEARHART, Ore. — Located just off Highway 101 near Gearhart, is an agricultural operation that many people might more closely associate with the state of Washington than Clatsop County. But cr…
A Napa Valley winery at the center of a labeling dispute in Oregon has agreed to put new labels on two brands of Oregon Pinot noir, following an investigation by federal regulators.
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — People may need to trim back their Christmas tree expectations this year.
Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson spearheads an 11-state coalition joining the fight to overturn President Donald Trump’s downsizing of two national monuments in Utah, a court battle th…
Scott White, executive director of the Klamath Water Users Association in Klamath Falls, Ore., announced Monday he will resign from the job following a 2018 irrigation season plagued by drough…
Oregon’s farm regulators have submitted several possible scenarios for overseeing canola production in the Willamette Valley to legislative leaders.
Thanksgiving traditionally means food, family and football on TV, but for Willamette Valley wineries it also ushers in one of the biggest and most important sales weekends of the year.
MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) — A major California wine producer must stop using labels that imply a connection to Oregon pinot noirs.
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — The Oregon Cannabis Commission is recommending the state set up an independent agency to regulate legal marijuana rather than having three different agencies share the job, …
Canyon and Payette counties in southwest Idaho have been designated primary natural disaster areas due to drought.
