PULLMAN, Wash. — Fourteen U.S. and international growers with a wealth of experience in no-till will speak at the 2001 Northwest Direct Seed Cropping Systems Conference Jan. 17-19, 2001 at the Spokane Doubletree Hotel-City Center. The overseas contingent includes Jeff Esdaile, who has managed a 10,000-acre farm in New South Wales, Australia for 24 years. […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — The fur flies when the cats and dawgs meet in athletic competition, but they cuddle up together when it comes to the serious business of promoting good forestry. WSU Cooperative Extension Forester Don Hanley does traditional extension forestry work. “My primary audience is Extension’s county-based faculty. Beyond that, I develop newsletters, workshops […]
In simpler times farmers and ranchers often repaired equipment with a piece of bailing wire, thus giving birth to the expression “haywire.” Something that was haywire was broken, but not so broken that it couldn’t be made serviceable by the industrious application of some bailing wire. I suppose we might say that today many farmers’ […]
PULLMAN, Wash. The annual research review of the Columbia Plateau Wind Erosion/Air Quality Project is scheduled Nov. 30-Dec. 1 at the Spokane Valley Doubletree, N. 1100 Sullivan Rd., Veradale. Scientists from Washington State University and the U.S. Department of Agriculture as well as Northwest farmers will discuss air quality issues, experiences, agricultural emissions, policies, the […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — Washington State University has an independent entomology department thanks in large measure to Horace S. Telford, a retired member of the WSU faculty who petitioned the university for its creation almost a half century ago. Now his three living children wish to honor him by establishing the Horace and Vilma Telford Family […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — Timothy Murray has been named chair of Washington State University’s plant pathology department. “I am pleased that a scientist and teacher of Tim Murray’s caliber is willing to serve as department chair,” said James Zuiches, dean of the College of Agriculture and Home Economics. “These programs in plant disease protection and management […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — 4-H and FFA youth from Washington and Idaho will learn how to do a better job of raising project pigs at Washington State University’s Swine Information Day on Saturday, Oct. 28, at the Quality Inn, 1400 S. E. Bishop Blvd. Their parents, 4-H club leaders and small producers who supply pigs to […]
No one in their right mind would claim these are the best of times for Washington apple producers, but neither are they the worst of times. The Washington Growers Clearing House Association recently reported returns for Red Delicious below the break even point for the second year in a row. Some 20 percent of Washington […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — Author Steven Blank admits the title of his book and lectures, “The End of Agriculture in the American Portfolio,” is a bit alarming, but he doesn’t back down from his prediction that America will lose agriculture as we know it, unless public policy intervenes to preserve the nation’s agricultural capacity. Blank spoke […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — Reaction of agricultural economists to Steve Blank’s prediction of the end of American agriculture ranged from “dangerous” to acknowledging some benefit in its shock value. Blank, author of the book, “The End of Agriculture in the American Portfolio,” is a financial and risk management economist at the University of California, Davis. He […]