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Dairies have been dumping milk and bigger producers have been tilling under or giving away their crops. As James Dawson reports, the effects of the global…
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Dine-in service is halted for now, and COVID-19 has spurred an unanticipated renaissance in home cooking. Pictures of bread flood our Instagram feeds,…
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According to a monthly survey, farmers across the U.S. aren’t feeling too optimistic these days.
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Lots of winter snow followed by abnormally wet spring weather delayed spring field work in the Treasure and Magic Valleys. But the Capital Press reports…
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Producers in the Idaho-Eastern Oregon area saw onion yields that are larger in both quantity and size this year.The Capital Press reports that despite the…
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Water is a common and often contentious issue in the West. But now, farmers across the country are also riled up because the U.S. Environmental...
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RICHLAND, Wash. – A group of Northwest farmers plans to bring in thousands of legal Mexican guest workers to their fields and orchards this year. Last
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Many Northwest growers are left out of the partial extension of the U.S. Farm Bill included in this week’s fiscal cliff legislation. The new law largely…
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Northwest agriculture advocates are more optimistic Congress will take up the issue of immigration after a forum this week in Washington, D.C. The effort is getting support from a surprising mix of organizations. After the presidential election last month, scores of faith, law enforcement and business leaders gathered with an overhaul of the nation’s immigration policies as the goal. Northwest farmers are especially interested because many of them have been facing a serious worker shortage. But the effort is also getting support from some evangelicals, conservatives along with liberals. “Those who are concerned about their families, if they’re not here without proper documentation -- they don’t get immersed they don’t get involved with the community. That’s not good for them as families and that’s not good for our communities,” says Bob Naerebout head of the Idaho Dairymen’s Association. He is on the board for the forum this week in Washington, D.C. Naerebout says the Idaho dairy industry for example employs more than 8,000 people. And like other agriculture industries in the Northwest, the vast majority of those workers are foreign born.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture has a long history of discriminating against farmers who are women, Hispanic, Native American and African American.…