Oregon farm regulators aren’t required to impose agricultural water restrictions to specifically prevent dairy manure pollution in Tillamook Bay, according to the state’s Court of Appeals. For nearly ...

Farmers and ranchers know uncertainty better than most. A spring freeze, wildfire, livestock lost to predators, or rain just as the hay is ready to cut can undo months of work. Agriculture demands ...

An animal rights group hopes billboard advertisements can stop a federal plan to protect spotted owls by killing thousands of barred owls. The Center for a Humane Economy has put up 18 billboards in ...

Solid quality and lower yields characterize Idaho’s potato crop as harvest continues. “Quality is consistent all over, from what I hear,” said Travis Blacker, Idaho Potato Commission vice president of ...

The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife killed an adult male wolf Sept. 17 in a pack that has been attacking cattle in Asotin County in southeast Washington. Fish and Wildlife will pause and ...

Colton, Wash., farmer Kyle Schultheis has been raising peas with oats for the past few years. The company ProGene Plant Research approached him, looking to raise a forage pea variety for seed. When ...

Wickiup Reservoir is expected to fall to extremely low levels this fall as water managers balance the needs of Central Oregon farmers with required flows for the threatened Oregon spotted frog in the ...

The Idaho Potato Commission named produce industry veteran Tom Hanyzewski as Northeast/Midwest foodservice promotion director. He will work primarily with foodservice distributors throughout the ...

Aerial treatments to control cheatgrass and noxious weeds are planned for this month in a fire-damaged part of Idaho’s east-central mountains. The Salmon-Challis National Forest, in partnership with ...

Drought eased in Oregon and Idaho with early September storms and lower temperatures, according to the Sept. 10 edition of the U.S. Drought Monitor. While conditions improved and dampened wildfire ...

A judge indicated he will approve the sale of the bankrupt Brewster Heights Packing and Orchards to the Legendary Fruit Company, praising attorneys for working out a deal that will keep the ...

TWIN FALLS, Idaho — By now, nearly 25 years into working for the Idaho Dairymen’s Association, Bob Naerebout and his son, Rick Naerebout, know what to expect from one another. Bob, 74, is the recently ...