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Stephen Jones examines different breads with a bread lab student

Clif Bar & Company and King Arthur Flour establish $1.5 million Organic Endowment for WSU Bread Lab

January 31, 2018

The investment enables CAHNRS to continue organic grains research at the WSU Bread Lab, and ensures the research can continue at the university in perpetuity.

McCluskey named Fellow of Agricultural & Applied Economics Association

January 19, 2018

McCluskey is only the sixth faculty member in the history of WSU to receive the honor of AAEA Fellow.

Andrea Garfinkel inspecting field of peonies with flower trimmers.

Discovery helps save colorful peony from ugly disease

January 2, 2018

Plant pathology graduate Andrea Garfinkel is helping farmers put a stop to a pervasive pest.

Alfalfa is harvested in the Northwest. WSU Extension scientists are studying genes to help develop more digestible varieties.

Norberg leads search for genetic key to better alfalfa

November 27, 2017

An important part of the state’s $539 million hay industry, alfalfa is grown on more than 400,000 acres throughout Washington. Produced most intensively in the irrigated Columbia River Basin, alfalfa is exported around the world, notably to China, Japan, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, where demand has been rising steadily in recent years.