BIOAg

WSU researchers are using satellites and drones to help local conservationists monitor areas near rivers and streams to help improve agricultural sustainability.

How do we define nature, wilderness and conservation? Are our ideas about nature outdated? What lessons can evolution offer for modern agriculture? Are we “fueling a biotechnological bubble” by ignoring ecologically inspired ways to improve agriculture?

PULLMAN, Wash. — For decades, the conifer seedling nursery industry has fumigated soils with the chemical methyl bromide between plantings in order to control a devastating pathogen, Fusarium root rot. Because of safety and environmental concerns, methyl bromide use is increasingly restricted and expensive, and ultimately its use will be phased out. Thanks to a […]

PULLMAN, Wash. – The State of Organic Agriculture in Washington will be the topic of the keynote presentation at the Washington State University symposium on its biologically intensive and organic agriculture program, or BIOAg. A program of WSU’s Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources, BIOAg is a comprehensive research and educational program focused on […]

PULLMAN, Wash. – Beginning at 11 a.m., October 25, Washington State University hosts the first annual WSU Sustainability Fair. The fair is co-sponsored by numerous organizations, including the WSU Sustainability Club, the WSU Roots and Shoots Club, the WSU Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, and the WSU BIOAg Program. The fair continues through the […]

PULLMAN, Wash. – Grain Millers, Inc., in Eugene, Ore., can’t get enough organic grain and is currently offering about $9 per bushel for what it can find, including barley. That’s about double the prices paid for conventionally grown grain. Cargill’s Ferndale Growers, which formulates organic feed for the state’s organic and dairy meat industries, is […]

PUYALLUP, Wash. – Demonstrations of a device called a chicken tractor that enables farmers to raise pastured poultry while fertilizing their fields will highlight the Washington State University BIOAg field day and farmer listening session on Monday, July 10. The field day will begin at 10 a.m. at the WSU Puyallup Research and Extension Center, […]

PULLMAN, Wash. — Washington State University soil scientist Lynne Carpenter-Boggs has been named to the position of coordinator of the university’s Biologically Intensive Agriculture and Organic Farming program, or BIOAg. The program was recently funded by the state Legislature. Carpenter-Boggs currently is an instructor and researcher in WSU’s Department of Crop and Soil Sciences. She […]