Washington is second to only California in the number of agricultural products that it produces - over 230. Photo by Danielle Jensen.
Washington boasts three of the nation's top ten wheat-producing counties. Photo by John Conniff.
Fourteen Young Farmers & Ranchers program leaders from Washington enjoyed the 2008 YF&R Leadership Conference in Baltimore.
Each year, the Washington Farm Bureau develops a prioritized list of issues to pursue during the upcoming session of the Washington State Legislature. Following are WFB's recent Public Policy Agendas.
The only sustainable form of food production is organic.
Fact: Yield would decline by 30 to 40 percent if the industry converted to totally organic food production, according to studies. To produce necessary nitrogen, unachievable shifts in green manure or cattle production would need to occur.
