Author Archives: Syndicated Content

Idaho Snowpack Continues To Build
Snowpacks across Idaho are looking very good as we head into the final weeks of the snow season. When it comes to individual basins across the Gem state, most are at or above normal for thi...
Glenn Vaagen Mar 18, 2025

Washington Grower Elected NPC President
During last month’s annual Washington D.C. Summit, the National Potato Council elected Ted Tschriky to serve as President for the next 12 months. The grower from the Pasco, ...
Glenn Vaagen Mar 18, 2025

Community Encouraged To Meet Soil Health Chair Candidates
Washington State University is interviewing candidates for the Endowed Chair in Soil Health for Potato Cropping Systems position, and both will give industry seminars and answer questions this week in...
Glenn Vaagen Mar 18, 2025

YVC Opens CAMP Application Window
Central Washington migrant or seasonal farmworkers, as well as their children, can access additional support when pursuing higher education. The assistance is made available through Yakima ...
Glenn Vaagen Mar 18, 2025

2025 Washington Meat Summit Set For Early April
Washington State University will host its 2nd annual Washington Meat Up Summit next month. WSU said the daylong event is designed to allow researchers as well as school officials to engage ...
Glenn Vaagen Mar 18, 2025

Grow This! Back For Another Season
Oregon State University’s “Grow This Oregon Garden Challenge” returns for another year. Professor Lauren Tobey said teachers get whole classrooms...
Heather Roberts Mar 18, 2025

Rural America Talks About The Impact Of Tariffs
President Trump’s tariffs on America’s biggest trading partners continue to raise alarms in farm country. Agriculture is already in a recession, stoked by lo...
Glenn Vaagen Mar 18, 2025

USDA Cancels Local Foods for Schools Program
USDA is ending two pandemic-era programs that provided more than $1 billion for schools and food banks to purchase food from local farmers and producers. About $660 million of that went to ...
Pacific Northwest Ag Network Mar 18, 2025

U.S. Asks Countries to Help Lower Soaring Egg Prices
The United States has reached out to Denmark and other European nations asking if they can export eggs as Americans face surging egg prices, the Nordic country’s egg association said o...
Pacific Northwest Ag Network Mar 18, 2025

Courts Order Trump Administration to Reinstate Terminated Workers
Federal court rulings in California and Maryland have ordered multiple government agencies to reinstate probationary employees who they say were unlawfully terminated under directives from the Office ...
Pacific Northwest Ag Network Mar 18, 2025

