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Despite high unemployment rates during the pandemic, California farmers say they continue having trouble filling their harvest crews.

Although it's down just a hair from 2016, Washington apple farmers again will be giving everybody a chance to eat an apple a day, so they can keep the doctor away.

You've probably heard about the semi-truck wreck up along the Columbia River on Highway 243, not too far North of Priest Rapids Dam in Grant County. The highway runs alongside the river, very close in some areas. The accident has created a new dilemma for the State Patrol, Grant County officials and the Grant County PUD.

The USFDA (United States Food and Drug Administration) has warned a Sunnyside food processor after inorganic arsenic was found in some apple juice concentrate during testing.

Remember that phrase, "What's it got to do with the price of tea in China?" Well, a lot of things used to relate to the price of tea... but not anymore. For the Mid Columbia, the price of wheat, lentils, onions, hops, grapes and apples is everything. Now India is messing with that!

When you combine a record crop, plus the West Coast port shutdowns or slowdowns, this is what happens.