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A family-owned apple and cherry orchard business has just agreed to pay about a half-million dollars in back wages to hundreds of workers.
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Northwest apples will be fewer, smaller and more expensive this year. Blame a cold spring, a challenging growing season. Farmers say they’re struggling under that darn inflation of everything.
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Washington apple growers are shipping about 20 percent less fruit abroad now compared with this time last year.The result is a drop to export levels not…
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Correction, Sept. 18, 2020: A word to describe the amount of apples brought by Gov. Jay Inslee has been changed in this story to better reflect the amount…
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It's not often that you'll read an obituary for a tree. Or that a dead tree gets a memorial service of sorts. But then there aren't many like Vancouver,…
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Fujis and Pink Ladies are some of the most valuable and last to ripen apple varieties in the Northwest. And this winter there are huge swaths of them left…
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With China threatening to slap the United States with tariffs on $3 billion worth of U.S. made products, one group that is worried is Washington state’s…
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Something has gone sour between Washington State University and a Seattle-based biotech company. It's over a new, highly-prized apple variety that has not…
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The recent testy back-and-forth between President Donald Trump and Mexico President Enrique Peña Nieto -- could end in real cash losses for agriculture in…
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The Northwest apple harvest is just underway and pickers are wading into the lush orchards. And so far things look dramatically better than last…