ELLENSBURG, Washington — In the world of car-sized pumpkins, Aaron Hadaller has a way to go, but the Central Washington University police officer has grown some eye-popping gourds the past few years.
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ELLENSBURG, Washington — Verne Rainey stood in the new artists space of the Clymer Museum/Gallery and couldn’t help but smile at the irony of it all. Then again, a little karma never hurt a guy.
BURLINGTON, Washington — Skagit County farms are exploring online sales as a way to adapt to business challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, and some have reported a surge in online sales this year.
MOUNT VERNON, Washington — Ranchers and farmers in Skagit County have seen an increase in sales this year of locally raised and processed meats.
When Mark Anderson remembers his late father, two smells come to mind first: potatoes and Christmas trees.
ELLENSBURG, Washington — What started out as a portion of the farm that couldn’t be farmed turned into an orchard of bitter sweets and a thriving business of hard cider.
Thousands of minks at Utah fur farms have died because of the coronavirus in the past 10 days, forcing nine sites in three counties to quarantine, but the state veterinarian said people don’t appear to be at risk from the outbreak.
A newly released inspection report has revealed that a coronavirus outbreak at a meatpacking plant in northern Utah was more widespread than local health officials previously reported.
MOUNT VERNON, Wash. — Local nonprofits recently teamed up to purchase $5,000 of produce from four Latino-owned farms in Skagit County and distribute it to farmworker families.
Acute tympanites, also known as bloat, is a non-infectious disease common among ruminant animals. Bloat can become apparent when carbon dioxide and methane gases build up within a cow’s stomachs, leading to abdominal swelling. Bloat can be caused by diet or by some type of throat obstruction.
Paul Munns had a rude introduction to running a farm.
Jim Seamons only took second place at the Utah Giant Pumpkin Growers 16th Annual Weigh Off at Thanksgiving Point on Saturday — but he set a new record for the largest-recorded pumpkin grown in Cache Valley.
As he watched his giant pumpkin get lowered onto the scale Saturday, William Beauchere said he hoped for at least 600 pounds.
Heavy smoke from wildfires along the West Coast has created unhealthy air quality and prompted calls to stay indoors. But not everyone has the option to go inside.
The smoke hung thick in the air outside from the first major wildfire of the season. The sun had that funky, dull ball of fire glow above the smoke-filled horizon.
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MOUNT VERNON, Wash. — As this year’s potato harvest begins in Skagit County, farms have had to adjust their operations to meet COVID-19 safety requirements.
ROCK SPRINGS, Wyoming — Colin Woodall, CEO of the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, outlined COVID-19’s impact on the U.S. cattle industry when he spoke to Wyoming ranchers during last week’s convention in Rock Springs.{/span}{/span}
When farms, orchards owners, and home gardeners grow fruits and vegetables they are unable to sell or eat, gleaners ensure the fresh, local produce doesn’t go to waste.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Summer came to an abrupt halt in parts of the Rocky Mountains on Tuesday as temperatures reaching into the 90s plunged about 60 degrees in less than 24 hours, with a powerful surge of cold air from Canada unleashing snow and damaging winds in several states.
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Wildfires fanned by high winds burned hundreds of thousands of acres in the Northwest, mostly destroying a small town in eastern Washington state and causing evacuations, power outages and highway closures in Oregon.
TREMONTON, Utah — Less than two months before the Box Elder County Fair was scheduled to take place, organizers still weren’t sure whether it would happen at all.
Governors from 22 Western states and Pacific territories want a bigger say in how the Trump administration defines habitat for wildlife protected under the Endangered Species Act, the AP reports. The new definition could have implications for how states manage imperiled animals and plants, the Western Governors Association said in a letter...
SPOKANE, Wash. — Gov. Jay Inslee has directed the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission to draft new rules governing the killing of wolves involved in conflicts with livestock, a move winning praise from conservation groups.
DUBOIS — Bonnie Stoddard knows the history of Idaho’s sparsest county.
BURLINGTON, Wash. — Work is wrapping up on a seasonal farm worker housing development east of Burlington, a project nine years in the making.
“It has to be more than love. It's also a business.”
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — The state of Washington has killed the last two known wolves in the so-called Wedge pack in Stevens County, which had been preying on livestock, the Department of Fish and Wildlife said Monday.
The decline of bee populations has gotten a lot of national attention, but a more flamboyant pollinator is garnering local support for rehabilitation: the monarch butterfly.
Sage grouse numbers have remained mostly flat this year, according to data from the Idaho Department of Fish and Game.
LARAMIE, Wyoming — It was a historic end to an extraordinary year at the 2020 Albany County Fair with a record-breaking junior livestock sale.
Packages of mystery seeds from foreign countries have been showing up in the mailboxes of residents throughout the country, including some in Skagit County, and agricultural officials are asking recipients to not plant them and instead turn them in for investigation.
Acute tympanites, also known as bloat, is a non-infectious disease common among ruminant animals. Bloat can become apparent when carbon dioxide and methane gases build up within a cow’s stomachs, leading to abdominal swelling. Bloat can be caused by diet or by some type of throat obstruction.
Hiking with your dog is a wonderful way to exercise and break up life’s routine. While hiking has its hazards, this article is not meant to discourage you from spending time with your pets and enjoying nature. There are many things to consider when hiking, but I’ll highlight two common summe…
MERRILL, Oregon — A local potato processing plant that reported several COVID-19 cases to Oregon Health Authority is back in full operation, with all employees recovered and back on the job.
TORRINGTON — A recent ad campaign by fast food giant Burger King proved to be the last straw for a group of Goshen County ranchers.
MOUNT VERNON, Washington — As chef Gilbert Rodriguez prepared spaghetti with summer vegetables last week on the campus of Skagit Valley College, he made sure each step was accompanied by a lesson.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Federal regulators on Thursday threw a significant curveball at a coalition that has been planning for years to demolish four massive hydroelectric dams on a river along the Oregon-California border to save salmon populations that have dwindled to almost nothing.
MIDLAND, Washington — This summer, anyone driving through Klamath Project land will likely pass by many empty fields, left fallow after farms received only 40 percent of their required water allocation this year.
POCATELLO — Amid the market challenges farmers and ranchers are facing because of the coronavirus outbreak, the new USMCA trade deal offers the U.S. agricultural industry a ray of optimism.
RENO, Nev. — Conservationists are headed back to court to try to force the Trump administration to protect a rare game bird along the California-Nevada border as the government keeps changing its mind about whether to list the cousin of the greater sage grouse as threatened or endangered.
BELLINGHAM, Wash. (AP) — About 600 traps to catch invasive Asian giant hornets are being placed in Northwestern Washington’s Whatcom County by the Washington State Department of Agriculture, more than doubling the number already set out by citizens.
USK, Wash. (AP) — A paper mill in the small town of Usk has indefinitely shut down, dealing a major blow to the economy of rural Pend Oreille County.
MOUNT VERNON, Washington — Skagit Valley Gardens, a garden center and nursery south of Mount Vernon that has been in operation for 40 years, recently underwent a change in ownership.
American honeybee colonies have bounced back after a bad year, the annual beekeeping survey finds.
MOUNT VERNON, Washington — Since the pandemic began, local organizations have stepped up their work with farmworkers in Skagit County through educational outreach on COVID-19 with the goal to overcome language and cultural barriers.
SALT LAKE CITY — Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease (RHDV2), is a highly fatal disease that affects rabbits. The fatal sickness has been spreading across the Southwestern United States and Northern Mexico and has now been detected in Utah.
BUHL — The water in the raceway shimmered with hundreds of wriggling gold and gray tilapia as Luis Carmona plunged his long-handled net into the swarm and scooped a few fish to dump into one of the tanks on the back of a delivery truck.
YAKIMA — Fruit warehouse worker Armida Rivera says her days in Yakima County, Washington, are filled with the fear of getting the coronavirus.
PORTLAND, Ore.— Livestock grazing won’t be allowed this year on four eastern Oregon allotments formerly grazed by Hammond Ranches. The Trump administration recently abandoned its appeal of a 2019 court ruling overturning then Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke’s decision to renew the fathe…
YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) — Apple growers in Washington state have asked the U.S. Department of Agriculture to reconsider its eligibility requirements for direct payments through the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program.
BELLINGHAM, Wash. (AP) — A fourth Asian giant hornet has been found in northwest Washington.
LOGAN, Utah — Evidence that a wolf killed a calf in the Monte Cristo area southeast of this city has prompted a state effort to exterminate the animal plus an environmentalist effort to save it.{/div}
CONWAY, Washington — As the harvest seasons begins, farmers will have to comply with new safety requirements to help reduce the spread of COVID-19 among workers, but getting their hands on some of those supplies has been challenging.
A Pocatello attorney recently prevailed in a monumental, decades-long water rights battle, stopping a planned 300-mile groundwater pipeline to Las Vegas that threatened a Native American holy site.
A fungal pathogen that can cause considerable damage in grain crops known as stripe rust has been confirmed in western Idaho, University of Idaho Extension confirmed on Wednesday.
