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Legislature tees up fuel price hikes in Washington

OLYMPIA — Once the Legislature adjourns, Washington gasoline and diesel prices will rise two ways — suddenly, then ...

Timber

Timber severance tax ignites wildfire funding debate

Timber harvests would be taxed based on value, rather than log volume, under a controversial Oregon bill that ...

Grains & Row Crops

Sugar beet planting enters home stretch

AMERICAN FALLS, Idaho — Tyson Funk finished planting sugar beets April 20, 10-to-14 days ahead of the long-term ...

Orchard, Nuts & Vines

Bearing almond increase shows smallest increase in more than 20 years

California’s bearing almond acreage had its smallest increase in more than 20 years in 2025, according to a ...

FFA/4-H

Washington teen wrangles cattle efficiency, public perception

RITZVILLE, Wash. — Alyssa Williams’ earliest memory is sitting on her father’s shoulders overlooking a pen of bred ...

Livestock

Study: A single wolf can cause $162k in losses

A new study from the University of California-Davis estimates that a single wolf can cost cattle ranchers more ...

Rural Life

Oregon landowner hunting tag program poised to become permanent

More than four decades since it was started, a program that prioritizes Oregon landowners for hunting tags is ...

Water

New EL 86.4 system begins irrigation water delivery

The EL 86.4 system is delivering Columbia River surface water to farmers in the Odessa subarea via the ...

Oregon

Oregon leads suit against Trump’s tariffs

Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield sued to overturn tariffs imposed by President Trump, leading a 12-state coalition that ...

Livestock

Junior Livestock Show of Spokane turns 90

SPOKANE — It’s one of the longest-running youth livestock shows in the nation. The Junior Livestock Show of ...

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