Matthew Weaver

The U.S. is officially cutting 83% of the programs at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) following a six-week review, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced on X.com. It […]

Sean Finnie, the director of the USDA Agriculture Research Service’s Western Wheat Quality Lab who was fired Feb. 13, is back to work. Finnie received an e-mail from USDA informing […]

The proposed firing of more than 2,000 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers federal employees, including more than 600 in the Pacific Northwest, would “dramatically” affect the Corps’ ability to execute […]

A new study will track the health of dryland soil and wheat yields in lands entered into or just coming out of USDA’s Conservation Reserve Program (CRP). CRP pays landowners […]

A “concrete” proposal to breach the lower Snake River dams could go before Congress in 2029 or 2030. Social media content creator Adam Ratliff originally anticipated such a proposal could […]

Lawmakers have proposed a bill that would move the Food For Peace program, currently overseen by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), under the USDA umbrella. Rep. Tracey Mann, […]

Washington farmers face a “pretty challenging time,” Derek Sandison, director of the Washington Department of Agriculture, said.

SPOKANE — Three Washington high school seniors are the first recipients of the new Spokane Ag Show scholarship. Alyssa Williams, of Lind-Ritzville, and Amelia Ray, of Reardan, both received $4,000 […]

HB4 wheat is a transgenic wheat trait owned and sold by Bioceres Crop Solutions, based in Argentina. The trait incorporates drought tolerance transferred through a sunflower gene.

‘Shark Farmer’: FFA has social media figured out