The number of Oregon farms and ranches has dropped, but the state’s agricultural industry remains dominated by family-owned and -operated businesses, according to the USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture ...

This is Oregon Insight, The Oregonian’s weekly look at the numbers behind the state’s economy. View past installments here. Farm employment has remained pretty steady in Oregon for decades, and the ...

Orchard View Farms produces cherries and pears in The Dalles in the Columbia River Gorge. (Oregon Department of Agriculture) The estimated value of Oregon farmland has skyrocketed in recent years, ...

Farm and ranch families can use the federal gift tax laws to avoid the Oregon estate tax on farms at death. As many folks are aware, anyone (including a non-resident) who owns real estate in Oregon ...

Last year in Oregon, we helped pass the first bill regulating factory farms in years. Our Oregon team breaks down the strategy and tactics that contributed to this victory. Last year in Oregon, we ...

The Lost Valley Farm was located in this area in Morrow County. (Brian Posewitz/WaterWatch of Oregon) Oregon’s factory farms jeopardize our access to fresh air and clean water, our land and our ...

Brothers Stewart and Robert Kircher weren’t born into the dairy industry. Robert Kircher said he and Stewart began working summers with dairy cows as young teenagers at Forest Glen Oaks Farm in ...

NORTH PLAINS, Ore. – Aaron Nichols walked past rows of kale growing on his farm, his knee-high brown rubber boots speckled with some of the richest soil on earth, and gazed with concern toward fields ...

ALBANY, Ore. — In 2022, the Oregon Legislature passed a landmark bill requiring overtime pay for farm workers. It gave employers a gradual ramp-up, so they won't be paying overtime after a 40-hour ...

A federal jury has shot down claims that an Oregon vegetable producer unlawfully discriminated against a farmworker by favoring foreign guestworkers. In 2020, Teofilo Ibanez de Dios filed a lawsuit ...