Some moments lend themselves to hyperbole. That amazing fishing trip from seven years ago; the winning free throw at a high school basketball game; the marriage proposal when time stood still.

Or 2020, when Washington agriculture was fighting for its life after a court ruling forced the dairy sector to begin paying time-and-a-half and left the specter of retroactive pay lingering in the background like an unwanted flu just before vacation.

Pam Lewison is a fourth-generation farmer in Eastern Washington and the ag research director for the Washington Policy Center. You can read more of her work and more about SSB 5172 at washingtonpolicy.org.

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