Oregon Farmland Lost After Years of Battle
by Katherine Driessen from oregonlive.com The VanderZanden name carries both the wounds and potential bounty of years of land-use battles. Some members of the deeply rooted Washington County farm family will turn a substantial profit when they, inevitably, sell their tulip farm and hundreds of rural acres running along Northwest Jackson School Road near […]
Settlement Allows Bullet Train, Creates Fund for Farm Preservation
The farmers in California’s Central Valley suing to prevent eminent domain from putting railroad lines through their farms settled earlier this month. As part of the settlement $5 million was put aside for farm preservation. Hm. In a state that has some of the most expensive farm and ranchland in the country, I can’t help […]