Pandemic Benefits Local Ranchers
COVID-19 poses an existential threat to meat producers. By staying small, local ranches could be the answer to an ailing meat business.
- Published in Farms and Forests
- Written by Sander Gusinow
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COVID-19 Tests Farming Models
Family farms turn to e-commere to stay afloat.
- Published in Farms and Forests
- Written by Sander Gusinow
Winemakers Test For Smoke Damage
Vintners have developed more sophisticated tools to test whether wildfire smoke has tainted grapes.
- Published in Farms and Forests
- Written by Sander Gusinow
New Markets Reshape Crabbing Industry
As COVID-19 shutters the Asia market, crabbers target local buyers.
- Published in Farms and Forests
- Written by Sander Gusinow
Farm Fresh
A tech-driven renaissance in local-food production is underway as the coronavirus pandemic exposes gaps in the global supply system.
- Published in Farms and Forests
- Written by Kim Moore
Greening the Gold Rush
The hemp-farming boom of 2018 created financial hardships for those who failed to turn a profit. But innovation and easing of regulations could open new doors for farmers.
- Published in Farms and Forests
- Written by Sander Gusinow
Coronavirus: ‘Retail Landscape Must Change for Food Industry’
A hazelnut farmers’ cooperative shifts to domestic sales as overseas sales channels face disruption from pandemic.
- Published in Farms and Forests
- Written by Kim Moore
State of Grapes
The good news around Oregon’s wine industry just keeps flowing. But how long can this party last?
- Published in Farms and Forests
- Written by Amy Milshtein
Big Enough to Fail
The bankruptcy of NORPAC Foods shows the crisis that farm cooperatives face in the race to become national brands.
- Published in Farms and Forests
- Written by Jason Notte
Out of the Wild
A new economic-development grant aims to kick-start Oregon’s nascent aquaculture sector.
- Published in Farms and Forests
- Written by Jason E. Kaplan. Photos by Jason E. Kaplan