Food & Agriculture

Agricultural workers statewide are receiving support from WSU Extension through services, programming, and one-on-one financial counseling.

Four WSU students recently earned the American FFA Degree during the organization’s recent national convention. The degree is achieved by less than 1% of all FFA members nationally.

Scientists will study the best ways to shift to organic wheat farming through a new $1 million grant from the National Institute of Food and Agriculture Organic Transitions Program.

WSU plant pathologists are studying a surge of fungal diseases striking down Christmas trees already weakened by climate change in Oregon and Washington.

Teagan Mosher is the first recipient of the Mann Family Endowed Scholarship, a fund for active-duty military members or veterans seeking education in viticulture and enology.

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.