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Good harvests for for potatoes, apples, wheat and raspberries in 2025
MOSES LAKE – With Fall in full swing, growers around the area are either completing their harvests or are on the v…
Agriculture bills filed for WA legislative session
OLYMPIA — Another new year, another legislative session in Olympia. The session began Jan. 8, and state lawmakers are hard at work. Some bills pass through fai…
Meet the speakers
These are the experts who will present at the 2024 Washington-Oregon Potato Conference. To see the dates and times of their presentations, see the schedule here.
CWU priorities included in governor’s 2024 supplemental budget proposals
ELLENSBURG – The Office of Governor Jay Inslee released its Supplemental Operating and Capital Budget proposals for the 2024 fiscal year on Wednesday, includin…
Potato focus: Research results among subjects at 2024 Washington-Oregon Potato Conference
KENNEWICK — Research into potato pests and disease, new labor rules in Washington and innovations in the potato industry will be among the topics covered at th…
Hydrogen tax credit unveiled as administration tries to jump start industry
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration released its highly anticipated proposal for doling out billions of dollars in tax credits to hydrogen producers Fri…
Lavender ranch: Aromatic herb thrives near Quincy
QUINCY — Quincy farmer Joseph Downs first started planting lavender at his properties at the Upper Crescent Bar near Quincy and in East Wenatchee in 2015. He n…
State paying out $40M-plus to families after price-fixing lawsuit
OLYMPIA — Thousands of Washington households will receive a little extra money, Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced in a Dec. 6 press conference. The payouts are the result of price-fixing lawsuits b…
Horticultural convention provides early look at new variety
KENNEWICK — The colors of the apple variety known as WA 64, at least for now, may give it an advantage when it hits produce shelves in a few years. “It meet…
Finding the next popular apple variety is a long process
KENNEWICK — For all the research, all the focus groups, all the test marketing, it is the consumer who ultimately decides the success of something new or diffe…
National Finals Rodeo kicks off in Las Vegas
LAS VEGAS – The 2023 Professional Rodeo Cowboy Association’s National Finals Rodeo began on Dec. 8, the start of a nine-day-long competition where contestants …