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Spokane, Washington  Est. May 19, 1883

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After rough financial year, Northwest cherry growers optimistic about 2024

Jan. 18—In business and agriculture, good timing — or the lack of it — can enhance or derail the best innovations, products and crops. Cherry growers in Washington state and the Northwest had a solid crop last year, harvesting 18.7 million 20-pound boxes of cherries. Unfortunately for them, California growers had a much later and larger than normal crop that prevented locally-grown cherries ...
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Fruit growers discuss economic pressures and new technology at meeting in Kennewick

Dec. 8—KENNEWICK — Economic pressures and new technology were themes at a gathering of Washington fruit growers this week. Hundreds of business owners, farmers, managers and other professionals who attended the Northwest Hort Expo and the Washington Tree Fruit Association's 119th annual meeting at the Three Rivers Convention Center in Kennewick to discuss new technologies and techniques. ...
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Historic irrigation canals that watered the valley’s origins and gave kids unsanctioned swim holes will be focus of museum talk and fundraiser

Irrigation canals once stretched for miles across the Spokane Valley by the late 1890s to open the flow of lake and river water to early settlers to plant orchards or start farms. They also offered unsanctioned summertime swimming for countless children. The largest and most ambitious irrigation project, was known as the Corbin ditch. The Spokane Valley Heritage Museum' is presenting “Flumes, Ditches & Canals, the Irrigation Story," for a 19th annual fundraiser and history program. It's scheduled 1-3 p.m. Oct. 28 at CenterPlace Regional Event Center.