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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Idaho Water Resource Board voted to create a Mountain Home Plateau regional sustainability program and to set aside $8 million to fund it. The program supports planning and building infrastructure ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sharply rising farm bankruptcies reflect growing distress in the agricultural economy, though they haven’t approached peak levels seen in earlier years, according to federal data. Last year, 315 ...

Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek declared drought emergencies April 21 for six more counties — Crook, Grant, Jackson, Jefferson, Morrow and Wallowa. All are east of the Cascades except for Jackson County, which ...

The federal court order to increase spill over Columbia and Snake river dams delayed adult salmon passage “significantly” at two dams, according to the Public Power Council. Citing reports from the ...