Read the latest news about Washington state's top crops: apples and pears; wheat and hay; milk and dairy; potatoes and vegetables; cherries, grapes and hops. Topics also include Washington state wines and viticulture, beef cattle and other livestock; aquaculture; international trade in farm commodities; organic foods, pesticides, herbicides and the debate over genetically modified crops (GMO).
Samuel Wasser, director of the UW Center for Conservation Biology, explains how DNA analysis has been used to trip up crime networks that funnel ivory...
The U.S. Agriculture Department scientists who gave us the Bradford pear thought they were improving our world. Instead, they left an environmental time bomb that...
Fresh-hop beers are widely coveted, but few brewers can make them cheaper or fresher than in Washington state, as the Yakima Valley produces 75 percent...
Good weather this year provided farmers with an amazing crop, but trade decisions could hurt the market in the future.
Clubroot is taking hold in parts of Canada's vast prairies. The invasive disease grows like a cancer on canola roots, cutting yields and potentially killing...
Although products like veggie burgers and sausages have been sold for years, the debate over how they can be described has become particularly contentious as...
The juvenile fish will be placed in pens this fall, more than a year after thousands of fish escaped from a Cooke Aquaculture facility.
Four members of Washington’s congressional delegation sent a letter to Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue asking that cherry growers be included in a $12 billion aid...
