A Warmer Winter and Vilsack Announces Migrant Assistance

A Warmer Winter and Vilsack Announces Migrant Assistance. I’m Greg Martin with today’s Northwest Report.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that USDA is accepting applications for technical assistance grants to develop domestic and migrant farm labor housing. Grants are available to organizations that will help housing authorities, state and local governments, Indian tribes, non-profit organizations, and community- and faith-based groups apply for loans and grants to build farmworker housing. The purpose of the grants is to increase the number of high-quality applications USDA receives.

We just might be in for a warmer winter here in the Pacific Northwest. Forecasters at the National Weather Service have observed ocean surface temperatures warming in the Pacific, indicating the beginnings of El Nino. That could result in a warmer and drier-than-normal fall and winter in the lowlands, with snow in the mountains through December.The last El Nino winter in the Pacific Northwest was in 2009-2010. The National Weather Service will release another analysis in October.

Now here’s today’s Washington Grange report.

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That’s today’s Northwest Report. I’m Greg Martin on the Ag Information Network.