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Farm of the Future
A recent social media acquisition should be prove to be a positive for promoting agriculture with the public. The AgChat Foundation has reached an agreement with the creators of Ask The Farmers to acquire its websites, trademarks and platforms.
Farm of the Future
More bad news last week on top of the increasingly difficult port labor dispute, South Korean carrier Hanjin announced it would be pulling out of the Portland port in March. They had provided 80 percent of the container movement from the Port of Portland to Asia.
Farm of the Future
Oregon's Measure 92 was narrowly defeated meaning that there will be no labeling of GMO products on Oregon's grocery store shelves.
Land & Livestock Report
Last week I had the privilege and honor to be a keynote speaker at the Northwest Regional AgChat Agvocacy Conference in Portland. I spoke to amazingly proactive and enthusiastic ag producers with all sizes of operations from around the Northwest.
Farm of the Future
Today we are going to highlight an Oregon legislative bill SB 633 called the Seed Preemption Bill that would ensure the regulation of agricultural seeds as well as their products to remain at the state level -- and not be regulated by counties.
Farm of the Future
Since April 2, 2009, farmers and ranchers have flocked to Social Media platform Twitter for weekly #AgChat conversations.
Farm of the Future
Oregon is one of only three states west of the Mississippi, and one of only 19 states that still has a death tax. Approximately 18 months, ago a young Oregon farmer set out to help make a change.