Pacific Northwest Ag Network

A nationwide survey of beekeepers has revealed catastrophic honey bee colony losses across the United States between June 2024 and February 2025.  These alarming losses, which surpass historical trends, could significantly impact U.S. agricu...

President Trump has slapped an additional 10% tariff on China, bringing the total to 205 on all Chinese imports.  President Trump has accused China of not doing enough to prevent fentanyl flow into the U.S., and China responded by calling the move blackmail.  As a re...

Is Social Security going broke?  That’s one of several myths out there about Social Security.  The AARP’s Sean Voskuhl said nothing could be further from the truth.   “Social Security will not run out of money, as long as workers and employers continue to pay payroll taxes," he said.  "It’s a pay-as-you-go system, but it doe...

ABC News is reporting the USDA has directed agency officials to review and remove content related to climate change from its public websites.  ABC News said they obtained internal e-mails that say the directive instructs web managers to identify, archive, or unpublish materials mentioning climate change by "no later than close of business Friday”.  In an email sent Thursd...

U.S. egg production totaled 8.92 billion during November 2024, down 4% year-over-year.  Production included 7.68 billion table eggs and 1.24 billion hatching eggs, of which 1.15 billion were broiler-type and 90.3 million were egg-type.  The ave...

Shoppers were buying more eggs to bake Christmas treats ahead of the holiday season at the same time U.S. wholesale egg prices were up 150 percent from last year.  Reuters said the average retail price of a dozen eggs surpassed $3.60 in November, that’s $2.50 higher ...

Winter is coming with colder temperatures, wet or icy ground, and snow in some areas too.  However, work still needs to be done. Greg Jones, a Firestone Ag Tire expert, talks about how cold temperatures and winter weather impact equipment tires.  ...

According to the 2022 Census of Agriculture, the number of farms across the county dropped 10% in ten years.  During that decade, the number of American farms slipped from over 2.1 million in 2012, to 1,900,487 farms in 2022.   The Census of Ag is conducted every five years, and the last two five-year periods saw the number of farms decrease in all four farm size categories from 2012-2017.  The sm

Campbell Global, which is part of J.P. Morgan Asset Management, has purchased 40,800 acres of commercial timberland located on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula.  The property has been named Tyee, because of the Native American history in the area.  Tyee will rep...

Some of the numbers from USDA's latest look at irrigation and water management within agriculture.    “There were 212,714 farms and they irrigated 53 million acres.  It was down a little bit from 2018, where the survey showed that there were 231,000 farms with close to 56 million irrigated acres, so down 8% in total, farms irrigating and about 5% for acres irrigated,” noted Julie Weber with NASS.