It’s too early to tell the agricultural impacts of three wildfires around Spokane, an emergency management spokesman said. The Old Trails Fire, Fairview Fire and Autumn Lane fires began Aug. 1 and are ...

Washington wheat farmer Karl Kupers was flying home from Washington D.C. when he looked down at the Midwest farmland. “I thought, ‘How in the world can 1% of us still get what we’re getting from the ...

USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has confirmed classical scrapie in a sheep slaughtered in a facility in Oregon. The National Veterinary Services Laboratory will conduct ...

Animal-rights activists are asking the Federal Aviation Administration to let them continue flying camera-equipped drones over farms, claiming that banning overhead surveillance would shield animal ...

Recent surveys show Americans’ frustration with high grocery prices and indicate consumers are buying less produce or swapping out fresh for cheaper processed fruit and vegetables. “When budgets are ...

HOOD RIVER, Ore. — About 50 tree fruit growers, scientists and farm professionals heard about the latest pear and cherry research during the Oregon State University Mid-Columbia Agricultural Research ...

Future President Ulysses S. Grant tapped into his Ohio farming background while serving in the Army in the Pacific Northwest. Grant was with the 4th U.S. Infantry, which had been stationed in various ...

Citing the need to provide certainty to farmers, the USDA is sticking with a wetland maps policy that environmental advocates argue is insufficiently protective. In the 1985 Farm Bill, Congress ...

Urban development isn’t yet encroaching on Northwoods Nursery near Molalla, Ore., but owner Jim Gilbert isn’t taking any chances. To preserve the 66-acre property as farmland in perpetuity, Gilbert is ...

Grant County, Wash., farmers opposed to having a major transmission line on their property have a problem: It’s easier for the local utility to condemn private land than cut through the red tape to ...

Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek declared drought emergencies for five more Oregon counties — Douglas, Gilliam, Harney, Lake and Malheur. Nearly half of Oregon’s 36 counties now have emergency drought status ...

Published 4:31 pm Wednesday, February 14, 2024 By Staff Reports ...