The same factors that produced a later and lighter cherry crop are affecting many Yakima Valley peach growers as well.

Stuhlmiller said that small farms should have a chance to work with conservation districts or the Voluntary Stewardship Program before being required to get a CAFO permit.

works to strengthen regional meat supply chains connecting small farms & ranches, local meat processors, and Washington consumers

EUGENE, Ore. — A grazing plan is under attack for allegedly failing to adequately examine climate change effects on Oregon spotted frogs

The larger breeds don’t necessarily fight wolves, but they do help alert ranchers to predators lurking nearby

The Washington State Department of Agriculture (WSDA) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal Plant Health Inspection Service (USDA APHIS) have confirmed the detection of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) – also known as bird flu – in a non-commercial backyard flock in Pacific County.

Like much of the West Coast, the state needs a regulatory overhaul if it wants to take advantage of emerging ocean aquaculture.

sometimes we measure our success not in what everybody sees, but in what they don’t see

Joth Davis shows off his crop of sugar kelp at Blue Dot Sea Farms in Washington’s Hood Canal.

Our farmers have implemented conservation on their lands for decades and generations with help and in partnership with local conservation districtsv...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced approximately $35 million in available funding to community-based and nonprofit organizations, institutions of higher education, and tribal entities that help historically underserved and veteran farmers and ranchers own and operate successful farms.

in 2019 he began engineering the TerraTug, a four-wheel-drive contraption that is remote-control operated, can haul more than four times the volume of a wheelbarrow and runs on electricity

The so-called megadrought that is afflicting the American West is the worst in 1,200 years, according to a study published this week.

The Washington House of Representatives advanced legislation by Rep. Alicia Rule (D-Blaine) today to assist farmers and ranchers recovering from natural disasters.

Lack of processing facilities, high land costs vex county farmers

...the application period is now open for the program, called the WSDA Local Meat Processing Capacity Grants. The deadline to apply for a small project grant, with funding available up to $150,000, is Feb. 28, while the deadline for large project grants, eligible for funding between $150,000 to $750,000, is March 7.