The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held back-to-back hearings Oct. 13 on whether federal protection for wolves should… ...

A federal judge in California has given the U.S. Department of Labor until Dec. 30 to adopt a new wage scale for seasonal foreign farmworkers. U.S. District Judge Kirk Sherriff in Fresno signed an ...

Industry leaders celebrated USDA Agricultural Research Service and Washington State University’s new state-of-the-art research facility Oct. 14 on… Registration is now open for Washington State ...

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 ...

Oregon’s fishing industry has expressed strong support for the new USDA Office of Seafood. Yelena Nowak, Oregon Trawl Commission director, called the development long overdue and said the agency will ...

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 ...

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 ...

If we’re to address retail beef prices, which are the prices consumers pay for beef, then we need to start at the retail beef market and work our way upstream into the beef supply chain. We know that ...

Quagga mussel detections in the Middle Snake River decreased substantially in the past year. The Idaho State Department of Agriculture now is detecting 77% fewer veligers, or larvae, than in 2025 ...

They’re the misfits of the log world. Too thick, too short, too irregular or too uneconomical for the sawmill, they’re also often found in awkward locations that defy easy extraction. The unlucky ...

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 ...

ALBANY, Ore. — Ken Fox recalled the Albany Farmers’ Market from decades ago, when growers sold produce from pickup beds or constructed makeshift booths with bricks and two-by-fours. He started with ...