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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...

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...

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...

Last week, the Oregon Department of Agriculture and the state Department of Fish and Wildlife announced the opening of razor clam harvesting on the south coast.  Now the entire Oregon coast is open for razor clam harvesting. Recent shellfish samples taken from the area indicate levels of the marine biotoxin domoic acid have fallen below the limit for two consecutive sampling weeks.  Mu... Read Mor

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 ...

The USDA has approved a request by the Oregon Department of Agriculture to lift a regional quarantine in Lane County. That quarantine was issued on May 17th, after Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza was confirmed in a backyard flock. Due to federal and international disease control requirements, after a confirmed case of HPAI in a poultry flock, a regional quarantine for all avian species and vehi