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A new Democratic ag worker bill is a good start but needs a guestworker component, ag association leaders say.
Dan Wheat
Central Washington field reporter
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A much larger pear crop, more competition and loss of the China market have all caused Washington pear prices to drop significantly so far in this sales year.
Orondo Ruby cherries at harvest in Orondo, Wash., last June. A new estimate pegs Pacific Northwest industry loss at $106 million from Chinese …
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The estimated loss of Pacific Northwest cherry exports to China in 2018, due to Chinese tariffs, has been revised upward to $106 million. An industry leader fears more loss this year.
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A U.S. District Court judge in Washington, D.C., has set Jan. 28 to hear arguments on a preliminary injunction to halt increases in the minimum wage for agricultural foreign guestworkers.
A radio tower at the 6,820-foot summit of Mission Ridge Ski Area, south of Wenatchee, Wash., on Jan. 1. NOAA scientists say the prospect of an…
Yesenia Ramirez bags Fuji apples at Valicoff Fruit Co., Wapato, Wash., in October. The 2018 crop has been on the market five months and sales …
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Washington apple crops sales and prices remain steady and good but would be better, one economist says, if exports were not hampered by tariffs.
U.S. Rep. Dan Newhouse, R-Wash., is starting over with his Kennewick irrigation transfer bill in the new Congress since it passed the House last month but was not voted on in the Senate.