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Benton and Franklin Counties\u00a0play a vital role in Washington State’s agriculture economy. \u00a0With over 100 commercial crops grown in the area,\u00a0Benton County crops contribute over $900 million, and Franklin County crops contribute over $700 million to Washington State’s $9+ billion agriculture sales each year. \u00a0Extension works with\u00a0area farmers, ranchers, producers and growers by providing innovative, research-based\u00a0technology and information.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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Our team has joined together WSU Specialists from across Washington State to create an email information delivery service that you can customize to your specific information needs. Specify which crops, interests and industry you are interested in and only receive emails pertaining to those items directly to your inbox. Stay informed by signing up today<\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Benton and Franklin Counties\u00a0play a vital role in Washington State’s agriculture economy. \u00a0Extension works with\u00a0area farmers, ranchers, producers and growers by providing innovative, research-based\u00a0technology and information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1332,"featured_media":135211,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"templates\/program.php","meta":[],"categories":[621],"tags":[],"wsuwp_university_location":[],"wsuwp_university_org":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/benton-franklin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/87"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/benton-franklin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/benton-franklin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/benton-franklin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1332"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/benton-franklin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":56,"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/benton-franklin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/87\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137630,"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/benton-franklin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/87\/revisions\/137630"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/benton-franklin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/benton-franklin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/benton-franklin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/benton-franklin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/benton-franklin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_location?post=87"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_org","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/benton-franklin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_org?post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}