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Making Your Supply Chains More Efficient

Making Your Supply Chains More Efficient

June 18, 2025

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Researchers Turn Sunflowers into Vegan ‘Meat’

June 30, 2025

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‘Today in Food Manufacturing’ Returns July 7

June 27, 2025

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Mars’ Kellanova Acquisition Faces Antitrust Probe

June 26, 2025

Making Your Supply Chains More Efficient

Making Your Supply Chains More Efficient

Here's how to keep products moving, avoid unnecessary costs, and leverage data to hit every supply chain KPI.

June 18, 2025

Justin Grant watches water flow from his agricultural well, Klamath Falls, Ore., July 24, 2021.

Oregon Tribe Opposes Water Release for Farmers

Even in a good year on the Klamath River, there’s not enough water to go around.

April 20, 2022

Misty Buckley carries dirty water from her animals' pens to water plants in her front yard, Saturday, July 24, 2021, in Klamath Falls, Ore. Farms that rely on irrigation from a depleted, federally managed lake on the California-Oregon border, along with a Native American tribe fighting to protect fragile salmon, will both receive greatly reduced amounts of water again in the summer of 2022 as a historic drought and record-low reservoir levels drag on in the U.S. West.

Farms, Fish on States' Dry Border See Scant Water

It's the third year in a row that severe drought has impacted farmers, fish and tribes in a region where there's not enough water.

April 12, 2022

Michael Williams scans the shoreline for moose while traveling up the Yukon River on Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2021, near Stevens Village, Alaska. For the first time in memory, both king and chum salmon have dwindled to almost nothing and the state has banned salmon fishing on the Yukon. The remote communities that dot the river and live off its bounty are desperate and doubling down on moose and caribou hunts in the waning days of fall.

Dwindling Alaska Salmon Leave Yukon River Tribes in Crisis

The scarcity has made raw strong emotions about who should have the right to fish in a state that supplies the world with salmon.

October 3, 2021

In this March 3, 2020, file photo, is the Iron Gate Dam, powerhouse and spillway are on the lower Klamath River near Hornbrook, Calif.

Federal Shut-off Worsens Oregon-California Water Crisis

The entire region is in extreme or exceptional drought, according to federal monitoring reports.

May 24, 2021

In this March 2, 2020, file photo, farmer Ben DuVal with his wife, Erika, and their daughters, Hannah, third from left, and Helena, fourth from left, stand near a canal for collecting run-off water near their property in Tulelake, Calif.

Oregon-California Water Crisis Grows Amid Decades-Long Drought

Hundreds of farmers learned Wednesday they'll only get 8 percent of the water they need from a major irrigation project along the states' border.

April 15, 2021

In this Oct. 23, 2019, photo, apples collected by amateur botanists David Benscoter and EJ Brandt of the Lost Apple Project, rest on the ground in an orchard at an abandoned homestead near Genesee, Idaho. Benscoter and Brandt recently learned that their work in the fall of 2019 has led to the rediscovery of 10 apple varieties in the Pacific Northwest that were planted by long-ago pioneers and had been thought extinct.

10 Apples Thought Extinct Found

It was the largest number ever unearthed in a single season by the nonprofit Lost Apple Project.

April 15, 2020

In this April 24, 2018 file photo, a hemp plant is pollinated at the Unique Botanicals facility in Springfield, OrR.

Proposed US Hemp Rules Worry Industry

Growers are concerned the government wants to use a heavy hand that could result in many crops failing required tests and being destroyed.

January 13, 2020

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Sea Urchin Spike Hurts Fisheries

The explosion of purple sea urchins is the latest symptom of a Pacific Northwest marine ecosystem that's out of whack.

October 24, 2019

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Standards Hopefully Fix Hemp 'Mess'

"A lot of people say, 'Is your seed certified?' and there's no such thing as certified seed right now. There's no test, there's no oversight."

June 17, 2019

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3 Dead After Crabbing Vessel Capsizes

Coast Guard crews faced 12 to 14-foot waves as they tried to rescue the fishermen.

January 10, 2019

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Hemp Market Set to Boom

Federal legalization could triple the overall hemp market to $2.5 billion by 2022, with $1.3 billion of those sales from hemp-derived CBD products.

December 13, 2018

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Limits Increased for West Coast Fish

Fishing income in three states could increase by $60 million, with the potential for 900 new jobs.

December 12, 2018

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Coke Analyzing Cannabis in Wellness Drinks

Cannabidiol, or CBD, does not produce a "high," though it is believed by many to have anti-inflammation and pain-relieving properties.

September 18, 2018

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First-Ever Marijuana Growers Fair Opens

The inaugural two-day event underscores how the once-illicit marijuana industry is starting to go mainstream.

August 15, 2016