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DNA could solve puzzling cattle fertility decline

In cattle production, nothing is more important than fertility. Without it, herds can’t grow and milk doesn’t flow. For decades, fertility in U.S. dairy cattle has been on a drastic decline. Every failure to conceive throws off the herd’s delicate rhythm of production, making it harder for farmers to deliver milk and other foods we […]

Neibergs with her cattle on her Palouse farm, with view of clouds, rolling hills.

Boeing Launches WSU Efforts in Stormwater Runoff Management Program for Businesses

PUYALLUP, Wash. – Western Washington businesses will soon have a new resource for help in navigating new regulations concerning stormwater management on their job sites. An $85,000 grant to the Washington Stormwater Center from The Boeing Company’s Global Corporate Citizenship Northwest organization will help launch Washington State University’s efforts to develop a Business Resource Program […]

Climate-Change Research Grant to Support Study of Nitrogen, Water Use Efficiency in Farming

PULLMAN, Wash.—A collaborative Washington State University study of how nitrogen and water availability vary within Palouse wheat fields will ultimately help farmers better manage nitrogen fertilizer application on their croplands and reduce one of Earth’s top four greenhouse gases, nitrous oxide.