In a “flash sale,” China recently made its first purchase of U.S. soybeans for the new marketing year. Private exporters reported sales of 136,000 metric tons of soybeans for delivery to unknown ...

WALLA WALLA, Wash. — Walla Walla sweet onions this year got their earliest start on record due to the mild winter this year. Typically, harvest begins around June 10 to 15. But this year, farmers ...

MOSCOW, Idaho — Huckleberry seedlings always sell out whenever the University of Idaho’s Pitkin Forest Nursery has them for sale. “Demand for huckleberry seedlings is skyrocketing,” nursery director ...

Final authority to breach the four lower Snake River dams remains with the 535 members of Congress. But agricultural stakeholders, tribes and environmental groups agree on one thing: The Columbia ...

A recent graduate from Washington State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine says she raised concerns about the use of “terminal laboratories” in WSU’s large animal curriculum due to a “lack of ...

Washington ranked last in the nation in 2024 for financial returns to farm operators, and the picture isn’t likely to vastly improve for 2025, a Washington State University financial advisor says.

The 2024-2025 U.S. pistachio crop is forecast at 1.1 billion pounds in-shell, its third largest harvest — and that’s for an “off” year with alternate bearing production. With more acreage than ever ...

Washington in 2024 ranked No.1 in producing apples, blueberries, hops, pears, onions and sweet cherries. It was No. 2 in grapes, potatoes, raspberries and winter wheat, grapes. And in take-home farmer ...

Oregon’s land-use system is coming under criticism from business groups advising Gov. Tina Kotek’s “prosperity council,” which aims to improve the state’s economic environment. Kotek formed the ...

The number of agricultural lenders has kept shrinking even as the amount of money they lend to farmers has continued increasing, according to federal statistics. The U.S. had 945 agricultural banks at ...

Washington’s greenhouse gas emissions fell 0.5% in 2022 as a larger percentage of electricity was generated by dams, windmills and solar panels than the year before, according to a new inventory by ...

Warmer winters and snow drought across the West may devastate agricultural water supplies by speeding streamflows, according to a new scientific report. The shift will likely leave less liquid in ...