Working to Make the Good Even Better This Thanksgiving holiday, you could very well be serving turkey and stuffing with a side of purple, blue, or red mashed potatoes. A team of researchers that includes WSU scientists and their USDA colleagues are working to develop potatoes with high antioxidant and nutrient levels. These added elements […]
SPOKANE, Wash. — Washington State University researchers along with their colleagues within the Western States Cereal Leaf Beetle Team have declared war. A bug war, that is.
SPOKANE, Wash. – Eastern Washington grain growers should be on the lookout for cereal leaf beetles, which have caused significant damage at a number of locations in the region the past few years. Both the adult and the larval stages of the beetle feed on most cereal and grass, according to Diana Roberts, WSU Spokane […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — Washington State University Extension is asking farmers for help in finding some live adult cereal leaf beetles. First found in Washington in 1999, the crop pest has been identified in Spokane, Pend Oreille, Stevens, Ferry, Lincoln, Adams, Grant, Kittitas, Franklin, Walla Walla, Columbia, Garfield, Asotin, Whitman, Lewis and Clark counties. Both adults […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — Diana Roberts, Washington State University Extension area agronomist, was named the 15th recipient of the Kenneth J. Morrison Award in Agronomy and Soils at the Spillman Agronomy Farm Field Day on Thursday. The award recognizes WSU Extension faculty for significant contributions made to agronomic crop production and soil management. “Largely through her […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — Washington State University Extension is seeking information from farmers who have infestations of cereal leaf beetles in their fields to aid a statewide biocontrol project. Biocontrol is the deliberate use of one living organism to control another. The cereal leaf beetle is a newcomer to the state, according to Diana Roberts, WSU […]
SPOKANE, Wash. — Washington State University Cooperative Extension has organized a special tour to familiarize growers with the cereal leaf beetle, a new and potentially serious pest in cereal grains in the Northwest. Diana Roberts, WSU Spokane County Cooperative Extension agronomist, says the pest was first found in Washington state in 1999 and is now […]