PULLMAN, Wash. –The good wishes of more than 1,900 enthusiastic Washington State University football fans collected at WSU Cooperative Extension offices around the state will be presented to the team at a Tuesday afternoon pep rally in Los Angeles. “We are delighted with the number of supporters who took time out of their busy holiday […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — The coming year should be a generally good one for most segments of Washington’s agricultural industry, according to the 1998 Pacific Northwest Agricultural Situation and Outlook Report, which will be published Jan. 2. A notable exception will be wheat. The economic report is the product of 44 agricultural economists and other authorities […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — With higher growth, lower inflation and lower unemployment in the seventh year of the third longest economic expansion in the nation’s history, who could ask for anything more? How about no sign of an end in 1998? That’s the promising outlook offered by John Mitchell, U.S. Bancorp, Portland, although he believes the […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — The information age is coming to Pacific Northwest farms in the form of precision agriculture. This new approach to management carries computer technologies into farmers’ fields and gives them tools to fine-tune treatments of crop land and rangeland. Writing for the 1998 Pacific Northwest Agricultural Situation and Outlook Report, Geoffrey Shropshire, University […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — Political, economic and technological factors will contribute to continued unrest in Pacific Northwest forest industries during 1998. Writing for the 1998 Pacific Northwest Agricultural Situation and Outlook Report, Eric Hansen, Oregon State University forest products department, said the trend to new labor-saving technologies will continue as wood products companies respond to a […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — El Nino will bring good news for some fisheries and bad news for others in the coming year. Gil Sylvia, of Oregon State University’s Hatfield Marine Science Center, Newport, Ore., says El Nino is bad news for coho and shrimp fishermen and good news for albacore (tuna). Writing for the 1998 Pacific […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — Washington State University Cooperative Extension’s 1998 Northwest Dairy Short Course is scheduled Jan. 29-31 at the Inn at Semiahmoo in Blaine. The program on Thursday, January 29 will provide farmers an opportunity to obtain state mandated certification training in first aid and CPR. This is the first time the short course has […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — There will be no registration at the door for the Northwest Direct Seed Intensive Cropping Conference in Pasco, Jan 7-8, Washington State University announced today. Roger Veseth, WSU and University of Idaho extension conservation tillage specialist, said 750 pre-registrations are approaching the 825-seat capacity of the DoubleTree Hotel. Veseth urges anyone who […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — When Gary Wagner’s father died about 15 years ago, he took tons of farming knowledge with him and left behind a 4,500-acre Minnesota farm for Gary and his brothers to maintain. It took them more than a decade to learn how to farm well. “We wasted 15 years collecting data, and we […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — Washington State University Cooperative Extension offices in at least 27 counties are inviting the public to pay them a visit before Christmas to sign scrolls wishing WSU’s Cougars success in the team’s first Rose Bowl appearance since 1931. The scrolls will be presented to the Pasadena-bound team before the game. Signers can […]