Oregon’s agriculture, food and fiber industry accounts for 13-15% of the state’s GDP — that’s more than the GDP of the semiconductor, electronics, software and information technology industries ...

Oregon cash rents for irrigated farmland aren’t keeping pace with inflation, according to a new analysis from Oregon State University. USDA data shows irrigated cropland rents hit $265 per acre this ...

Wilbur-Ellis is fighting a court battle to recover $2.7 million out of the nearly $6 million it advanced in agronomic services to the bankrupt Brewster Heights Packing and Orchards. The Colorado-based ...

The Pacific Northwest will receive more than $10 million to support specialty crops with new research, business development and marketing programs. On Oct. 13, the USDA announced $86.6 million in ...

The USDA will issue permits to release a European weevil to control flowering rush, an invasive aquatic plant spreading in the West and clogging irrigation ditches, spoiling waterfowl habitat and ...

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The emerald ash borer, a metallic green pest that has killed millions of ash trees in dozens of states, has now been found on opposite sides of Washington. The USDA Animal Plant Health Inspection ...

Oregon farmland preservation advocates are challenging Marion County’s decision to allow excavated soil to be dumped into a pit in an agricultural zone. Last month, the county’s board of commissioners ...

An Idaho timber project was wrongly faulted for increasing the number of road miles in a national forest, according to a federal appeals court. The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has overturned a ...

A Utah company proposes to fill a 90-acre reservoir with treated wastewater to prime a 500-megawatt pumped-storage hydropower project on farmland in north-central Washington. Salt Lake City-based ...

Higher input costs such as for diesel fuel, operating loan interest and fertilizer continue to concern farmers. The Purdue University-CME Group Ag Economy Barometer Index of farmer sentiment fell from ...

Supporters of a controversial rail-to-trail proposal in Oregon’s Yamhill County are asking voters to reinstate a long-term plan to develop the project. Earlier this year, the county’s board of ...