Family Foresters Workshop shares tech, sustainability skills for woodland professionals
The upcoming Family Foresters Workshop builds unique skills for foresters and woodland professionals in the Inland Northwest.
Agriculture and Natural Resources
New from Extension: Invasive tree killers; tradeoffs of harvesting straw; organic blueberries; reducing fire risks
New guide help Northwest communities prepare for an damaging insect, and let wheat farmers calculate tradeoffs of cutting straw.
New WSU Extension program growing network of Northwest shiitake producers
A new WSU Extension program is teaching aspiring mushroom producers how to grow shiitake on logs for market.
WSU Extension resources support ag workers’ mental health
To address high suicide rates in the ag field, Washington State University Extension is supporting the mental health of thousands of agricultural workers statewide through services, programming, and one-on-one financial counseling.
WSU researchers to study feasibility of organic Inland Northwest wheat
Scientists will study the best way to shift to organic wheat farming through a new USDA grant.
Acidic Soils Solutions: a soil acidity management workshop series
WSU Extension hosts a series of soil acidity management workshops for growers.
New from WSU Extension: poplar trees as energy crops, and economics of ‘Duke’ blueberries
New guides examine hybrid poplar as a bioenergy crop, and look at the feasibility of the Duke blueberry.
New from Extension: Crop soils as carbon sinks; blueberry economics
New free guides available online from WSU Extension include a look at the benefits of storing carbon in inland northwest crop soils, as well as the economics of growing the Draper blueberry west of the Cascades. Every month, experts with WSU share new information through the WSU Extension Publications bookstore. 2022 Cost Estimates of Producing […]
Career battling pests leads to national honor for scientist
WSU professor Doug Walsh honored as Fellow in Entomological Society of America .
Asia-Pacific partners get look at WSU research for Skagit Valley’s exported specialty crops
Sharing research that helps Washington’s Skagit Valley specialty-crop producers supply the world, scientists at WSU’s Northwestern Washington Research and Extension Center gave members of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) an in-field look at current projects on soil-biodegradable plastic mulch, soil health, and disease defense. Visiting Mount Vernon on Friday, Aug. 4, five APEC-member secretaries or […]
