Central Washington

Rail service in central Washington is expected to improve thanks to a $14.5 million inclusion in the 2023-2025 Transportation Budget.  The funds will be used for the Connell Rail Interchange project north of the Tri-Cities.  The $14.5 million includes ...

Washington State University has announced the new director of the Dryland Research Station in Lind.  Last week, the school announced that crop and soil scientist Surendra Singh will serve as the new dryland cropping systems agronomist and next leader of the central Washington station.  He repl...

Rail service in central Washington could improve thanks to a budget proposal in Olympia.  Governor Jay Inslee has included nearly $15 million in funding in his recently released 2023-25 Budget for the Connell Rail Interchange Project.  That pr...

On Thursday, alongside more than 80 of his House colleagues, Congressman Dan Newhouse introduced the Protect Farmers from the SEC Act.   Newhouse said the legislation is in direct response to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s proposed climate disclosure rule, “The Enhancement and Standardization of Climate-Related Disclosures for Investors”, a rule he says would effectively force publi

Over the past couple of weeks, the Washington state Tree Fruit Association has delivered air purifiers for farm workers across Central Washington.  The purifiers were delivered to the Catholic Charities of Central Washington and the Yakima Housing Authority, and distributed from there.  WS...

On Tuesday, Central Washington Representative Kim Schrier announced that one of the Ag Committee’s Farm Bill listening sessions would take place in Washington later this month.  The event, “A 2022 Review of the Farm Bill: Perspectives from the Field,” looks to gather input from the farming community, as well as consumers, about what the 2023 Farm Bill should contain. The listening sess... Read Mor

Washington State University will host field day next week to for growers interested in staying ahead of the Little Cherry & X-disease infections in their orchards. The Tree Fruit Extension Center will hold the event Tuesday June 21st in Buena, WA. (4 ...

Central Washington’s Quincy-Columbia Basin Irrigation District plans to start filling the West Canal on Wednesday, March 16th, barring any unforeseen scheduling requirements. Priming will continue on smaller canals and laterals through the first week in April, depending on the weather and the demand for water deliveries. T ...

On Thursday, Representative Dan Newhouse applauded the Bureau of Reclamation’s announcement that  three Central Washington irrigation district projects that have been selected to receive federal Small Scale Water Efficiency Grants. These grants, ...

Last week, Representative Dan Newhouse, chairman of the Western Caucus, introduced the Conservation and Innovative Climate Partnership Act of 2021. Newhouse says H.R. 2613 will allocate funding for land-grant institutions to partner with local farmers to boost conservation and innovative climate practices ...