Alejandro Figueroa
Oregon Public BroadcastingAlejandro Figueroa is a reporter for Oregon Public Broadcasting, a JPR news partner. Alejandro is a graduate of the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University. His reporting comes to JPR through the Northwest News Network, a collaboration between public media organizations in Oregon and Washington.
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President Donald Trump’s plan to impose sweeping tariffs on goods coming to the U.S. from Canada and Mexico may have taken a back seat, for now. But many farmers in Oregon are dependent on overseas markets, and concerned about the effects of a trade war. -
Oregon officials are adopting significant updates to farmworker housing. Farmworker advocates say the rules don’t address all of their concerns, while farmers say they can’t afford the changes. -
Some farmworker advocates say many farms can afford to pay workers more, and worry employers could avoid accountability. -
Oregon agriculture regulators will test the milk of every commercial dairy across the state weekly, amid rising concerns over bird flu in dairy cattle. -
An Oregon State University study underscores the need for state regulation to avert an economic and ecological crisis in the Harney Basin region. -
The number of people struggling to afford food more than doubled in some rural areas. -
Oregon farmworkers, many of them immigrants, face a housing market that is fraught with substandard living conditions or is financially out of reach. -
A group of about a dozen farmers is lobbying state legislators to loosen Oregon's iconic land use laws to expand business opportunities on agricultural land. -
If passed, Measure 119 would give most workers in the industry, including those in cannabis retail and processing, the right to unionize. -
A conservation group will pilot a program that uses GPS, collars and cows. The concept could make Eastern Oregon rangelands more resilient against wildfires. -
More Oregonians were food insecure, couldn’t afford groceries or outright skipped meals in 2023, compared to 2020. That’s according to an annual U.S. Department of Agriculture household food security report released Wednesday. -
Oregon officials are proposing significant updates to farmworker housing standards to improve health and safety.
