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Future cows might be hemp consumers, thanks to OSU researchers

Oregon State University is home to the largest comprehensive hemp research center in the nation, and researchers have decided it is time to let the cows in on the action. Professor Massimo Bionaz, doctoral student Agung Irawan and other researchers are studying the effects of spent hemp biomass on cattle in hopes of developing more...

Easterday family sells Boardman dairy farm hit with violations

New Oregon law will further regulate water use on big livestock operations

Oregon's new SB 85 will further regulate water use on big livestock operations

Oregon considers permanent restrictions on growing canola in the Willamette Valley

Canola can cross-pollinate with brassicas such as broccoli, kale and cabbage, and can carry pests, disease and weeds.

Long-shot attempt made to ban new factory farms as manure threatens water

Iowa has a poop problem.

Environmentalists Make Long-Shot Attempt to Ban New Factory Farms

Share this: Pigs are raised at a hog operation in Hawarden, Iowa. Lawmakers in Iowa and a handful of other states, frustrated by agricultural regulations they say don’t adequately protect water and air quality, have filed legislation to ban new or expanded large-scale farms. (Nati Harnik The Associated Press) Iowa has a poop problem. The Hawkeye State’s pigs, cows and chickens produce about as much waste as 134 million people—nearly the population of Russia. Most of that manure is spread onto fields as fertilizer, where significant amounts of it wash into Iowa waterways. The city of Des Moines uses one of the most expensive nitrate removal systems in the world to make its water supply from the Raccoon River safe to drink.

Bovine manure tax credit encounters opposition

Environmentalists Make Long-Shot Attempt to Ban New Factory Farms

Requiem for a mega-dairy: Bills seek moratorium on supersize dairy farms in Oregon

SALEM — State lawmakers will once again consider a moratorium on mega-dairies after the spectacular failure of a 30,000-cow operation in Eastern Oregon. A coalition of environmental and animal welfare groups backing the proposal argues mega-dairies should be regulated like other heavy industry and that, until they are, Oregon should stop permitting them. “I think that if mega-dairies had to comply with the environmental laws that all the other industries have to, they would not be as economically feasible as they are now,” said Amy van Saun, a senior attorney at the Center for Food Safety’s Portland office. Meat and dairy occupy an increasingly controversial position in the American diet.