Bud Hover’s road to directorship of the Washington State Department of Agriculture began in 1938 when his mother and her family loaded their belongings on a truck and left North Dakota, headed west at 35 miles per hour. Hover calls it a scene from The Grapes of Wrath. His mother at age six rode in the back of the truck destined for Washington State. The family settled in the Yakima Valley, where Hover’s grandfather got a job as an irrigator near White Swan. In time, they began their own farming operation, which remains in the extended family as Jones Farms […]