For new Idaho Beef Council CEO Josh Whitman, working as a ranch hand during his high school years has been nearly as important as his subsequent career at one of the Northwest’s big players in the ...

The University of Idaho has appointed Randy Brooks as UI Extension director and associate dean of the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences. An Extension employee for more than 35 years, he starts ...

A record U.S. hazelnut crop — almost all from Oregon’s Willamette Valley — is expected again as a wave of plantings from a decade ago reach full production, according to a new USDA report. The harvest ...

Solid quality and lower yields characterize Idaho’s potato crop as harvest continues. “Quality is consistent all over, from what I hear,” said Travis Blacker, Idaho Potato Commission vice president of ...

A groundwater measurement effort is expanding in growing southwest Idaho. U.S. Geological Survey employees, working with the Idaho Department of Water Resources, plan to measure groundwater levels in ...

Soft white wheat with “exceeding low” protein can cause problems for millers and flour functionality, Washington State University winter wheat breeder Arron Carter said. At such low protein, the ...

A major Northwest forage exporter, Anderson Hay, wants to sell its Oregon processing facility and exit the straw business as part of its Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization. The company has asked a ...

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Washington ranked last in the nation in 2024 for financial returns to farm operators, and the picture isn’t likely to vastly improve for 2025, a Washington State University financial advisor says.

Oregon’s 2025 winegrape production dropped 25% and acreage harvested dipped 12% from the previous year due to declining sales and exports, particularly to Canada. Signs of contraction were anticipated ...

RICKREALL, Ore. — Visitors at what may have been the last Polk County Fair seemed to agree: Ending the event and closing the fairgrounds would be heart-breaking. “I think it’d be a travesty for our ...

Retired cattle rancher Rod Haeberle recently counted nine fires within 20 miles of his home in north-central Washington. All summer, he looks outside and sees smoke instead of his neighbor. Haeberle, ...