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The Farming Show

Save Family Farming

The Farming Show, hosted by Dillon Honcoop and produced by Save Family Farming, gives voice to the farmers, workers, and advocates fighting for the future of agriculture in Washington State. Each episode dives into the real challenges facing local farms—regulations, lawsuits, labor, water, and misinformation—while telling the human stories behind the headlines. Bold, honest, and unapologetically pro-farmer, the show exposes what’s threatening our food system and what’s being done to defend it.

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20:53

Whatcom Dairy Ambassadors Share Lessons From...

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2026/03/02

The Whatcom County Dairy Ambassador and her alternate are about to wrap up their term and pass on the torch.Ambassador Maddie DeLange and Alternate Sarah Van Berkum join Dillon to share what it’s like to advocate for dairy farming and dairy products in schools and at events all over the local community.

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20:46

Should a Farmer Who Violates Water or Air Quality...

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2026/03/02

Five to 10 years in prison was the penalty lawmakers in Olympia considered enacting for people who break certain water or air quality laws in Washington state. Farmers feared a mistake on the farm could be mischaracterized as a deliberate criminal act under the proposed change. Thankfully, the misguided proposal failed to move forward in Olympia’s current session, and John Stuhlmiller, Washington State Water Resources Association Executive Director, joins Dillon with details.

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22:22

Whatcom Farm Expo to Celebrate 10 Years

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2026/02/26

For 10 years, the Whatcom Conservation District has been hosting the Whatcom Farm Expo.Alexi Guddal, District Outreach & Education Specialist, joins Dillon with details on the annual local event that’s grown bigger than ever.

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21:41

WA State’s Anti-Farming Actions On National Radar

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2026/02/23

The State of Washington’s false accusations and abusive tactics against King Ranch caught the eye of top federal officials, including U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins, and other state attacks on farming are also getting the attention of leading national authorities. Shad Sullivan, a 5-th generation Texas rancher and farming advocate with the Ranchers-Cattlemen Action Legal Fund United Stockgrowers of America, or R-CALF USA, joins Dillon with an outside take on Washington

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21:27

Activists’ Plan Would Harm Salmon in Quest to Get Rid...

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2026/02/17

In their quest to get rid of Columbia River dams, activists are suing to force a dam management plan that would create river conditions deadly to endangered salmon. Adam Ratliff, Executive Director of the Center for Sustainability and Working Rivers, joins Dillon to explain anti-dam activists’ real motives behind the latest bizarre turn in the ongoing battle over the federal dams on the Columbia River system.

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21:23

Tribal Leader: Collaboration, Holistic Approach Key...

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2026/02/10

With the political controversies and community conflict that have too often surrounded the issue of salmon recovery, many in the Washington farming community want to know: what do salmon actually need to recover and thrive? Scott Schuyler, a tribal elder and the Natural & Cultural Resources Policy Representative for the Upper Skagit Indian Tribe, joins Dillon to explain how many issues affect salmon recovery, including some that rarely make the headlines like harbor seal predation, ocean warming

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22:19

Harmful “Card Check” Farmworker Unionization Plan...

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2026/02/10

A troubling proposal for “card check” farmworker unionization and collective bargaining–that would harm farms as well as farmworkers–is still alive and moving in the 2026 legislative session currently underway in Olympia. Scott Dilley, the WA-based Worker and Farmer Labor Association’s Public Affairs Director, joins Dillon with an update on the process and more details on how the flawed plan would put farms’ futures at risk and leave farmworkers vulnerable to

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21:56

WA Farming Foe Takes Over Skagit Dam Operator Seattle...

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2026/02/03

Farmers are asking questions after Seattle’s mayor has abruptly replaced Skagit River dam operator Seattle City Light’s leader with anti-agriculture lawyer Dennis McLerran, who boasts connections with a laundry list of manipulative and unethical attacks on farming in Washington state.Jay Gordon with the Washington State Dairy Federation joins Dillon to detail McLerran’s troubling history with farming in the state, including the widely-criticized What’s Upstream campaign, the

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20:54

Former Farmworker: WA Card-Check Unionization Plan...

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2026/01/26

Some experts are warning that the new card-check collective bargaining system proposed in Washington state won’t be the good deal for workers that proponents promise.Alma Torres-Jones, a former farmworker who now operates her own family’s orchard, tells Dillon she fears that both farmers and farmworkers aren’t aware of the quickly-moving proposal, and won’t have time to consider the plan’s true impacts and likely negative consequences for workers as well as farms.

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22:24

Trump Administration Slams State’s Attack On Rancher

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2026/01/26

President Trump’s Agriculture Secretary, Brooke Rollins, is coming down hard on Washington State’s Department of Ecology for its attack on an Eastern Washington rancher. And now even the EPA’s Seattle chief Emma Pokon is adding to the federal criticism of Ecology’s abusive approach. Toni Meacham, one of the attorneys helping King Ranch in the fiasco, joins Dillon with an update on the massive fines and even secret criminal investigation into the Kings, as well as insight into

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20:48

Farming Advocates Need to Step Up to the Front Lines

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2026/01/21

The pressures on family farming in Washington state and across the country continue to mount, but the urban public remains largely unaware of the realities farmers face. Ben Tindall, Save Family Farming’s Executive Director, joins Dillon to encourage anyone interested in preserving a future for family farming in our state to speak out in support, committing to providing more and more opportunities for everyone to get involved in farming advocacy.

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21:30

Farmworker Advocates: Why New WA Collective...

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2026/01/19

A slate of proposals up for debate in Olympia would roll out a new system of unionization and collective bargaining for farmworkers in Washington state. But, farmworker advocates Enrique Gastelum, of the Worker and Farmer Labor Association, and Jesse Rojas, formerly of Pick Justice, tell Dillon the devil is in the details, with aspects of the plan that would actually harm farmworkers, not help them.

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21:53

WANTED: Local Businesses To Support Ag, Trades Career...

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2026/01/13

Hundreds of Whatcom County high school students will get to learn more about what their futures could look like at Whatcom Family Farmers’ upcoming career fair focusing on agriculture and the trades.But, event organizer Ellie Steensma Corbin tells Dillon the event needs more local businesses to step up and host a booth or even educational presentations to give the students a well-rounded look at potential careers here in the local community. Businesses wanting to participate in any way can

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21:35

Could New Food Pyramid Help Struggling Dairy Farmers?

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2026/01/12

The announcement of a completely revamped “food pyramid” from the Trump administration’s US Health and Human Services Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is putting a new focus on milk and dairy. Lee Mielke, longtime dairy markets columnist and commentator, joins Dillon with details on how the new federal health advice elevates dairy foods, and what it could mean for markets and the prices dairy farmers–currently struggling with low returns–receive for their milk.

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20:26

State Threatens To Take 85-Year-Old’s Farm Over Water...

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2026/01/07

An 85-year-old lifelong Washington state farmer near Spokane could lose his entire farm if the Washington State Department of Ecology gets its way.The Department of Ecology is threatening to take Bob Greiff’s Deer Park-area property in an ongoing dispute over a minor water rights technicality. Greiff joins Dillon to explain how he’s tried to do everything Ecology has asked in order to solve the problem, and how the state continues to dig in its heels with little explanation.

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21:20

Flooded For Second Time in 4 Years, Whatcom Farmer...

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2025/12/22

Homes, businesses and farms in Whatcom County are reeling after sustaining devastating damage in the second major Nooksack River flood in four years.Alexandra Williams, a Deming-area blueberry farmer and President of the Whatcom County Farm Bureau, joins Dillon to share the impacts this month’s flood had on her family’s farm, and ask hard questions about what authorities are doing to manage the river and stop what’s becoming a terrible pattern.

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20:56

New “Farming On The Brink” Documentary Exposes WA...

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2025/12/15

All-new documentary “Farming on the Brink” provides an unfiltered look at the increasing challenges confronting local farming, particularly the rising costs necessary to sustain operations.Launched publicly last week, this upcoming film chronicles the journey of Manuel Imperial, a committed second-generation farmer whose family immigrated from the Philippines over 40 years ago and begin farming in Wapato, Washington. He joins Dillon to talk about the new film and grappling with

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21:52

Whatcom Photographer Documents Local Farming Legacy...

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2025/12/11

Whatcom County has a long and storied history of farming, and what farming looks like in the county now is much different than many decades ago, often with only old barns remaining as landmarks of the farms that once were.Jeff Barclay, a retiree with a longtime love of photography, joins Dillon with details on his passion project to document all the old barns in the county–an effort that so far has already produced two locally-available photo books, called Old Barns of Whatcom County and Old

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23:48

Embarrassing EPA Revelations Expose Agency’s WA Dairy...

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2025/12/08

Embarrassing revelations from internal documents are exposing U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s true motive behind legal attacks against three Washington state dairies in the Lower Yakima Valley–and it’s not protecting public health or the environment. Jay Gordon, Policy Director at the Washington State Dairy Federation, joins Dillon to call out the ugly truth behind the EPA’s and U.S. Department of Justice’s abusive legal games that have already pushed multiple longtime

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20:17

Small Fruit, Potato Growers to Gather at Lynden Ag Show

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2025/12/01

It’s the 15th year of the Lynden Ag Show, and over 500 farmers, farm support businesses, university researchers and others are expected to attend the show Wednesday and Thursday, Dec. 3-4. Chris Benedict, Professor and Regional Extension Specialist with Washington State University, joins Dillon with details on the event, which includes the Washington Small Fruit Conference and the Northwest Potato Conference as part of the show.

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