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Almost two-thirds of Oregon’s agricultural land will be changing hands in the next two decades, but the vast majority of Oregon farmers and ranchers have not formalized plans to pass their land and businesses to the next generation. This is just one of the sobering findings of a research report published in September 2016 by Oregon State University, Portland State ...

Nellie McAdams | Oct 2017 | Article

Plant hormones and growth regulators are chemicals that affect flowering, aging, root growth, distortion and killing of organs, prevention or promotion of stem elongation, color enhancement of fruit, prevention of leafing and/or leaf fall, and many other conditions.

Ann Marie VanDerZanden | Jul 2012 | Article

The United States is fortunate to have 50 state “laboratories” with unique programs and policies to sample from. Yet state practitioners seldom have the chance to learn deeply about their peers’ hard-won lessons in order to improve services in our home states. I was fortunate to have that opportunity this June, when I joined several hundred advocates for intergenerational ...

Nellie McAdams | Oct 2017 | Article