Solid quality and lower yields characterize Idaho’s potato crop as harvest continues. “Quality is consistent all over, from what I hear,” said Travis Blacker, Idaho Potato Commission vice president of ...

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 ...

For new Idaho Beef Council CEO Josh Whitman, working as a ranch hand during his high school years has been nearly as important as his subsequent career at one of the Northwest’s big players in the ...

The University of Idaho has appointed Randy Brooks as UI Extension director and associate dean of the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences. An Extension employee for more than 35 years, he starts ...

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 ...

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 ...

Depriving crops of summertime irrigation is sometimes an unfortunate necessity during Western droughts. But in some cases, farmers and researchers are withholding water by design — and still achieving ...

The Intertribal Timber Council and Sustainable Northwest will lead a $1.7 million project to help Native American tribes develop new markets for small diameter logs, brush and other overlooked wood ...

APPLEGATE, Ore. — Sam and Cathy Pennington grow 60 varieties of berries and make value-added products, so they know a thing or two about getting grimy in the fields as well as the comforting smell of ...

New research has found that northern spotted owls are approaching or have already crossed functional extinction across large areas of the Pacific Northwest, despite decades of conservation efforts to ...

A federal judge has decided not to overturn the U.S. Forest Service’s approval of an Idaho gold mine, despite identifying Endangered Species Act problems with the project. Last year, several ...