According the the Capital Press, Oregon's agricultural sales in 2007
totalled $4.89 billion. That's up substantially from 2006. With the
commodity price runup in early 2008, the year might be even better.
Maybe. Some of the price runup has been from speculators pumping money
into the futures market because stocks have been heading down. If they
think stocks are risky, they have never traded commodities.

Even so, demand is up, and supplies are tight. Things are looking
pretty good for farmers in 2008.