(CP) Washington Potato and Onion Association lobbyist Jim Jesernig told the House Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee that lawmakers looking to cut greenhouse gases shouldn't risk short-changing conservation districts that are helping landowners with problems as gritty as ponies deep in mud.
Read MoreAgripulse) The Agriculture Department this week releases the eagerly anticipated 2017 Census of Agriculture, which will provide fresh clues to consolidation trends in farming and measure the growth of small-scale and urban production and beginning farmers.
Read More(Spokesman) “In the dryland parts, guys have got started this week,” said farmer Mike Miller, who grows wheat both west and south of Ritzville. “The irrigated guys in Moses Lake, they are going to town now. But in the Palouse, they still have a ways to go. They still have snow on the north slopes and some mud.”
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