Washington FFA officers are gearing up for the statewide organization's annual convention after a year that included a change in leadership and a global pandemic.
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OLYMPIA — The overtime bill that's likely headed to Gov. Jay Inslee will protect farms from back-pay lawsuits and give farm groups more time to convince the Legislature that time-and-a-half pa…
Beef exports are expected to increase substantially this year, and pork exports are expected to slightly surpass the record set in 2020.
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Boston-based startup Guardian Agriculture has invented an autonomous crop-dusting drone intended to complement or replace crop dusting using low-flying planes.
SAUVIE ISLAND, Ore. — Marketing Director Sofia Kondilis describes Bella Organic as “the full package.” The 100-acre organic farm offers everything from U-pick, hay rides, events, food, and tas…
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — A desert city built on a reputation for excess and indulgence wants to become a model for restraint and conservation with a first-in-the-nation policy banning grass that nobod…
An adult wolf from the Cornucopia pack in eastern Baker County was hit and killed by a car on Highway 86 near Richland either late Wednesday night or early Thursday, April 8.
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New Interior Secretary Deb Haaland has withdrawn a 41-page "reassessment" of the Klamath Project and its water delivery obligations under the Endangered Species Act that likely would have bene…
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Beginning next month, the 20,000-square-foot signature building of the Chemeketa Agriculture Complex is expected to be open for business.
Predator control districts, in which landowners tax themselves to pay for federal trappers, would become permanent in Oregon under a bill that’s now passed a key legislative committee.
PULLMAN, Wash. — Xin Xin hopes to help Kentucky bluegrass farmers increase seed yields through her groundbreaking genetic research.
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BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) — A Montana state report made public this week showed that grizzly bear deaths in parts of Yellowstone National Park increased last year and were higher than the 10-year av…
A new warehouse starting construction in Hermiston is expected to hire 75 to 100 people once it is completed later this year.
The pistachio, with a record-breaking crop last year, is now nearly tied with the walnut as California's second-biggest tree nut crop.
The festival this year will take place at the Clackamas County Fairgrounds, 694 NE Fourth Ave. in Canby, where guests can drive through various educational farm exhibits.
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Washington's snowpack entered April at 131% of normal, according to the Natural Resources Conservation Service, the fourth deepest in the past 30 years and a good omen for irrigators.
Most Idaho reservoirs likely will fill despite a mostly dry end to winter, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service hydrologists say.
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Though snowpack across the state has held steady at 111% of average, measurements show a clear disparity from north to south.
They cited FDA’s more stringent, safety-first approach and alleged conflict of interest at USDA.
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MONMOUTH, Ore. (AP) — Western Oregon University, in the small Willamette Valley city of Monmouth, will cut multiple programs and the equivalent of over a dozen full-time faculty, hoping to get…
WALLOWA COUNTY— FFA students from all over Oregon participated in the 88th Oregon FFA State Convention, held virtually March 18-21, from Oregon State University in Corvallis. This year’s conve…
The Baker County Board of Commissioners unanimously approved a resolution April 7 declaring a drought disaster in the county and asking Gov. Kate Brown and U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsa…
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As in the past, Fish and Wildlife will remove wolves as a last resort, Susewind told the department's Wolf Advisory Group. Delays making the decision, however, "limit the value" of lethal cont…
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Whether they are retiring or escaping high taxes in states such as California, the COVID-19 pandemic or just looking for a change of scenery, hundreds of thousands of Americans are choosing a …
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SNOQUALMIE, Wash. (AP) — Snow is falling on Snoqualmie Pass and a Winter Weather Advisory was issued across the mountain passes in western Washington.
Private funding for research is focused on financial returns and leaves significant gaps in needed research to face growing challenges.
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The total water supply available for irrigation April 1 through Sept. 30 will range from 2.26 million acre-feet to 2.3 million acre-feet.
To help inform production guides, education and research in growing regions.
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BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Rainstorms grew more erratic and droughts much longer across most of the U.S. West over the past half-century as climate change warmed the planet, according to a sweepin…
Socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers may benefit from $2 million in USDA funding announced April 5 though the agency's newly established Pandemic Assistance for Producers initiative.
The Idaho Water Users Association is adapting its annual canal-safety messaging to a growing population and increasingly diverse media landscape.
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The Inslee administration has abused its powers by sticking with emergency farmworker housing rules, ignoring the fact that workers are being vaccinated for COVID, farm groups claim in a court…
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A cattle genetics company has filed a lawsuit accusing Washington State University of misappropriating its intellectual property for testing beef tenderness.
Dairy farmers will see a little more in their milk check. The Agriculture Department announced the March Federal order Class III price at $16.15 per hundredweight, up 40 cents from February, a…
Class I milk pricing, processors’ ability to depool milk and the resulting negative PPDs need long-term and short-term solutions.
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MIAMI (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis declared a state of emergency Saturday after a significant leak at a large pond of wastewater threatened to flood roads and burst a system that stores po…
Dams were a big part of salmon decline, but not all of it, a NOAA Fisheries spokesman says. "So they must be part of the solution." NOAA has looked at salmon recovery and the effects of dam br…
In April’s first half water managers will raise Boise River flows to supply irrigation and other uses. Lucky Peak is the farthest downstream of the river’s three reservoirs. The others are Arr…
The Leadpoint pack has a history of attacking calves on private land. The most recent depredation was the first since August but the 13th within the past 10 months. The department considers le…
Dairy Margin Coverage program expected to pay more than $93 million for January and February.
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WildEarth Guardians and the Western Watersheds Project claim that S. Martinez Livestock's sheep threaten bighorn sheep with deadly Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae, a pathogen harmless to domestic sheep.
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YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) — Washington state apple industry officials have said the fruit's exports have dropped substantially compared to recent years' figures.
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CASA GRANDE, Ariz. (AP) — State officials are putting farmers in south-central Arizona on notice that the continuing drought means a “substantial cut" in deliveries of Colorado River water is …
The advocacy group says too much funding in USDA conservation programs is going to practices that provide little to no benefit.
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Idaho Rep. Mike Simpson has floated a $33.5 billion plan to boost salmon recovery, remove four dams on the lower Snake River and impose a 35-year moratorium on dam-related environmental litigation.
Sustainability is a word that can have a lot of different definitions, and it’s full of value judgments, said Sara Place, chief sustainability officer for Elanco Animal Health.
The USDA forecasts more corn and soybean acres nationwide, but expects a stable wheat crop in the Pacific Northwest.
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For the second year in a row, Oregon Gov. Kate Brown has declared a drought emergency in Klamath County.
U.S. agricultural industries contend the European Union is misusing geographical indications to block U.S. exports of such products as feta cheese, bologna and chateau wines.
Officials with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Walla Walla District have resumed use of bird-deterring lasers, and will be testing a long-range acoustic device to prevent birds from preying o…
ITHACA, N.Y. — Cornell University researchers recently received a $299,000 USDA grant to study rapid apple decline, a little-understood phenomenon responsible for killing apple trees across Ca…
The highest Northwest risk during June and July likely will be in Central Oregon east of the Cascade Mountains and the Columbia Basin of Oregon and Washington.
Pacific Northwest radicchio growers asked themselves how forming a new association might help them harness growing enthusiasm for their crop, educate farmers and reach customers who don't yet …
Grazing experts say Jon Bansen, an Oregon dairy farmer, is pushing the boundaries of pasture management — including harnessing natural medicinal properties of forages to boost animal and envir…
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The CFTC charges were filed in the U.S. District Court for Eastern Washington one day after Cody Easterday pleaded guilty in the same court to committing wire fraud against Tyson Foods and ano…
