The U.S. Bureau of Land Management named Birk Roseman as its Twin Falls district manager. Roseman  succeeds longtime district ...
The Trump administration is trimming the USDA and slashing funding for state climate change programs, while Washington, ...
A total of 19 USDA-Agricultural Research Service scientists and support personnel at OSU-affilitated research units in Corvallis, Burns, Hood River, Newport and Pendleton were dismissed last week, ...
Lawmakers have proposed a bill that would move the Food For Peace program, currently overseen by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), under the USDA umbrella. Rep. Tracey Mann, […] ...
Mud proved a formidable obstacle at times, but an experiment designed to reduce the number of rotting cattle carcasses in parts of eastern Baker County, which […] ...
OLYMPIA — A Republican lawmaker introduced a bill to shield farmers from cap-and-trade fuel taxes, taking another crack at keeping a promise legislators made when they passed the climate-change law.
Grant County PUD was at the center of a recent article in The Capital Press. Many of the comments made in the article were inaccurate with omissions, assumptions and accusations made. The ...
Counties could opt out of Oregon’s ban on cougar hunting with dogs under a bill that proponents claim is needed to protect livestock and wildlife. Under Senate Bill 769, voters could exclude ...
SPOKANE — Three Washington high school seniors are the first recipients of the new Spokane Ag Show scholarship. Alyssa Williams, of Lind-Ritzville, and Amelia Ray, of Reardan, both received $ ...
OLYMPIA — Washington legislators are considering toughening the state’s clean-fuel standard by forcing suppliers of conventional fuels to buy more low-carbon fuel credits. If legislators pass ...
SALEM — Oregon lawmakers may mobilize a team of state agencies to fix the bureaucratic pitfalls that often prevent treated wastewater from being reused for irrigation. House Bill 2169 would ...
An economic analysis confirms what farmers already believed — Oregon’s new agricultural overtime rules will negatively affect farm profitability and could decrease weekly earnings of workers.