The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has extended the deadline for agricultural producers who are certified organic, or transitioning to organic, to apply for the Organic and Transitional Education and Certification Program (OTECP).

While dairy workers are entitled to receive overtime pay for all hours worked over 40 in a workweek, the law establishes a gradual phase-in period for full overtime eligibility for all other agricultural workers.

Amid the regional debate over hydropower, new survey data shows strong majorities of Pacific Northwest residents support hydropower and the carbon-free energy provided by the lower Snake River Dams in Eastern Washington.

From a letter by Mark Pavek, Ph.D, Professor/Potato Specialist at Washington State University

"As a former student of Dr. Robert Thornton, one of the state’s most prominent potato specialists, I invite you to make a gift to the Robert E. Thornton Graduate Fellowship at Washington State University in Bob’s honor."  

In early December, a California jury found that Roundup was not the cause of a plaintiff’s non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.