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La Voz del Campesino
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 The almost
instantaneous change from desert to farmland created a labor vacuum, and
experienced farmworkers in California, Texas, and Mexico were encouraged
to come to Washington to work the fields. Some of them settled here, and
today comprise over 30% of the population of central Washington.
The region of the Yakima Valley takes its name from the Indigenous Peoples (the Yakama) that still live here, and is the heart of Central Washington's agricultural community. Click here to see what grows here. KDNA's studios are located in the town of Granger, population 2,530 (2000 census). The transmitter is 20 miles to the Northwest on Ahtanum Ridge. Studios and offices are in what once was the Highline
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While
western Washington State is known for airplanes (Boeing), software (Microsoft)
and rain (Seattle), central and eastern Washington are famous as agricultural
resources. In June of 1952 the Grand Coulee Dam began supplying water
to the Bureau of Reclamation's Columbia Basin Irrigation Project, and
deserts overnight became irrigated farmland producing crops of apples,
asparagus, wheat, hops, and wine grapes.