State laws can’t impose warning requirements on pesticide labels that aren’t mandated by federal pesticide law, according to… ...
Country to spend $550 million on expanding fresh produce production Canada’s first Food Security Strategy could curb fresh… Seafood’s economic impact could grow with help from new agency Oregon’s ...
Pulse industry leaders are asking USDA to approve the use of pulse-based pasta and flours in school meals.… The United States won’t renew the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) in its current form, ...
The 2024-2025 U.S. pistachio crop is forecast at 1.1 billion pounds in-shell, its third largest harvest — and that’s for an “off” year with alternate bearing production. With more acreage than ever ...
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 ...
Construction of the Idaho Wheat Commission’s four-story Boise office building is slated to be completed later this summer.… ...
The U.S. Forest Service is denying it overreacted by pursuing criminal charges against a South Dakota ranching couple rather than resolve a land dispute civilly. “The Forest Service values its ...
CANBY, Ore. — Roy Hofer grows hazelnuts and is a “history nut” — a barn on his acreage holds a private farm machinery museum focusing on John Deere tractors. In a roundabout way, the collection led to ...
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 ...
Darigold has slashed milk payments to farmers by approximately 20% to 25% to finance cost overruns at a 500,000-square-foot processing plant under construction in Pasco, Wash. Darigold Chairman Tim ...
Though modernizing Oregon water law is a laudable target, irrigation district manager Brent Stevenson isn’t yet sure if lawmakers hit the bullseye this year. It will take time to know if the tweaks ...
MABTON, Wash. — The Mensonides family designed its dairy with “cow flow” in mind. Cows enter the milking barn in one direction and exit a different way. Free stalls are 3 feet longer, giving the cows ...