This file is an RSS 2.0 file, please see: http://www.alpineinternet.com/rss for more info. Stories from Oregon Business Magazine /.docs/action/subscribe/master/_xml_/folder/10070/pg/10002/f/subscribe.rss en-us (c)2008, Oregon Business Magazine, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Sun, 07 Sep 2008 01:11:36 PST 15 Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:00:00 PST http://www.oregonbusiness.com/.docs/story_id/34067/pg/453 Farm service agencies in Eastern Oregon's Morrow and Gilliam counties are applying for disaster relief, because unseasonably cool temperatures in the spring delayed the wheat crop. Thu, 28 Aug 2008 07:00:00 PST http://www.oregonbusiness.com/.docs/action/detail/rid/34039/folder/10070/pg/10002 State energy officials have approved a plan that would make Gilliam and Morrow counties in northeastern Oregon home to the world’s largest wind farm. Wed, 30 Jul 2008 07:00:00 PST http://www.oregonbusiness.com/.docs/action/detail/rid/33722/folder/10070/pg/10002 Thirty new jobs are expected in Hermiston as Snack Alliance expands its line of healthy snacks. Wed, 30 Jul 2008 07:00:00 PST http://www.oregonbusiness.com/.docs/action/detail/rid/33723/folder/10070/pg/10002 A Boardman tree grower has received $250,000 from state lottery funds to build and purchase parts for a state-of-the-art sawmill in Morrow County, a project that’s expected to bring 85 permanent full-time jobs to the area. Tue, 25 Mar 2008 07:00:00 PST http://www.oregonbusiness.com/.docs/action/detail/rid/32115/folder/10070/pg/10002 With hope and fanfare, the Office of Rural Policy was created in 2004 by executive order of Gov. Ted Kulongoski. It died last month with no fanfare and dashed hopes after the Legislature refused to fund it. Tue, 25 Mar 2008 07:00:00 PST http://www.oregonbusiness.com/.docs/action/detail/rid/32173/folder/10070/pg/10002 Sequential-Pacific Biodiesel hasn’t even finished expanding capacity at its Salem plant, and it is already looking into building another factory at the Port of Umatilla. Tue, 25 Mar 2008 07:00:00 PST http://www.oregonbusiness.com/.docs/action/detail/rid/32179/folder/10070/pg/10002 Not only is the planned solar-power project in Eastern Oregon going to be a first for Vancouver-based Columbia Energy Partners, it also will be Oregon’s largest when it’s completed at the end of the year. Tue, 25 Mar 2008 07:00:00 PST http://www.oregonbusiness.com/.docs/action/detail/rid/32184/folder/10070/pg/10002 No one would mistake the peaceful La Grande area for booming Bend, but Union County has quietly been growing too. Sat, 01 Mar 2008 08:00:00 PST http://www.oregonbusiness.com/.docs/action/detail/rid/31414/folder/10070/pg/10002 After a rough 12-year slog with more drought than profit, Oregon wheat growers are finally back in the black, thanks to record wheat prices that are not expected to drop any time soon. Tue, 01 Jan 2008 08:00:00 PST http://www.oregonbusiness.com/.docs/action/detail/rid/30909/folder/10070/pg/10002 “Adapting” might best describe Oregon’s outback, Lake County. The rugged county in south-central Oregon had the same number of jobs in mid-2007 as it did in 1990.