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USDA projects 23% drop for Washington cherry crop
2+ day, 12+ hour ago (484+ words) Published 3:00 pm Friday, July 24, 2026 U.S. sweet cherry production in the top four producing states is expected to hit 310,500 tons this season, down 17% from 2025. The USDA’s “Fruit and Tree Nuts Outlook: July 2026” report shows production declines for Washington, Oregon and Michigan, but…...
Trump exempts farm inputs from forced-labor tariffs
2+ day, 12+ hour ago (514+ words) Published 3:30 pm Friday, July 24, 2026 The Trump administration exempted fertilizers, pesticides and seeds from the president’s forced-labor tariffs, agreeing with farm groups that taxing them could hurt agricultural production. The farm inputs were left off a preliminary list of exempted products…...
Labor groups, immigration critics back Trump on H-2A enforcement
2+ day, 15+ hour ago (666+ words) Published 12:00 pm Friday, July 24, 2026 Labor advocates have joined with immigration critics in supporting the Trump administration in a legal dispute over agricultural guestworkers before the U.S. Supreme Court. Earlier this year, the Trump administration’s Department of Labor persuaded the nation’s highest…...
Idaho water curtailment order ups expected shortfall
2+ day, 16+ hour ago (506+ words) Published 11:00 am Friday, July 24, 2026 An updated Idaho curtailment order increases the volume Eastern Snake Plain groundwater pumpers owe a coalition of surface water users with senior rights. Unusually low snowpack, mostly warm and dry conditions and expected below-average streamflows that…...
144-year-old McGregor family ranch feels fire's impact
2+ day, 17+ hour ago (589+ words) Published 10:00 am Friday, July 24, 2026 Fire caused by lightning threatened the 144-year-old McGregor family ranch. The Lyons Ferry Fire began July 16 and is now 100% contained. It burned roughly 33,750 acres in Washington’s Franklin County, including about 20,000 acres owned and operated by McGregor…...
Oregon expert: Biomass, 'Cheeto dust' are more likely culprits for combine fires
2+ day, 18+ hour ago (304+ words) Published 9:00 am Friday, July 24, 2026 Combine fires this year may be due to more biomass from a warmer winter, Oregon State University cereal pathologist Christina Hagerty says. While cautioning farmers about “dangerously combustible” wheat chaff, Franklin County Fire District 1 chief Eric…...
Family dispute jeopardizes Oregon hop farm's future
2+ day, 19+ hour ago (1512+ words) Published 8:30 am Friday, July 24, 2026 Trying to avoid domestic strife four decades ago only ended up compounding it for Oregon hop farmer Richard Kirk and his family. Conversations about inheritance, awkward and morbid as they may seem, are ultimately necessary to…...
Farm groups fret increase in California’s H-2A minimum wage
3+ day, 17+ hour ago (563+ words) Published 10:45 am Thursday, July 23, 2026 By Tim Hearden/For the Capital Press Farm and business groups in California say a state bill that would raise the minimum wage for certain agricultural workers by nearly $3 an hour would lead to business closures,…...
Researcher focuses on beef tenderness
3+ day, 18+ hour ago (513+ words) Published 9:40 am Thursday, July 23, 2026 Tenet Beef in Selah, Wash., uses genomic markers to identify beef tenderness in cattle. Owner Frank Hendrix originally worked for Washington State University, specializing in irrigated pasture and managed intensive grazing. He discovered the “Callipyge” gene…...
9th Circuit revives controversy over 'wildland-urban interface"
3+ day, 18+ hour ago (610+ words) Published 9:00 am Thursday, July 23, 2026 A federal appeals court has revived a legal controversy over whether an Idaho forest project can avoid environmental review because it’s in the “wildland-urban interface” — the transition between wilderness and human development. A 9th U.S. Circuit Court…...