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OAN board sets industry-wide goal for energy efficiency

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Oregon’s nursery industry will work together over the next 10 years to improve energy efficiency by 25 percent, according to a goal adopted recently by the Oregon Association of Nurseries (OAN) Board of Directors. The energy savings will be realized through OAN members’ participation in a voluntary energy efficiency program. The program will be organized […]

Watering the roots of community

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We told you last month about the Oregon nursery industry’s efforts to spruce up the Oregon School for the Deaf campus. The Capital Press (Salem, Ore.) now has an article posted that covers that effort in greater detail. Included is this nugget: OAN members supplied 70 percent of the plants and shrubs needed for the […]

Lehner forecasts economic future at OAN Convention

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What are the prospects for an improvement in Oregon’s economy? And why is continued growth in China so important for Oregon’s economic health? State economic analyst Josh Lehner has the answers in an article published in the Capital Press (Salem, Ore.). However, you heard the story a full week ago, live and in person, if […]

Nurseries help with Extreme Makeover: Home Edition

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When the ABC television program Extreme Makeover: Home Edition came to Salem and transformed the campus of Oregon School for the Deaf, Oregon nurseries and landscapers were there pitching in. Show organizers got in touch with the Oregon Association of Nurseries, and member/past president Kathy LeCompte of Brooks Tree Farm in Brooks, Ore. took the […]

OAN Sustainability Summit is one month away

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The Oregon Association of Nurseries (OAN) is hosting a Sustainability Summit on October 13, 2010 from 8:30 am to 6 pm at Hayden’s Lakefront Grill in Tualatin, Ore. The summit is aimed at nursery owners and professionals who want to learn more about sustainability, how to tap into the developing market, and how sustainability can […]

Climate Friendly Nurseries best practices guide released

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A new guide called Best Management Practices for Climate Friendly Nurseries has been published by the Oregon Association of Nurseries and the Oregon Environmental Council. The new guide offers practical information on how nurseries can adopt climate-friendly practices, and includes case studies from several nurseries that already have done so. The guide was published as […]

Willamette Chapter funds greenhouse upgrades at Chemeketa

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The Willamette Chapter of the OAN has donated $5,000 to the Horticulture Program at Chemeketa Community College in Salem, Ore. The funds will go toward the purchase of new propagation tables and a new misting system in one of the program’s greenhouses. Dr. D. Craig Anderson, dean of the Department of Natural Resources, accepted the […]

National immigration reform summit is next week in Seattle

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The Pacific Northwest will play host to a regional and national summit on immigration reform next Thursday, Aug. 12. As co-chairman of the Coalition for a Working Oregon, OAN Director of Government Relations Jeff Stone will moderate the first segment of the summit on the topic “The State of Play: How Things Stand in Washington, […]

APHIS delays federal order on interstate plant shipments

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The USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) today has delayed the effective date of Federal Order DA-2021, which was announced May 27. It initially was scheduled to take effect on Monday, June 21, but now it officially has been pushed back to Monday, July 19. The order requires West Coast states to pre-notify […]