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).
Cooke Aquaculture offered the Lummi Nation a premium price for the fish it caught that had escaped from Cooke pens, in exchange for keeping silent...
Influential Seattle restaurant consultant Jon Rowley has died at age 74.
A strike and settlement in the apple orchards of Central Washington represents a rare flexing of bargaining muscle by foreign guest workers who form an...
The Yakima Valley supplies most of the nation’s hops, but a doubling of acreage in recent years and a slowdown in craft breweries’ growth have...
If you knew pears were one of the state’s biggest crops, you belong to the super-breed of knowledgeable Washingtonians. Here’s more you should know about...
Tensions between ranchers and the Yakama Nation over water rights have been heightened since a surveillance photo appeared on Facebook, showing a man in what...
Yes, people eat this. Here, an assessment by two rabid onion-lovers and one normal person.