CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Wyoming has finalized the proposed rules and regulations for its new hemp industry and has submitted them to the federal government for approval.

ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo. — When Cody Haeck got off from his graveyard shift at Church and Dwight on Saturday morning, he didn’t head to his home north of Rock Springs to rest. Instead, he made a spontaneous decision to go check out the wild horses available at the adoption event going on at the ho…

RAWLINS, Wyo. — In our modern world, food can seem to simply appear at the store. Even in our community raised in the shadow of agriculture, many may be unaware of the true impact agriculture has on our daily lives.

PAISLEY, Ore. — Paisley’s School’s agriculture program is being revived.

LOGAN, Utah — Two leading universities in the state, the University of Utah and Utah State University, are collaborating in legal hemp research.

LOGAN, Utah — Operations at Utah State University’s Gary H. Richardson Dairy Products Laboratory have returned to normal after closing shop before Thanksgiving last year. Workers spent the past four months renovating the lab to conform to state regulations.

MOUNT VERNON, Wash. — Construction has begun on a seasonal farmworker housing development outside Burlington.

BELGRADE, Mont. — On the heels of hemp’s legalization, a Belgrade cannabidiol company is taking off.

SALEM, Ore. — A record number of wolves are roaming the forests and fields of Oregon, 20 years after the species returned to the state.

LOGAN, Utah — For most students, the week before spring break is a time when they make final preparations for a week of fun and vacation, but for a group of Green Canyon High School students, it was a time to organize a relief effort to assist the many families in Nebraska affected by the flooding.

KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. — Bureau of Reclamation’s Klamath Basin Area Office will deliver at least 322,000 acre feet of water — or a 92% allocation — rather than a full 350,000 from Upper Klamath Lake to the Klamath Project this summer and fall.

LOGAN, Utah — For most students, the week before spring break is a time when they make final preparations for a week of fun and vacation, but for a group of Green Canyon High School students, it was a time to organize a relief effort to assist the many families in Nebraska affected by the flooding.

KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. — Bureau of Reclamation’s Klamath Basin Area Office will deliver at least 322,000 acre feet of water — or a 92% allocation — rather than a full 350,000 from Upper Klamath Lake to the Klamath Project this summer and fall.

KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. — Water rushed forth into the A Canal in Klamath Falls Tuesday afternoon as Fritz Frisendahl and Scott Cheyne of the Klamath Irrigation District opened the headgates via the control panel.

MALIN — At the first sign that one of about 70 of her meat goats was ready to give birth, Ally Crawford rushed into action.

LOGAN, Utah — Should bees be fed corn syrup or sugar water?

LOGAN, Utah — Salts are naturally occurring, soluble minerals in areas where soil evaporation and plant water use (or transpiration) are both high and precipitation is low. In that scenario, dissolved minerals concentrate over time as the extraction of essentially pure water leaves the solub…

KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. — The Klamath County commissioners entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with the Klamath River Renewal Corp. to address local construction and road and traffic concerns with KRRC’s proposal to remove four Klamath River dams.

MOUNT VERNON, Wash. — Local seed companies and seed growers have proposed a Skagit County ordinance to protect the region’s $2.6 million brassica seed industry.

MOUNT VERNON, Wash. — For the first time in decades, the Washington State University Mount Vernon Research Center has soil scientists.

SEDRO-WOOLLEY, Wash. — Nestled within the Samish Valley sits the 32-acre Coriander Creek Farm.

MOUNT VERNON, Wash. — “Grown here. Malted here. Brewed here.”

BUTTE FALLS, Ore. — Gray wolf OR-7’s pack apparently is no longer wary of the “Air Dancer” inflatable tubes that have watched over Ted Birdseye’s cattle the past two months on his remote ranch near Boundary Butte.

MOUNT VERNON, Wash. — Blooms were few and far between Monday as the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival officially got underway.

KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. — It may be a unique situation when a dam removal might mean more water for farmers instead of less, but the Klamath Basin is a unique place.

KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. — Even with a significant increase in precipitation and snowpack, the Klamath Project isn’t in the clear for a full water delivery this upcoming season.

Gallatin County is gearing up for flood season in the wake of record-setting February snowfall and rising temperatures.

MOUNT VERNON — Sub-freezing temperatures in February and March mean the area’s tulips likely won’t be in bloom by the opening day of the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival, Executive Director Cindy Verge said.

KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. — “The Soil Survey of Klamath County, Oregon,” a 2-inch volume of technical words and fold-out maps produced by the USDA, lists over 60 series of soils, each with characteristics and locations distinct from other soil types in the area.

Yellowstone National Park trapped 23 bison early March 13, taking advantage of a large group that migrated north in search of food.

LARAMIE, Wyo. — The Albany County commissioners agreed March 5 to pay the $46,383 that the county’s fair board owes to the Wyoming Retirement System.

SUNNYSIDE, Wash. — The unexpected blizzard that swept through the Yakima Valley on Feb. 9 was just one more clobbering for the region’s dairy farms.

MERRILL, Ore. — A tour of regional producers linked with a common goal of increasing agricultural tourism in the Klamath Basin were brought together for a day-long “Agritourism Meet and Greet” event on Saturday.

LOS ANGELES — California is free of drought for the first time in more than seven years and only a small amount of its territory remains abnormally dry as a very wet winter winds down, experts said Thursday.

KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. — Klamath County commissioners on March 13 delayed signing a Memorandum of Understanding with the Klamath River Renewal Corporation, reversing a split-vote decision the day before to move forward with the MOU.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Two endangered Mexican wolves have been removed from the wild and are undergoing testing to determine if they’re behind a string of livestock deaths in southwestern New Mexico, marking the latest wrinkle in the strained effort to return the predators to the American Southwest.

LARAMIE, Wyo. — When National Weather Service hydrologist Jim Fahey made his first “flood outlook” graphic of 2019 last month, the watersheds near Laramie and Saratoga were the only ones in Wyoming identified as having “moderate” flood potential this year.

BILLINGS, Mont. — U.S. wildlife officials plan to lift protections for gray wolves across the Lower 48 states, re-igniting the legal battle over a predator that’s running into conflicts with farmers and ranchers as its numbers rebound in some regions.

MEDFORD, Ore. — The Rogue Pack’s taste for livestock in Jackson County alone would’ve put lethal removal of one or more of them into public discussion had the new proposal to drop federal endangered species status for gray wolves been in place this winter.

KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. —Seven of Oregon’s snow monitoring stations broke records for snowpack level for February, but drought conditions are still declared in some parts of the state.

KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. — Many of those who spoke about rules being proposed by Oregon Water Resources Department were opposed at least in part to changes that could impact the next two irrigation seasons in the Klamath Basin.