Washington's apple growers are looking for new markets to make up for the expected loss of business after Mexico, their biggest customer, imposed tariffs on purchases, a top trade official said.
Aaron Clark, a vice president for Price Warehouse & Cold Storage, focuses on hiring local workers for apple harvests grown on some 3,500 acres of central Washington orchard lands, which include this ...
This story first appeared in the Washington State Standard. When organic wheat farmer Joel Huesby was growing up in the 1960s and 1970s in southeast Washington, many teens sought jobs in the region's ...
WASHINGTON STATE — Apple growers in Washington are speaking out about the potential impacts to their operations amid stalled trade talks between the U.S. and Canada. Farm technology expert Arthur ...
Solar panels over apple orchards could generate electricity without sacrificing farmland, according to a state-funded report. The study, released Nov. 4 by Washington State University, identified ...
Apple farmers plan a March 2026 protest outside Parliament, demanding protection against U.S. apple imports and trade agreement scrapping.
Of the thousands of apple varieties grown in the U.S., only a small handful are actually bought and sold on a large scale. They have familiar names, like Honeycrisp, Gala, Fuji, Granny Smith and Red ...
The Trump administration’s deportation push has caused turmoil within the state’s farm labor workforce as federal legislation meant to improve the situation has stalled. Aaron Clark, a vice president ...
On a chilly fall morning, farmworkers fanned out through an orchard here to pick rose-hued apples from green rows of trees that flank this central Washington valley's irrigated slopes. These Pink ...