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On Thursday, USDA announced it was awarding $72.9 million in Specialty Crop Block Grant program funding for Fiscal Year 2022.  The funding, via AMS, will go to all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.   ...

The USDA has approved the Oregon Department of Agriculture’s request to lift the regional bird flu quarantine in Deschutes County.  ODA implemented the quarantine on July 12th after confirming highly pathogenic avian influenza in a backyard flock of chickens and ducks.  Six case...

Oregon’s Department of Agriculture is now recommending against all in-person exhibitions of poultry, because of the ongoing epidemic of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza.  Bird flu already prevented 4-H students from displaying birds at the Deschutes and Lane County fairs. ODA sa...

The Oregon Department of Agriculture has extended the Seafood Processors Grant Program application deadline through Friday August 12th.  The Department continues to accept applications for $1.5 million in grants supporting Oregon’s seafood industry. Earlier t...

For the first time in over a year, Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease has been confirmed in domestic rabbits in Oregon.  State Veterinarian Dr. Ryan Scholz said 21 rabbits from one Multnomah County property died over a 72-hour period. “The strain that we have and have been dealing with also is able to infect North American wild rabbits and jackrabbits. That real...

Bird flu continues to be an issue in Oregon.  The state Department of Agriculture confirmed Thursday a case of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in a backyard flock in Coos County.  The flock of 25 birds was a mix of chickens and ducks.  ODA sai...

Oregon is now the first on the west coast with a state meat inspection program.  The USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service recently finalized an agreement with Oregon’s Department of Agriculture to launch the program.  It means ODA can inspect meat products shipped within the state. During the pandem...

Last week, the Oregon Department of Agriculture confirmed another case of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza.  This case involved a Deschutes County back yard flock, resulting in 40 chickens and ducks being euthanized.  State Veterinarian Dr. Ryan Sch...

Oregon’s Department of Agriculture is awarding $2 million in grants to improve meat processing capacity across the state.  ODA’s Theresa Yoshioka said the legislature approved the funding to increase capacity when the pandemic caused food supply-chain issues. “As people became...

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 ...