Anna King
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In this field north of Pasco, Washington are recently mown down asparagus ferns.
The ground will be tilled up soon, readied for spring.
Tariffs could really shift the domestic asparagus market.
That's Alan Schreiber, who heads up the Washington Asparagus Commission.
He says farmers might not have to ship crops far away if they're not competing with Peru and Mexico.
But it's still not yet clear if the tariffs will stick.
Some Northwest winemakers say you can go casual with bubbles.
Walla Walla winemaker Gilles Nicole is from France, but the winemaker has been in Washington making luxe wines for more than 30 vintages.
He says, yeah, you can be all romantic with candlelight and sparkles, or you can just open a bottle on a weeknight with takeout.
Sparkling wines from the Northwest vary from the old-world style made with a lot of hand labor to forced carbonation methods and lower price points.
It's estimated more than 1,000 acres of blueberries and raspberries are underwater in Skagit and Whatcom counties.
Some plants might die, others might be uprooted by floodwaters.
And then there's the drip tape.
Most blueberries are irrigated with drip tape or tube.
When submerged in floodwaters loaded with sediments, they can get clogged or ruined.
That could cost thousands of dollars per acre to replace or fix, berry experts say.