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Jo Mancuso/OPBPresident Donald Trump on Tuesday slapped 25% across-the-board tariffs on imported goods from Canada and Mexico 鈥� our nation鈥檚 largest trading partner. Chinese goods entering the U.S. face an additional 10% tariff. That鈥檚 got Oregon food and agriculture leaders worried that retaliatory tariffs will hurt Oregon farmers. -
Kristyna Wentz-Graff/OPBPresident Donald Trump鈥檚 plan to impose sweeping tariffs on goods coming to the U.S. from Canada and Mexico may have taken a back seat, for now. But many farmers in Oregon are dependent on overseas markets, and concerned about the effects of a trade war.
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The extremely low water year in the Klamath Basin is prompting the Karuk Tribe to push for new water restrictions to protect salmon in Northern California鈥檚 Scott River basin. -
Agriculture is stressed across the region. Blueberries are ripening so fast, processors can鈥檛 keep up. Potatoes, a valuable Northwest crop, are growing in weird shapes, making them hard to cut into fries. Dairy cows produce less milk when overheated, so operators are misting them with water and turning giant fans on them. -
A new federal program created by the Biden administration to reverse years of economic discrimination against U.S. farmers of color has ground to a halt. -
It鈥檚 bone dry from Spokane, near the Washington-Idaho border, clear to Harney County in Southern Oregon, with triple digit temps on the way even later this week for some parts of the Northwest.
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Farmers, tribes and wildlife are facing what could be the driest year ever recorded in the Klamath Basin. The magnitude of that reality came on Wednesday, when the federal Bureau of Reclamation announced the annual water allocation for farmers in the Klamath Irrigation Project. -
The Klamath Basin is facing another year of drought. Klamath County commissioners have requested that Gov. Kate Brown make a state-level declaration. -
You can live an urban lifestyle in the region, but not in many places. We're surrounded by open country, much of it farmed. And farmers can use a little鈥� -
Stanley Crawford is best known as a writer, with several published novels and non-fiction works as well. But he's also a garlic farmer in New Mexico, and鈥� -
Agricultural operations can be very different, from each one to the next. Just think of the variety: from orchards of fruit trees to cattle ranches and鈥� -
Plow it up, plant it, fertilize it, reap it. That's the gist of conventional agriculture, and a growing number of farmers eschew the old practices for鈥� -
The drive to get people to eat food grown near their homes continues to produce new initiatives. The Oregon Farm Bureau, which already celebrated鈥� -
America's love affair with beef goes back a long way. Once a small-scale enterprise characterized by family ranches and the local butcher, the beef market鈥�
