BOTHELL, Wash. — Jim Watts calls himself a farmer, but he doesn’t raise livestock or crops. Watts is a bee farmer. Across the West, growers are
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A lawsuit against the USDA is seeking to forbid organic certification of hydroponic operations, arguing only soil-grown crops can legally qualify as organic. The Center
There’s still time to register for a workshop offered Feb. 24 by Oregon State University Extension and the High Desert Food & Farm Alliance on
Honeybees, worth almost $20 billion to American agriculture, are worth protecting — and a new biological weapon scientists discovered may help combat honeybees’ main enemy,
FOREST GROVE, Ore. — Growing up on his family’s 2-acre farm in Guatemala, Alejandro Tecum came to despise the arduous chore of hand-tilling fields to
Registration for Oregon State University’s popular Small Farms Conference will open by Dec. 18. The day-long event will be held Feb. 22, 2020, at OSU’s Corvallis
The Idaho Extension Service will conduct a one-day workshop for those planning, or who have just begun, a small farming operation. “st a Small Farm
Landowners in Washington are more OK with the farmers renting their property making conservation efforts than previously thought, the American Farmland Trust says. The organization,
The Fletcher family knows the success of its first hemp-growing season could be tough to repeat come 2020. “It’s really finicky,” Vale, Ore.-based farmer Randy
PORTLAND — Greenhouse and nursery products continue to reign as Oregon’s most valuable agricultural commodity, with goods nearly topping $1 billion in 2018, according to
Registration is now open for the Cascadia Grains Conference, which seeks to connect smaller grain farmers with bakers, brewers, millers and health and nutrition advocates.
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