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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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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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22:06

Thankful For WA Farmers: What Thanksgiving Hides

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2025/12/01

Even though we just celebrated Thanksgiving, most of us didn’t think much about the struggles that farmers–who grew the food that we ate–are facing not just to produce food, but to stay in business at all. Pam Lewison, Director of the Center for Agriculture at the Washington Policy Center, joins Dillon with a breakdown of those pressures and struggles that she shared in a recent article, and how we can do more to be aware of farmers this holiday season.

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22:43

Bought & Paid For: Professor Testifying Against WA...

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2025/11/25

Not only does her legal declaration against Washington dairy farms have major scientific problems, but new documents show University of Wisconsin-Madison environmental professor Rebecca Larson was paid over $200,000 to produce the flawed testimony for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s lawsuit.Ben Tindall, Save Family Farming’s Executive Director, joins Dillon with a look at how the troubling revelations were revealed through public records requests, and what the exorbitant sum of taxpayer

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21:27

Irony: State Misrepresents Whatcom Water Lawsuit...

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2025/11/17

Local farmers are calling out the Washington State Department of Ecology for adding to local confusion about its Whatcom water rights adjudication lawsuit with a recent attempt to correct “rumors” and “misinformation.”Fred Likkel, Whatcom Family Farmers' Executive Director, joins Dillon with a breakdown of Ecology's inaccuracies and an update on the ongoing adjudication court case.

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22:10

WA Farm Income Plummets, As State Piles On New Costs

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2025/11/17

Recent data shows Washington state's net farm income has plummeted to among nearly the worst in the nation, following years of state measures ratcheting up a long list of farming costs. Randy Fortenbery, an agricultural economist at Washington State University, joins Dillon with the data and what it indicates may be involved in the big change.

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21:14

Hope for Whatcom Water? Top WA Expert to Speak at...

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2025/11/17

Despite the crippling uncertainty Whatcom County farmers and other water users are facing in the state's water rights adjudication lawsuit there, a top Washington state expert says there is hope for a resolution to the unfolding crisis. Tom Tebb, the former director of the state's Office of the Columbia River joins Dillon ahead of his address at Whatcom Family Farmers' 2025 Farmer Rally to preview what he plans to share about a better path forward for Whatcom water.

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21:56

Yakima Nonprofit Charges Dairy Farmers Over $500 To...

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2025/11/13

In a bizarre turn of events, a Yakima, WA-based anti-farming activist nonprofit required attendees to a recent screening of their propaganda film to disclose their occupation, subsequently charging anyone listing themself as a dairy farmer $535.38 for a ticket, while all others could get a ticket for free.Ben Tindall, Executive Director of Save Family Farming, joins Dillon with details on the apparent attempt to block dairy farmers from attending the Nov. 7 film screening at Sunnyside’s Grand

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23:10

Water Settlement, Farming Protections Focus of...

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2025/11/03

Protecting Whatcom County farming and promoting a settlement to the state's Whatcom water adjudication lawsuit are the goals of a recently unveiled proposal from County Councilman Ben Elenbaas.Elenbaas, a 4th-generation Whatcom County farmer, joins Dillon with details on the changes he wants to make to a foundational county plan that sets the county's growth agenda for decades to come. Save Family Farming local affiliate Whatcom Family Farmers recently released a public statement in support of

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22:28

Beloved Ag-Focused PNW Weather Forecast Blogger Calls...

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2025/11/03

Farmers and many others across the Pacific Northwest and beyond have followed a unique, regional weather blog over the last more than three decades. Its followers, or "patrons" in The Weather Café parlance, have made its twice-weekly posts part of their weekly routine, relying on its insights for weather-affected planning, particularly when the possibility of major storms or other weather events are predicted. Rufus La Lone, the forecaster behind the blog, joins Dillon the day after his last

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21:26

Why US Cattle Ranchers Have A Beef With President Trump

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2025/10/27

President Donald Trump's move to allow more cheap beef from Argentina into the United States sparked a swift backlash from U.S. cattle ranchers.Chelsea Hajny, Washington Cattlemen's Association Executive Vice President, joins Dillon with the Washington state ranchers' reaction to the move and Trump's upsetting comments about it.

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22:58

Expert: DOJ Scientist’s Accusations Against Yakima...

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2025/10/27

Accusing dairies in the Lower Yakima Valley of polluting groundwater, the U.S. Department of Justice, working with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, hired University of Wisconsin-Madison scientist Dr. Rebecca Larson to make a legal declaration in support of their court case against the dairies. But Stu Turner, an environmental contamination investigation expert, shows how Larson's declaration amounts to bad science, and joins Dillon with details not only on how she got it wrong, but on the

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22:39

Former Lynden-Area Dairy Hosts In Vitro Fertilization...

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2025/10/22

In vitro fertilization technology is changing the way farmers improve their herd's genetics, allowing them to raise the healthiest, best-producing animals much more quickly than traditional breeding.And now Whatcom County is home to a facility where farmers can bring cows to use this technology. McKenzie Corpron, an embryologist with Trans Ova Genetics, joins Dillon with details on the company's new satellite center housed at Mark Van Mersbergen's former Lynden-area dairy, Markwell Holsteins.

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21:50

Why WA Farmers Oppose New Forest Stream Buffer Plan

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2025/10/20

The Washington state farming community is speaking out against a new state plan to force large forested buffers on non-fish-bearing streams in working forest lands.Farmers recognize the dangerous precedent the unscientific proposal would create for forcing similar buffers on farmland, ultimately harming fish while pushing countless family farms in our region out of business (read Save Family Farming's earlier letter to state officials about this bad idea here). Dr. Elaine Oneil, Executive

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