WENATCHEE, Wash. – Organic horticulture is growing in countries around the world, according to an article co-authored by Washington State University Extension educator David Granatstein.
The Washington State University Climate Friendly Farming Team has won a USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture Partnership Award for Innovative Program Models. Climate Friendly Farming is a project of WSU’s Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources designed to explore how agriculture can move from a source of greenhouse gases to a sink […]
QUINCY, Wash. – Field-scale trials of four different perennial legumes seeded in orchard alleys to fix nitrogen will be on display during a field tour being organized by Washington State University’s Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources. The field tour will take place on Tuesday, Aug. 11, from 4 to 5:30 p.m., at Warren […]
WENATCHEE, Wash. – Certified organic acreage farmed in Washington state continues to expand, increasing by an estimated 27 percent between 2006 and 2007. Since 2004 the amount of certified acreage being farmed in the state has increased by 86 percent. Those growth estimates are documented in the annual profile of the state’s organic acreage and […]
PULLMAN, Wash. – Grain Millers, Inc., in Eugene, Ore., can’t get enough organic grain and is currently offering about $9 per bushel for what it can find, including barley. That’s about double the prices paid for conventionally grown grain. Cargill’s Ferndale Growers, which formulates organic feed for the state’s organic and dairy meat industries, is […]
PUYALLUP, Wash. — Helping farmers ease global climate change by reducing farm-produced greenhouse gas emissions is the goal of a $3.75 million research grant from the Paul G. Allen Charitable Foundation to Washington State University’s Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources.
WENATCHEE, Wash. — The latest research results on organic and biologically intensive farming techniques will be presented by northwest researchers this fall at the first northwest symposium to be held on the subject. Topics will include pest management and seeds and systems evaluations. Washington State University’s Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources, Oregon State […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — David Granatstein, statewide coordinator for the Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources and sustainable agricultural specialist, was honored Thursday as the 15th recipient of the Kenneth J. Morrison Award in Agronomy and Soils. The award recognizes Washington State University Cooperative Extension faculty for significant contributions to agronomic crop production and soil […]