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Potato storage
Washington growers have the highest yield of potatoes per acre of any state in the country. Photo by Danielle Jensen.
Farming heritage
Washington boasts three of the nation's top ten wheat-producing counties. Photo by John Conniff.
Young leaders
Fourteen Young Farmers & Ranchers program leaders from Washington enjoyed the 2008 YF&R Leadership Conference in Baltimore.
It takes 16 pounds of grain to produce one pound of beef.
Fact: Faulty assumptions and math in 1970s created this longheld misconception. Most recent study shows the national average is 2.6 pounds of grain per pound of beef.