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| Year | Stories |
|---|---|
| 1914 | 5 |
| 1915 | 7 |
| 1916 | 14 |
| 1917 | 7 |
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- The High Cost of Packaging
Yakima Valley fruit shippers consider a major shift to marketing apples without paper wraps to offset rising production costs.
- The Apple Packing Revolution
A new mechanized system at the Kennewick District Fruit Growers' association transforms a chaotic shed into an efficient, clattering factory.
- The Strawberry Wars: Can Kennewick Growers Cooperate?
An editorial plea for local strawberry growers and marketing agencies to standardize their pack and stabilize pricing before the season collapses.
- The Great Hog Debate: Local Farmers vs. The Packing Trust
A reader fires back at critics of local livestock brokers, exposing the tension between small-scale Benton County hog farmers and the massive meat-packing monopolies.
- The First Big Harvest
Kennewick marks its first major commercial apple season, but farmers fear they've already outgrown their warehouse capacity.
- The Science of the Double Shock
Kennewick housewives master a high-stakes food preservation method to support the wartime conservation effort.
- The Price of a Perfect Apple
How the struggle to market 'seconds and culls' reveals the hidden cracks in the Pacific Northwest’s fruit economy.
- The Strawberry Crisis in Kennewick
Local growers are producing a premium crop, but falling behind Spokane’s organized marketing machine.
- Teaching the Art of the Apple
Local fruit growers race to train home-grown labor to replace transient workers as the regional apple boom accelerates.
- Train Scare on the Highlands Road
A passing train frightens a team of horses, resulting in a dangerous carriage spill for two local orchard workers.
- The Green Gold Rush: How Kennewick’s Asparagus Boom Became a Local Gold Mine
Local growers are realizing that with the right fertilizer and strict quality control, their valley's asparagus is commanding top prices and opening doors to eastern markets.
- The Great Strawberry Labor Scramble
As Kennewick prepares for its largest berry harvest in history, local growers are turning to the Exchange and coastal agencies to import hundreds of workers—specifically Japanese laborers—to handle the crop.
- The Tomato Whisperer of the Columbia Valley
After two decades of watching his crops wither, a local farmer discovers the surprising secret to thriving garden plots in volcanic soil.
- The High Cost of Raising Hogs in the Northwest
A local rancher argues that the economics of the hog industry in Washington are failing, leaving many producers underwater due to high feed costs and packer exploitation.
- Richland’s Harvest Jubilee Smashes Expectations
A banner year for the local agricultural festival draws record crowds from Kennewick and Pasco.
- The Crisis of the Orchardist
A visiting professor delivers a sobering sermon on why so many Kennewick orchard farmers are destined for failure.
- Kennewick's Homefront Logistics
Community groups coordinate a fresh fruit supply chain for local soldiers training at Fort Walla Walla.
- The Fight for the Berry Market
Outside buyers are circling the Kennewick strawberry crop, sparking a push for growers to unite and control their own prices.
- Thanksgiving at the Schoolhouse
Community ties remain strong as the Valley View schoolhouse hosts a holiday feast, soldiers' fundraiser, and prayer during a season of drought.
- Richland Farmers Abandon Strawberry Fields
A combination of unseasonable rains and falling market prices forces local growers to plow under their crops in favor of more reliable produce.
- Richland Farmers Organize to Set Their Own Potato Prices
A packed meeting at Amon Hall backs a growers’ union, and organizers head to Kennewick to bring neighboring farmers into the cooperative before the 1916 crop.
- The Apple Market Revolution
A local lecturer urges Kennewick fruit growers to bypass traditional middlemen and adopt large-scale auction houses to fix stagnant apple prices.
- The Great November Freeze
An early, record-breaking cold snap catches Kennewick farmers unprepared, endangering the apple harvest and shipping logistics.
- The Highlands Fruit Heist
A Kennewick orchardist loses his entire crop to nighttime thieves, while a neighbor's attempt to stand guard ends in a bizarre vanishing act.
- The Strawberry Monopoly That Put Kennewick on the Map
By consolidating their harvest under one union, local growers outmaneuvered competitors and set a new standard for market dominance.