1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (403+ words) The Washington state Department of Ecology has issued a $48,000 fine against ranchers who are based in Idaho but run cattle on land along Steptoe Creek in Whitman County near where the creek dumps into the Snake River. The fine is…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (383+ words) A man is in the hospital after falling 25 feet from a grain silo near Rosalia on Sunday evening. The man scaled a 25-foot metal silo on File Road, a off state Route 271, south of Rosalia around 5:20 p.m.. At the top of…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (251+ words) From 1976: The city of Moses Lake was becoming a little too much … lake-like. Hundreds of acres of the city were turning “into a swamp,” because intensive irrigation was raising the water table. This problem arose because of the abundance of…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (860+ words) James Mills has spent a lot of time thinking about chicken muck lately. After the Iran war disrupted supplies of conventional nitrogen fertilizers, the English farmer began scouring the Yorkshire countryside for substitutes to keep his crops growing. That led…...

5+ mon, 2+ day ago   (585+ words) Louis Pasteur, the French chemist and microbiologist most known for developing the germ theory of disease, once said that in the field of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind. Over the past year, Norman Lewis, a professor of biological…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago   (210+ words) The past couple of weeks I’ve written about bulk materials to improve your soil. This week I want to tell you about the macro- and microcomponents or nutrients that might need to be added to your soil. But how do…...