A record U.S. hazelnut crop — almost all from Oregon’s Willamette Valley — is expected again as a wave of plantings from a decade ago reach full production, according to a new USDA report. The harvest ...

USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service seeks public comment on Bayer Crop Science’s petition to deregulate a genetically engineered cotton variety. The variety resists damage caused by pests ...

The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife is considering killing a second wolf in a pack attacking cattle in Asotin County is southeast Washington. Fish and Wildlife confirmed Sept. 23 that the ...

A groundwater measurement effort is expanding in growing southwest Idaho. U.S. Geological Survey employees, working with the Idaho Department of Water Resources, plan to measure groundwater levels in ...

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 ...

Boise National Forest staff plan to start setting controlled burns early in the week of Sept. 28 to reduce vegetation that fuel wildfires. The burns are expected to continue through the fall.

Blackfoot-area farmers Jerry and Valerie Bingham have sued the Idaho Department of Water Resources over a 2025 curtailment. The department “took the Bingham family’s private property (water rights) ...

An Oregon Department of Forestry aerial survey indicates Oregon tree health improved in 2025, with a slight dip in acres showing death and damage due to drought, disease, pests and storms. The U.S.

Esmaeil Fallahi, a retired University of Idaho professor of pomology and viticulture, received the prestigious International Society for Horticultural Science Fellow Award. The society presented the ...

The U.S. Forest Service is proposing to remove fire-damaged trees, reduce wildfire fuels and replant portions of the forest burned by the Akawa Butte Fire near Sisters, Oregon. The project covers ...

Oregon, Washington and Idaho should be warmer than average this fall as a strengthening El Niño approaches record potency, according to the National Weather Service. The weather service’s Climate ...

An animal rights group hopes billboard advertisements can stop a federal plan to protect spotted owls by killing thousands of barred owls. The Center for a Humane Economy has put up 18 billboards in ...