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Potato Vote Clears Oregon Senate
Potato Vote Clears Oregon Senate
Potato Vote Clears Oregon Senate
The potato is one step closer to becoming the state vegetable of Oregon.  State Senator Bill Hansell posed this question before this week's vote.   "Should the potato the Oregon vegetable be, or not to be, that is the question before us."   Hans...
Sugarbeet Growers Use The Off Season To Talk With Lawmakers
Sugarbeet Growers Use The Off Season To Talk With Lawmakers
Sugarbeet Growers Use The Off Season To Talk With Lawmakers
With warmer weather in the weeks ahead, sugarbeet growers will focus more on their fields and the 2023 crop.  But that doesn’t mean things have been quiet since harvest.  Samantha Parrott, Executive Director of the Snake River Sugarbeet Growers Association, says their growers have been hard at work over recent months advocating for issues vital to the ag industry, both at the state and federal lev
Voigt: Technology And Research Vital For Potato Industry
Voigt: Technology And Research Vital For Potato Industry
Voigt: Technology And Research Vital For Potato Industry
With a global population now just north of eight billion people, the agriculture industry will be called on more to feed people across the planet.  One of those areas that can help farmers meet those needs, said Christ Voigt, is continued research and development, not only of commodities, but of technology to make the farming process more efficient.  The Exe...
Oregon Lawmakers Looking At Making The Potato The State Veggie
Oregon Lawmakers Looking At Making The Potato The State Veggie
Oregon Lawmakers Looking At Making The Potato The State Veggie
The potato would become the Oregon state vegetable under a resolution in the legislature.  Potatoes are the top selling vegetable in Oregon, with growers harvesting over 2.5 billion pounds of spuds each year.   "Nothing rises to the stature of the potato as far as jobs produced, as far as products shipped, and as far as farm gate dollars coming in," said State Senator Bill Hansell.   &qu
AFBF:It’s Good The Admin Is Starting A Formal Process With Mexico
AFBF:It’s Good The Admin Is Starting A Formal Process With Mexico
AFBF:It’s Good The Admin Is Starting A Formal Process With Mexico
The United States has asked Mexico to start the process of more formally resolving a long-running dispute over Mexico’s planned import ban of GMO corn.  The U.S. Trade Representative’s Office asked Mexico for technical talks under the USMCA trade deal that could lead to more formal dispute settlement talks on the planned GMO corn ban.   “This is a s...
Voigt: Growers Looking Forward To 2023
Voigt: Growers Looking Forward To 2023
Voigt: Growers Looking Forward To 2023
The past two years have been challenging for potato growers across the Pacific Northwest.  Last year, the growing and planting season was delayed thanks to a late spring snow storm that dumped several inches of snow in several locations.  An...
Ethanol Production Surges
Ethanol Production Surges
Ethanol Production Surges
The Energy Information Administration says ethanol output jumped to the highest level in more than two months while inventories again increased during the week ending on February 17th.  The EIA report said production rose to an average of 1.029 milli...
Analysis Looks At Economic Impact Of The Potato Industry
Analysis Looks At Economic Impact Of The Potato Industry
Analysis Looks At Economic Impact Of The Potato Industry
Nearly $101 billion.  That’s the economic impact the potato industry has on the U.S. economy.   On Tuesday, the National Potato Council released, "Measuring the Economic Significance of the U.S. Potato Industry," a comprehensive analysis on the domestic economic impact of potatoes.  The analysis, auth...
Planting Acres Expected To Increase This Year, Says USDA
Planting Acres Expected To Increase This Year, Says USDA
Planting Acres Expected To Increase This Year, Says USDA
USDA analysts are projecting the producers will, this season, plant a combined 228-million-acres to corn soybeans and wheat, which would be the largest in nine years, up about 3% from 2022.  USDA economist Andy Sowell told the USDA's Outlook forum last week that growers will have plenty of incentive to produce this year.   “...

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