Pacific Northwest Ag Network

When it comes to milk production, numbers continue to increase across much of the United States.   “We continue the trend of California being down three percent, and that’s just on the heels of that ongoing pressure from HPAI," said Mike North, principal at Ever.ag.  "The bottom...

Women in Agribusiness, an organization dedicated to growing a professional community of women throughout the agribusiness sector, focused on helping women learn from one another, develop their careers, and build beneficial relationships through regular events and networking to grow the sector...

Last month, the Washington State Pollution Control Hearings Board ordered state officials to rewrite pollution discharge permit regulations for concentrated animal feeding operations, better known as CAFOs.  The order was issued after a challenge from environmental groups that complained that previous regulations violated state and federal law.  The com...

The Interior Department may see more lawsuits after announcing it would no longer require the Bureau of Land Management to create an environmental impact statement for more than 3,200 oil and gas leases in seven states. The Biden administration started work on the review four days before President Trump took office in January...

The Agricultural Retailers Association said it understands the desire of the Trump administration to stop unfair trading practices in the global marketplace that lead to artificial trade imbalances.  ARA said some of the countries singled out by the White House have lengthy patterns of putting their proverbial thumbs on the scale to the disadvantage of U.S. produc...

A bill is moving through the House of Representatives that would delist wolves from the Endangered Species Act, and it just passed out of a key committee.  The bill is sponsored by Wisconsin's Tom Tiffany and gained approval from the House Natural Resources Committee, and will now head to the full House for a vote.   ...

Bayer said last month it may stop producing glyphosate, the world’s most popular weedkiller unless it can get court protection against lawsuits blaming the herbicide for causing cancer.  The Wall Street Journal says Bayer currently produces about 40% of the world’s glyphosate needs, which farmers use to kill weeds that threaten their crops.   Over th...

Thousands of workers have reportedly accepted the Trump administration’s buyout offers at the USDA.  E & E News says employees who’ve seen the internal numbers at USDA say the count has reached 3,100 at the Forest Service, 1,200 at the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, and possibly up to 12,000 people through the entire agency.  If those numbers hold, ...

The U.S. Department of Commerce intends to withdraw from the 2019 Agreement Suspending the Antidumping Investigation on Fresh Tomatoes from Mexico.  Termination of the agreement will be in 90 days.  The Commerce Department said the agreement failed to protect U.S. tomato...

On Monday, Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins announced the cancelation of the Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities.  The move comes following, what the Ag Secretary called a thorough line-by-line review of each of the Biden-era partnerships; noting that the majority of the projects had sky-high administration fees, which in many instances provided less than half of the federal funding directly to