harvest

Whether it’s sugarbeets, apples, grapes or one of many other commodities across the region, the Pacific Northwest remains very busy and active this harvest season. And with that activity comes additional truck and implement traffic on country roads and interstates. “ ...

Harvest season is here across the Pacific Northwest and the last thing you need is someone down and out because of COVID-19. With the delta variant being highly contagious, COVID cases and hospitalizations are on the rise again, just as farmers are heading to the fields this fall ...

Agricultural debt at commercial banks continued to decline in the first quarter of 2021, and farm loan performance improved. Last week, the Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank released the data that shows both real estate and production loans decreased, reducing farm debt by more than 5% from a year ago ...

For today's Focus On Fruit, we check in with Toni Lynn Adams with the Washington Apple Commission. If you have a story idea for the PNW Ag Network, call (509) 547-1618, or e-mail gvaagen@cherrycreekmedia.com

According to the 2020 numbers released by NASS, all wheat stocks in storage across the Northwest were up 9% year over year. As of December 1st, 84.7 million bushels of wheat was being stored in Idaho, up from 77.9 million bushels a year earlier ...

This week the USDA is publishing what essentially is the final acreage yield and production estimate for 2020 crops. And while Outlook Board Chairman Market Jekanowski said there will be some changes around the edges, he does not expect any big surprises ...

CHS, the nation's leading agribusiness cooperative, Thursday reported net income of $69.7 million for the first quarter of fiscal year 2021 that ended November 30. This compares to net income of $177.9 million in the first quarter of fiscal year 2020 ...

Late last month, Oregon Governor Kate Brown extended an Executive Order she says will protect farm workers from coronavirus. Executive Order 20-58, issued back in April, focuses not only on physical distance, but sanitation and isolation requirements ...

Apple harvest is underway. Toni Lynn Adams with the Washington Apple Commission has a preview of this year's progress.

As the cherry harvest continues across the Northwest, it’s not weather, or drought that is having one of the biggest impacts on the size of the crop. Little Cherry Disease continues to devastate growers from the Washington/Canada border down into the heart of Oregon. ...