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The Washington Farm Bureau held its Annual Meeting recently in Pasco where folks from the agricultural community get together to network and to discuss priorities for the upcoming year.

A Senate Democrat, Patty Murray has issued a warning to House Republicans to avoid two new shutdown threats early next year in the just-enacted stopgap funding and farm bill extension.

As the rules and regulations for agriculture mount, like the new ag overtime laws, the financial burdens are becoming unbearable.

As Americans gear for Thursday’s Thanksgiving meal, survey shows 37% plan to host the meal, 43% have chosen to attend, and the rest plan to dine out, and the nation’s ranchers slashed the U.S. cattle herd to its lowest level in decades.

California’s historically wet winter motivated greater adoption of a water management strategy known as flood-managed aquifer recharge, and ag export values in FY 2023 declined while imports narrowly increased.

As families and friends gather around the holiday table, sometimes they part ways taking home more than leftovers; they also bring home germs that lead to sickness.  In much the same way, sickness can spread when cattle originating from different operations co-mingle too soon, said Kansas State University Beef Cattle experts on a recent Cattle Chat podcast.

California’s historically wet winter motivated greater adoption of a water management strategy known as flood-managed aquifer recharge, and ag export values in FY 2023 declined while imports narrowly increased.

As the rules and regulations for agriculture mount, like the new ag overtime laws, the financial burdens are becoming unbearable.

If you weren’t aware, membership to the Washington Farm Bureau is not JUST for farmers and ranchers.

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