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Anna King/NW News Network Redtail hawks glide off telephone poles sailing above verdant fields that scoop downward along a basalt slope to the bending Columbia River.  This unique swath of ground is about to get a new owner; the roughly 12,000 Easterday family acres in Benton County are to be auctioned off starting in mid-June.  The crisis that began with a massive swindle of 225,000 ghost cattle has meant federal charges for Cody Easterday and bankruptcy for a family farming and ranching dynasty as the vast Easterday empire unravels.  Burgers, fries and onion rings  Easterday Ranche...

Pro tip: Never trust a man who talks about his “smoking hot mom.” Cody Easterday is a piece of work, as you undoubtedly know if you read Senior Editor Mark Friedman’s front-page article last week. Easterday is the 49-year-old rancher from southeast Washington who pleaded guilty in March to defrauding Tyson Foods Inc. of $233 million and an unidentified company of $11 million. This is an Opinion We'd also like to hear yours. Leave a comment below, tweet to us at @ArkBusiness or To be fair, it wasn’t until his father died on Dec. 10 — a few days after he confessed his scheme to Tyson ...

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They call it “Cattlegate.” It’s a modern-day cattle rustling scheme. Let’s start at the beginning.             In 1958, Ervin Easterday moved his family and farming operation from Nampo, Idaho to southeastern Wash., where he purchased 300 acres of undeveloped land in the new Columbia Basin Reclamation Irrigation project. With a meager annual rainfall of 7 inches per year, the new supply of water from Grand Coulee Dam changed this land forever.              As a young man, Ervin’s son, Gale, said he worked what seemed like endless hours on a Caterpillar level...

Need a quick look at ag news. Here are seven agricultural stories you might have  missed. 1. The Biden administration’s $2 trillion infrastructure plan includes $100 billion to extend broadband networks to all U.S. households. But officials relying on industry data produced inaccurate maps of internet deployment. As a result, the U.S. doesn’t know where to find everyone lacking service. – Farm Futures 2. According to court filings from Tyson, Cody Easterday allegedly concocted a fraudulent billing scheme to cover more than $200 million in losses stemming from trading commodities. On Fe...