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From the Capital Press The U.S. House approved a bill Wednesday that would effectively stop the spilling of water from four Pacific Northwest dams to help migrating salmon reach the Pacific Ocean. The bill, approved 225-189, would prevent any changes in dam operations until 2022. It was sponsored by Republican Reps. Cathy McMorris Rodgers and Dan Newhouse, both of Washington ... Read More »

From NASS There were 5.4 days suitable for field work last week. Pasture and range conditions were reported at 1 percent very poor, 3 percent poor, 41 percent fair, 46 percent good and 9 percent excellent. A low temperature of 25 degrees F was reported in the northeast region, while a high temperature of 73 degree F was reported in ... Read More »

By Dr. Xianming Chen Earlier this week, we were checking wheat fields in Whitman, Garfield, Columbia, Walla Walla, Benton, Franklin and Adams counties of Washington and Umatilla County of Oregon. Winter wheat crops ranged from Feekes 4 to 6. Stripe rust was found in breeding nurseries in Central Ferry (Garfield County), our rust monitoring nurseries in Walla Walla, and nurseries ... Read More »

By Michelle Hennings WAWG Executive Director I’ve been working with the Washington Association of Wheat Growers (WAWG) for 14 years now, and I’ve seen the importance of not only educating consumers and policymakers, but our own industry as well. For many growers, wheat’s story ends at the local elevator, but there’s a much larger picture that all farmers should be ... Read More »

From NASS There were 3.4 days suitable for field work last week. Pasture and range conditions were reported at 2 percent very poor, 7 percent poor, 47 percent fair, 42 percent good and 2 percent excellent. A low temperature of 28 degrees F was reported in the northeast region, while a high temperature of 70 degree F was reported in ... Read More »

From the Capital Press Republican Congress members from the Pacific Northwest are upset with a federal judge’s order to spill water from four Snake River dams to help speed migrating salmon to the Pacific Ocean. They say the water could be saved for other uses and are denouncing the spill, which began April 3, and a push by environmentalists to ... Read More »

From the Capital Press State regulators on Monday tentatively denied a request by Willapa Bay oyster growers to use a pesticide to control shrimp that burrow in oyster and clam beds and make it hard for the shellfish to grow. In denying a permit, the Department of Ecology said that new scientific research and data show the pesticide imidacloprid would ... Read More »

From NASS There were 4.2 days suitable for field work last week. Pasture and range conditions were reported at 4 percent very poor, 9 percent poor, 47 percent fair, 38 percent good and 2 percent excellent. A low temperature of 23 degrees F was reported in the northeast region, while a high temperature of 70 degree F was reported in ... Read More »

The Washington Association of Wheat Growers (WAWG) congratulates Nicole Berg, a grower from Benton County, on her election as secretary to the board of the National Association of Wheat Growers (NAWG). “I think there needed to be representation from the Pacific Northwest to make sure that our voices are heard at the national level,” Berg said on why she decided ... Read More »

Pacific Northwest farmers are bracing for serious losses in the Chinese market after the country announced its intentions to impose a 25 percent tariff on all U.S. wheat in reaction to tariff’s imposed by President Trump on Chinese goods. More than 12.5 million bushels of the region’s flagship soft white wheat class, have been shipped to China during the 2017/2018 ... Read More »