Statewide Soil Health Initiative releases outline for current challenges and pathways to help maintain healthy soils as an agricultural and environmental resource throughout Washington.
Washington State University faculty, Skagit Valley leaders, and local community members gathered to celebrate the grand opening of the Ruth Wylie Headhouse at the WSU Northwestern Washington Research and Extension Center (NWREC) in Mount Vernon, Wa. Named for WSU alumna Ruth Wylie, who graduated from WSU in 1950 with a business degree, the new headhouse […]
Lindsey du Toit is part of a new $3 million USDA Specialty Crops Research Initiative project, led by Oregon State University, that aims to help carrot farmers.
A new study from Washington State University’s Department of Horticulture found that splice grafting helps watermelons resist disease. For more than 10 years, watermelon growers in Washington’s Columbia Basin have been struggling with a disease called Verticillium wilt, caused by the fungus Verticillium dahliae. The findings were recently published in the American Society for Horticulture […]