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A legislative work group meets this summer to consider state laws governing large-scale poultry operations.

BOARDMAN — Cody Easterday is still waiting for the Oregon Department of Agriculture to approve his application, submitted in June 2019, for a Confined Animal Feeding Operation near the city of Boardman. Easterday, a 49-year-old rancher whose family owns a huge agricultural operation in Washington state, proposes to open a mega-dairy that would be the second-largest in Oregon. The Easterday Dairy would have up to 28,300 animals and use more water than most cities in the state. The future of Easterday Dairy is in doubt, however. On March 31, Cody Easterday pleaded guilty to a “ghost c...

Willamette Week The need for strong, independent local journalism is more urgent than ever. Please support the city we love by joining Friends of Willamette Week. Two Years After Oregon’s Most Notorious Dairy Farm Shut Down, Environmental Groups Fear a Similar Disaster Could Happen in the Same Location According to Jennifer Hauge and Brian Posewitz of Stand Up to Factory Farms, Oregon hasn’t learned from the Lost Valley Farms incident. Cows along the Oregon Coast. (Alex Wittwer) WW  presents “Distant Voices,” a daily video interview for the era of social distancing. Our report...

Oregon water regulators have rejected a petition to restrict groundwater pumping by large dairies within a 257-square-mile area in Umatilla and Morrow counties. The Oregon Water Resources Commission voted unanimously Dec. 15 to deny the request by Stand Up to Factory Farms, a coalition of environmental groups and others, to establish a 5,000-gallon daily limit on water withdrawals by new or expanded “concentrated animal feeding operations” in the region. Under the state’s stockwatering exemption, water can be diverted or pumped for livestock without a water rights permit from t...