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Oregon Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici says there’s a bipartisan effort to maintain services at the National Weather Service and its parent agency, NOAA.

Washington State University’s Breadlab announced last week that their USDA funding has been reinstated, meaning the Soil to Society grant will continue.

In today's Wine Minute, Julie Pond talks with us about the future of the Northwest Center for Small Fruits.   If you have a story idea for the PNW Ag Network, call (509) 547-1618, or e-mail glenn.vaagen@townsquaremedia.com 

The Continuing Resolution keeping the government fully funded through March 14th, also included economic aid for farmers experiencing one of the biggest income drops in many years.  In fact, over the past two years, USDA projects that farmers will experience the steepest two-year decline in net farm income in history.  Meanwhi...

The Columbia Basin Railroad Company, which operates between Moses Lake and Connell in central Washington, has received $11,552,000 to rehabilitate approximately 10 miles of the railroad line.  The proposed project will replace approximately ten miles of rail and approximately 8,000 cross ties on the Columbia Basin Railroad.  Support...

Congress narrowly averted a government shutdown late last week, passing another stop-gap funding measure that continues farm disaster and pandemic aid. This came amid a Republican fight over the president’s vaccine policies. The new funding lasts only until February 18th, when lawmakers must again wrestle with funding for the rest of the current fiscal year. But ...

Earlier this week, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi warned her party about the need to trim back the $3.5 trillion Build Back Better Act, the budget reconciliation bill. “I’m very disappointed we’re not going with the original $3.5 trillion," she ...

We recently sat down with Mark Powers, President of the Northwest Horticultural Council, about efforts to secure additional federal funds to fight Little Cherry Disease.

According to a report quoted by the USDA, for every $1 invested in agriculture research, $20 is returned to the American public.   University of California’s Dr. Glenda Humiston explains how that research has been so successful.   “...