Items Tagged with 'Oregon'

Portland General Electric will procure 400 megawatts of new battery storage projects to advance renewable energy in the region.

The Oregon Department of Agriculture reports multiple changes in the state’s top commodities list, including increases in hemp and wine grape production value during 2021.

New York State’s proposal to reduce the overtime threshold for ag workers from 60 to 40 hours per week is meeting resistance from farm employers.

West coast seafood industry groups are asking the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to consider the impact on near-shore fisheries as they prepare a congressionally ordered report on the reintroduction of sea otters.

States in the West and the High Plains are currently facing what Brad Rippey, a USDA meteorologist in the Office of the Chief Economist, calls the “most expansive” drought the U.S. has seen since 2012 and 2013.

New animal rights agendas in Western states are threatening to curtail livestock production there as animal rights groups latched onto an environmental platform that calls for cutting back or eliminating meat consumption altogether to help slow climate change.