WORDS : ERIC FRUITS , PH.D.
Eric Fruits, Ph.D. is chief economist and president at Economics International Corp. and an adjunct professor at Portland State University.
PATRONAGE INCOME
Sales and business with the co-op’s own members. Often the most significant source of income for an agricultural cooperative. Continue reading
BY NAOMI INMAN
Follow the road to Aurora — and a bit of your curiosity — to meet a unique Oregon agriculture entrepreneur. As you pull off Highway 99 and walk through the red door of the unassuming Pacific Hazelnut gift shop, you’ll meet an equally unassuming auto manufacturing engineer turned hazelnut wizard. Continue reading
BY TIM LYMAN
Nothing about the quiet little town of Frenchglen, in southeastern Oregon, would lead you to believe that it was ever part of the Wild West, but in the 1890s, it was the center of a bitter land feud between cattlemen and homesteaders. Continue reading
BY MATTHEW EVANS
This August, the world’s first 100 percent solar hazelnut processing plant went live at Northwest Hazelnut Company (NWH). Continue reading
OFFA Lobbyists, Richard Kosesan and George Okulitch
BY RICHARD KOSESAN
Oregon’s 2017 Legislative Session convened on February 1, and came to a close on July 7, 2017, just three days ahead of the Constitutional deadline. Continue reading
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