Recent Awards & Recognition
Accepting 2024 State Representative Legislator of the Year award from the Washington Farm Bureau .
Quagga-Zebra dog, for the Aquatic Invasive Species prevention program.
Grateful to receive the distinguished leader award in 2024!
Columbia Basin Development League
So grateful for this recognition.
In Olympia, Etc.
Rep. Dent talking to Rep. Dye on the floor of the House.
Speaking the truth. Two-way communication is my commitment to you.
My team that has helped me through four years fighting for Boys' and Mens' Commission. Ann Silvers, Rep. Dye, Richard Reeves and Blair Daly.
Sharing the news.
An honor to speak to Dan Fenn at Harvard University, oldest survivor of the Kennedy Administration.
What's on your mind?
Making a friendly point from the floor of The People's House in Olympia.
Steamboat Institute panel
Richard Reeves, author, "Of Boys and Men" speaking at Seattle Public Library and supporting my bill establishing a Commission for Boys and Men to address policies and issues uniquely affecting their wellbeing.
Michele Kiesz, Charlie Kirk from Turning Point USA with Rep. Dye.
Columbia Basin Project, Agriculture & Economic Progress
Rep. Tom Dent, Senator Judy Warnock, OGWRP Project Manager Jon Erickson, Rep. Dye, Senator Schoesler standing in a sample siphon on the Columbia Basin Project.
USDA-NRCS Hero Astor Boozer with Michele Kiesz and Rep. Dye championing new construction for the Odessa Groundwater Replacement Project.
One of our trips to the White House. You never know who you might see
Kansas City Prairie Siphon doubles the capacity of the E. Low Canal
The Keys Pumping Plant, the beginning of the great irrigation project at Grand Coulee Dam.
Rep. Maycumber and Rep. Dye touring the first pumping plant on the Odessa Groundwater Replacement Project with Dept. of Ag Undersecretary Bonnie.
Columbia Basin Project meeting in the other Washington.
Celebrating the decision of East Low 47.5 pumping station and pipeline. The first new water delivery since the project was suspended in 1968. Washington State Secretary of Agriculture Derrick Sandison and Sen. Mark Schoesler with me.
Outlet of the Warden Siphon, part of the water delivery system for the Odessa Ground Water Reclamation Project.
Columbia Basin Project Map
Hay for export.
Hosting Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rogers and WA State Senator Mark Schoesler at the fish facility at Lower Granite Dam. Also in picture Elizabeth Holdren, Army Corps of Engineers Biologist.
Life on the Dye Farm
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from the Dyes.
My favorite tractor. Thank you Roger for teaching me how to run this bad baby!
Fixed the 0-ring on the hydraulic pump and cleaned up the mess. Love this tractor.
My first time fixing the drivetrain on the 1998 Kenworth. An all-time Career Best.
Wheat harvest team hard at work.
Roger Dye no-till seeding with world class views across the Palouse
Mary the farmer planting wheat with her favorite tractor.
Dye’s Sheep Adventures
Megan tending the sheep.
Isaac Kastama, instrumental in developing the Climate Committment Act, but having no real natural resource sciences background - experiencing top agricultural technology on our farm. If he could only understand what CCA is doing to stop the environmental progress on our farms and the cost burdens we now struggle with. Policies made about us, without us.
Our harvest team.
Cutting canola.
Trap Shooting over the Christmas Holiday at the Dyes.
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Parades, Community Connection, the Palouse & More
Rep. Mary Dye joined by daughter Emilie in Lacrosse, WA parade
Harrington Community Center windmill meeting.
Hope for the next generation.
One of the best advocates for the developmentally disabled.
Rep. Dye riding Majestic in the Pomeroy parade.
Traffic jam in Washtucna, WA.
Sunrise ceremony
Spring Plowing Bee in Pomeroy
Spring Plowing Bee in Pomeroy.
Pomeroy Delegation at the WA State Republican Convention.
Rep. Dye and Former Congresswoman Jamie Herrera Butler touring Blue Mountain.
From the Dye small plane, looking at the unprecedented beauty of the Palouse farmland pre-industrial wind energy projects.
Downtown Harrington car show.
Ritzville Memorial Day Ceremony 2024.
3 generations of Kiesz farmers talking to pilot/farmer Roger Dye.
Rep. Maycumber and Rep. Dye touring the first pumping plant on the Odessa Groundwater Replacement Project with Dept. of Ag Undersecretary Bonnie.
2024 spring wheat crop “shine”.
Lind WSU Field Day-agrarian knowledge being passed to the next generation.
Sen. Schoesler at the Lind Field Day 2024.
Palouse winter wheat after a rain shower.
Roger & Mary enjoying sweet tango apples with Kyle Matheson.
Michele Kiesz and Rep. Dye at the Harrington parade with a borrowed friend.
Lind Parade leading up to the 2024 Combine Derby.
Asotin County. Parade.
St. John Direct Seed Day.
Celebrating the new dock at Boyer Park Marina.
Celebrating the new
Parade in Ritzville.
Speaking at Boyer Park Marina.
Painted ponies on parade.
Swimming with the horses following a very warm parade.
The Great Potato Giveaway
Tom Sawyer, the great coffee tycoon in Spokane, celebrating with us by donating coffee to the Warden Huttarian Colony for their incredible generosity donating potatoes during Covid.
Potato farmers extraordinaire getting well-deserved praise for their care for our region and for the potatoes cleaned and packaged and sent to Detroit and Chicago, providing hope and caring during scary times.
Tom Sawyer delivering coffee to Warden Huttarian Elders Jake Wolman and Paul Wolman celebrating generosity and reciprocity during the times of Covid emergency.
Potato Giveaway at Three River Convention Center where National Guard Troops and Volunteers gave away potatoes, Apples, Milk, Pumpkin Pie, Bacon, and dry goods to long lines of cars. Highlights included a flyover by the Blue Angels!
Potato sorting in Othello.