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Tag: OREGON AGRICULTURE
Oregon adopting rules to protect workers from excessive heat and wildfire smoke
(Oregon State University) New rules going into effect in Oregon in June and July are expected to protect tens of thousands of workers from illness and death when temperatures soar past 80 or when the air becomes clogged with wildfire smoke. The heat protections require employers to allow workers to[Read More…]
Uncategorized Nursery, labor contractor fined $6,300 in Marion County farmworker’s heat death
An irrigation system in a Marion County agricultural field (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) Oregon’s workplace safety agency fined a St. Paul nursery and Woodburn-based labor contractor a total of $6,300, saying both companies failed to keep employees safe from the triple-digit temperatures that led to the death of a worker laying[Read More…]
Women food entrepreneurs in Oregon get state help to develop business
Elise Higley hopes to expand the sale of her tea blends in stores. (Elise Higley photo) Emily Moore is a longtime professional chef, with French cooking school credentials and fine dining experience, who whips up tasty concoctions on her farm in Applegate. She’d like to sell them to a wide[Read More…]
Christmas tree growers adapt to Oregon’s destructive heat wave
Pollard Ranch and Tree Farm in Washington County is one of Oregon’s many Christmas tree producers. (Courtesy Ann Murphy/OSU) The summer’s extreme heat wave decimated scores of Christmas trees. Many older trees suffered sunburn while many seedlings were killed. But don’t worry about scoring a tree for your home this[Read More…]
2020 was a banner year for Oregon nurseries but the value of wine grapes plummeted
The number of eggs produced by Oregon chickens, like these at KooKoolan Farm in Yamhill County, was the lowest in nine years, causing prices to increase. (Oregon Department of Agriculture photo) As people hunkered down at home last year, trying to avoid becoming a pandemic statistic, Oregon’s nursery industry pulled[Read More…]
Uncategorized Oregon leads nation on bee-saving efforts with citizen science, education
Bees collected by Oregon Bee Atlas volunteers on display at a Salem City Club lunch (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) Salem City Club members are the newest recruits for one of the nation’s premier efforts to identify and track Oregon’s bee population. About 80 people attended a club presentation Friday on state[Read More…]
