Author Archives: Syndicated Content

While only a few weeks old, the Northwest cherry season is off to a great start.  With what growers have called "perfect production weather", large numbers of red and yellow che...

For the first time since January 2016, Michael Parrella is not the dean at the University of Idaho’s College of Agricultural and Life Science.  Parrella said while it&CloseCu...

Earlier this month, the Trump Administration issued a memo, pulling out of the Resilient Columbia Basin Agreement.  Supporters of the Snake River dams applauded the move, saying this will ke...

If you're a certain age, you most likely think the best, or maybe the only, way to communicate with young people is on-line and via social media.  Josh Nelson, the 2024-2025 Idaho FFA V...

On Friday, NASS mailed the July cattle survey to about 18,000 cattle operations nationwide to provide an up-to-date measure of U.S. cattle inventories.  This is the first July catt...

Agritourism and the economic and social opportunity it provides, the family farms and communities they serve, continues to expand.   “There are large, diverse opportunities there and it rea...

Another crop of new college graduates are out looking for jobs to start careers, and the ag industry is a good place to begin.  Tammy Jensen, president of AgriCareers Recruiting Service, talks ab...

The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife has scheduled prescribed burns for the Thurston County area this summer.  The Department said the goal of these burns, which will start as earl...

Oregon State University announced last week the appointment of Dr. Gail Langellotto as Director of the BioResource Research program in the College of Agricultural Sciences.   Langellott...

The June USDA Beef Production and Steer Price forecast had a familiar ring to it; extremely tight beef supplies, and prices that continue to set new records.  World Agricultural Outlook Boar...