Smaller parcels of farmland sell for higher per-acre prices across the U.S. and other parts of the world. That general rule ...

Proponents argue that House Bill 2950 is needed to overhaul “stale” and “outdated” citizen involvement rules that haven’t ...

The Trump administration is trimming the USDA and slashing funding for state climate change programs, while Washington, ...

Lawmakers have proposed a bill that would move the Food For Peace program, currently overseen by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), under the USDA umbrella. Rep. Tracey Mann, […] ...

A total of 19 USDA-Agricultural Research Service scientists and support personnel at OSU-affilitated research units in Corvallis, Burns, Hood River, Newport and Pendleton were dismissed last week, ...

The phishing emails contained the USDA logo to make the sender appear valid. Each email asked the recipient to confirm ...

Mud proved a formidable obstacle at times, but an experiment designed to reduce the number of rotting cattle carcasses in parts of eastern Baker County, which […] ...

Grant County PUD was at the center of a recent article in The Capital Press. Many of the comments made in the article were inaccurate with omissions, assumptions and accusations made. The ...

President Trump’s promise to deport all illegal immigrants and his executive order starting that work puts producers and farmworkers in a difficult position. It prompted us to dust off a reform ...

SPOKANE — The Washington Grain Commission is asking farmers what they want to do next regarding genetically-modified HB4 wheat. HB4 wheat is a transgenic wheat trait owned and sold by Bioceres ...

OLYMPIA — Washington legislators are considering toughening the state’s clean-fuel standard by forcing suppliers of conventional fuels to buy more low-carbon fuel credits. If legislators pass ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and U.S. Bureau of Reclamation are extending the public scoping period for their re-do of an environmental review of the Columbia River system operations.