Sunday, May 27, 2012
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VALLEYFORD, Wash. -- A new high-speed loading facility designed to accommodate grain and pulse rail shipments in Eastern Washington is expected to be operational for the 2013 harvest. Cooperative Agricultural Producers, Inc. (Co-Ag) and Pacific Northwest Farmers Cooperative are partnering on the ...
Friday, May 25, 2012 11:02 AM
Washington wine grapes may well bounce back with record tonnage this fall after recent years of cool weather and freeze damage, a leading vintner says. "So far looking at my grapes, I would say they probably will be more fruitful than I originally thought," said Wade Wolfe, winemaker at Thurston ...
Friday, May 25, 2012 11:02 AM
The first couple of weeks of California's cherry season in Bakersfield and Arvin were a bust with very little fruit. Harvest improved as it moved into the Visalia, Fresno and Madera areas. After Memorial Day, it should really take off with heavy volumes of Bing cherries around Stockton, Linden ...
Friday, May 25, 2012 2:53 PM
BELLINGHAM, Wash. -- Ranchers and farmers in northwestern Washington state are taking the next step toward developing a new brand of naturally raised meat called North Cascade Meats. The North Cascades Meat Producers Cooperative will meet at 7 p.m. June 7 at St. Luke's Educational Center, 3333 ...
Friday, May 25, 2012 11:03 AM
Recently released data show the spotted wing drosophila survives at lower temperatures than previously thought. Previous data showed flies stopped developing at 55 degrees Fahrenheit, according to Oregon State University extension entomologist Vaughn Walton. New data show flies were still developi ...
Friday, May 25, 2012 11:03 AM
John and Mike Gombos of ACX Pacific Northwest have received the Presidential “E” Award from U.S. Commerce Secretary John Bryson. The award is the highest recognition a U.S. business can receive for contributions to the expansion of U.S. exports, according to a White House press release. ...
Friday, May 25, 2012 11:03 AM
For the first time since the spotted wing drosophila arrived in the Northwest three years ago, the fly appears to be a threat to strawberries and cherries. Fly numbers are building in the Willamette Valley much earlier than scientists anticipated. "This year, earlier crops such as strawberries a ...
Friday, May 25, 2012 11:02 AM
MEDICAL LAKE, Wash. -- Washington wheat growers want to ensure that state-owned railroads remain competitive options for shipping their crop, but the cost of fixing them may be a sticking point. State legislators May 23 got to see first-hand how the tracks moved and flexed beneath a train at a cr ...
Thursday, May 24, 2012 10:22 AM
Washington dairy operators will make appearances at grocery stores across the state as part of the industry's Dairy Month promotion. Stephanie Littrel of Deer Park, Wash., will be at a Yoke's Fresh Market in Spokane Valley on June 1. "I think it helps for people to actually be able to talk to (d ...
Thursday, May 24, 2012 11:00 AM
LONGVIEW, Wash. -- The 20-year-old plan to protect the Northern spotted owl is a "failure," Rep. Doc Hastings, chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee, says. "Tens of thousands of jobs lost, and it has failed to recover the Northern spotted owl," the Washington state Republican said on ...
Thursday, May 24, 2012 11:00 AM
Economist Randy Fortenbery will begin work this summer on a book that will outline wheat marketing strategies for farmers. Fortenbery, of Washington State University, said the idea is not to convince producers to use options or hedging, but he hopes to show them how to calculate their expected re ...
Thursday, May 24, 2012 11:00 AM
Fingerling potato growers say they're expanding both acreage and varieties of the slender, colorful spuds to meet increasing demand. Rod Lake, a partner in Southwind Farms in Heyburn, Idaho, said his operation has expanded a bit this year, though he didn't disclose exact acreage. "This last year ...
Thursday, May 24, 2012 11:00 AM
Hay exporters have been shifting business from the Pacific Northwest to the Pacific Southwest in the last couple years because of high hay and shipping costs, a major hay exporter says. More containers and freight capacity from the ports of Seattle and Tacoma would help but the "quickest and heal ...
Thursday, May 24, 2012 11:00 AM
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) -- Federal and Washington state wildlife managers say wolves likely caused fatal injuries to a Methow Valley calf and the landowner would qualify for compensation. State Fish and Wildlife regional director Steve Pozzanghera said Wednesday it's not possible to say for ...
Thursday, May 24, 2012 10:22 AM
YAKIMA, Wash. -- A workshop on growing wine grapes in cool weather is being offered at Yakima Valley Community College by the Washington Association of Wine Grape Growers and Washington State University Viticulture and Enology Extension team on June 12. The 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. workshop will answ ...
Thursday, May 24, 2012 10:22 AM
The Washington Farm Labor Association is offering three webinars in June to help seasonal agricultural employers deal with Social Security number no-match letters. Such letters are coming not just from the Social Security Administration but state agencies and agencies from other states, said D ...
Thursday, May 24, 2012 10:22 AM
CATHCART, Wash. -- By the time a couple of hundred acres of canola are harvested in Snohomish County this September, a crusher and dryer facility should be ready to help process it into biofuel. An agreement between the county and Whole Energy, a biofuel company, has cleared the way for ordering ...
Thursday, May 24, 2012 11:00 AM
For nearly 40 years, no one performed much research on the wheat pest wireworm. That was because treating seeds with the chemical Lindane took care of the problem. But since Lindane was discontinued in 2006, a Washington State University researcher is racing to fill in the gaps in knowledge. Th ...
Thursday, May 24, 2012 11:00 AM
When the USDA releases its latest survey of organic production in late summer, it will reflect changes that have occurred in the industry during the economic downturn. The last survey compiled by the National Agricultural Statistics Service was released in 2010, but that data was collected in 200 ...
Thursday, May 24, 2012 11:00 AM
Two top Washington State University agriculture administrators are getting new titles. Dan Bernardo, dean of WSU's College of Agricultural, Human and Natural Resource Sciences CAHNRS, has been named vice president for agriculture and extension. Bernardo will remain the dean of CAHNRS and continu ...
Thursday, May 24, 2012 11:00 AM
PROSSER, Wash. -- Cherry growers will be updated on stemless cherry research at Washington State University's annual cherry field day on June 4. The event starts with a noon barbecue at the WSU Irrigated Agriculture Research and Extension Center in Prosser. Lunch will be followed by tours of the ...
Thursday, May 24, 2012 11:00 AM
WENATCHEE, Wash. -- Farmworker housing camps in Central Washington may be full this summer and fall despite a possible shortage of migrant workers for tree fruit harvests. Chelan County's migrant farmworker camp at Monitor, just northwest of Wenatchee, opens its 380 beds about June 8 and should b ...
Wednesday, May 23, 2012 9:40 AM
EPHRATA, Wash. -- Duane Hubbard felt that old familiar knot in his stomach when he woke up at 6 a.m. and realized it was raining lightly. He had cut 180 acres of alfalfa five days earlier. He had baled and stacked half of it. The rest was windrowed, nicely dried and ready for baling. But the rain ...
Tuesday, May 22, 2012 8:58 AM
LONGVIEW, Wash. -- Rep. Doc Hastings, R-Wash., said he will take the input from forestland stakeholders back to Washington. The Northwest Forest Plan "hasn't been looked at for a long time. Current restrictions on activities need to be lifted," he said. When asked about the likelihood of substan ...
Tuesday, May 22, 2012 10:49 AM
A Washington state man charged with stealing more than $100,000 worth of wheat will get his day in court in July. James William Hughes, 52, of Endicott, Wash., recently pleaded not guilty in Whitman County Superior Court to 19 counts of theft in the first degree, a class B felony. According t ...
Tuesday, May 22, 2012 10:18 AM
Washington state's wheat and potato growers are working together to tell agriculture's story. The Washington Association of Wheat Growers and Washington Potato Commission have formed an informal public relations coalition, called Washington's Farmers and Ranchers. "It's potatoes and wheat ta ...
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