In the latest issue of Irrigation Leader magazine, an interview with Congressman Dan Newhouse about his work on behalf of irrigated agriculture in Washington state. Click here to read more....
06 August, 2020COLUMBIA BASIN DEVELOPMENT LEAGUE 56TH CONFERENCE & ANNUAL MEETING Thursday, November 5, 2020 We are still planning for in-person attendance. Stay tuned to our website and social media pages for u...
30 June, 2020Earlier this year, the myTRI 2030 Agricultural Council invited the League to become a member. MyTRI 2030 is a Tri-Cities, community-based, Regional Vision Project that seeks to provide a unified strat...
30 June, 2020By the time the Ag Council held its first meeting of the year at the end of March, we were just starting to see the enormity of what lay ahead. As many of the members of the committee are in essential...
30 June, 2020In January, League members voted to elect Christina Wyatt and Kelly Cochrane to join the CBDL Board of Trustees. Then in April, JC Baldwin stepped down from her position, and the board appointed Alan ...
30 June, 2020In 2017, the League worked with a local film company, to produce “Waiting for Water”, a 10-minute documentary film about the Columbia Basin Project (Project). “Waiting for Water” follows a family of f...
30 June, 2020Got water? We do. The Bureau of Reclamation still has water available in our Potholes Bank Storage Additional Artificially Stored Groundwater Program (PBS). If you are in the Mae Valley/South Frontage...
30 June, 2020The League’s Chairman and Lincoln County Commissioner, Mark Stedman, was appointed to the Columbia River Policy Advisory Group, which advises the Office of Columbia River (a part of the Washington Sta...
30 June, 2020The American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers will hold its annual national conference Sept. 24 and 25 in Moses Lake. ASFMRA leaders asked the League to assist with setting up a day-long ...
30 June, 2020The Columbia Basin Project (CBP) is the water source for thousands of farmers. While waiting for continued development of the CBP, decades ago, the Department of Ecology issued farmers permits to use ...
30 June, 2020