1970's

New data released by USDA’s Economic Research Service this week shows the number farms nationwide continues to decline slowly.  After peaking at 6.8 million farms in 1935, the number of U.S. farms and ranches fell sharply through the early 1970s.  Rapidly falli...

Joe Cornely recently sat down with and economist from the Federal Reserve to find out why the farm economy has not crashed.         If you have a story idea for the Washington Ag Network, call (509) 547-1618, or e-mail gvaagen@cherrycreekradio.com...

If you were shopping for groceries 40 years ago, you remember skyrocketing food prices.  In the first three months of 1979, food prices increased of 17.7%.  Compare that to 2016 and 2017 when the average grocery store total dropped.  In 2018 food...