Agriculture

For millennia humans have tried to scare wolves away from their livestock. Most of them didn’t have drones.

Oregon cherry farmers expected a boon this season. The summer fruit was high quality, and production was up from last year. But this season was more of a bust.

The Trump administration tapped the Republican Tootie Smith to lead the federal agency.

The man is an asylum seeker for Guatemala who immigration authorities already let back into the U.S. in 2024.

Earlier this summer, the federal government took back over a billion dollars that was already promised to conservation groups, farmers and ranchers. In Oregon, some of those grants would have gone to wildfire mitigation in forests and rangelands. But those projects are now on pause.

The Washington State University study evaluated groundwater levels throughout the Washington portion of the Columbia Plateau Regional Aquifer System, which spans areas of Washington, Oregon and Idaho.

Immigration agents pulled over a van in Marion County on Thursday morning, busted through the driver’s window and detained four farmworkers on the way to their jobs at a blueberry farm, according to attorneys representing one of the workers.

Oregon's latest land use battle pits farm stands against one of the state's biggest conservation groups.

The goal was to clarify what’s allowed with so-called farm stands — usually the farms families go to to buy local fresh produce, pick berries or run through a corn maze. Conservation groups say the changes would preserve farmland. But some farmers active on social media said they would threaten aspects of their business.

Some Oregon farms are up in arms about proposed changes to so-called farm stand rules. Gov. Tina Kotek has paused the changes for now, here’s a look at a few of the underlying issues.