The National Weather Service issued a La Niña watch, raising hopes the coming winter will bust up stubborn drought conditions in the Northwest. The weather service’s Climate Prediction Center ...

The USDA’s World Supply and Demand Estimate report calls for a record soybean yield, but a smaller crop than previously expected. The acreage reduction came as a “big surprise” to markets ...

Corn grows in a field. Current USDA projections call for a record corn crop and record corn yields, during a time when farmers are slammed by high production costs. The National Corn Growers ...

HOOD RIVER, Ore. — Christropher Adams, an Oregon State University entomologist, told growers and researchers there’s no silver bullet for spotted wing drosophila. “I’m hoping we can ...

Sawtooth Energy & Development Corp. aims to develop a nuclear power project on a small portion of the south-central Idaho site where the Lava Ridge wind development was planned. Pocatello-based […] ...

Wheat harvest is progressing across the Pacific Northwest, industry leaders say. In Washington, winter wheat is 54% harvested, which is ahead of normal, said Casey Chumrau, executive director of ...

Wireworms are no longer as big a problem for farmers as they have been over the last decade and a half, a longtime Washington State University researcher says. “They can […] ...

Several environmental groups are challenging the federal government’s determination that red tree voles in Oregon do not warrant threatened or endangered status. The Center for Biological ...

A federal judge in Montana says the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shouldn’t assume Idaho and Montana will keep their commitments to not hunt wolves to extinction. (Courtesy Oregon Department of ...

A U.S. Department of Energy report disputes that climate change will devastate agriculture, arguing that carbon dioxide stimulates plant growth and is “greening” the planet. The report largely ...

Skagit County, Wash., commissioners and farmers fear Seattle’s plan to win federal approval to continue operating three dams will allow the city to take farmland in the Skagit Delta to […] ...

The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife is seeking candidates for a two-year appointment to its Wolf Advisory Group. The group makes recommendations to Fish and Wildlife Director Kelly ...