Old-time farming methods that limited farm size demonstrated with horse-drawn plow EVERETT, Wash. – There are now five million fewer farms in the U.S. than there were in the 1930s. And almost 40 percent of today’s farmers are at least 55 years old. Consequently, the future and stability of U.S. agriculture depends […]
By Anna King, NWPR Related 04-16-13 WSU News – Rock Doc: Bringing a tasty, new apple to stores everywhere 05-11-13 WSU News – ‘WA 38’ a beauty: Licensee sought to commercialize new apple Bio Katherine M. Evans, associate scientist/associate professor, WSU Tree Fruit Research & Extension Center WENATCHEE, Wash. – Northwest apple growers are […]
PROSSER, Wash. – Qin Zhang, director of the Center for Precision and Automated Agricultural Systems at Washington State University, is one of 13 fellows recently named to the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) for 2013. About 2 percent of active members achieve fellow status. Fellows demonstrate unusual professional distinction with outstanding […]
WALLA WALLA, Wash. – You could say John Fouts is helping improve the world, one farm at a time. A retired Walla Walla County-WSU Extension faculty member, Fouts is one of a number of volunteers helping small-scale farmers in the former Soviet Union improve their livelihoods. Click the following link to read the full story […]
PULLMAN, Wash. – Washington State University is one of three universities nationwide chosen for student leadership training in food and agriculture careers from the Agriculture Future of America (AFA) society. Under the University Growth Initiative, the WSU College of Agricultural, Human and Natural Resource Sciences (CAHNRS) has received funding to send three students and an […]
Photos by Shelly Hanks, WSU Photo Services PULLMAN, Wash. – The latest organic agriculture research and hands-on teaching methods were the focus of this year’s Washington State University Organic Farm Field Day, Thursday, July 25, at at Tukey Horticultural Orchard northeast of the Pullman campus. Students working at the farm and the farm manager provided […]
By Terri Reddout, WSU Extension Prosser PROSSER, Wash. — To determine if a fruit tree has a virus currently takes a minimum of nine separate laboratory tests in combination with several biological assays, and these can identify only known viruses. Scientists dream of running a single test to detect all viruses in a plant. That idea is […]
PROSSER, Wash. – Following a winter of wild weather extremes, springtime in central Washington was the wettest and windiest since 1990, according to data recently analyzed by Nic Loyd, Washington State University meteorologist, and Gerrit Hoogenboom, director of WSU AgWeatherNet. Following periods of unusual warmth in January and February, a large-scale pattern […]
PULLMAN – Washington’s peppermint producers can make better informed decisions about what to plant and how to rotate their crops, thanks to a discovery by graduate student Jeremiah Dung. The state’s peppermint industry was valued at $36.6 million in 2009. Dung, who is pursuing his Ph.D. in plant pathology, earned first place in a […]
by Brian Charles Clark, College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences PULLMAN – An international team of scientists from Italy, France, New Zealand, Belgium and the USA have published a draft sequence of the domestic apple genome in the current issue of Nature Genetics. The availability of a genome sequence for the apple will […]