At this year’s Washington Association of Wine Grape Growers’s annual meeting, we have a special session called “Getting Paid: Tools for Grape Growers.” The session is funded by a grant from the USDA Risk Management Agency through the Washington Wine Industry Foundation. It will be presented three times with the final session being in Yakima on Thursday, March 10. While the session actually highlights a number of tools growers may use to get paid on time, or at all, one of the most important has been the processor lien. Washington State law (RCW 60.13) allows any agricultural producer to extend […]