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		<title>Buckwheat, quinoa new options for organic grain growers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Organic grain growers in Washington looking for new crops with new markets could be producing buckwheat and quinoa, if Washington State University scientists can confirm their viability and develop varieties specifically for the Pacific Northwest. Researcher Kevin Murphy currently has trial plots of 44 varieties of quinoa and 30 varieties of buckwheat in five different [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cattle Producers of Washington meeting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Cattle Producers of Washington (CPoW) will have their monthly meeting Saturday, Sept. 11, at 10 a.m. at the Ritzville Perkins (back room) at 1604 Smitty’s Boulevard.]]></description>
		<link>http://basinfarmer.com/?p=1142</link>
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		<title>Images from the Grant County Fair</title>
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		<link>http://basinfarmer.com/?p=1136</link>
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		<title>Quincy-Columbia Basin Irrigation District</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The last Saturday for ditchrides this season is Saturday, Sept. 4. Weekend canal surveillance will continue with supervisory personnel. After Sept. 4, no water changes will be made on Saturday or Sunday unless it is an emergency. Voice messages will be accepted by telephone answering service on Saturdays all day and Sunday until 11:30 a.m. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://basinfarmer.com/?p=1133</link>
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		<title>WSU announces artifical insemination school</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Washington State University Extension is offering a swine artificial insemination school in Moses Lake Monday, Sept. 20, from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Grant County Fairgrounds, 3953 Airway Drive N.E. Tom Platt, WSU Area Extension Educator in Davenport, said swine producers who attend the one-day school will learn the basics of artificial insemination [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Burning fee comments wanted</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology) invites the public to review and comment on a proposed rule related to fees assessed for agricultural burning. Farmers sometimes burn crop residue, such as cereal grain stubble and torn-out orchard trees, after harvest. Smoke from this burning can harm the health of people who breathe in the smoke’s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://basinfarmer.com/?p=1128</link>
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		<title>Schmidt gets top spot in Angus Association</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Briana Alzola Staff writer Nineteen-year-old Othello resident Jessica Schmidt is no stranger to cows. After starting to show cows when she was 9 years old, she advanced through different leadership positions and was recently elected as the secretary-treasurer of the Northwest Junior Angus Association at a show in Prineville, Ore. In this role, her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New venture back on track</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Bob Kirkpatrick Editor Construction is slated to begin this week on a storage-distribution warehouse at 515 Bruce Road. Angel Garza, owner of  Angel Garza Trucking, purchased the property from Bob Boersma with Washington Carriers, which was originally earmarked for a bio-diesel plant. “This facility will service the entire Columbia Basin,” he said. “We’ll be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://basinfarmer.com/?p=1119</link>
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		<title>Taxidermy lessons learned the hard way</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Jim Pearson Contributing writer I’m not a trophy hunter. If I see something that looks good to me and it’s legal, BANG! Some of them hang on the wall in my trophy room even they don’t “score” in any record book. They’re products of a taxidermist’s skills or lack thereof. One of them is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://basinfarmer.com/?p=1115</link>
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		<title>Quincy-Columbia Basin Irrigation District</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The last Saturday for ditchrides this season is Saturday, Sept. 4. Weekend canal surveillance will continue with supervisory personnel. After Sept. 4, no water changes will be made on Saturday or Sunday unless it is an emergency. Voice messages will be accepted by telephone answering service on Saturdays all day and Sunday until 11:30 a.m. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://basinfarmer.com/?p=1112</link>
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