The Farming Show

An 85-year-old lifelong Washington state farmer near Spokane could lose his entire farm if the Washington State Department of Ecology gets its way.

The Department of Ecology is threatening to take Bob Greiff’s Deer Park-area property in an ongoing dispute over a minor water rights technicality.

Greiff joins Dillon to explain how he’s tried to do everything Ecology has asked in order to solve the problem, and how the sta...

Homes, businesses and farms in Whatcom County are reeling after sustaining devastating damage in the second major Nooksack River flood in four years.

Alexandra Williams, a Deming-area blueberry farmer and President of the Whatcom County Farm Bureau, joins Dillon to share the impacts this month’s flood had on her family’s farm, and ask hard questions about what authorities are doing to manage the river and stop what̵...

All-new documentary “Farming on the Brink” provides an unfiltered look at the increasing challenges confronting local farming, particularly the rising costs necessary to sustain operations.

Launched publicly last week, this upcoming film chronicles the journey of Manuel Imperial, a committed second-generation farmer whose family immigrated from the Philippines over 40 years ago and begin farming in Wapato, Washington.

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Whatcom County has a long and storied history of farming, and what farming looks like in the county now is much different than many decades ago, often with only old barns remaining as landmarks of the farms that once were.

Jeff Barclay, a retiree with a longtime love of photography, joins Dillon with details on his passion project to document all the old barns in the county–an effort that so far has already produced two local...

Embarrassing revelations from internal documents are exposing U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s true motive behind legal attacks against three Washington state dairies in the Lower Yakima Valley–and it’s not protecting public health or the environment.

Jay Gordon, Policy Director at the Washington State Dairy Federation, joins Dillon to call out the ugly truth behind the EPA’s and U.S. Department of Justice’s...

It’s the 15th year of the Lynden Ag Show, and over 500 farmers, farm support businesses, university researchers and others are expected to attend the show Wednesday and Thursday, Dec. 3-4.

Chris Benedict, Professor and Regional Extension Specialist with Washington State University, joins Dillon with details on the event, which includes the Washington Small Fruit Conference and the Northwest Potato Conference as part of the sh...

Even though we just celebrated Thanksgiving, most of us didn’t think much about the struggles that farmers–who grew the food that we ate–are facing not just to produce food, but to stay in business at all.

Pam Lewison, Director of the Center for Agriculture at the Washington Policy Center, joins Dillon with a breakdown of those pressures and struggles that she shared in a recent article, and how we can do more to be aware of farmer...

Not only does her legal declaration against Washington dairy farms have major scientific problems, but new documents show University of Wisconsin-Madison environmental professor Rebecca Larson was paid over $200,000 to produce the flawed testimony for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s lawsuit.

Ben Tindall, Save Family Farming’s Executive Director, joins Dillon with a look at how the troubling revelations were revealed thro...

Despite the crippling uncertainty Whatcom County farmers and other water users are facing in the state’s water rights adjudication lawsuit there, a top Washington state expert says there is hope for a resolution to the unfolding crisis.

Tom Tebb, the former director of the state’s Office of the Columbia River joins Dillon ahead of his address at Whatcom Family Farmers’ 2025 Farmer Rally to preview what he plans to...

In a bizarre turn of events, a Yakima, WA-based anti-farming activist nonprofit required attendees to a recent screening of their propaganda film to disclose their occupation, subsequently charging anyone listing themself as a dairy farmer $535.38 for a ticket, while all others could get a ticket for free.

Ben Tindall, Executive Director of Save Family Farming, joins Dillon with details on the apparent attempt to block dairy farmer...

Protecting Whatcom County farming and promoting a settlement to the state’s Whatcom water adjudication lawsuit are the goals of a recently unveiled proposal from County Councilman Ben Elenbaas.

Elenbaas, a 4th-generation Whatcom County farmer, joins Dillon with details on the changes he wants to make to a foundational county plan that sets the county’s growth agenda for decades to come.

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Farmers and many others across the Pacific Northwest and beyond have followed a unique, regional weather blog over the last more than three decades.

Its followers, or “patrons” in The Weather Café parlance, have made its twice-weekly posts part of their weekly routine, relying on its insights for weather-affected planning, particularly when the possibility of major storms or other weather events are predicted.

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Accusing dairies in the Lower Yakima Valley of polluting groundwater, the U.S. Department of Justice, working with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, hired University of Wisconsin-Madison scientist Dr. Rebecca Larson to make a legal declaration in support of their court case against the dairies.

But Stu Turner, an environmental contamination investigation expert, shows how Larson’s declaration amounts to bad science, a...

In vitro fertilization technology is changing the way farmers improve their herd’s genetics, allowing them to raise the healthiest, best-producing animals much more quickly than traditional breeding.

And now Whatcom County is home to a facility where farmers can bring cows to use this technology.

McKenzie Corpron, an embryologist with Trans Ova Genetics, joins Dillon with details on the company’s new satellite center ho...

The Washington state farming community is speaking out against a new state plan to force large forested buffers on non-fish-bearing streams in working forest lands.

Farmers recognize the dangerous precedent the unscientific proposal would create for forcing similar buffers on farmland, ultimately harming fish while pushing countless family farms in our region out of business (read Save Family Farming’s earlier letter to state...

Many people, including news reporters, have been confused by recent layoff notices from Washington farms creating suspicion of major farm closures.

But what most don’t realize is that the layoffs are the routine annual conclusion of seasonal farm jobs that haven’t required such notices until state lawmakers changed the rules this spring.

Erik Zavala, Director of Field Staff for Wenatchee-based cooperative Blue Bird, tel...