Author Archives: Syndicated Content

Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins announced Thursday the selection of Idaho’s Tom Schultz to serve as the 21st chief of the Forest Service.  Upon being sworn in, Schultz will repla...

New research from Oregon State University shows wild birds continue to be the biggest carriers of avian influenza.  Wastewater detections of bird flu are highest in or near communities with ...

What does sustainability look like in the ongoing research Oregon State University's Alexander Butcher is conducting?  And what role will sustainability play into the future?  He answer...

This week, the Idaho State Department of Agriculture started implementing a potash treatment in portions of the mid Snake River.  This is the 2nd phase of the multifaceted treatment plan fol...

For the 17th time in the last 18 months, the Rural Mainstreet Index dropped below 50 in February.  That’s from the monthly survey of bank CEOs across a ten-state region relia...

On Wednesday, the Senate confirmed Jamieson Greer as the new United States Trade Representative.  Greer is a trade lawyer who served as chief of staff to then-USTR Robert Lighthizer during t...

House Ag Chair G.T. Thompson renewed his calls this week for Farm Bill SNAP reforms that scuttled last year’s Farm Bill effort.  That came during a debate on a narrowly-passe...

Questions abound about the health and direction of the farm economy.  Ben Brown, agricultural economist with the University of Missouri’s Food and Agricultural Policy Researc...

President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order to make English the official language of the United States, according to a White House official.

SEATTLE, Wash. -- King County Public Health announced an infant has the first reported case of measles in Washington state in 2025. The department was notified Wednesday the child had become exposed d...