Saturday, February 04, 2012
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SALEM -- On Feb. 1, Oregon State Forester Doug Decker completed his first year at the helm of the state Department of Forestry. Decker, who began with the department in 1987 as a public affairs specialist, rose to state forest division chief prior to the Board of Forestry selecting him to succeed ...
Thursday, February 02, 2012 11:00 AM
CORVALLIS, Ore. -- Rob and Sally Hilles, who run a fully integrated hazelnut operation near here, have been chosen as Nut Growers of the Year for 2011 by the Nut Growers Society of Oregon, Washington and British Columbia. The award, which was presented by society president Tim Aman at the nut growe ...
Thursday, February 02, 2012 10:00 AM
SALEM -- Rep. Mike McLane and five other legislators are making a run at increasing irrigation water withdrawals from the Columbia River. The lawmakers want to establish a task force "to develop recommendations for new allocations totaling 450,000 acre-feet of water from surface or storage source ...
Thursday, February 02, 2012 1:00 PM
OREGON CITY, Ore. -- USDA Under Secretary for Rural Development Dallas Tonsager says the agency is scaling back grants but maintaining its loan and loan guarantee programs in an effort to keep delivering services to rural America. Tonsager's comments Jan. 26 come a little more than two weeks afte ...
Thursday, February 02, 2012 10:00 AM
By SCOTTA CALLISTER East Oregonian Publishing Group WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Two collaborative restoration projects on federal forests in eastern Oregon will gain $6 million in funding for 2012 as part of a sweeping strategy announced Thursday by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. The funding inclu ...
Thursday, February 02, 2012 3:05 PM
Several scholarships are available to ag students in the region. They are as follows: Ag education foundation scholarships offered The Oregon Agricultural Education Foundation announces that applications are available for two scholarship programs for the 2012-2013 academic year. Oregon Farm Bu ...
Thursday, February 02, 2012 10:46 AM
LONGVIEW, Wash. -- Although a labor contract has not been signed, rank-and-file members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union have approved an agreement with the EGT grain terminal. The terminal has been the epicenter of a dispute between its owners and the ILWU since it began operat ...
Thursday, February 02, 2012 2:00 PM
ROSEBURG, Ore. -- Rancher Dan Dawson hopes Oregon hunters are aware of the predator problem and join the fight against coyotes, cougars and bears. Hunters and other outdoor enthusiasts are being given that option thanks to a law the Oregon State Legislature passed last year. When purchasing a lic ...
Thursday, February 02, 2012 2:00 PM
SALEM -- A committee has moved a bill to the House floor that gives the Oregon Department of Agriculture authority to raise food safety license fees as much as 3 percent a year. The House Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee passed House Bill 4003 on Feb. 1 after hearing supporting testimony ...
Thursday, February 02, 2012 3:00 PM
A bill to change the state's funding formula for fighting wildfires is among the farm and forestry bills expected to come before lawmakers in the legislative session that started Feb. 1. The bill, backed by the Oregon Small Woodlands Association, calls for evenly splitting the cost of fighting wi ...
Thursday, February 02, 2012 1:00 PM
The new manager of the Oregon State Fair and Exposition Center, Toni Payseno, plans to work closely with farm groups. "They are one of the vital partners in the fair," Payseno said. "The fair started with agriculture as a major goal for having the fair." Payseno took over as manager of the fair ...
Thursday, February 02, 2012 1:00 PM
WILSONVILLE, Ore. -- A bill to set a national welfare standard for egg-laying hens faces an uphill battle, according to the congressman who introduced it. Rep. Kurt Schrader, D-Ore., said House Agriculture Committee leaders have indicated they won't support the compromise legislation brokered bet ...
Thursday, February 02, 2012 10:00 AM
OREGON CITY, Ore. -- USDA Under Secretary for Rural Development Dallas Tonsager has announced the 23 Oregon recipients of business development assistance through the agency's value-added producer grant program. "These grants will improve financial returns and help create jobs for agricultural produ ...
Thursday, February 02, 2012 10:00 AM
Oregon State University Extension entomologist Peter Shearer said he still is catching spotted-wing drosophila in his traps in Hood River and Wasco counties, which shows the insect overwinters. But experiments to determine where it resides during cold winter months have been unfruitful. "It may ...
Thursday, February 02, 2012 3:00 PM
GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) -- Frustrated that a judge has blocked a state kill order against two members of Oregon's first wolf pack, the Oregon Cattlemen's Association is pushing legislation to boost the state's authority over the predators. Conservation groups that sued the state to stop th ...
Wednesday, February 01, 2012 3:45 PM
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Preliminary assessments indicate the wind, rain and snow that hit Oregon in mid-January caused an estimated $38 million in damage to nine counties. The Oregonian reports (http://is.gd/6Aykjh) that figure is expected to grow. Flooding was blamed for two deaths. H ...
Wednesday, February 01, 2012 7:43 AM
The Oregon Conservation Network has identified a bill to increase water withdrawals from the Columbia River as a threat to its pro-conservation agenda. In the network's legislative bills hotlist, House Bill 4101 is among four bills identified as "a major threat." House Bill 4101 would create a t ...
Tuesday, January 31, 2012 1:53 PM
State plant officials and the nursery industry hope to eradicate a plant disease new to Oregon before it gets a foothold. State officials uncovered boxwood blight in a Washington County nursery in December after tracing back infected plant material that had moved from the nursery to an outlet i ...
Tuesday, January 31, 2012 10:12 AM
WARM SPRINGS, Ore. (AP) -- Ten years ago, only homes in certain areas on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation had telephone service. Soon, many will have access to high-speed Internet, allowing them to access YouTube, Facebook and Netflix. Community members and government officials gathere ...
Monday, January 30, 2012 4:11 PM
Oregon Potato Co. will pay the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency a $66,235 penalty for failing to report an anhydrous ammonia release at the company's facility in Warden, Wash. "When unintended chemical releases occur, every minute counts if it is an emergency," Wally Moon, an EPA manager in Se ...
Monday, January 30, 2012 10:59 AM
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Brothers from Idaho and Washington and another man face a federal charge they conspired to commit bank fraud. Roger Spangenberg, of Post Falls, Idaho and brother David Spangenberg, of Spokane, owned three now-closed D&R auto dealerships formerly located in Hermiston a ...
Saturday, January 28, 2012 2:28 PM
LONGVIEW, Wash. -- The Port of Longview approved a settlement agreement Friday with EGT (Export Grain Terminal) and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union settling unresolved legal issues between the parties. The port also approved an amendment to its lease with EGT agreeing that the ter ...
Friday, January 27, 2012 5:08 PM
A former urban development manager for the city of Salem has taken over as the manager of the Oregon State Fair and Exposition Center. Toni Payseno also worked in Oregon Parks and Recreation Department for three years prior to her position with the city of Salem. She was hired earlier this month ...
Friday, January 27, 2012 4:48 PM
PORTLAND -- An environmental group claims the federal government should have reduced grazing instead of relying solely on herbicides to battle invasive weeds in an Oregon national forest. The group has asked a federal judge to block a herbicide spraying project on more than 20,000 acres of the Wa ...
Thursday, January 26, 2012 10:00 AM
Oregon's grass seed industry has been watching from the sidelines in recent years as landscape writers tout the benefits of replacing grass lawns with artificial turf, rock gardens and other nongrass landscapes. Not any more. Oregon's three turf grass commissions recently decided to enter the ga ...
Thursday, January 26, 2012 11:00 AM
BOARDMAN, Ore. (AP) -- The federal government said Thursday it would guarantee a large share of the financing for an eastern Oregon plant that would turn poplar trees and agricultural waste into ethanol. The $235 million loan guarantee is for ZeaChem Inc. of Lakewood, Colo., which plans ...
Thursday, January 26, 2012 10:16 AM
Giant cane still poses questions on energy production for PGE
Record attendance at Farm Fair opening
China market ripe for ag from Oregon
Corn prices on the rise, crop delayed
S. Korean officials debate plan to allow fresh Oregon berries
Oregon straw feeding some of the world's most expensive beef
Harmful potato disease appears in Eastern Oregon
Thousand cankers disease strikes black walnut trees
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