Agriculture

Oregon farmworkers want to be more involved in setting standards around working conditions and pay. But farmers say they can't afford more burdensome regulation.

Oregon CattleWomen have championed the T-bone as the official state steak, due to its two distinct sides like Oregon, with a split like the Cascades down the middle.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture must temporarily reinstate more than 5,000 probationary employees fired since Feb. 13, according to a ruling by the Merit Systems Protection Board.

Egg prices at the grocery store have more than doubled since last year. Some Oregon farm supply stores are getting a surge of calls from people looking to buy chicks as backyard egg-laying hens.

Some of Oregon’s biggest trading partners are striking back after tariffs on imports took effect this Tuesday. Oregon industry leaders say he retaliatory measures could especially hurt the states agriculture industry.

Francisco Gonzalez, a 36-year-old research horticulturist, lost his job at the U.S. Department of Agriculture just before completing his three-year probationary period. This is part of a broader trend under the Trump administration where many federal workers were dismissed.

Oregon is the only West Coast state that allows commercial fish farming using net pens. State legislators could prohibit the practice.

An Oregon law passed in 2022 to phase in overtime pay for farmworkers has led to higher farmworker wages, but a new study shows hours are being scaled back to avoid overtime pay

Thousands of people have been fired as part of the Trump administration’s plan to reduce the federal government’s workforce. Among them are at least 19 USDA agriculture researchers in Oregon.

Conservative lawyer Brooke Rollins was confirmed Thursday as secretary of agriculture at a time when mass deportation plans could lead to farm labor shortages and tariffs could hit agricultural exports.