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 ...

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 ...

Payette National Forest managers and staff plan prescribed fire operations in west-central Idaho this fall, pending required approvals. Work on the projects is expected to continue through December as ...

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 ...

CALDWELL, Idaho — Wine businesses comprise a key clientele for the University of Idaho Food Technology Center and Agribusiness Incubator. UI opened the facility, at the university’s Caldwell Research ...

ALMIRA, Wash. — The Pacific Northwest wheat crop yielded at least 20% above average across the board this year, a top U.S. and Washington farmer says. “Timely rains and growing conditions were perfect ...

SALEM — Oregon lawmakers and regulators are considering changing land use rules next year to allow for more housing construction on farmland and in unincorporated rural communities. Along one track, a ...

Aerial treatments to control cheatgrass and noxious weeds are planned for this month in a fire-damaged part of Idaho’s east-central mountains. The Salmon-Challis National Forest, in partnership with ...

Compared to last week, steers and heifers sold 5.00 to 15.00 lower. Auction supply was light with demand moderate to good with the better demand being for yearlings straight off grass in that highly ...

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) ...

Oregon lawmakers will consider banning the herbicide paraquat during the 2027 legislative session due to concerns about human health. Sen. Janeen Sollman, D-Hillsboro, said the Senate Energy and ...

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 ...