Dam Removal A big problem facing the wheat industry today is the push for removing dams to help the decreasing fish populations. Farmers have begun to push back against the dam removals because it would most likely cause the price of wheat transportation to spike tremendously. The price of transportation would spike because barges would…
Category: Scholarship Essays
2023 Scholarship Essay: Rylee Demianew
It’s May 8th 1865, along the banks of Stewart Creek sits a small farmhouse in territory that had just recently been designated as Umatilla County. Elizabeth Hemphill sits on her porch looking over Stewart Creek, and opens her leather bound journal, “We had a good farm on the creek and raised grain principally. We had…
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