WSU academy brings scientists, growers together for collaborative wheat research
Scientists joined growers and crop consultants for back-and-forth exchange on current challenges, new opportunities
Barley
New from WSU Extension: Growing westside barley; protecting firs; stopping goatgrass
Latest free guides support Northwest barley growers, forest owners.
New from WSU Extension: Testing agricultural water, growing barley, food safety, and more
Latest guides support Northwest farmers, food producers, and home cooks.
Partners in advancing wheat, barley research for growers
Continuing our ongoing partnership in support of Northwest grain growers, André-Denis Wright, Dean of the College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences, joined members of the Washington Grain Commission in Spokane this month for their fall board meeting and lunch. In his first meeting with the full board since joining CAHNRS June 1, […]
Pregame event shows off craft beers using local ingredients
WSU and LINC Malthouse present Home Grown Malts, a showcase of craft beers made with regionally grown and malted grains, Saturday September 15 in the Hollingbery Fieldhouse from 2-5 p.m. Each participating brewer will be pouring beers made with Palouse-grown barley, several featuring Lyon barley. Lyon barley was specially bred for making beer, bringing more […]
WSU-bred barleys delivering unique Northwest beer flavors
Crunchy kernels of barley tumble from Joel Williamson’s hands as he scoops them up, offering a taste. “This is a first: The inaugural batch of Lyon malt,” says Williamson, head maltster at Spokane-based craft malting company LINC Malt. “This is really good,” replies customer Heath Barnes, popping a few grains into his mouth. Commercial malts […]
CAHNRS Faculty Feature: Kevin Murphy
We’re featuring outstanding and influential CAHNRS faculty members in a weekly series. This week, we’re profiling Kevin Murphy from WSU’s Department of Crop and Soil Sciences.
Cereal stem rust widespread in eastern Washington, north Idaho
SPOKANE, Wash. – Harvest is in full swing across eastern Washington and northern Idaho. Farmers are optimistic about spring wheat and barley yields following unusually high rainfall during the summer.
Latest Discovery Part of Pioneering History in Plant Signaling at WSU
PULLMAN, Wash. – The recent discovery by Washington State University scientists that a barley plant can detect an invader and within five minutes start to build its resistance to attack is just the latest in a long, fruitful history of research regarding the ways plants communicate.
WSU Scientists First to Characterize Barley Plant-Stem Rust Spore ‘Communication’, Clone Genes to Build Stem Rust Resistance
PULLMAN, Wash. – Traditional thought holds that a disease-causing organism has to penetrate a plant to initiate resistance. Now, two Washington State University scientists have established that a barley plant recognizes an invader and begins to marshal its defenses within five minutes of an attack. The discovery, along with the scientists’ successful cloning of barley’s […]