Agriculture

In Washington's Columbia Basin, the Democratic challenger for the state's 13th Legislative District House seat has focused his message on farmworker safety and called for a fruit boycott. It’s quite a move in a district where the economy is dominated by agriculture.

The Washington State Tree Fruit Association estimates the 2020 crop will total 134 million standard 40-pound boxes of fresh apples. That’s just above 2019’s total of 133.9 million boxes.

The Oregon Quarantine Worker Fund will provide up to two weeks of financial relief for agricultural workers who must self-quarantine due to coronavirus.

More than 400 people in about 40 states, and Canada, have been sickened in the outbreak tied to red onions.

A century ago, Black people made up 14% of the farmers in the nation, today they account for only 1.4%. Portland's Black Futures Farm is working to restore Black people to the land and build Black food sovereignty.

A petition that called for new rules to limit when the state can kill endangered wolves that prey on livestock was rejected Friday by the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission.

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to take up a Klamath Basin water dispute that goes back nearly two decades.

While the world grapples with the spread of the novel coronavirus, cherry farmers in the Northwest face an outbreak of "little cherry disease" in their crops.

It’s tough for farmworkers to choose between an income and fighting for protections from COVID-19. But striking workers in the Yakima Valley say their lives may depend on it.

For the last decade, lower-cost imports, labor shortages and increased farming costs have challenged Northwest asparagus farmers. But the COVID-19 pandemic has boosted sales for the region's crop.