Barry Bushue

Very few good things have come from the coronavirus pandemic, but perhaps the future of agriculture could benefit from the social distancing requirements of today. Barry Bushue, Director of the Oregon FSA said prior to the pandemic, they offered limited on-line tools to process losses or to make answering basic questions easier.  Bu ...

Former Oregon Farm Bureau President Barry Bushue has been appointed state director of the Bureau of Land Management for Oregon and Washington. Bushue is currently the State Executive Director of the Oregon Farm Service Agency, where he oversaw the implementation of programs and policies across 23 county offices, the state office, all with a total of 100 employees ...

The former head of the Oregon Farm Bureau will be honored this weekend.  The American Farm Bureau Federation will present the Distinguished Service Award to Senator Pat Roberts and the Farm Bureau Founders Award to Oregon’s Barry Bushue during AFBF’s 101st Annual Convention this weekend.  In addition to...

Tuesday morning, President Trump announced that he had pardoned two Oregon ranchers sent to jail on terrorism charges.  In 2012 Steven and Dwight Hammond were arrested after a back burn on their property moved on to federal land, burning roughly 100 acres.  Wh...

The 2017 Oregon farm Bureau annual Meeting and Convention will take place in Pendleton Tuesday through Thursday.  The annual event, according to OFB’s Anne Marie Moss allows those tied to the Ag industry an opportunity to discuss the pressing issues facing farmers and ranchers, and how to speak as a unified front.   A...

On Monday members of the SE Oregon ag community were in Salem, asking that 2.5 million acres not be designated as the Owyhee Monument.  If approved the region near the Oregon-Idaho Nevada border, a region the size of Delaware and Rhode Island combined would become off limits to farming.  Ba...