invasive species

The State Department of Agriculture is asking Washingtonians to check their Christmas trees, wreathes and other purchased holiday greenery for invasive species.  Last week WSDA confirmed elongate hemlock scale, Fiorinia externa, on out-of-state sourced holiday greenery.  The Dep...

Have you spotted any of these invasive species in Washington? Hopefully not seeing as they don't belong here. This is a list of the 5 animals that don't belong in Washington state.

Researchers at the University California, Davis, have discovered a new gene variant in wheat that they say can increase grain yields. U.S. agricultural output nearly tripled between 1948 and 2017.

New research finds the risk of African swine fever entering the U.S. hog population has nearly doubled in the last year.

**The American Farm Bureau Federation recognized 15 farm and ranch women leaders as graduates of its Women's Communications Boot Camp fall session. The intensive four-day course comprised hands-on sessions related to public speaking, working with the media and messaging...

U.S. beef trade has been doing spectacularly for the first half of 2018, but indications are trade will slow on the world stage going forward.

BREMERTON  (AP) — Officials in Washington state say an invasion of the European green crabs that could disrupt the Puget Sound ecosystem is continuing. Biologists with Washington Sea Grant tell the Kitsap Sun that 16 of the crabs have been caught this spring at one location on Dungeness Spit near Sequim on the Olympic Peninsula...