Cost-share grants are available to growers in north central Washington State for disposing of their annual pruning by means other than burning. The Washington State Department of Ecology has $27,800 available to share among growers in Okanogan, Chelan, and Douglas Counties. The money was originally intended for a program to encourage growers to chip removed orchards, rather than burn them, but Dan McCarthy, fieldman for the Okanogan County Pest and Disease Board, said chipping did not prove economically feasible, and the firms that were doing it are no longer in the business. Under the new program, growers can receive up […]