Blueberry bumper crop

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Joe Copeland

Joe Copeland Feb 6, 2018

Feb 6, 2018

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                <h2><p>Like those low prices for blueberries in stores? Washington farmers are growing more blueberries, according to the Washington Blueberry Commission. Over the past half-century, state farmers have gone from having essentially zero blueberries to ranking fourth nationally in production of blues. Dr. Alan Schreiber says in a statement that a</p></h2>
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               <p>By <a href="/author/joe-copeland-crosscut-com/">Joe Copeland</a></p> 
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            <p>Like those low prices for blueberries in stores? Washington farmers are growing more blueberries, according to the <a href="http://www.wablueberrycomm.org/index.htm?ref=dev.cascadepbs.org">Washington Blueberry Commission</a>. Over the past half-century, state farmers have gone from having essentially zero blueberries to ranking fourth nationally in production of blues. Dr. Alan Schreiber says in a statement that a quarter of all blueberry acreage here is organic — particularly good news if you listen to Washington State University research <a href="http://www.ewg.org/agmag/2010/09/study-organic-berries-trump-others-taste-nutrition-and-more?ref=dev.cascadepbs.org">ranking organic berries </a>higher than conventional on a number of scores, including nutritional content. — J.C.</p>
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Like those low prices for blueberries in stores? Washington farmers are growing more blueberries, according to the Washington Blueberry Commission. Over the past half-century, state farmers have gone from having essentially zero blueberries to ranking fourth nationally in production of blues. Dr. Alan Schreiber says in a statement that a quarter of all blueberry acreage here is organic — particularly good news if you listen to Washington State University research ranking organic berries higher than conventional on a number of scores, including nutritional content. — J.C.

By Joe Copeland

Joe Copeland is the former senior editor&nbsp;for Crosscut, where he has been an editor since 2010. Before that, he was an editorial writer and columnist for the Seattle P-I and editorial page edi