Author Archives: Syndicated Content

Governor Kotek added Curry and Union counties to Oregon's drought emergency list, with nearly all of Union County in severe to extreme drought as of the end of June. Continue reading…

Across the Pacific Northwest, spring wheat is nearly all headed out, and most of it is rated good to excellent — but hot temperatures moving through the region have USDA forecasters keeping a c...

Dairy West is putting defibrillators directly on dairy farms in Idaho, Oregon, Washington, and Utah after an Idaho farmer died from a sudden cardiac event and EMS took 34 minutes to reach a nearby far...

Oregon's wildfire season is a reminder that pets and livestock need their own emergency plans — including a packed go-kit with food, records, and a labeled carrier ready to grab on the way...

Aerial spraying for spongy moth wrapped up in Washington, and now the work shifts to 20,000 scent-baited traps placed statewide to see if the treatments actually worked. Continue reading…

U.S. beef brought in over $818 million in export value last May, the strongest per-head return in four years, while suspended plants in China continue to hold back an estimated 2 billion dollars in sa...

The USDA quietly shaved 14 million bushels off its U.S. wheat outlook this month, while farmers across the Black Sea region are looking at some of their best harvests ever. Continue reading…

Thousands of people have become sick since May from the illness. The source has not yet been identified, but Taco Bell is taking voluntary precautionary action amid the multistate investigation.

The grass under World Cup players' cleats was grown from Oregon seed — and there's a reason turf managers keep coming back to the Willamette Valley for it. Continue reading…

Cover crops, smarter grazing, and reduced tillage are showing up on tens of millions of acres across the U.S., and the federal government just committed $700 million to keep that momentum going. Conti...