RITZVILLE, Wash. – Wheat growers, equipment fabricators and scientists will meet here Nov. 17 to discuss design options for a new deep-furrow drill. The meeting will be held from 9 to 11:30 a.m. at the Wheat Foundation Building in Ritzville. The meeting is free and open to the public. According to Bill Schillinger, Washington State […]
PULLMAN, Wash. – Progress on research to reduce wind erosion and improve air quality in the inland Pacific Northwest will be reported at Columbia Plateau PM10 Project annual meeting on Dec. 4 at Washington State University. The Columbia Plateau, a 50,000-square-mile region in Washington, Oregon and Idaho, is one of the driest as well as […]
LIND, Wash. – In the six counties of central and eastern Washington where wheat growers can count on only 8 to 12 inches of precipitation annually, they fallow fields for a year between crops to accumulate enough moisture to grow the next crop. There’s another thing growers are trying to save: their soil. “The biggest […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — Reports on research to reduce wind erosion and improve air quality in the Inland Pacific Northwest will be presented at the Northwest Columbia Plateau PM-10 Project Conference December 14-15 at the Mirabeau Park Hotel, Spokane Valley. The Columbia Plateau PM-10 Project addresses problems of windblown dust in the Inland Pacific Northwest, particularly […]
PULLMAN, Wash. – Research accomplishments to reduce wind erosion and improve air quality in the inland Pacific Northwest will be presented at the Northwest Columbia Plateau PM10 Project Conference Dec. 14-15 at the Red Lion, Pasco. The project addresses problems associated with airborne particulates that are 10 microns in size or smaller that can lodge […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — A Washington State University scientist is urging wheat farmers in Adams, Benton, Douglas, Franklin, western Lincoln and northern Grant counties to use non-inversion tillage and delay primary spring tillage until the first week of April or later. “Farmers who have not yet tilled their soil this spring have had no blowing dust […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — Research accomplishments during the past six years to reduce wind erosion and improve air quality in the inland Pacific Northwest will be presented at the Northwest Columbia Plateau PM-10 Project conference Dec. 8-9 at the Double Tree, City Center, Spokane, Washington. The Columbia Plateau PM-10 Project addresses problems of windblown dust in […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — The latest research to reduce wind erosion and improve air quality in the interior Pacific Northwest will be discussed at the annual research review of the Columbia Plateau Wind Erosion/Air Quality Project Dec. 4-5 at the Red Lion Hotel, Richland. Scientists from Washington State University and the USDA Agricultural Research Service as […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — Foresters have long fought fire with fire, so why not fight dust with dust? That’s just one of the ideas being pursued by federal and state scientists at Washington State University engaged in research to help farmers reduce wind erosion and improve air quality. Bill Pan, chair of the WSU crop and […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — Farming with the wind in continuing drought is the theme of the annual research review of the Columbia Plateau Wind Erosion/Air Quality Project Dec. 5-6 in Spokane. Scientists from Washington State University, the USDA Agricultural Research Service and Northwest farmers will discuss air quality issues, experiences, agricultural emissions, policies, the physics of […]