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Cover crops: Covering your assets during drought

· September 10, 2019

This article was written by Brent Jones, Sales and Iowa Research Farm Manager Grassland Oregon, and is republished with permission as part of AGDAILY’s focus on cover crops.   Benjamin Franklin was right on the money about all of us being able to count on death and taxes at some point in time, but he overlooked one […]

Oregon authorities investigating cattle deaths after water cut off

· August 9, 2018

An Oregon county sheriff’s department is investigating the death of seven cows after someone cut off their water supply. The Umatilla County Sheriff’s Office took to Facebook earlier this week to warn livestock owners in the area to check their water tanks. The UCSO said they received reports from some cattle growers primarily in the […]

Oregon farmer dies in fire protecting neighbor’s property

· July 20, 2018

An Oregon farmer has died in a fire after authorities say he was trying to create a fire line to protect his neighbor’s property.  On Wednesday afternoon the Wasco County Sheriff’s Office reported to a call of a burnt tractor. Deputies located the burnt tractor and the operator of the tractor, John Ruby, a short […]

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Trump pardons Oregon ranchers who inspired Bundy standoff

· July 10, 2018

Oregon ranchers Dwight Lincoln Hammond, Jr. and his son, Steven Hammond will soon be free thanks to President Donald J. Trump’s full pardons of them today. Trump signed Executive Grants of Clemency for the multi-generation cattle ranchers imprisoned in connection with a fire that leaked onto a small portion of neighboring public grazing land. In […]

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Oregon woman first to be infected with cattle eye worm

· February 14, 2018

A strange case of eye worm reported this week in a 26-year-old Oregon woman may have some ranchers squeezing their peeps shut. The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene released their case report on Abby Beckley, a Brookings, Oregon woman who discovered worms in her eye that typically feed on cattle tears. The case […]

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