Northwest looking at a dry spring, summer and fall for agriculture

Northwest looking at a dry spring, summer and fall for agriculture

Scott Revell drives his truck through the Roza Irrigation District as this Yakima Valley patchwork of agricultural fields is waking up from a long winter.Workers string hops and prune grapes. He points out the only small patch of older, rill-irrigated ground left and some of the major canals.But Revell, the top manager for Roza Irrigation District, isn’t happy. Poor winter snowpack throughout the Northwest is to blame. In the Yakima Basin, this …