February 28- March 2, 2019 Spirit Mountain Casino, Grande Ronde Registration Early registration and hotel lodging is due January 29! Download the registration form and accommodations details here. Tours Participants will gain valuable insight into agriculture and forestry operations in the county. Don’t miss out on your behind the scenes look at how Polk County…
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Our October meeting was held at Kirsten Pick’s home. We were excited to meet and welcome Rachel Nobel who is taking over Debbie Crocker’s position for Summer Ag Institute and is also working at Ag in the Classroom. November our meeting was held at Sue Kalina’s home. Ladies came early to help assemble our Christmas…
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Happy New Year from Lane County. On November 13th we held our 3rd annual Lane County Social and Membership drive. This year’s event was held at Hayworth Estate Wines in Coburg. We had some great speakers. Suzette Menking a local Junction City teacher that we sponsored to attended Case Institute at OSU last July gave…
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Our last two meetings of the year focused on what interests members have in how to be involved with OWA, how to move forward with our Oregon Trail Farms project, as well as deciding to sponsor chapter members’ registration and/or lodging for OWA’s convention in 2019. We held a social in December at Gilgamesh Brewing…
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The Columbia Gorge chapter held a Fall Social on Monday, November 12 at ClockTower Ales in The Dalles, with four members and four guests attending. We are happy to welcome new members Lisa Perry of Cody Orchards and Michelle McCafferty of Duckwall Fruit, who came to the Fall Social as guests of member Dani Annala…
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l am a farmer, and it does a disservice to Oregon when news outlets publish stories like “Weed-killing chemical found in cereals, oat products, report says”. I spend considerable time trying to educate the public about modern agriculture, and articles like this do nothing but make people fear their food. We are fortunate that Oregon…
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