Washington

Washington's apple harvest is coming in smaller this year, but the state still dominates national production by a wide margin.

Across the Pacific Northwest, spring wheat is nearly all headed out, and most of it is rated good to excellent — but hot temperatures moving through the region have USDA forecasters keeping a close eye on quality.

Forage producers in parts of Idaho and Washington will see their federal crop insurance options expand in 2027, with new plans covering revenue loss from price declines, not just poor harvests.

The National FFA Organization took 75 high school members to Chicago last month to show them that agriculture careers stretch well past the field — think agribusiness, marketing, and management.

Washington state farmers planted 175,000 acres of canola this year, a 17 percent jump, as the U.S. set a new all-time record for canola acreage with nearly 3 million acres planted.

Hop farming in the northwest hit its peak in 2021, right when craft beer was at its most popular, and acreage has been quietly shrinking every year since.

Some familiar Pacific Northwest wine and spirits brands, including Willamette Valley Vineyards and King Estate, now move through Columbia Distributing after a deal with Republic National closed July 1 in Oregon and Washington.

A new study from Washington State University finds the Sin Nombre virus, a hantavirus that can cause a deadly respiratory illness in humans, may be far more common in Northwest rodent populations than previously thought.

With the soil finally warming up, planting season is in full swing, and the numbers are looking interesting for Northwest crops.

Many are getting fed up and looking at a way out. If you’re one of those people, some states are offering free land for you to pull up stakes, load up the U-Haul, and move.