SPOKANE — As a college student, Ben Barstow wanted to get into farming. When people asked him what he wanted to do when he graduated, he’d reply: “I’m looking for a Palouse farmer’s daughter who doesn ...
MOSCOW, Idaho - Some wheat farmers in Idaho and Washington are hanging onto their harvest, hoping that prices will soon rise. Bruce Baldwin of Palouse Grain Growers said he's seen a drop in the number ...
HARRINGTON, Wash. – Several energy companies are exploring major wind projects in Eastern Washington. Just don’t call them wind farms, or else some wheat farmers might take offense. The companies are ...
Researchers have found the stripe rust fungus in research fields on the Palouse, and encourage farmers to apply fungicide if they’ve planted or plan to plant susceptible to moderately susceptible ...
For more than a decade, Sara Mader and her family have understood that people want high-quality, healthy food, they want to know where it comes from, and they would like the convenience of buying that ...
EATON, Wash. - Back in the New Deal era, the Northwest’s mighty rivers were dammed allowing barges to cheaply bring grain from the wheat fields of eastern Washington to the coast for export. Today, at ...
Almost all of the wheat grown in the Pacific Northwest is for export, and even before President Trump's trade war, farmers were dealing with rock... Low prices and Trump's trade war are pushing these ...