I wanted to point out a couple of interesting stories I’ve read this week on the agriculture and timber industries.

First, Dick Davis writes in the Fall 2016 edition of Washington Business Magazine (see page 30) about new advances in agricultural technology. He discusses genetics, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, field architecture, and robots.

Second, in the Yakima Herald-Republic, Kate Prengaman writes about the Central Washington timber industry. She writes that there are only two sawmills operating today in the Eastern Cascades: 

That lack of mills means that despite a growing chorus of foresters and environmentalists calling for sustainable harvests to reduce fires and restore forest health, no one can afford to do it on the scale that’s needed.