On a chilly fall morning, farmworkers fanned out through an orchard here to pick rose-hued apples from green rows of trees ...

WASHINGTON, USA — Researchers at Washington State University are testing solar panels in Northwest orchards to evaluate their effectiveness and economic viability for both power generation and crop ...

WENATCHEE – Washington orchards are preparing for water shortages with a possible drought after a winter of low snowpack levels. Chelan and Douglas counties are still in a drought advisory issued in ...

SNOHOMISH, Wash. - One of Snohomish County’s most beloved fall destinations is getting national — and local — recognition this season. Swans Trail Farms in Snohomish has been ranked the No. 7 apple ...

Each morning at 5 a.m., Marcos Gonzalez Rios and Rogaciano Sonchez Tapia board a van with other H-2A farmworkers and take a one hour ride to an apple orchard in Royal City. They arrived from Mexico to ...

A microscopic organism that thrives in the most inhospitable environments on the planet could become a weapon against fire blight, a disease that can devastate Pacific Northwest apple and pear ...

The Trump administration’s deportation push has roiled the state’s farm labor workforce as federal legislation meant to ...