Thursday, September 02, 2010
Editorial U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Attorney General Eric Holder are concerned about the fairness of agricultural markets. Last week they hosted a session in Fort Collins, Colo., that focused on the livestock industry. The USDA's Grain Inspection, Stockyards and Packers Admini ...
Thursday, September 02, 2010 11:08 AM
Editorial From public health investigators who just wouldn't give up the search for a rare salmonella variety to a regional dairy that left no stone unturned once the elusive pathogen was traced to its plant, you've got to celebrate the way the food safety system worked in the final weeks of Augu ...
Thursday, September 02, 2010 11:09 AM
Editorial In that fantasy land known as the California Legislature there exists a faction that believes there is only one way to do anything: theirs. One product of that misconception is a bill that says the farmworkers union wins if employers make a mistake during a union election. Mind you, ...
Thursday, September 02, 2010 11:10 AM
The Washington State Department of Agriculture is proud of our heritage of innovation and the entrepreneurial spirit of our employees. The organization is not satisfied with the answer: "We've always done it that way." It was that reputation for continual improvement and helping farmers and b ...
Thursday, September 02, 2010 11:12 AM
Editorial While the USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service considers its next step in the regulation of Roundup Ready sugar beets, we take note of criticisms leveled at APHIS by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White in his Aug. 13 10-page ruling that banned the genetically engineered crop' ...
Saturday, August 28, 2010 10:09 AM
Editorial Back before the turn of the last century, the nation's farmers got all worked up over the power of the railroads, their only ticket for moving large quantities of fruit, grain and livestock from rural areas to urban centers, where their customers lived. As our Tim Hearden reported la ...
Saturday, August 28, 2010 10:09 AM
Editorial Congress and the Obama administration have thrown many Western U.S. farmers under the truck -- literally. They have continued to ignore a portion of the North American Free Tree Agreement that required the U.S. to allow Mexico-licensed trucks into the U.S. NAFTA required that 15 year ...
Saturday, August 28, 2010 10:09 AM
There is a regulatory drought in California imposed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, harming farmers, workers, towns and businesses throughout the San Joaquin Valley and Southern California. The service's water restrictions, imposed because of the Delta smelt -- a finger-length fish -- are ...
Saturday, August 28, 2010 10:09 AM
Farms, aggregate mine can coexist Your story about Baker Rock's application to mine land our company owns on Grand Island shines a light on the false choices that all too often characterize land-use decisions. Land is an economic asset. Farming and the production of aggregate for our roads and bu ...
Saturday, August 28, 2010 10:09 AM
Editorial U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White's decision last week to vacate the deregulation of Monsanto's Roundup Ready sugar beets came as no surprise. His decision not to issue an injunction banning further plantings, consistent with a recent Supreme Court ruling in the Roundup Ready alfalfa ca ...
Saturday, August 21, 2010 9:09 AM
. The point of the study was to compare the greenhouse gas impact of agriculture if yields had not increased during the past four decades with that of modern high-efficiency production agriculture. Yields for some crops such as corn have more than doubled during that time, thanks to better hybrid ...
Saturday, August 21, 2010 9:09 AM
Editorial It's not often we find ourselves agreeing with the New York Times, but it struck a chord with us when last week the Gray Lady observed in an editorial that the U.S. Senate now has only two members who are working farmers -- Iowa's Charles Grassley and Montana's John Tester. The Times ...
Saturday, August 21, 2010 12:09 PM
Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant: It makes crops and forests grow faster. The earth is even greener now than it was just 20 years ago. Even if carbon dioxide were a pollutant the part contributed by man is less than 0.12 percent, and for that tiny part we would sentence the planet to programs w ...
Saturday, August 21, 2010 12:09 PM
Last week the Capital Press ran a front page story by Washington correspondent Jerry Hagstrom entitled "Survey: Seed signs baffle many urbanites." The story came from a speech and a subsequent interview with Mary Kay Thatcher, the American Farm Bureau's Washington lobbyist. In a speech to the ...
Saturday, August 14, 2010 10:19 AM
Denny Evans knows a lot about change. Seven years ago, the Chelan, Wash., apple grower became a victim of it. His banker called his loan and his market dried up as apple packinghouses, facing competition from all directions, were forced to grow bigger and squeeze prices lower. As price taker ...
Saturday, August 14, 2010 10:19 AM
Editorial It's easy to say the just-released new look at Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta water flows is "immaterial" -- which a prominent irrigation district official did last week. We have different advice for California irrigators and cities that look to water exports through the Delta: Ignore ...
Saturday, August 14, 2010 10:19 AM
Editorial At first, it seemed like shades of the film "Indecent Proposal." You know, the movie where the suave industrialist offers a young couple a million bucks if he can sleep with the wife. The audience is left to ponder the question of whether one's principled vows can be bought off, even by ...
Saturday, August 14, 2010 10:19 AM
Negotiators need limits on power Some of our public officials -- including non-elected negotiators -- believe that the assets of the earth belong to all of the people of the earth, and must be shared equally. One of the questions this raises is, should South Korea have to share with North Korea, ...
Saturday, August 14, 2010 10:19 AM
For many years, every president has had authority to ride roughshod over the public when creating national monuments. Under current law, a "top-down" executive order can be issued to create a national monument, with no opportunity for public input or congressional or state oversight. This has ...
Saturday, August 14, 2010 10:19 AM
Editorial Everyone likes family farms. They are, in every sense, the economic backbone of the United States. By growing crops and raising livestock, the 2 million family farms in the U.S. create value that drives both the rural economy and a large portion of the nation's economy. Family far ...
Saturday, August 07, 2010 11:18 AM
. Let's say officials of the Fish and Wildlife Service go along with the idea and decide that a pack of wolves should be established in nearly every state. They could deliver a mating pair of wolves to each of the states' capitols. Heck, they could send them Fed Ex if they wanted. Of course, t ...
Saturday, August 07, 2010 8:18 AM
Editorial California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger last week vetoed a bill that would have given farmworkers overtime pay after working 40 hours in a week, or more than eight hours in a single day. The bill, sponsored by state Sen. Dean Florez, D-Shafter, would have set overtime pay at time and a ...
Saturday, August 07, 2010 11:18 AM
I have a much larger audience to reach. Maybe other people have similar stories to tell about someone who has gone beyond the usual. Dr. Andrew Stang, of NW Veterinary Clinic, Stanwood, Wash., is that type of veterinarian. I commend you, Dr. Stang, for your compassion, your kind-heartedness, for ...
Saturday, August 07, 2010 11:18 AM
the next day. What else are you to do as a political appointee, serving at the pleasure of the president? Not only did USDA have it wrong, so did the national NAACP, until someone in Georgia called headquarters and offered the unedited video of Sherrod's speech. To its credit, the NAACP had that ...
Saturday, August 28, 2010 10:29 AM
Editorial Congress has passed a sweeping financial reform package, but it could be years before the bill's impacts on agriculture specifically and the economy in general are known. The measure was designed to curb abuses by big Wall Street firms its backers say led to the 2008 financial meltdo ...
Saturday, August 28, 2010 10:29 AM
Some family farms may be exempt from stringent government rules on hiring migrant and seasonal workers, but which farms is not clear. Scott Dilley, public policy analyst at the Washington State Farm Bureau, said two federal acts apply to hiring seasonal workers: the Fair Labor Standards Act, ...
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