On Tuesday the Wall Street Journal‘s Washington Wire blog noted that Cougar Gold was on the menu of a fundraising lunch with President Obama in Seattle, and provided a link to the WSU Creamery website. http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2010/08/17/sampling-cougar-gold-at-obama-fund-raiser/ An editorial in Tuesday’s Tri-City Herald weighed in to support forming a local Public Development Authority in Richland to […]
The Walla Walla Union Bulletin and the Yakima Herald-Republic published the same editorial supporting efforts to establish the WSU wine science center. http://www.yakima-herald.com/stories/2010/08/12/proposed-wsu-wine-science-center-a-good-step-for-industry The Associated Press distributed last week’s Tri-City Herald story about fundraising efforts for a WSU wine science center in Tri-Cities, resulting in publication by several media outlets. http://www.wenatcheeworld.com/news/2010/aug/09/fundraising-begins-for-wsu-wine-science-center/ On Friday, the Tri-City […]
Sunday’s Tri-City Herald reported on increased efforts by WSU and wine industry leaders to step up fundraising for a WSU Tri-Cities wine science center. http://www.tri-cityherald.com/2010/08/08/1122827/funds-sought-for-tri-city-wine.html The industry website GrowingProduce.com has posted a video about using the WSU Decision Aid System based at the TFREC to assist growers with tree fruit integrated pest management decisions. http://www.growingproduce.com/gptv/?vid=182 […]
Sunday’s Bellingham Herald reported on severe crop losses to several local organic farmers and gardeners due to the use of compost contaminated with the herbicide aminopyralid. http://www.bellinghamherald.com/2010/08/01/1551497/agriculture-herbicide-tainted.html Saturday’s Moscow-Pullman Daily News reported on Matt Carroll‘s research on developing community-level strategies for becoming more self-sufficient and adaptive in dealing with potential wildfires. http://www.dnews.com/story/local/53929/ The environmental industry […]
The announcement of the partnership to develop aviation biofuels involving WSU research continues to receive media attention, most recently on Friday on the Conde Naste travel website, Jaunted.com. http://www.jaunted.com/story/2010/7/19/15402/2837/travel/A+Biofuel+Revolution+is+Coming%2C+and+Alaska+Airlines+Wants+to+Lead+It Stock & Land is among several Australian publications that reported on the collaboration between WSU and The Land Institute to develop perennial grains. http://sl.farmonline.com.au/news/nationalrural/grains-and-cropping/general/perennial-crops-a-magic-pudding-to-feed-the-world/1885644.aspx?storypage=1 The Marler-Clark […]
The story of the partnership of regional airports, Alaska Airlines, Boeing and WSU to study the use of biofuels for aviation appeared in several media including aviation trade publications Air Transport World and Aircraft Maintenance Technology, and on Monday’s BusinessWeek.com. http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9GTLUOO0.htm On Monday the People’s Daily (China) published a Xinhua News Agency story with the […]
Friday’s Western Farmer-Stockman featured the story on Don Nelson‘s demonstration project on using land soon to be released from the federal Conservation Reserve Program for cattle grazing. http://mobile.westernfarmerstockman.com/main.aspx?ascxid=cmsNewsStory&rmid=0&rascxid=&args=&rargs=9&dt=634142735418000000&cmsSid=39911&cmsScid=9 Western Farmer-Stockman also reported on Qin Zhang being named the new director of the WSU Center for Precision Agricultural Systems. http://mobile.westernfarmerstockman.com/main.aspx?ascxid=cmsNewsStory&rmid=0&rascxid=&args=&rargs=9&dt=634145324311200000&cmsSid=39954&cmsScid=9 Thursday’s Othello Outlook included coverage of […]
On Thursday Gov. Chris Gregoire announced that she has asked the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture to designate 29 counties as farm disaster areas. http://www.governor.wa.gov/news/news-view.asp?pressRelease=1528&newsType=1 Wednesday’s Seattle Times was among the media that reported on WSU research finding that the balanced mix of insects and fungi typical in organic cropping systems does a better job of […]
The Puget Sound Business Journal online edition on Monday posted the story of WSU winning a $1 million USDA grant to research onion production. http://seattle.bizjournals.com/seattle/stories/2010/06/21/daily7.html An editorial in Tuesday’s Spokesman Review in support of the U.S. Supreme Court decision on Roundup-ready alfalfa included comments by Mike Kahn. http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2010/jun/22/editorial-high-courts-alfalfa-ruling-backed-by/ Tuesday’s Tri-City Herald reported on a meeting […]
In the news: On Monday, the Australian agricultural publication Stock & Land referenced Jude Capper‘s research finding a decrease in the carbon footprint of dairy production in an article countering a recent UN report encouraging less meat and dairy consumption. http://sl.farmonline.com.au/news/nationalrural/agribusiness-and-general/general/go-veg-to-save-the-world-says-un/1856903.aspx?storypage=1 An article in Wednesday’s Daily Astorian (Ore.) about the potential impacts of an oil […]