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Beginning in late December, the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) will conduct the 2024 Commercial Floriculture Survey with approximately 1,100 producers throughout Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington.

Opportunities continue to arise for dairy producers in the Pacific Northwest and Pacific Coast.

The organic agriculture sector has been a growing segment for over 100 years but was really spurred in the 1990s. Now, Washington's Congressman from the 4th District, Dan Newhouse, has introduced legislation to help continue building on the organic agriculture front.

The Greater Bar Water District in Bridgeport received a $5,000 loan and $15,000 in grant the USDA through the Water and Waste Disposal Loan and Grant Program. The money will add a secondary backup pump, controls and infrastructure to a well to ensure that customers don't lose water for 4-6 weeks in the event of a failure of their second well ...

USDA Rural Development is sponsoring a free workshop on January 28th from 10:30-1 at the Okanogan USDA Service Center. The workshop will provide an overview of the USDA's Value-Added Producer grant program. "The grant is for agricultural producers to increase the value of the commodities that they're growing by marketing them into other products," said Roni Baer, business programs specia

U.S. Department of Agriculture awarded $165,000 in grant funds and $55,000 from a loan to Greater Bar Water District in Douglas County. These funds will go toward the addition of a secondary back up pump, controls and infrastructure to an existing well...