Even if you don’t have kids in your household, you could be exposed to serious diseases that often affect children. And at the moment there’s a sharp spike upward in one contagious disease that you could help protect yourself and youngsters against by getting a simple shot at the doctor’s office.
Pest News Listserve The Extension Gardening Web Team has developed a pest news listserve. The listserve will alert you to new pest information and other major pest news. While focusing on home and garden insects, diseases, weeds and vermin, the list may be of interest to Agriculture/Horticulture/Natural Resource researchers, educators and Master Gardeners. To join, […]
The next time you eat a baked spud you might want to think of the agricultural scientists who are hard at work trying to help the humble potato deal successfully with some significant diseases.
PULLMAN, Wash. – When five Washington State University students travel to a small village in central Rwanda this week, they’ll be documenting every step in their journey on a special web site. Pictures, stories and videos will be posted at http://storify.com/cahnrsglobal/rwanda-agriculture-internship as part of the students’ experience.
LIND, Wash. — The 96th annual Washington State University Lind Field Day will be held Thursday, June 14, at the university’s Dryland Research Station north of Lind.
UFOs in Your Cherry Orchard Two-year-old trees in the WSU Roza Experimental Orchard near Prosser are the first step in transforming a 100-year-old production system for sweet cherries—and they have UFOs. No, the trees don’t harbor aliens, but they do grow unique branches. These “upright fruiting offshoots” form the core of a novel architecture ideally […]
PULLMAN, Wash. – Bright yellow flowering fields of winter canola are more prevalent in the Pacific Northwest this spring, and national statistics indicate that winter and spring canola acreage is expected to increase more than 50 percent in Idaho and Washington compared to last year. Several Washington State University and other university field days and […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — Washington State University Department of Animal Science is offering a cattle artificial insemination short course in Pullman, Aug. 9 – 11. The course will be taught by David DeAvila, a WSU instructor who has extensive experience in AI and in teaching AI to WSU undergraduates. The course will be limited to 12 […]
Two-year-old trees in the WSU Roza Experimental Orchard near Prosser are the first step in transforming a 100-year-old production system for sweet cherries—and they have UFOs. No, the trees don’t harbor aliens, but they do grow unique branches. These “upright fruiting offshoots” form the core of a novel architecture ideally suited for mechanized harvesters in […]
May 15 was the 150th anniversary of the United States Department of Agriculture. It was an incredible act of leadership that, in the midst of the greatest turmoil our country has ever faced, President Abraham Lincoln signed bills to establish USDA and to enact the Morrill Act. These two actions simultaneously created the foundation for […]