NIFA

Scientists will study the best way to shift to organic wheat farming through a new USDA grant.

WSU received more than $1.2 million from two USDA grants that fund research into improving plant oils.

WSU’s Soil to Society project recently received a five-year, $10 million grant from the USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture.

New grant will allow study of hard-to-detect nutrient surpluses or deficiencies quickly, so that grape growers can make faster and better management decisions.

Horticulture doctoral student, Margaret McCoy, conducts most of her research at the WSU IAREC Center in Prosser, Wash. Margaret McCoy (‘20) has been awarded a predoctoral fellowship from the USDA’s National Institute of Food and…

Helping sustainably protect important Northwest crops like potatoes, peas, and vegetables from pests and disease, while safeguarding consumers against foodborne illness, students at Washington State University’s Department of Entomology are putting new fellowships from the USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) to work. Abigail Cohen, Benjamin Lee, and Olivia Smith are three of […]

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 […]

WSU researcher Shyam Sablani has received a $450,000 grant to develop plastic packaging that will extend the shelf life of prepared food up to five years.

One of my mother’s friends was raised decades ago on a few acres at the end of gravel road in Idaho. As she puts it, her family’s basic challenge was eating what it produced before other critters did. In other words, it was useful to consume the eggs in the henhouse before the foxes got […]

PULLMAN, Wash. – Washington State University’s ability to help agricultural producers and their families weather tough economic times just received a dramatic boost, thanks to a nearly $4.9 million award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute for Food and Agriculture. WSU’s Western Center for Risk Management Education Team received the award after successfully […]