The state’s apple growers have the potential for a record harvest this season, but labor shortages and a tough market may keep them from harvesting all their fruit.
The indoor farming company that recently built a 3-acre warehouse in Pasco has secured $10 million in new funding from an existing investor and taken steps to reduce its debt, the company announced Aug. 4.
Highlights from the state’s first year of documenting native pollinators include a record-size carpenter bee found in Benton County and the discovery of a bee species in central Washington that was previously known only from colonies in the Tri-Cities area.
A 115-year-old canal in the Yakima-Tieton Irrigation District that was severely damaged during a wildfire last year is now at imminent risk of failure.
Washington State University’s viticulture and enology department, based on the Richland campus, is now endorsed as a state workforce program, giving it access to new grant and student recruitment opportunities.
A higher than anticipated run of summer Chinook salmon will allow for recreational fishing in the Upper Columbia River, though the state has further limited daily sockeye catches in the Upper and Mid-Columbia due to fewer fish than expected.
A source of between a quarter to one third of the irrigation water used across eastern Washington is shrinking right beneath our feet, according to recent research conducted by Washington State University.
