PULLMAN, Wash. – “Bioenergy Cropping Systems Research” will be the theme of the USDA-Agricultural Research Service Palouse Conservation Field Station field day set for Thursday, June 26. Registration begins at 7:30 a.m.with field tours scheduled from 8 a.m. to noon. The Palouse Conservation Field Station is located 1.5 miles north of Pullman on Highway 27, […]
PULLMAN, Wash. – Bioenergy research and development will be featured this June at Washington State University’s three major small grains and cropping research field days. Research on winter wheat and spring wheat breeding, camelina as a dryland oilseed crop, the WSU biofuels research project, winter peas, fusarium crown rot resistance in wheat, and downy brome […]
PULLMAN, Wash. – Michael Kahn, a fellow in Washington State University’s Institute of Biological Chemistry and associate director of the Agricultural Research Center, has received a three-year $510,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Energy Biosciences Program to continue fundamental research that may someday reduce farmers’ reliance on an increasingly expensive farm input: industrially […]
PASCO, Wash. – Washington State University could play an important role in helping the state become a leader in Bioenergy, according to WSU Vice President for Economic Development and Extension John C. Gardner. Speaking at a WSU conference examining economic issues on Thursday, Gardner said that WSU has the obligation as a land-grant university to […]
PULLMAN, Wash. – Norman G. Lewis, director of Washington State University’s Institute of Biological Chemistry, will play a role in the multi-million-dollar bioenergy initiative recently announced by the U.S. Department of Energy. DOE last week announced it will invest up to $375 million in three new Bioenergy Research centers as part of President Bush’s initiative […]