Editing Irrigon, Oregon (section)

==Economy and education==
Irrigon is an [[agriculture]]- and [[food processing]]-based community. The largest employer is Western Alfalfa, a company that makes prepared [[livestock]] [[Compound feed|feed]]s.<ref>{{cite web|title=Irrigon Community Profile|url=http://www.orinfrastructure.org/profiles/Irrigon/|publisher=Oregon Infrastructure Finance Authority|year=2009|access-date=July 16, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100106082952/http://www.orinfrastructure.org/profiles/Irrigon/|archive-date=January 6, 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref>

[[Irrigon Junior/Senior High School]], Irrigon Elementary School, A.C. Houghton Elementary School, and the Morrow Education Center, an alternative school, are in Irrigon. They are part of the Morrow County School District, which has its headquarters in [[Lexington, Oregon|Lexington]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Welcome to Our District|url=http://www.morrow.k12.or.us/|publisher=Morrow County School District|access-date=July 17, 2013}}</ref>

In June 2014, the city made the news when it announced that it would pay a bounty of one dollar for each large trash bag of [[Tribulus terrestris|puncturevine]], an invasive plant.<ref>{{Cite web
| last = Templeton
| first = Amelia
| title = Irrigon Oregon Offers Dollar Bounty For Prickly Invasive Weed
| work = OPB News
| access-date = 2014-06-17
| date = 2014-06-16
| url = http://www.opb.org/news/article/irrigon-oregon-offers-dollar-bounty-for-prickly-invasive-weed/
}}</ref>