Sponsors Thank You Page

SPECIAL THANKS to supporters of the 2022 Skagit Valley Festival of Family Farms!

MAJOR SPONSORS:

PLATINUM PLUS TRACTOR SPONSOR $20,000 Skagit County Lodging Tax Fund PLATINUM TRACTOR SPONSOR $4,500 Port of Skagit County SILVER TRACTOR SPONSOR $1,000 Washington State Potato Commission Cascade Natural Gas Banner Bank

$500

SaltChuk Resources Fisher Companies, Inc. Puget Sound Energy

$300

Northwest Farm Credit

CIRCLE OF FRIENDS

$250

Blade Chevrolet Burlington Eye Care, Dr. Raymond Powell Dahl’s Electric Fisher & Sons Linda Becker Pat Rimmer Tire Center, Sedro Woolley Saltchuk Resources Skagit State Bank The Hose Shop, Inc.

$200

Delaval Direct Distribution

$150

D&D Seed Co., Inc. Norm Nelson, Inc. Ron & Jan Wesen Osborne Seed Co. Valley Freightliner

$100

Chuckanut Valley Veterinary Columbia Bank Chrishaven Trees Puget Sound Energy Puget Sound Veterinary Group Reisner Distributor Company Skagit River Steel & Recycling Stowes Shoes and Clothing Wilbur Ellis Co.

$25

Carlettie Architects

GOODS AND SERVICES

Baker Septic Courier Printing Courier-Times Skagit Valley Herald Washington State Potato Commission Western Washington Agricultural Association WSU Skagit County Extension

Preserve Farmland

The Skagit Valley is a Leader in Agricultural Production:

Over 80 diff erent crops are grown in Skagit County, including 50 percent of the world’s beet and spinach seed More tulip, daff odil and iris bulbs are produced in Skagit County than in any county in the U.S. Skagit County is the state’s leading strawberry producer Approximately 95 percent of the red potatoes grown in Washington State are grown in the Skagit Valley

Each Year the Skagit Valley Grows Over 80 Diff erent Crops on 93,000 Acres Including:

4 million pounds of raspberries 1,500 acres of tulips, daff odils, irises and bulbs 300 million pounds of red, yellow and white potatoes 1,400 acres of broccoli (90 percent of the region’s fresh market, spring to fall)

Farm Fields Provide Feed and Habitat for Wildlife and Birds:

Skagit County is host to one of the highest concentrations of raptors (eagles and other birds of prey) in North America

The Valley is home to half a million ducks, 50,000 snow geese, 3,000 trumpeter swans, bald eagles, peregrine falcons and migrating songbirds The Skagit River hosts all fi ve wild Pacifi c salmon species, including more than a third of the Puget Sound Chinook