About 10,000 years ago Earth’s climate lurched from bitter Ice Age conditions to the much balmier time in which we live today. We don’t fully understand what caused that great climate shift, but we know it was near the time of that great temperature transition that people started to farm. And one of the crops […]
PULLMAN, Wash.—In 2004, E. Kirsten Peters, a geologist-turned-newspaper-reporter in Pullman, started writing a monthly column on local rocks and fossils, pulling from her extensive field experience in the area. Today that column has grown in scope and become the nationally syndicated “Rock Doc” columns, distributed twice per month to more than 100 newspapers across the […]
PROSSER, Wash. – It’s obvious that a Washingtonian did not coin the phrase about March weather “coming in like a lion and going out like a lamb.” Widespread heavy rain and flooding during the final week of March punctuated a month of record setting rainfall.
Celebrate at the CAHNRS Awards Banquet, Saturday, April 14, 2012 Tickets are still on sale for the 53rd Annual CAHNRS Awards Banquet taking place on April 14 from 4-6 p.m. in Ensminger Pavilion. Tickets are $15 and can be purchased in the Academic Programs Office until 12 p.m. on Wednesday, April 11. Come celebrate and […]
Failing for Success: Transitioning to Organic Grain on the Palouse What choices do Palouse farmers have when they want to convert conventional agricultural land into organic grain production in order to earn the premium price on organic grain? Many, as it turns out, and the choices will have a significant effect on a farmer’s success, […]
EVERETT, Wash. – This spring, Washington State University Extension and the Washington Department of Natural Resources will take their flagship Forest Stewardship Coached Planning course online as a series of live, interactive webinars. Woodland owners in western Washington are invited to participate in this seven-week online course, which will run 6-9 p.m. Tuesdays, April 24-June […]
PULLMAN, Wash.—When Washington State University senior Casey Burnette graduated from Corvallis (Mont.) High School four years ago, her mother, Elizabeth Weis, wrote in a letter to her daughter, “Baby horse, I can’t wait to see your first clothing line.” Burnette, now preparing to graduate again, created her first fashion line for the WSU Mom’s Weekend […]
Can Washington Growers Use Rootstocks and Maintain Fruit and Wine Quality? Almost all wine grapes grown in Washington are grown on their own roots. That’s unusual. In most of the world’s other major wine regions, grapes are grown on grafted rootstock. That is, varietal scions (the part of the plant that produces the leaves, buds, […]
PULLMAN, Wash. – Surviving in a global marketplace “while doing good work from the heart” will be the topic of a public lecture at Washington State University Tuesday, April 3, by Walter Robb, co-CEO of Whole Foods Market, one of the largest organic food store chains in the country.
On Solid Ground Publishes 200th Issue You are reading the 200th issue of Washington State University’s agricultural science e-newsletter On Solid Ground. The biweekly, electronic newsletter has been published continuously since August 2006 and in that time has run more than 600 news stories. “We started out with a select group of subscribers we wanted […]