Oregon’s anti-natural resource industry attitude is costing livelihoods.

Representative Shelly Boshart Davis, founder of Save the Family Farm, recently spoke at the Oregon FFA State Convention about the future of agriculture.

Between 2017 and 2022, the number of farms in the U.S. declined by 141,733 or 7%, according to USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, released on Feb. 13. Acres operated by farm operations during the same timeframe declined by 20.1 million (2.2%), a loss equivalent to an area about the size of Maine. Only 1.88% of acres operated and 1% of farm operations were classified under a non-family corporate farm structure.

The new law will eliminate confusion and the unequal treatment of equipment between counties for the purposed of taxation.

Farm workers are protesting overtime laws that limit their hours and earning potential.

Oregon Senate Bill 498 will expand the estate tax for family farm.