ag income

How has Washington agriculture changed over the past couple of years?   Chris Mertz with NASS said if you look at the 2017 Census of Ag, which was published earlier this year, one of the biggest notes for the Evergreen state was the drop in both the total numbers of farms and the number of acres.  ...

The USDA expects when we close the finical books on 2019, they will show that farm income increased about 10% year-over-year, thanks primarily to government trade aid payments, as well as total expenses remaining flat.  USDA's Chief Economist Rob Johansson said  total production expenses will end the year higher than 2018 but only by two tenths of one percent; which is pretty much flat.   ... Read