Washington is home to a unique leadership program – taught in both English and Spanish – that focuses leadership principles on the realities of working in agriculture.
Even though new trucks have reduced CO2 and other pollutants, some politicians are hastily charging ahead to replace fossil-fueled trucks with unproven technology.
Federal health authorities have confirmed at least three people in Washington have contracted bird flu after working around poultry with the virus at a commercial egg farm in Franklin County.
This Wallula intermodal facility soft-launched early this year with a shipment of about 300 tons of hay, which was trucked in and then transferred to railcars and moved via train to the Northwest Seaport Alliance’s Port of Tacoma.
A new commercial steam corn flaker in Plymouth will be used to make feed that’s easier for cattle to digest. It’ll have the capacity to make 800 tons of flaked corn a day, supplying dairies and feedlots throughout the Columbia Basin, Yakima Valley and beyond.
From late nights packing boxes of farmers market produce around the family dinner table to growing almost all the in-season vegetables in hybrid community-supported-agriculture grocery boxes, Local Pumpkin has come a long way in 10 years.