The total number of farmers and ranchers in Congress will be lower when the 120th Congress meets in… The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service has awarded $9.23 million to advance the EL 22.1 ...

A livestock supplier in Utah has won a $12.3 million default judgment in federal court against an Idaho cattle company accused of failing to pay its bills. U.S. Magistrate Judge Debora Grasham in ...

With diesel costs eating into farmers’ bottom lines, the Trump administration plans to dispense $8 billion as part of a one-time “harvest fuel relief” program. The USDA has announced that the payments ...

An Idaho timber project was wrongly faulted for increasing the number of road miles in a national forest, according to a federal appeals court. The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has overturned a ...

Industry leaders celebrated USDA Agricultural Research Service and Washington State University’s new state-of-the-art research facility Oct. 14 on the WSU campus in Pullman. The 100,000-square-foot ...

Oregon farmland preservation advocates are challenging Marion County’s decision to allow excavated soil to be dumped into a pit in an agricultural zone. Last month, the county’s board of commissioners ...

El Niño will make Oregon, Washington and Idaho and California warmer than average through the winter, the National Weather Service predicted Oct. 15. A strong and growing stronger El Niño dominates ...

Higher input costs such as for diesel fuel, operating loan interest and fertilizer continue to concern farmers. The Purdue University-CME Group Ag Economy Barometer Index of farmer sentiment fell from ...

The University of Idaho hired Andy Toelle as director of UI Extension 4-H Youth Development. He will be based in Moscow. He starts in the job Nov. 2. Toelle has more than three decades of 4-H ...

A Utah company proposes to fill a 90-acre reservoir with treated wastewater to prime a 500-megawatt pumped-storage hydropower project on farmland in north-central Washington. Salt Lake City-based ...

The Pacific Northwest will receive more than $10 million to support specialty crops with new research, business development and marketing programs. On Oct. 13, the USDA announced $86.6 million in ...

Pigeon fever cases in horses are on the rise in Oregon and the Oregon Department of Agriculture wants residents to be aware of the problem and signs of the illness. Quick detection, timely treatment, ...