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 ...

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 ...

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 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 Center for Biological Diversity on June 9 sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for failing to decide whether native Western ridged mussels should be protected under the Endangered Species Act.

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 ...

A student-led wheat breeding program at University of California-Davis has developed a blue wheat. The Student Collaborative Organic Plant Breeding Education (SCOPE) program develops varieties adapted ...

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 ...

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 ...

Climate change poses major challenges for some of the most productive apple growing regions in the U.S. — particularly Washington’s Yakima County. A new study from Washington State University analyzed ...

SEATTLE (AP) — The U.S. Agriculture Department has designated 15 Washington counties as primary natural disaster areas due to extreme weather conditions in the first seven months of 2011. Sen. Maria ...