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 ...

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 ...

Though modernizing Oregon water law is a laudable target, irrigation district manager Brent Stevenson isn’t yet sure if lawmakers hit the bullseye this year. It will take time to know if the tweaks ...

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 ...

Washington in 2024 ranked No.1 in producing apples, blueberries, hops, pears, onions and sweet cherries. It was No. 2 in grapes, potatoes, raspberries and winter wheat, grapes. And in take-home farmer ...

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 ...

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 ...