BY NAOMI INMAN
One ag student’s class competition is another family’s food on the table. That’s what happened at Perrydale high school in 1997 when a friendly rivalry between freshmen and sophomores snowballed into Food for All, a huge produce drive coordinated by Oregon’s Future Farmers of America (FFA) students to fight hunger and feed families. Continue reading
Matt Cyrus, President, Oregon Family Farm Association.
Oregon has been the nation’s top moving destination state three years in a row. This wave now includes California farmers looking for a better harvest. Continue reading
BY TIM LYMAN
At the Vancouver National Historic Reserve, is the oldest Apple tree in the Oregon Country. Continue reading
BY MATT EVANS
The Oregon spotted frog (Rana pretiosa) will get it’s day in a Eugene federal District Court. This will follow, by about two years, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service’s listing of the amphibian as “threatened” under the Endangered Species Act and the recent filing of the lawsuits by WaterWatch of Oregon and the Center for Biological Diversity located in Arizona.
At stake is water usage in the Upper Deschutes River basin. Continue reading
Detroit Reservoir in Drought
BY KURT HEATH
Even as drought conditions have improved in many states, Oregon’s drought continues and now ranks as the worst in the entire United States. What’s worse, the forecast leading into next year should be cause for concern among Oregon farmers.
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