$500,000 in Ag Pilot Projects Funded

February 11, 2008

PULLMAN, Wash. – Agricultural pilot projects will receive $500,000 in funding from the Washington State Legislature. The agriculture projects are designed to increase wider adoption of direct seeding in Spokane County, create farmland habitat for shorebirds in Skagit County, encourage wider adoption of environmentally friendly integrated pest management strategies, and to test the feasibility and […]

WSU Receives $81,000 Ag Pilots Grant

January 8, 2008

Pullman, Wash. — Don Nelson, Washington State University Extension beef specialist, has received a two-year $81,000 Ag Pilot grant from the state to test the feasibility and replicability of converting land coming out of the Conservation Reserve Program into a vertically integrated grass-fed beef production system. The Conservation Reserve Program was created by the 1985 […]