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Over the last few years, farmers and ranchers in southern and eastern Oregon have dealt with record-breaking grasshopper infestations. To help fight the plant-munching swarms, the state's department of agriculture will send funds to five of the most impacted counties.
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Many regional reservoirs that store water for irrigation are doing better than they were last year. Two good winters have helped water managers build up their reserves.
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Working a farm is a very different business from 100 years ago. Farms are bigger and numbers of farmers smaller, due in large part to mechanization. And…
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A recent report from Oregon State University outlines some of the issues facing farming and farmers in Oregon. For one thing, many aging farmers are…
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It's not just city people who dream of buying a chunk of land in the country and living closer to nature. But especially for the ex-urban dwellers, the…
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Irrigation is not a new idea, but farmers in our region once got through the growing season without it. Dryland farming, it's called; and it requires…
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It's not just our loud music that escapes over the fence into our neighbor's yard. All of our pieces of land, big and small, are interconnected. And many…
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The Rogue Valley boasts a thriving community of small family farms, many of them organic. But most of the food grown here is shipped out of the area. If…