As the 2025 legislative session continues in Olympia, the farming community has a list of proposals it's watching closely.

Bridget Coon, Washington Farm Bureau First Vice President for Legislative Affairs joins Dillon with details on a few of the issues topping their list, including a fix to illegal fuel surcharges on farmers, as well as relief for farmers and farmworkers from the harm of new state ag overtime rules.

While some critics claim animal agriculture's methane emissions contribute to climate change, when the totality of farming's carbon impacts--positive and negative--are tallied, a much different story emerges.

Ellie Steensma Corbin, Whatcom Family Farmers' Education Coordinator, joins Dillon with details on the release of a new video project showing what Royal Dairy in Royal City, WA, is doing not only to reduce methane emissions but also to store carbon in the soil.

A misguided new proposal to force Washington state farms to report methane emissions skips half of the equation, and could potentially harm the fight against climate change.

Dan Wood, Washington State Dairy Federation Executive Director, joins Dillon with details on measure proposed in the state legislature in Olympia.

Washington state's legislature is back in session in Olympia through at least April, and legislators are considering a variety of proposals that could affect agriculture.

Pam Lewison, the Research Director for the Center for Agriculture at the Washington Policy Center, joins Dillon with a rundown of issues both positive and negative that she's tracking right now.

Farmworkers are again set to gather on the steps of the Washington State Capitol to speak out against the state's new overtime rules for farming, as well as other regulations and issues impacting their community.

Ben Tindall, Save Family Farming's Executive Director, joins Dillon with details on this year's event set for Feb. 4th, after last year's rally brought over 300 farmworkers to Olympia.

The title of a Washington proposal to allow predatory unions to force themselves on farmworkers without a vote belies its true motives.

Scott Dilley, spokesman for the Olympia-based Worker and Farmer Labor Association, joins Dillon to explain that even the bill's main sponsor, Rep. Lillian Ortiz-Self, D-Mukilteo, admits there's a bigger plan than just unionizing cannabis workers.

Agriculture careers in Whatcom County are both diverse and plentiful, and a growing local event intends to connect young people with those opportunities.

Ellie Steensma Corbin, Education Coordinator at Whatcom Family Farmers, joins Dillon with details on how both local students and businesses can get involved in the 2nd annual event coming up on Feb. 7 in the Farm Pavilion at the Northwest Washington Fairgrounds in Lynden.

As part of a legal ploy--ostensibly to allow certain farmworkers to make more money during fruit harvests--a group of labor activists is pushing a federal judge to block guest farmworkers in Washington state.

The activists' legal game essentially amounts to a scorched-earth approach to wage negotiations that ultimately threatens tens of thousands of farmworkers' jobs and the survival of a wide swath of the state's fruit production.

Enrique Gastelum, Worker and Farmer Labor Association CEO, tells Dillon the same activist group that's now claiming workers will be harmed if they don't get piece rates years ago actually argued against piece-rate wages for farmworkers.

In a recent statement, a top EPA official in Seattle falsely claimed the federal agency is collaborating with other agencies and community groups to address groundwater nitrate issues in the lower Yakima Valley.

David Taylor with the Washington State Dairy Federation and a former state representative joins Dillon to explain the reality that EPA has been far from collaborative or helpful with the ongoing Groundwater Management Area (GWMA) effort in Yakima County.

As much as locally- and regionally-grown food is celebrated in the Pacific Northwest, the reality is that fewer and fewer kinds of crops are being grown here.

Jay Gordon, a sixth-generation Southwest Washington farmer, joins Dillon to explain the ugly truth about why so many crops are no longer grown in the PNW, and why even more are leaving.