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.
Washington growers have the highest yield of potatoes per acre of any state in the country. Photo by Danielle Jensen.
6 p.m. Social, 6:30 p.m. Dinner
Rotary Building, Northwest Washington Fairgrounds, Lynden
Speakers: Eldon VanderPlog; Ken Pollock, Employment Security Dept.
To protect children from cancer, use organic peanut butter to make their peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.
Fact: Organic peanut butter is often contaminated with aflatoxins...known and very potent carcinogens. Traditional peanut butter has much less potential for aflatoxin contamination because of the use of fungicides to control fungi found naturally in the soil.
