Washington farmers had the second-highest labor costs in the U.S. last year, behind only California and well ahead of any other state, according to the USDA Economic Research Service. Washington ...

The U.S. and Canada trade dispute escalated as President Trump banned some Canadian products and levied tariffs on goods covered by the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement. Canada raised tariffs on ...

ALBANY, Ore. — Ken Fox recalled the Albany Farmers’ Market from decades ago, when growers sold produce from pickup beds or constructed makeshift booths with bricks and two-by-fours. He started with ...

Columbia Basin potato farmers are seeing higher numbers of potato psyllids than normal, but the industry hopes the risk of zebra chip infection remains low. Psyllid populations this year are ...

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New research has found that northern spotted owls are approaching or have already crossed functional extinction across large areas of the Pacific Northwest, despite decades of conservation efforts to ...

Washington Association of Wheat Growers led congressional staff members on a tour of the Northwest wheat industry during its fourth annual dam tour last week. “We try to invite those staffers on ...

Retired cattle rancher Rod Haeberle recently counted nine fires within 20 miles of his home in north-central Washington. All summer, he looks outside and sees smoke instead of his neighbor. Haeberle, ...

Quagga mussel detections in the Middle Snake River decreased substantially in the past year. The Idaho State Department of Agriculture now is detecting 77% fewer veligers, or larvae, than in 2025 ...

RICKREALL, Ore. — Visitors at what may have been the last Polk County Fair seemed to agree: Ending the event and closing the fairgrounds would be heart-breaking. “I think it’d be a travesty for our ...

A timber industry group alleges the Grasshopper Fire in Oregon is burning through forests slated for hazardous fuels reduction that was delayed by environmental litigation. But the environmental ...

Animal-rights activists are asking the Federal Aviation Administration to let them continue flying camera-equipped drones over farms, claiming that banning overhead surveillance would shield animal ...