Managing range cattle using virtual fence technology is the focus of a discussion and field event scheduled Oct. 23 in the Jordan Valley, Ore., area. Registration for “Fencing Without Fences” opens at ...

Registration is now open for Washington State University’s popular two-day Wheat Academy. The academy runs Dec. 15-16 on… ...

Under a proposed legal settlement meant to discourage collusion, the data-sharing company Agri Stats would be prohibited from disseminating certain information among meat processors. The proposed deal ...

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 number of agricultural lenders has kept shrinking even as the amount of money they lend to farmers has continued increasing, according to federal statistics. The U.S. had 945 agricultural banks at ...

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 ...

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 for five more Oregon counties — Douglas, Gilliam, Harney, Lake and Malheur. Nearly half of Oregon’s 36 counties now have emergency drought status ...

TIMBERLINE, Ore. — Scientists detoured higher up Mt. Hood April 3 as they led journalists on a snowshoeing trek to a snow monitoring station — some areas below Timberline Lodge were unusually bare and ...

Retired cattle rancher Rod Haeberle recently counted nine fires within 20 miles of his home in north-central Washington. All summer, he looks outside and sees smoke instead of his neighbor. Haeberle, ...

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 ...

Opponents of Oregon’s “climate protection program” have persuaded a state appellate court to speed up the litigation against emissions limits affecting farms and other businesses. Environmental groups ...