WPC Launches Ag Dinner

The Washington Policy Center will host it’s first ever Agriculture Policy Dinner, Monday at the Red Lion Hotel in Pasco.  The WPC’s Madi Clark said Washington needs to have a higher consideration for agriculture in its policy discussion, and hopefully next week’s Farm to Free Market dinner will do that.

“So often in Washington state, we hear about the big ones Microsoft and Boeing, in fact there was an article in the Seattle Times yesterday that talked about how Boeing is our main employer which is actually not true.  They employee 70,000, we employee 160,000, so it’s time we have this focus on agriculture and we think this dinner will do that.”

Clark told the Washington Ag Network ultimately, the hope is to bring local ag to the national forefront.

“The Pacific Northwest, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, we do a lot for American agriculture, we’re just different.  We're not the corn soybeans and wheat, we have 300 crops, and a lot of those are specialty crops, and we fill a niche, for trade as well, in our apples and cherries.”

Representative Dan Newhouse will be the keynote speaker at Monday’s Farm to Free Market.  The reception starts at 5:30 p.m., with the dinner taking place at 6:30 p.m.

To learn more visit WPC's Website.

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