It's harvest time on the Palouse, and North Idaho wheat farmer Wayne Jensen has invited me into the air-conditioned cab of his massive combine. A color-coded computer screen shows us exactly how many ...

Inside the air-conditioned cab of a 1983 John Deere combine, Ben Barstow projects his voice to be heard over the threshing outside. “If you want to make money, don’t go into agriculture,” he yells ...

As Laura Haffner and her crew started the northern trek to the expansive dryland fields of my home state of Montana, this custom writer and photographer packed her cameras and headed further west over ...

ENDICOTT – Wheat farmer Marv Hergert died last month of cancer. On Monday, his friends drove 21 combines to harvest Hergert’s 400 acres in about three hours. “It was magnificent,” said June Rowland, ...

Photographer’s description: “In June, July and August, my girlfriend walked across Washington, starting in La Push and ending at the Idaho border. I ran support for her during this time, which gave me ...

BECU's 2023 Butch crop art by Stan Herd (Photo: BECU) STAN HERD, WHO GREW UP in Kansas wheat country, is effusive when asked what it’s like coming to the Palouse every August to work his crop art ...

All classes of wheat are included in the new version of the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program, or CFAP. The Palouse, one of the top wheat-producing areas in the nation, had one of its wettest ...

Despite living in Eastern Washington since 2008, I know little about the Palouse. I’ve visited Pullman for events at Washington State University, but otherwise, all I know is that the region is home ...