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This year’s wheat crop nationwide is the smallest it has been in decades. On a national scale, the number of acres planted in wheat total 45.7 million…
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The apple renaissance of recent years has given us new varieties of fruit. But that's only half of the story, and half of the tree. Another revolution is happening below ground, in the tree roots.
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Sounds like a bunch of angry insects, doesn’t it?These are three small drones, chasing each other around an enclosed area in a Spokane Convention Center…
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Researchers have developed a new wheat-like species called Salish Blue that grows back year after year, which not only cuts down on work for farmers, but helps prevent erosion and agricultural waste.
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A 200-acre seed and plant nursery in Coeur d'Alene may play a key part in a new federal seed program to help fire-ravaged land recover.The sprawling US…
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Here's a significant world-wide problem you probably never thought much about - cow belches. Cattle and other livestock are enormous producers of methane,…
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More than 30 people in the city of Spokane are certified to raise goats, after the city council approved an urban farming rule one year ago. City-dwellers…
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Idaho farmers who depend on irrigation fear they're facing shortages, summer shut-offs and possible legal battles because of paltry snowpacks, scant…
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Farmers who depend on irrigation in the arid central Washington region are escalating a fight over increasingly scarce water supplies. A group of farmers…
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Washington State lawmakers want to know if they can create a win-win deal in the battle against noxious weeds - that is to give honeybees - and the crops…