Agriculture Industry Sector
The Seattle Metropolitan Chamber works to support agriculture in our region as a key building block of the economy.
We recognize the unique needs and issues faced by our distinct industries, and we work to provide events and advocacy that serves them best. Find news, advocacy work and events tailored just for agriculture below.
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What It Takes To Make Government Work – Part 3: When Compassion Has No Destination
San Francisco built a humane alternative between jail and walking away. Seattle already has many of the pieces to do the same. Part Three of a four-part series on what Seattle can learn from San Francisco Some of our most compassionate public policies are written as...
What It Takes To Make Government Work – Part 4: The Solutions We Choose Not to See
Seattle’s public-safety debate often begins with a convenient lie. We pretend not to know what to do, then spend years studying familiar problems as they grow worse. We commission another study. We assemble another advisory group. We argue over semantics and wait for...
What It Takes To Make Government Work – Part 3: When Compassion Has No Destination
San Francisco built a humane alternative between jail and walking away. Seattle already has many of the pieces to do the same. Part Three of a four-part series on what Seattle can learn from San Francisco Some of our most compassionate public policies are written as...
Businesses Now Pay Two-Thirds of Seattle’s Taxes while Seattle Is Losing Jobs for the first time in Decades
SEATTLE, Oct. 5, 2026 — Seattle’s tax collections have grown substantially faster than the city’s population, employment and inflation over the past decade, according to a new analysis commissioned by the Downtown Seattle Association and the Seattle Metro Chamber. The...
What It Takes To Make Government Work-Part 2: Government Is Not a Workgroup
San Francisco did not need another coordinating body to coordinate the existing coordinating bodies. It needed the people already at the table to make decisions. Seattle and this region have rarely encountered a hard decision that could not be handed to a workgroup....
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