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).
Cherry growers are facing a big dip in their harvests thanks to weather damage to their trees. And the bees trucked in to pollinate are...
Agriculture experts have confirmed Washington state’s second outbreak of bird flu, this time in a non-commercial flock in Spokane County.
The bird flu has been detected in two backyard flocks in the Pacific Northwest, including in Pacific County, Washington, according to agriculture officials.
The crisis is hurting egg-laying hens and turkeys the most, exacerbating food prices that already were soaring.
When Emily Polkinghorne went out to check on her incubated emu eggs after a storm caused a power outage, she thought all the unhatched chicks...
COVID-19 was responsible for around a quarter of the 106 work-related deaths reported in Washington in 2021, according to Washington Department of Labor & Industries.
Researchers in Skagit Valley hope to establish a new crop: tea. Only one farm, in Oregon, grows tea in the Pacific Northwest.
