washington state

USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service released their final numbers for 2016’s top commodities in Washington last week.   The top two stayed the same with apples worth nearly $2.4 billion and milk worth nearly $1.1 billion. The f...

Washington is in the middle of updating the state’s drought plan, partially in response to the extreme drought of 2015.   Department of Ecology’s Jeff Marti said they want to find better ways to forecast weather and potential droughts as well as being better positioned to act when a drought emergency occurs.   “We’re ...