Wine grape growers in the Lewis-Clark Valley American Viticultural Area expect 2020’s harvest to age well, providing what they predict will be a lasting sweet note to a year marked by uncertainty. Read more
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Saturday, December 26, 2020
Washington State University’s four-story, 82,400-square-foot Plant Sciences Building completed this fall in Pullman p…
A University of Idaho barley agronomist plans to survey barley growers’ challenges throughout the state and use that …
Science and a little luck with the weather helped an eastern Washington farmer become the Washington state winner in …
Even with warnings of the potential for a sharp rise in cases of COVID-19 through the winter and coming spring, Idaho…
Tuesday, December 01, 2020
The wet spring offered only a tiny window for planting, so when North Dakota farmer Paul Ivesdal fell ill with the co…
An online seminar for attendees to gain pesticide recertification credits will be held from 8:45 a.m. to 2 p.m. Dec. 8.
Tuesday, November 03, 2020
IOLA, Wis. — They wrote it right into their business plan — an expectation that, each year, at least half the stock o…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — In a clearing near the crest of Missionary Ridge, overlooking a striking vista of Chattanooga be…
Mount Vernon, Wash. — Improving the flavor of barley used to make whiskey and finding new varieties for farmers to gr…
Tuesday, October 06, 2020
KALISPELL, Mont. — When the height of the coronavirus pandemic first took hold last spring, forcing a nationwide shut…
Rhode Island on guard against invasive, damaging lanternfly
Twelve webinars on pesticide safety education will be presented via Zoom by the University of Idaho Extension service…
Tuesday, September 22, 2020
PORTLAND, Maine — A late spring frost, a devastating drought and labor troubles wrought by the coronavirus pandemic c…
SEBEKA, Minn. — It’s hard to see how anyone could coax anything green from this sandy patch of Minnesota soil. But Ka…
FARMINGTON, N.M. — A Navajo Nation judge is halting operations at nine hemp farms in northwestern New Mexico as part …
Tuesday, September 08, 2020
HEALDSBURG, Calif. — With an early harvest already underway, a wildfire a few miles west of John Bucher’s ranch added…
PORTLAND, Maine — For New England’s vanishing commercial clam harvesters, the coronavirus pandemic represents only th…
Tuesday, August 11, 2020
SPEARFISH, S.D. — While his cows munch merrily on the fulsome foliage within the Black Hills National Forest, local r…
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has formed a new team to help beginning farmers and ranchers.
SPOKANE — This year’s Washington apple crop is expected to be slightly larger than the 2019 crop.
Tuesday, July 28, 2020
FREDERICK, Md. — For Natasha Bowens Blair, farming isn’t just a job. It’s an act of resistance.
Tuesday, July 14, 2020
KINGSTON, Wash. — On a visit to Tania Issa’s farm, you won’t find any pink-skinned pigs reared to produce the lean “o…
Tuesday, June 30, 2020
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Meg Moynihan knows what it’s like to struggle.
Tuesday, June 02, 2020
DES MOINES, Iowa — Meatpacking plants that had to briefly close because of coronavirus outbreaks have been back up an…
MULTAN, Pakistan — An invasion of locusts has spread across Pakistan, officials said Friday, causing damage to crops …
Tuesday, May 19, 2020
OROFINO — The University of Idaho Extension office is offering three workshops beginning in June for landowners and l…
TWIN FALLS — On a typical day in May, Don Scarrow gets a handful of calls from customers looking to have a pig or cow…
Tuesday, May 05, 2020
SPOKANE — Whitney Jacques did not grow up on a farm, but when she was little, her father built her a garden bed becau…
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BRUNSWICK, Maine — Maine’s independent senator urged the U.S.Department of Agriculture to support his state’s blueber…
Tuesday, March 10, 2020
CASPER, Wyo. — Wyoming issued its first hemp processing and producing license, the state Department of Agriculture said.
MOUNT VERNON, Wash. — Potato farmers in a Washington county suffered big losses after they were unable to harvest som…
HUTCHINSON, Kan. — A major food corporation has selected Kansas wheat as the best in the nation for a three-year pilo…
MINNEAPOLIS — Apartment developers in the Twin Cities are accustomed to ginning up out-of-the-box amenities aimed at …
Tuesday, February 25, 2020
MOSCOW — A pollinator summit featuring experts who will talk about issues facing pollinating insects will be held her…
AKRON, Iowa — In recent years, Fred Zenk built two barns housing about 2,400 hogs between them — long, white, concret…
Tuesday, February 11, 2020
Farmers on the Palouse are receiving national recognition for the quality of their legumes and environmentally friend…
WASHINGTON, Conn. — Bundled up in her winter jacket, Elaina Stumpf headed outside on a recent brisk, sunny day at She…
Tuesday, January 28, 2020
The University of Idaho plans to build an industry scale research dairy operation in the Magic Valley to meet the nee…
Cropping systems workshop set for Thursday at Clarkston
CLEARWATER, Minn. — Cattle perked up and started to moo as Matt Maier fired up his tractor to bring over a fresh roll…
Tuesday, January 14, 2020
Researchers from the University of Idaho and Washington State University helped identify and clone a gene that can st…
PENDER, Neb. — Catching up with Kurt Kaser was a lot easier when he had to use a walker.
Two Pullman soil workshops aimed at educating farmers
Monday, January 06, 2020
Idaho may be famous for potatoes, but dairy and cattle remained the state’s true agricultural cash cows in 2019.
Tuesday, December 31, 2019
The University of Idaho Extension will present a seminar titled “North Idaho Agricultural Outlook” on Jan. 10 at the …
CENTRAL, S.C. — Tom Garrison wants you to know he’s a realist, not a pessimist.
Saturday, December 28, 2019
NASHUA, N.H. — A preservation effort will protect the last working farm in a New Hampshire city from development, a f…
Jodi Johnson-Maynard became a soil scientist so she didn’t have to decide between chemistry, biology and physics.
Washington ranchers now have a quicker and more cost-effective way to report cattle sales and out-of-state movement o…
