Most of the grain has vanished from Terrell Sorensen’s 50-acre barley field in southern Bannock County’s Swan Lake area, but the hordes of grasshoppers that moved in during late June remain.
After two years of record damage from grasshoppers, Eastern Oregonians and the state Department of Agriculture are bracing for another summer of the pests.
“Some areas of Malheur County, last year, they ate all the food out there. And they were kind of concerned about the antelope starving to death. They wer...
As Oregon’s grasshopper and Mormon cricket hatching season begin, the Oregon Department of Agriculture is providing one-time funding to help combat what’s expected to be severe outbreaks this summer.
In 2021, Oregon suffered its worst outbreak of grasshoppers and Mormon crickets in fifty years. As a resu
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