Food & Agriculture

The series includes two online sessions – Nov. 30 and Dec. 19 – with presentations on the latest results from regional soil pH research and creating an acidity management plan.

WSU researchers are stomping, poking, and gouging fields of experimental grasses to find the toughest living turf for future athletic fields.

Extension professionals are tackling the critical issue of food waste across the state in agriculture, households, and even at the landfill level through education and outreach.

Students are getting outside their labs and classrooms to tour wheat farms, fruit orchards, vegetable seed farms and USDA inspection facilities.

Professor Jon Oatley was recently invited to speak at an EU conference on agricultural biotechnology about his research on gene-editing livestock.

Barakatullah Mohammadi saw firsthand the effects of food borne illnesses growing up in Afghanistan. Now a WSU graduate student, he will receive a prestigious national food and agriculture research fellowship.

The annual event brings together about 2,500 high school students, agricultural educators, and guests to learn about careers in agriculture and compete in career and leadership development events.

Scientists have found a plant gene that drives the growth of root hairs, the tiny structures that help plants find water and nutrients in the soil. 

WSU Professor Doug Walsh is one of six scientists who will join the ranks of the prestigious Fellows of the Entomological Society of America this fall.

For more than 20 years, du Toit helped protect many Pacific Northwest crops from diseases. Now, she is the first woman to lead the Department of Plant Pathology as full chair.