A Whatcom County government advisory committee falsely accused some farmers in the county of breaking federal labor rules in a recent official report.

Enrique Gastelum, Worker and Farmer Labor Association CEO, joins Dillon with a closer look at the false claims and the truth about the federal H-2A guest worker program.

Farmers in Skagit County are fighting a proposal to spend tens of millions of dollars to buy up fertile farmland on the Skagit River delta and turn it into fish habitat with questionable benefits.

Jenna Freibel, Executive Director of the Skagit Drainage and Irrigation Districts Consortium, joins Dillon to explain why farmers are opposed to the idea.

A government advisory committee in  Whatcom County last week attacked local farming with false claims in the committee’s annual report to the Whatcom County Council, falsely accusing local farmers of breaking federal labor rules.

Dillon explains the significance of the false narrative, and digs into the backstory to show how a Bellingham-based anti-farming activist, Rosalinda Guillen, is “laundering” false information through an advocacy group and this government committee in an attempt to make her false claims appear legitimate.

“Plowing Blind” reads the headline on dairy markets columnist Lee Mielke’s latest article, which quotes Save Family Farming Executive Director Ben Tindall.

Mielke joins Dillon to discuss the struggle and give an update on dairy markets.

Much has been made about the struggles facing Washington state farmers right now, with overbearing regulation causing massive cost spikes that are driving farmer take-home pay $400M into the red.

But just complaining won’t solve the problem.

Ben Tindall, Executive Director of Save Family Farming, joins Dillon with a focus on moving toward real, actionable solutions for the growing WA farming viability crisis.

Despite surging costs and some market headwinds, farmers in Whatcom and Skagit counties have one reason for optimism: the 2026 planting season featured outstanding weather, helping crops get off to a great start.

Blake TeVelde, a local agronomist, joins Dillon with a report “from the field” on how this year’s growing season is shaping up for dairy, potato and berry farmers in the area.

Time after time, Washington state agencies have abused their authority and taken steps to harm the farming community.

Charlie Rankin, an independent journalist based in North Carolina, has taken notice of the problem, and joins Dillon to talk about what he sees from his vantage point, particularly in the Washington State Department of Ecology’s heavy-handed and potentially illegal actions against farming.

Without following its own rules, the state of Washington nearly a decade ago fined a Moses Lake-area family crop farm more than a half-million dollars over a water technicality and arbitrary missed deadline.

Although it’s cost them most of their farm and almost put them out of business, the the farmers wrongly targeted by the Washington State Department of Ecology have fought back, and now their case will officially go to the highest court in the state.

Ron and Robin Fode, along with attorney Luke Wake of the Pacific Legal Foundation, join Dillon to explain how they were able to get their appeal accepted to be heard by the Supreme Court of Washington, and just what’s at stake for not only their family, but everyone in the state.

Slapping farmers with huge fines for how they’re using water has become common practice for the Washington State Department of Ecology in recent years, putting some farms out of business and even going so far as to threatening to take one Spokane-area farmer’s land.

But, John Stuhlmiller, Executive Director of the Washington State Water Resources Association, tells Dillon that Ecology’s punishing actions appear to break a state law–a law that Stuhlmiller helped write.

It’s not just the farmworker community that’s worried about the ongoing federal immigration crackdown. Farmers face the possibility of immigration enforcement activity and the fear of raids and arrests interfering with critical harvest seasons.

Eamonn Roach, a Pasco, WA-based immigration attorney, and Enrique Gastelum, CEO of the WA-based Worker And Farmer Labor Association (WAFLA) joined Save Family Farming Executive Director Ben Tindall on a recent online live stream sharing important background on why immigration enforcement poses a threat to farms, and how they can prepare.

Dillon shares a portion of that conversation on The Farming Show, and the full recording of the live stream is available here.