Tag Archives: Oregon

How have wildfires affected the value of agricultural land in Oregon?

Posted on August 25, 2025 by Kenneth Annan

By Kenneth Annan and Dan Bigelow Disclaimer: This post presents an updated version of a paper I presented at the 2025 AAEA Conference. The results are preliminary and have not been peer-reviewed.           Wildfires pose environmental, health, and economic threats … Continue reading →

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Farmland loss and land development: More on the misuse of statistics from the Census of Agriculture

Posted on June 10, 2025 by Dan Bigelow

During last week’s hearing for the Oregon Senate Committee on Natural Resources and Wildfire, Kelly Howsley-Glover (President, The Association of County Planning Directors) cited some of my blog posts concerning how to interpret the decrease in Oregon’s farmland reported in … Continue reading →

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Do small parcels of farmland tend to sell for more in Oregon?

Posted on February 18, 2025 by Dan Bigelow

Note: This post has been updated to reflect a coding error that affected the numbers in the previous version. None of the overall conclusions regarding the differences in land prices between small and large parcels are affected, but it does … Continue reading →

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How does Oregon’s tiered minimum wage policy affect restaurant survival?

Posted on October 15, 2024 by Richard Acquah-Sarpong

Oregon’s minimum wage changes have historically been tied to the Consumer Price Index. However, in 2016, the State of Oregon implemented an innovative tiered minimum wage policy that allows the minimum wage to vary by geographic region. Under this policy, … Continue reading →

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It has been a bad year for PNW cherry producers

Posted on July 25, 2023 by Tim Delbridge

Tim Delbridge and Ashley Thompson The cherry industry is unique, even among specialty crops, in that the production period is brief, the crop (typically) has a very high value but has a short shelf-life, and a relatively small proportion of … Continue reading →

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