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The highly contagious bird flu is confirmed in three Washington counties and eight more cases are being investigated across the state.

A state veterinarian says a dead goose had exhibited signs of neurologic damage.

Experts are urging Northwest farmers with poultry and other birds to boost their biosecurity measures as highly pathogenic avian influenza — known by the initials HPAI — spreads along migratory

Amber Itle, a veterinarian with the Washington State Department of Agriculture since 2013, has been named as the new state veterinarian. She succeeds Brian Joseph, who retired last summer.

Washington state ag community scrambles after massive flooding kills milk cattle, sickens others and leaves herds across the state short on feed.

Chris Sybrandy, a dairy farmer in Skagit County in northern Washington, says he recently helped haul more than 40 dead animals out of barns for his friends

Courtesy of Franklin County, Washington Just how do you miss 200,000 phantom cattle over several years? That’s what some people in the Columbia Basin cattle-feeding industry are wondering in an ongoing saga between Tyson Fresh Meats and Easterday Ranches. “It’s hard to believe,” says Mike DeTray, who runs a 4,000-head operation outside of George, Wash.  An accurate count of cattle is essential to cracking the case of Easterday Ranches and Easterday Farms — two arms of the large Eas...