VANCOUVER, Wash. – The award-winning “Ties to the Land” succession planning workshop will be offered by Washington State University Extension educators 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, April 7, at the Clark County Public Works Maintenance and Operations Conference Center, 4700 NE 78th St., Rm B-1, Vancouver, Wash. Succession planning is the human side of estate planning; […]
Reservations for Showcase Events is March 16 The deadline to make reservations to attend the March 30 WSU Showcase events is Friday, March 16. Reserve your place at this year’s Distinguished Faculty Address, presented by Regents Professor B.W. “Joe” Poovaiah, of the Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture. Plan to attend the Celebrating Excellence recognition […]
WSU Mount Vernon Team Studies Damping-Off Management in Organic Vegetables Large-scale Pacific Northwest organic vegetable producers routinely plant 30 percent more seed than they really want. They do this to help with weed control and because they anticipate losing that much to a plant disease called damping-off, according to Lindsey du Toit, associate professor and […]
SEATTLE, Wash. — For the past decade, Washington State University plant pathologist Dean Glawe has been painstakingly compiling information on the world’s Erysiphales fungi. Farmers and gardeners the world over know Erysiphales as the cause of powdery mildew, among of the world’s most damaging plant diseases. Powdery mildews attack apples, cherries, grapes, hops, wheat, onions, […]
It’s pretty common for us “little peanuts” to feel some envy about the wealthy and better-known citizens among us. Who, after all, wouldn’t want to be a millionaire?
SULTAN, Wash. — Both sides of Washington State are well suited to an expanding hard cider industry owing to an abundance of apples and the growing numbers of consumers looking for more ways to support locally based agriculture. In just a few short years, the Northwest Cider Association has grown to include 18 new cideries […]
OLYMPIA, Wash. – The Washington State University Energy Program and the Washington Department of Enterprise Services will kick off the March to Savings campaign on March 1. This no-cost call to action encourages all state employees to work together to save energy.
Welcome Back to the Future With an impish grin, Mike Kahn led a group of visitors into an old greenhouse on the Washington State University campus in Pullman. Kahn is a scientist in WSU’s Institute of Biological Chemistry, the home of a group of researchers probing the secrets of plant life to help ensure the […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — Each summer, eight undergraduate students from throughout the nation will have the opportunity to study plant biology in cutting-edge labs at Washington State University. Horticultural genomics Professor Amit Dhingra, the leader of a new Research Experience for Undergraduates site funded by the National Science Foundation, said the program is accepting applications from […]
V&E Team Wows WAWGGers WSU undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty members from the Viticulture and Enology program made another excellent showing at this year’s Washington Association of Wine Grape Growers conference. In addition to managing four workshops and the poster session and making 21 oral presentations and 41 poster, nine presenters won awards their poster […]