Miss Oregon: Agricultural Ambassador to Japan
BY NAOMI INMAN
Oregon’s Department of Agriculture (ODA) deployed a new culinary ambassador this recent February when Miss Oregon 2015, Ali Wallace, flew to Japan to promote trade and raise eyebrows for her home state’s sensational food and beverage exports.
Oregon Wine Industry Flourishes
Attracts Out of State Buyers
BY MATT EVANS
In the last decade, Oregon’s wine industry has evolved from a cottage industry into one the state’s burgeoning economic engines.
Oregon FFA’s Future is Bright
Not Enough Teachers to Catch Up
The FFA Motto: Learning to Do, Doing to Learn, Earning to Live, and Living to Serve.
BY NAOMI INMAN
When you think of the Oregon FFA Association (OFFA), three words come to mind:
NW Cranberry Growers See Record Growth
Sometimes all it takes is an opportunity. That’s what cranberry growers in Oregon and Washington have been given following the 2015 fall harvest season.
BY KURT HEATH
As demand for cranberries and related market competition continue to rise in the United States and around the world, the Northwest’s cranberry industry is poised to capitalize on a less than stellar 2015 in Wisconsin, which is the largest cranberry growing state in the country.
Oregon Seed Council Director Roger Beyer
BY KURT HEATH
Driving between Portland and Eugene, one can’t help but notice Oregon’s wide-open beauty.
Cattle Replaces Nursery as Oregon’s Top Ag Commodity
BY KURT HEATH
The Oregon Department of Agriculture reports that cattle and calves has taken the lead in production value for 2014 in Oregon’s top agricultural commodities.
Jason & Nataly Mattox
BY KURT HEATH
Respect for others. Commitment to family. Honoring true heroes. Keeping your word. Doing what’s right. According to Jason Mattox, these are the hallmarks of the “Western way of life.”
Senator, Coach, Firefighter; but Most of All a Farmer
BY NAOMI INMAN
Flanking the eastside of the Hood River Valley, and just to the south of Whiskey Creek Road, a fair stretch of Eastside Road winds along miles of winter pear orchards, dotted with vintage farm homes. A modest but dignified, crisp, white, salt-block home has stood as a Thomsen family residence for the better part of a century.
FFA High School Students Serve Thousands of Oregon Families
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.
California Looks to Oregon for Farm Salvation
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.
