State of the Basin, 2005

Agriculture In the most recent 2002 census, which is conducted every five years by the Washington Agricultural Statistics Service, Grant County was ranked number one for its agriculture output which brought in $882 million in agricultural products for the state. The top ranking harvests in the county from that harvest were potatoes and onions, followed by cattle, fruit and then hay and other crops. The Columbia Basin is one of three growing regions for the state's 165,000 acres of potatoes that are grown each year, of which 580 Cwt. were harvested per acre in Grant County alone in 2003. According to the North American Potato Market News 2005 fall production in Washington stands at 95.48 million Cwt., a 1.8 percent increase from three years ago.