In this podcast, editors and reporters explain why wheat growers are worried about talks between West Coast grain terminals and the International Longshoremen and Warehouse Union, how a Willamette Valley nursery is emerging from bankruptcy and why Washington state officials have shot six wolves from the Wedge Wolf Pack.
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Friday, September 28, 2012
Six dead wolves - Podcast for Sept. 28, 2012
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Friday, August 31, 2012
The high cost of low milk prices - Podcast for Aug. 31, 2012
In this podcast, editors and reporters talk about how the suicide of a California dairyman has galvanized the dairy industry, look back on the gains from 150 years of the land-grant university system, and discuss the particulars of a Willamette Valley farm that has managed to emerge from bankruptcy.
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Friday, June 08, 2012
Podcast: Behold the Whitehorse Ranch
In this podcast, editors and reporters discuss a historic ranch far off the beaten path, ask why Idaho dairies are having trouble getting loans, and check on legal developments involving the former CEO of the bankrupt Humboldt Dairy and Roundup Ready sugar beets.
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Friday, May 11, 2012
Podcast: Financing organic and small farms with 'slow money'
In this podcast, editors and reporters discuss the outcome of Snokist’s bankruptcy, a ballot effort to keep the Malheur County extension office funded, new trends in financing organic and small farms, and why federal agencies don’t know how many millions — or billions — they are losing to environmental lawsuits.
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Friday, December 23, 2011
Podcast: Yogurt infrastructure, financial improprieties and a gravel fight
In this podcast, Capital Press reporters and editors talk about a new dairy processing facility in Idaho, financial improprieties at a livestock-feed manufacturer, why a successful fertilizer-maker is seeking bankruptcy and a legal battle over gravel in Oregon.
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Friday, June 10, 2011
Podcast: The effect of bank failures on American farms
The rash of bank failures over the past three years has included a number of agricultural lenders and inspired reforms in the Farm Credit System. Will these changes trickle down to farmers?
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Thursday, May 19, 2011
Podcast: Bankruptcy and American farms
While large companies grab headlines when they file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, many family farmers and ranchers turn to Chapter 12 bankruptcy. Listen in as reporter Mateusz Perkowski and copy editor Will Koenig discuss the issue.
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