The Washington State Department of Agriculture plans to scrap paper tests and adopt online testing for pesticide applicators. The computer tests will be more convenient and prevent cheating, but will cost more to take, according to the department.
SALEM — Gov. Kate Brown was eager on the campaign trail to tell voters she would represent all regions of the state.
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A hearing on whether two Thurston Conservation District supervisors should be removed from office was postponed Thursday afternoon because of medical emergencies, according to the Washington S…
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Just two months into the new water year, Oregon is already lagging behind in precipitation and snowpack across much of the state, deepening concerns about another difficult drought year in 2019.
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REDDING, Calif. (AP) — A rare fire tornado that raged during this summer's deadly Carr Fire in Northern California was created by a combination of scorching weather, erratic winds and an ice-t…
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BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Trump administration moved forward Thursday with plans to ease restrictions on oil and natural gas drilling and other activities across millions of acres in the Amer…
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Brown needs to find $2.6 billion more than is already being paid in state taxes to cover her proposals for the state’s next two-year budget.
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Oregon State Sen. Cliff Bentz, R-Ontario, is confident that proposed carbon cap and trade legislation will pass the Legislature in 2019.
Two Western Washington farmers will have a chance to defend themselves Dec. 7 against accusations they've undermined the Thurston Conservation District's finances and morale and should be remo…
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — National climate experts have been watching and waiting but El Nino has only been teasing, leaving the American Southwest to hang on longer until the weather pattern d…
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Board aims to get more aggressive in monitoring, control.
ORONDO, Wash. — The fire that destroyed offices and a packed apple warehouse at Pine Canyon Growers was apparently caused by a fan motor failure.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A storm moving into California on Thursday brought rain that threatened to unleash debris flows in wildfire burn areas and snow that could cause travel problems in the Sie…
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A high-tech dairy system milks, monitors herd health and production automatically.
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At Wednesday’s Hermiston Farm Fair, the conference room at the Eastern Oregon Trade and Event Center was packed with growers and scientists listening to Phil Hamm talk about potatoes.
A federal judge in Idaho has dismissed a lawsuit brought by the family of Adams County rancher Jack Yantis, who was shot and killed by deputy sheriffs at his ranch on Nov. 1, 2015.
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A continued shortage of Christmas trees from Oregon growers will likely mean higher prices this season for consumers.
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A Washington farmer has won the annual wheat yield contest with more than 200 bushel per acre.
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Spokane Riverkeeper accuses company of exceeding pollutant levels.
Attorneys for the federal government and an Oregon farmer accused of Clean Water Act violations have told a judge the dispute is “settled in principle.”
SEATTLE (AP) — A team of Washington utility workers is helping to restore power to families affected by the recent wildfire in Northern California.
MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) — Montana counties plan to try again to pass a law to shift the burden of paying for the care of animals seized in animal cruelty cases to their owners.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A massive wildfire that killed dozens of people and destroyed thousands of homes in Northern California has been fully contained after burning for more than two weeks, autho…
EUGENE, Ore. — The need was ahead of the plan for David and Jane Kelly when they established Oregon Horse Rescue in 2013. They were in the midst of buying their horse sanctuary when they came …
CHEHALIS, Wash. — PND Organic Beef started life as a dairy.
ROCKVILLE, Ore. — When Mike Greeley was 12, he shot his first sage grouse on his father’s Malheur County cattle ranch near the Idaho border.
GEARHART, Ore. — Located just off Highway 101 near Gearhart, is an agricultural operation that many people might more closely associate with the state of Washington than Clatsop County. But cr…
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Snake River Basin reservoirs are at normal levels despite a dry start to the snow-accumulation year, Idaho Power Co. reported.
A Napa Valley winery at the center of a labeling dispute in Oregon has agreed to put new labels on two brands of Oregon Pinot noir, following an investigation by federal regulators.
The so-called Camp Fire in Northern California in many ways has become the worst wildfire the history of a state whose topography and climate have long made it ripe for devastating blazes.
SPOKANE — Two longtime Washington Grain Commissioners will depart the board at the end of the year.
PROSSER, Wash. — Per McCord was a bit of an innovator in expanding use of DNA markers to breed new sugarcane varieties in Florida. Now he plans to do the same sort of thing in sweet cherries i…
SPOKANE — Kimberly Garland Campbell is the only club wheat breeder in the world.
CHICO, Calif. (AP) — Light rain falling Wednesday in some areas of Northern California could aid crews fighting a deadly wildfire while raising the risk of flash floods and complicating effort…
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — People may need to trim back their Christmas tree expectations this year.
Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson spearheads an 11-state coalition joining the fight to overturn President Donald Trump’s downsizing of two national monuments in Utah, a court battle th…
Scott White, executive director of the Klamath Water Users Association in Klamath Falls, Ore., announced Monday he will resign from the job following a 2018 irrigation season plagued by drough…
Oregon’s farm regulators have submitted several possible scenarios for overseeing canola production in the Willamette Valley to legislative leaders.
The Farm Credit System of ag lenders has seen a spike in troubled loans as many farmers struggle with low prices, even as profits have grown for the banks themselves.
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Thanksgiving traditionally means food, family and football on TV, but for Willamette Valley wineries it also ushers in one of the biggest and most important sales weekends of the year.
MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) — A major California wine producer must stop using labels that imply a connection to Oregon pinot noirs.
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — The Oregon Cannabis Commission is recommending the state set up an independent agency to regulate legal marijuana rather than having three different agencies share the job, …
NEW YORK (AP) — Health officials in the U.S. and Canada told people on Tuesday to stop eating romaine lettuce because of a new E. coli outbreak.
Climate change is expected to increase drought and wildfire vulnerability in forests across the West. But new research out of Oregon State University shows that some places will fare better th…
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SACRAMENTO — The California Farm Bureau Federation has established a Farm and Rural Disaster Fund to help farms, ranches and rural communities damaged by wildfires, floods and other natural di…
Canyon and Payette counties in southwest Idaho have been designated primary natural disaster areas due to drought.
Whenever Dennis Roe wanted to solve a problem, he sought out farmers who were willing to try new things.
Oregon State University will be seeking an additional $30 million for agricultural research, Extension and its forest laboratory next year, representing a 25 percent boost over the current biennium.
VENETA, Ore. — For Dan Buchwald, veteran and vice president of Veterans Legacy, the land dedicated to their cause, dubbed Camp Alma, has healing properties.
PORTLAND — Limagrain Cereal Seeds, an international agricultural cooperative and fourth-largest seed company in the world, will launch a new line of wheat varieties developed in partnership wi…
PORTLAND — With three times the fiber of oatmeal and a wide assortment of health benefits, barley has the potential to permanently change American food, says Bryce McKay with Highland Specialt…
PARADISE, Calif. (AP) — Brad Weldon lost his home to fire when he was a kid, so when a deadly wildland blaze came roaring toward his ranch house in the pines where he lives with his 89-year-ol…
Adding 10 orcas to Puget Sound over the next decade will require more fish habitat and possibly removing four Lower Snake River dams, according to a report released Nov. 16 by a governor’s tas…