Conservation group criticizes act, plans to increase logging U.S. Rep. Cliff Bentz has pushed forward new legislation to reaffirm timber production as the primary purpose for nearly 2.5 million acres ...

Oregon farm regulators have fined the seed dealer DLF USA nearly $200,000 for record-keeping violations they discovered while investigating the company for underpaying farmers. Last year, 11 farmers ...

Specialty crops and the yet-to-be-updated farm bill pose“math problems” related to funding share and a shrinking percentage ...

The best thing U.S. farmers have right now in politics is that “people love farmers.” “People very much respect farming,” said Anthony Peña, vice president of policy and communications for […] ...

Washington farm groups are lobbying against legislation that threatens to imprison people for environmental violations such ...

A proposed new farm bill contains multiple wins for wheat farmers, including doubling of funding for foreign market development, codification of Food for Peace under USDA and ag labeling uniformity, ...

Kay Riley, an onion industry leader regionally and nationally, received the Pat Takasugi Leadership Award at the Idaho Ag Summit Feb. 17 in Boise. Takasugi was a grower-shipper […] ...

Little opportunity for meaningful expansion until 2028 The U.S. beef cattle market should continue flying high but also faces turbulence in 2026 thanks to the lowest inventory in 75 years, […] ...

Legislation intended to streamline the regulation of water from the Columbia river has died in committee but Oregon lawmakers expect to resurrect it next year after further negotiations. […] ...

The Connection” is the title of an Idaho Soil Health 5 for 5 Roundtable series webinar slated online from 10 to 11:30 a.m. Mountain Feb. 25. […] ...

Legislation to give Washington farmworkers collective-bargaining rights stalled, failing to meet a deadline to pass the ...

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins on Feb. 19 announced USDA’s intent to purchase up to $263 million in dairy and agricultural products from American farmers and producers to distribute to food […] ...