This podcast highlights some stories from this week's edition of the Capital Press. We'll take a look at farmers' share of the Thanksgiving meal, hear a selection from the Capital Press Opinion page and gain some insight about the yearlong forecast for the West Coast, and what La Niña and El Niño weather patterns mean for farmers.
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Today's podcast highlights some of the stories from this week's edition of the Capital Press. We'll talk about autonomous tractors, high demand for fresh turkeys in California and some of the latest developments in biotech compensation and litigation.
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It's the end of an era for the Washington Farm Bureau, a bid to put solar panels on farmland is heading to court, Simplot is consolidating its potato-processing facilities in Idaho, a Christmas tree checkoff has exploded in controversy and the Supreme Court is considering slaughterhouse rules.
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The cover story for this week's edition of the Capital Press is on prison inmates recruited to pick apples near Quincy, Wash. Prisoners were bused 300 miles from Forks to pick high-value apple varieties because of the worst labor shortage in a decade, Dan Wheat reports.
Mateusz Perkowski talks about slaughterhouse audits and Grupo Bimbo's court battle for Sara Lee's baked goods division.
Tim Hearden examines a legislative push for increased efforts to stop invasive species at the border and the seasonal forecast for California.
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The sheep industry is in the news this week with a study showing that sheepdogs make livestock more relaxed and profitable, according to reporter John O'Connell. Also, strong prices for wool and lamb have prompted industry leaders to recruit more people to raise sheep.
Reporter Mateusz Perkowski says that foresters are looking at ways to improve the growth rate of trees through new advances in seedlings and weighing the trade-offs of container "plugs" and bare-root seedlings.
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The Capital Press devotes much of this week's front page to spending by the Humane Society of the United States. Other highlights from the paper include the ongoing Klamath Basin saga, producers and processors worried about legislative threats to the federal sugar program, and the development of new export markets for Idaho's wheat crop.
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