Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Local farms give local youth a chance to make summer money and gain life skills
A loaded combine pulls up to a bank out wagon, driven by Tanner Bren. Bren's wagon can hold three combine loads before it needs to be dumped.
COLUMBIA/WALLA WALLA COUNTY – In the Touchet Valley, harvest is basically one of the seasons of the year. In a small agricultural community like ours, the signs of harvest beginning are like when the first autumn leaf falls and the crisp winds start to rattle the branches; trucks on the highways, combines high in the fields around town, and kids working long hours to help the largest economic trade in the region.
The men and women that work on these farms, harvesting everything from wheat to peas, often working from sunrise to sunset to ensure that the grains get harvested before the chill of...
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