USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service last week released new 2012 Census of Agriculture profiles for the 50 states, Puerto Rico and more than 3,000 counties in the nation.
Yakima officials are traveling around the state looking at how cities are seeing success in downtowns as Yakima works to redevelop its downtown area, and on Wednesday the city of Walla Walla hosted people from around here.
The Northwest cherry crop is being estimated at 20 million boxes according to the latest count determined during the 2014 Five-State Cherry Growers meeting.