The number of agricultural lenders has kept shrinking even as the amount of money they lend to farmers has continued increasing, according to federal statistics. The U.S. had 945 agricultural banks at ...

University of Idaho and state lands officials are increasingly concerned about emerald ash borers even though the destructive beetles aren’t yet documented as present. Monitoring and early detection ...

Nine counties now have emergency status Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek declared drought emergencies April 21 for six more counties — ...

A new lawsuit cites Oregon’s farm and forestry industries as prime examples of why the state’s “climate protection program” ...

Darigold will pay $2 million to settle a lawsuit filed by Columbia Riverkeeper accusing it of discharging too much pollution from its milk processing plant in Sunnyside, Wash. Darigold will make the ...

Cloud seeding operator Rainmaker Technology Corp. added more than 60,000 acre-feet of water to the Bear River Basin as of ...

Washington wolves officially attacked relatively few head of cattle last year, though it may be a sign that ranchers see more ...

The Trump administration has revised its lawsuit against California’s chicken housing requirements after a federal judge determined its original complaint did not pass legal muster. California has ...

Milk production is steady and cow comfort is stable in California. Central Valley manufacturers indicate milk output is pushing against processing capacities. Stakeholders indicate spot loads are ...

Monthly routine surveillance found bird flu in five Idaho dairies not previously identified as having the disease, state ...

Spring always brings a sense of excitement on the farm. There’s planning to do, seeds to get in the ground and a lot riding on the months ahead. Every decision matters, because what we do today shapes ...

President Donald Trump is proposing a nearly $5 billion cut to USDA. “(USDA) is a bloated Washington D.C. bureaucracy with multiple management layers and many extraneous programs that are irrelevant ...