The latest data is painting a clearer picture of what Washington’s farming community has already been feeling in recent years: farming in this state is struggling more than ever.

Ben Tindall, Executive Director of Save Family Farming, joins Dillon with more on what the statewide farming advocacy group is working on to elevate the awareness of the growing problem, and ultimately spur state leaders to make changes to help WA farming survive.

The Whatcom County Dairy Ambassador and her alternate are about to wrap up their term and pass on the torch.

Ambassador Maddie DeLange and Alternate Sarah Van Berkum join Dillon to share what it’s like to advocate for dairy farming and dairy products in schools and at events all over the local community.

Five to 10 years in prison was the penalty lawmakers in Olympia considered enacting for people who break certain water or air quality laws in Washington state.

Farmers feared a mistake on the farm could be mischaracterized as a deliberate criminal act under the proposed change.

Thankfully, the misguided proposal failed to move forward in Olympia’s current session, and John Stuhlmiller, Washington State Water Resources Association Executive Director, joins Dillon with details.

For 10 years, the Whatcom Conservation District has been hosting the Whatcom Farm Expo.

Alexi Guddal, District Outreach & Education Specialist, joins Dillon with details on the annual local event that’s grown bigger than ever.

The State of Washington’s false accusations and abusive tactics against King Ranch caught the eye of top federal officials, including U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins, and other state attacks on farming are also getting the attention of leading national authorities.

Shad Sullivan, a 5-th generation Texas rancher and farming advocate with the Ranchers-Cattlemen Action Legal Fund United Stockgrowers of America, or R-CALF USA, joins Dillon with an outside take on Washington State’s anti-farming actions, and how farmers and ranchers can fight back.

In their quest to get rid of Columbia River dams, activists are suing to force a dam management plan that would create river conditions deadly to endangered salmon.

Adam Ratliff, Executive Director of the Center for Sustainability and Working Rivers, joins Dillon to explain anti-dam activists’ real motives behind the latest bizarre turn in the ongoing battle over the federal dams on the Columbia River system.

With the political controversies and community conflict that have too often surrounded the issue of salmon recovery, many in the Washington farming community want to know: what do salmon actually need to recover and thrive?

Scott Schuyler, a tribal elder and the Natural & Cultural Resources Policy Representative for the Upper Skagit Indian Tribe, joins Dillon to explain how many issues affect salmon recovery, including some that rarely make the headlines like harbor seal predation, ocean warming and overfishing in international waters.

Schuyler says good relationships between tribes, farming, and other parts of the community are crucial to a holistic approach to recovering salmon–one that doesn’t get high-centered on a single controversial issue that drives conflict and takes away from other important aspects of recovery.

A troubling proposal for “card check” farmworker unionization and collective bargaining–that would harm farms as well as farmworkers–is still alive and moving in the 2026 legislative session currently underway in Olympia.

Scott Dilley, the WA-based Worker and Farmer Labor Association’s Public Affairs Director, joins Dillon with an update on the process and more details on how the flawed plan would put farms’ futures at risk and leave farmworkers vulnerable to coercion.

Farmers are asking questions after Seattle’s mayor has abruptly replaced Skagit River dam operator Seattle City Light’s leader with anti-agriculture lawyer Dennis McLerran, who boasts connections with a laundry list of manipulative and unethical attacks on farming in Washington state.

Jay Gordon with the Washington State Dairy Federation joins Dillon to detail McLerran’s troubling history with farming in the state, including the widely-criticized What’s Upstream campaign, the EPA’s falsified-science attack on Lower Yakima Valley dairies, and other anti-farm actions.

The farming community is expressing its deep distrust of McLerran as Seattle City Light, the 9th largest public utility in the U.S. that he now leads, attempts to federally re-license its major hydroelectric dams on the Skagit River while avoiding costly fish-passage upgrades by instead converting farmland to fish habitat.

Some experts are warning that the new card-check collective bargaining system proposed in Washington state won’t be the good deal for workers that proponents promise.

Alma Torres-Jones, a former farmworker who now operates her own family’s orchard, tells Dillon she fears that both farmers and farmworkers aren’t aware of the quickly-moving proposal, and won’t have time to consider the plan’s true impacts and likely negative consequences for workers as well as farms.