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Program: Northwest Farm and Ranch Report

 

  • A Long Time Coming

    It took 13 years, but the dry pea, lentil and chickpea industry will finally have a pulse crop revenue insurance program.

  • Becoming a Better Coach

    Are you working with your son, daughter or even your grandchildren on your farm or ranch? Have you considered lately what kind of coach or teacher you are?

  • U.S. Potato Board Has a New Chairman

    At their 40th Annual Meeting in March, Sid Staunton of Tulelake, Calif. was elected as the new Chairman of the United States Potato Board. He shares a message for potato producers.

  • Food Waste is a Growing Problem

    One of the blessings of our country’s productive and innovative agriculture is plentiful and reasonably priced food supply. Unfortunately a curse of that bounty is food waste.

  • Having a Conflict Resolution Procedure

    Everyone has arguments or conflicts from time to time on family farms and ranches, that’s normal. But has your ag operation considered creating a conflict resolution procedure?

  • USDA Says Lean Finely Textured Beef is Being Maligned

    Many farmers and ranchers have watched and listened in amazement in recent weeks to the hububbaloo in the both the mainstream media and social media about lean finely textured beef.

  • Helping Commercial Cattlemen's Bottom Line

    As all ranchers and beef producers know, quality genetics can improve their operation’s bottom line.

  • Vietnam Presents Exciting US Potato Marketing Opportunities

    With a majority of its population under 25 years old, and the fast food business increasing more than 70 percent since 2008, Vietnam presents an exciting marketing opportunity for U.S. potatoes.

  • TCK Smut Test for Pacific Northwest Wheat

    For nearly 40 years, TCK smut, a wheat fungus, has been used as a trade barrier for expanding Pacific Northwest soft white wheat exports to China.

  • Nominate Your Favorite Farm Mom

    Do you know an outstanding woman and mom involved in farming who deserves some recognition?

  • Expanding a Wheat Farmer's Perspective

    Often farmers and ranchers are consumed with the day-to-day activities of their agricultural operation. A trade mission visiting foreign end customers reminds farmers of the consumers who enjoy the that farmer’s end product thousands of miles away.

  • Volatility is the New Normal

    The more things change, the more they stay the same ... so the old adage goes. Well, agriculture has always faced ups and downs in prices, and in expenses.

  • USPB Helps Deli Departments Promote Potatoes

    The United States Potato Board has recently began providing opportunities to retail grocery stores’ in their deli prepared foods department to boost potato sales.

  • Several Free Trade Agreements Announced

    Last Thursday the U.S.-Korea Trade Agreement entered into force. That means good news for American farmers and ranchers.

  • Bayer CropScience Uses Innovation for Consumer Products

    Bayer CropScience has been an innovator in crop protection products for more than a century, but it is only in the last decade or so that they turned their research and innovation toward’s benefiting consumers’ yards and gardens.

  • Ag Producers: Have a Conversation

    Michele Payn-Knoper encourages farmers and ranchers to engage the public in two-way conversations.

  • Ag Producers: Tell Your Story

    Most Americans at least two generations removed from the farm. Michele Payn-Knoper encourages farmers and ranchers to tell their personal story whether one-on-one or through social media avenues.

  • Teaching Target Markets to Use U.S. Dehydrated Potatoes

    The United States Potato Board provides trade education activities in target markets around the world to teach end users how to use U.S. dehydrated potatoes.

  • WSU Scientist Provides Online Database as Standard Reference

    For the past decade, Washington State University plant pathologist Dean Glawe has been painstakingly compiling information on the world’s powdery mildews.

  • More than Manure

    One of the challenges of using livestock or poultry manure for crop fertilizer has been the loss of nitrogen and phosphorus during handling and storage as well as after application, leaving both nutrients unavailable for crops.

  • FSA Moving to Electronic Communications

    Looking at ways to reduce expense, Washington state’s Farm Service Agency is moving to electronic notifications via email helping to conserve resources and save taxpayer dollars.

  • Steaks for Troops

    Soldiers deploying to serve our country overseas got one last good t-bone steak before they left Washington’s Joint Base Lewis-McChord earlier this week, thanks to Country Natural Beef and several of its ranchers.

  • USPB Launches Smart Phone App

    The United States Potato Board’s industry communication’s department recently launched a new smart phone app for iPhones, androids and iPads to help potato producers stay abreast of industry information in a convenient and easy-to-use format.

  • Can't Kick the Can

    Last week Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack spoke at the Commodity Classic in Nashville. During his press conference, he shared that although there hasn’t been much movement on this year’s Farm Bill yet, he anticipates results.

  • Benefit of Business Succession Plan Completion

    Although getting through the entire process of business succession can take several years, the positive side of completion --in addition to ensuring the future of your family’s farm or ranch-- is that family strife and discord may dissipate.

  • Selecting a Business Succession Team

    Once you made the decision to begin the business succession process, how do you find the right team of experts to help your family navigate the process?

  • Business Transition's First Step

    Dr. Don Jonovic, President of Family Business Management Services, has 39 years of experience helping family businesses go through the ownership transition process. He says the first step is simple, but not necessarily easy.

  • Retail Promotion of Table-stock in Mexico

    The United States Potato Board is spending time and effort in promoting U.S. fresh, or table-stock, potatoes in retail grocery stores in Mexico.

  • Importance of Retirement Plan

    It is an important step in business succession for the older generation to have their own retirement plan in place.

  • Pitfalls of Not Retiring

    If you are have decided to never quit farming, beware there are three common pitfalls of not retiring.

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