How Olympia Can Learn From Colorado’s Farmworker Overtime Fix
As evidence of the harm Washington state's farming overtime law is causing farmworkers continues to mount, the state of Colorado has also grappled with the ...
Public Money, Public Accountability – Part Two
The Price of Plenty: When Public Money, Manipulated Narratives, and False Assurances Collide By Ben Tindall, Executive Director, Save Family Farming In Part One of ...
Why Skagit County Pea Farming Collapsed
A local reporter is uncovering the true history of what used to be a major Skagit Valley crop: green peas. Sophia Gates with Cascadia Daily ...
SCOW Justices Skeptical of WA Ecology’s Excuses for Attacking Farmer
An embattled Moses Lake-area farm family finally got its day at Washington state's high court, after suing the state Department of Ecology for breaking the ...
WA Rep: State Overregulation Harming Farmers’ Mental Health
Farming in Washington state is in crisis, with more farms closing daily as farmers face costs that are often far exceeding what they get paid ...
Public Money, Public Accountability – Part One
A Year of Questions, Delays, Broken Assurances, and Double Speak By Ben Tindall, Executive Director, Save Family Farming It all started with a logo. Last ...
A Whatcom County Committee Refuses to Recant False Claims Against Farmers. This Councilman Isn’t Pleased
A Whatcom County government advisory committee is refusing to walk back false accusations it made against local farmers in its 2026 annual report to the ...
Study: WA Farm Overtime Law Harming Farmworkers
A new Washington State University study surveyed hundreds of farmworkers across the state, and found that most are losing income thanks to Olympia's overtime law ...
New Study Affirms Save Family Farming’s Concern About WA Farm Overtime Law Harming Farmworkers
Ben Tindall, Executive Director of Save Family Farming, issued the following statement regarding a newly-released study from Washington State University and the Center for Latino ...
WA Farmers Applaud Court’s Pause on Anti-Science Forestry Buffer Rule, Welcome Appeal Against Harmful Precedent
Jason Vander Kooy, Skagit County dairy farmer and Save Family Farming Vice President, issued the following statement regarding the Thurston County court ruling staying the ...
1,000 Third-Graders Are Coming To Lynden To Learn About Farming. How You Can Support The Huge Field Trip
Coming from schools all over Whatcom County, nearly 1,000 third grade students are slated to descend on the Northwest Washington Fairgrounds in Lynden in early ...
New Rule Could Set A Dangerous Precedent. How Farm Foresters Are Fighting Back
Bureaucrats in Washington state have forced a new, strict environmental rule for forestry that would have few, if any benefits while costing farm foresters and ...
Falsified UCLA Report Deceives Public About WA Farmers
Save Family Farming condemns unethical, deeply flawed report attacking Washington farmers with sweeping, unsupported accusations and egregious false claim that farmers closely following federal ...
Analysis of Falsified UCLA Report on H-2A Farmworkers
The UCLA-branded report--which UCLA has not identified as a peer-reviewed academic study--titled “Manufacturing Farmworker Displacement: How Local Agricultural Workers Are Displaced in Washington State,” authored ...
Why This WA Ranching Family Deserves a Jury Trial
Family ranchers in Eastern Washington continue to fight for justice after the state Department of Ecology accused them of damaging wetlands and slapped them with ...
“Loophole”? Misleading UCLA Report Disparages WA Farms Following Law
The activist author of a misleading new UCLA-sponsored report claims farmers closely following the strict rules for hiring guest workers through the federal H-2A program ...
Food Prices: WA Beef Farmer Explains What Actually Needs To Happen
As the public's concern about higher food prices--especially beef--is getting headlines and political attention from President Trump, farmers and ranchers are again pushing back against ...
Trump Beef Processing Announcement Won’t Solve Problem For WA Farmers
Markus Rollinger, Yakima-area dairy farmer and Save Family Farming President, issued the following statement reacting to President Donald Trump’s social media pledge to roll back ...
Will Trump Food Processing Pledge Help PNW Farmers & Ranchers?
Taking aim at the 'Big 4' meat processors, President Trump pledged in a social media post Friday to reduce red tape for farmers and ranchers ...
WA Ranchers On Edge As Pasco Beef Packing House Put Up For Sale
The biggest beef packing house in the Pacific Northwest has been put up for sale by its owner, multinational food giant Tyson Foods. Jack Fields, ...
Labor, Water & Accountability: Save Family Farming’s Focus Right Now
Speaking out to protect Washington’s family farming community through advocacy, outreach, and education is what Save Family Farming is all about--but what specific areas is ...
Region’s Biggest Beef Packing House Up For Sale: Time for WA to Get Real About Farming
Markus Rollinger, Yakima-area dairy farmer and Save Family Farming President, issued the following statement regarding news of Tyson Foods’ plan to sell its Pasco, ...
Public Official, Rancher: Wildfire Devastation Resulted From Ignoring Longtime Land Stewards
As massive wildfires continue to burn across hundreds of thousands of acres of timber and grazing land in Washington state, the former longtime stewards of ...
Washington Needs Accountability, Not Taxpayer-Funded Activism
By Ben Tindall, Save Family Farming Executive Director When an activist organization misuses the official logo of a state agency to lend credibility to its ...