Kim Campbell, a USDA-ARS wheat breeder and affiliate faculty within the department of Crop & Soil Sciences was selected as a recipient of the American Society of Agronomy/Crop Science Society of America/Soil Science Society of Amercica Committee on Women in Agronomoy, Crops, Soils, and Environmental Sciences 2008 Mentoring Award in recognition of her excellent service […]
At the WSU Cook Agronomy Farm, USDA-ARS soil scientist David Huggins is developing a new generation of agricultural “tools” that may allow farmers to manage dryland crops down to the square meter. According to Chad Kruger, BIOAg educator for CSANR, the precision nitrogen management program is one of the obvious home runs of the Climate […]
PULLMAN – The WSU Graduate School is offering graduate students in any discipline the opportunity to obtain a Graduate Certificate in Sustainable Agriculture. Students are eligible to pursue the certificate as long as they meet the prerequisites for the courses required. The certificate coursework will provide students with an interdisciplinary understanding of practices and current […]
Photo: Like pennies from heaven, peanuts fall during October harvest in Pasco. (Photo by Kevin Montgomery). Peanuts, traditionally a southern crop, have found a new calling in the sagebrush-covered soil of eastern Washington. On a WSU test plot in Pasco, recent harvests have produced peanuts in yields equal to or surpassing the national average. […]
In the fall, many Washingtonians visit orchards. Last week, I was one of them. My trip to Central Washington centered around the dedication of a new Washington State University tree fruit research orchard near Rock Island. The work that will be done there, and will continue in the main research labs in Wenatchee, provides a […]
Washington State University, home of the nation’s first major in Organic Agriculture Systems, is expanding its offerings this summer with its first online class in organic agriculture. The new course, “Organic Gardening and Farming,” was developed and designed by WSU Regents Professor John Reganold and doctoral student Jennifer Reeve, who will be the course instructor. […]
Photo: Soils technician Richard Bembenek works on heavy metals remediation. (Photo courtesy of Puyallup Research and Extension Center). The Puyallup Research and Extension Center, more than 100 years old, is in the midst of change. An action plan developed by the faculty and staff is shaping the center’s mission to better reflect and focus on […]
Photo: Jaime A. Yanez and Connie Remsberg discuss research in the lab of Neal Davies. (Photo by Becky Phillips). It’s a collaboration as old as the university itself. Photos from the first windswept days of the Washington Agricultural College show a long white greenhouse sitting where the Admin Annex lies today. There, in the late […]
PULLMAN– Harold Cochran of Prescott has been named to the Washington State University Board of Regents by Gov. Christine Gregoire. Cochran, 58, is a wheat rancher on a 5,500-acre family farm near Prescott. He replaces Chris Marr of Spokane, who left the board following his election in November to the Washington State Senate. “It’s a […]
VANCOUVER — Several faculty members at Washington State University Vancouver recently received major research grants. The U.S. Department of Agriculture awarded Ruth Phillips, adjunct research professor of biology, $450,000 over three years for integration of the genetic and physical maps of rainbow trout and Atlantic salmon. Phillips is coordinating her research efforts with those of scientists […]