Podcast: Advances in the sheep industry and forestry

The sheep industry is in the news this week with a study showing that sheepdogs make livestock more relaxed and profitable, according to reporter John O'Connell. Also, strong prices for wool and lamb have prompted industry leaders to recruit more people to raise sheep.

Reporter Mateusz Perkowski says that foresters are looking at ways to improve the growth rate of trees through new advances in seedlings and weighing the trade-offs of container "plugs" and bare-root seedlings.

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Podcast: Klamath Basin battles, federal sugar cuts, and Idaho wheat wins

The Capital Press devotes much of this week's front page to spending by the Humane Society of the United States. Other highlights from the paper include the ongoing Klamath Basin saga, producers and processors worried about legislative threats to the federal sugar program, and the development of new export markets for Idaho's wheat crop.

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Podcast: Wheat quality tests, felony water pumping, fixing the price of chicken, and bin buyouts

In this podcast we discuss an ongoing dispute over an important wheat quality test, an appeal of a felony conviction for pumping surface water into a well, good times for spearmint growers, and the strategy behind AGCO's bin buyout.

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Podcast: Boutique wines, potential pollution, California rain and a WOPR

Some of the highlights from this week's edition of the Capital Press include efforts to sell boutique wines, a lawsuit over evidence of substantial potential to pollute, never-ending biotech crop court battles, a sudden turn in California's weather, and the shifting tug-of-war over the Western Oregon Plan Revision logging guidelines.

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