dryland farming

Dryland roots: WSU Lind station looks back on century

The Washington State University Dryland Research Station will celebrate its 100th anniversary at the annual Lind Field Day on Thursday, June 11. With six faculty and staff, the Lind station is small. But as the driest state or federal dryland agriculture research facility in the United States – it averages 9.52 inches of annual precipitation – it has made many contributions to dryland farming in its first century.

Agronomist O. A. Vogel speaks to farm visitors at a Lind field day in 1942 (Manuscripts, Archives & Special Collections, WSU Libraries)