farmers

In Oregon, about 10 percent of residents struggle with food insecurity. In the Rogue Valley, one nonprofit has found a unique way to help: a free farmers market, open to all.

The program, funded in large part by taxpayer money, pays farmers when their crop yields decline in an effort to keep the agricultural sector economically stable.

Farmers in Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Alberta are all dumping potatoes

The measure is the most divisive of the 2022 short legislative session. Lawmakers have largely been split along party lines, with Republicans echoing concerns of many farmers who say the legislation would devastate the state’s agricultural industry and force family farms to move toward automation or sell to large corporations.

House Bill 2358 had been considered dead. A new proposal to use public money to cover farmers' overtime costs might not change that fate.

At issue is a 1975 California law that allows union organizers limited access to farms so they can seek support from workers in forming a union.

Farmers live among us and grow our food. And a number of programs urge us to get to know local farmers better. Here's another place where Covid-19…

Two married brothers were farmers in their hometown of Red Bluff, Calif., when they decided to try their hand at cattle ranching. The brothers, John B.…