Commercial potato seed samples are requested from WA Growers for the Washington Seed Lot Trial.

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development is offering Value-Added Producer Grants (VAPG) to help agricultural producers to generate new products, create and expand marketing options, and increase their producer income through value-added activities.

Through a $50-million grant from the USDA partnership for Climate-Smart Commodities programs awarded to Oregon State University, incentive payments will be provided to farmers who use Climate-Smart practices to improve soil health of their fields, and thus reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and increase sequestration of carbon in soils.

The USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) is extending essential emergency loans by USDA’s Secretarial natural disaster designation to producers to recover from disasters triggered by excessive heat in Washington State that occurred from March 15, 2023 through July 31, 2023.

Plan to attend the Washington State Department of Agriculture (WSDA) and Washington State University’s (WSU) College of Agriculture, Human, and Natural Resource Science’s first Washington Agricultural Viability Conference at the Three Rivers Convention Center in Kennewick, Washington on May 29-30, 2024.

Potatoes USA held their annual meeting in Denver, Colorado on March 11-13, 2024. During their meeting, the board elected Shelley Olsen from Othello, Washington to serve as Chairwoman for the upcoming year.

Oregon State University (OSU) in conjunction with Washington State Department of Agriculture (WSDA) and Compliance Services International (CSI) is offering four full day stakeholder workshops to explore pesticide solutions and endangered species protection in agriculture in the Pacific Northwest.

To help growers stay updated on the latest audit standards, USDA AMS will be holding a webinar April 5, 2024 at 1:00 p.m. ET on USDA GAP and GAP+ updates that will go into effect on May 1, 2024.

$300,000 is available in Farm to School Purchasing Grants through WSDA for school districts, childcare centers, tribal schools, tribal early learning centers and organizations that operate a United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Child Nutrition Program. For Washington farmers and producers, participation is a marketing opportunity to sell to small and large institutions.

To help the agricultural community understand and make sound soil health decisions, the Washington Soil Health Initiative is promoting a four-part webinar series “Making Soils Data Actionable.”

The Washington State Department of Agriculture (WSDA) mailed nomination forms requesting submissions for the nomination of grower elected representation on the Washington State Potato Commission (WSPC).   

Before passing on a healthy fruit or vegetable because it made the Environmental Working Group’s (EWG) “Dirty Dozen” list, take time to read peer reviewed research and government data discrediting the methodology of the list.