irrigation

Water supply numbers this month may look slightly better than June, but it will still be a long irrigation season for many in central Washington.

Taft Rice says if he could remove one of the biggest stumbling blocks before Oregon producers, he would remove the ongoing water crisis.

Over the last four years, the Biden administration led a constant tirade of attacks on the four Lower Snake River dams.

Earlier this month, the Trump Administration issued a memo, pulling out of the Resilient Columbia Basin Agreement.  Supporters of the Snake River dams applauded the move, saying this will keep the vital infrastructure in place for the foreseeable future.  Central...

Oregon’s Democrat Representatives have expressed their displeasure with the Trump Administration’s decision last week to withdraw from the Resilient Columbia Basin Agreement.  The statement read:    "We are deeply disappointed in President Trump’s unilateral decision to withdraw from the Resilient Columbia Basin Agreement. This agreement enabled a pause ...

On Thursday, President Trump signed a Presidential Memorandum revoking the Biden Administration’s “Restoring Healthy and Abundant Salmon, Steelhead, and Other Native Fish Populations in the Columbia River Basin” Memorandum.  President Trump...

Washington State University’s irrigated winter and spring wheat tour is June 16th in Moses Lake.  In addition to tours of wheat fields, participants will also tour spring canola fields.  Click Here to learn more about the 2025 PNW Cereal Variety Trail Plot Tour.   If you have...

The water supply for central Washington continues to dwindle, and irrigation demands will not be met this season in the Yakima Basin.  The Bureau of Reclamation’s June Total Water Supply Available Forecast indicates senior water rights will receive 100% full entitlements, but junior water rights will only receive 43% of their full entitlements this year.  That is a  decreas...

With temperatures across the Northwest warming, and the start of Summer less than three weeks away, farmers, ranchers and producers are being reminded of the importance of water conservation.   “Drought cannot only develop due to water supply shortages stemming from below normal snowpack, but drought can also develop, especially during the summer, due to high temperatures driving high evaporative

Last week, when Governor Bob Ferguson signed Washington’s $77.9 billion two-year operating budget, eastern Washington irrigators celebrated.  That massive budget includes $44 million for the Odessa Groundwater Replacement Project .  Supporters of this proj...