Agriculture in Washington (state)

(The following figures are from the Washington State Office of Financial Management[https://web.archive.org/web/20100924053401/http://www.ofm.wa.gov/databook/resources/nt14.asp Washington State Office of Financial Management] and the USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service, Washington Field Office). For 2003, the total value of Washington's agricultural products was $5.79 billion, the 11th highest in the country. The total value of its crops was $3.8 billion, the 7th highest. The total value of its livestock and specialty products was $1.5 billion, the 26th highest. In 2010, the total value of the crops was $7.93 billion.{{cite news|last=Dininny|first=Shannon|title=State ag sees a banner year in 2010, promises of more in 2011 |url=http://www.yakima-herald.com/stories/2011/10/24/state-ag-sees-a-banner-year-in-2010-promises-of-more-in-2011|access-date=2011-10-26 |newspaper=Yakima Herald-Republic|date=2011-10-24 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120407024804/http://www.yakima-herald.com/stories/2011/10/24/state-ag-sees-a-banner-year-in-2010-promises-of-more-in-2011|archive-date=2012-04-07|url-status=dead}}

File:Wells Dam from Azwell WA.jpg, a small community of pickers' cabins and apple orchards. Wells Dam visible in background.]]

In 2004, Washington ranked first in the nation in production of red raspberries (90.0% of total U.S. production), wrinkled seed peas (80.6%), hops (75.0%), spearmint oil (73.6%), apples (58.1%), sweet cherries (47.3%), pears (42.6%), peppermint oil (40.3%), Concord grapes (39.3%), carrots for processing (36.8%), and Niagara grapes (31.6%). Washington also ranked second in the nation in production of lentils, fall potatoes, dry edible peas, apricots, grapes (all varieties taken together), asparagus (over a third of the nation's production), sweet corn for processing, and green peas for processing; third in tart cherries, prunes and plums, and dry summer onions; fourth in barley and trout; and fifth in wheat, cranberries, and strawberries.

{{main|Washington apples}}

The apple industry is of particular importance to Washington. Because of the favorable climate of dry, warm summers and cold winters of Central Washington, the state has led the U.S. in apple production since the 1920s.{{Citation

| last1 = Schotzko

| first1 = Thomas R.

| last2 = Granatstein

| first2 = David

| year = 2005

| title = A Brief Look at the Washington Apple Industry: Past and Present

| publication-place = Pullman, WA

| publisher = Washington State University

| page = 1

| url = http://www.agribusiness-mgmt.wsu.edu/agbusresearch/docs/SES04-05_BRIEF_LOOK_WAFTA.pdf

| access-date = 2008-05-09

}} Two areas in Eastern Washington – the Yakima River valley and the Wenatchee River valley – account for the vast majority of the state's apple crop.{{cite journal

| last = Lemons

| first = Hoyt

|author2=Rayburn, D. Tousley

|date=July 1945

| title = The Washington Apple Industry. I. Its Geographic Basis

| journal = Economic Geography

| volume = 21

| issue = 3

| publisher = Clark University

| pages = 161–162, 166

| doi = 10.2307/141294

| jstor = 141294

}} The Washington Apple Commission regulates the industry.

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Washington is a major wheat producer with 90% of production exported. This means that the health of the industry is largely dependent on global market conditions.{{cite web |last1=Gibson |first1=Nick |title=‘It’s very tough to make a living’: Lowest wheat prices in years complicates Washington’s return-to-normal harvest |url=https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2024/aug/09/its-very-tough-to-make-a-living-lowest-wheat-price/ |website=spokesman.com |publisher=The Spokesman-Review |access-date=13 January 2025}}

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• Fruit Belt
• Tree Top
• Beacon Food Forest
• Washington Tilth Association
• Washington State University College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences

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