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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.
Farmers have higher than average rates of cancer because they apply synthetic pesticides.
Fact: As a whole, farmers do not have higher rates of cancer. Farmers have higher rates of skin cancer, but this is due to sun exposure and not pesticides.