They’re piloting drones over Washington vineyards, turning wood waste into jet fuel, and deploying thermal cameras to breed crops that resist drought. Their ideas launch businesses, transform agriculture and help feed a growing planet. That’s why U.S. News and World Report recognized the WSU Biological Systems Engineering (BSE) program, ranking it 14th in the nation […]
WSU V&E Program research faculty and students star in newly released video series. Watch to learn about the history and innovation at the core of Washington state wine research. Wine research initiatives take the stage in a series of videos created for the Washington State Wine Commission. The video series shares the importance and value […]
PROSSER, Wash. – The public will have an opportunity to see what’s new in automated and precision farming technologies at the Second Annual CPAAS Expo. The free event will take place Oct. 8, 2013 1-3 p.m. at the WSU Irrigated Agriculture Research and Extension Center in Prosser, Wash.
PROSSER, Wash.—The Washington State University Center for Precision and Automated Agricultural Systems will team up with University of Hawai’i at Mānoa and others to modify existing sugarcane harvesting techniques and systems to handle tropical grass crops for biofuel.
On Solid Ground Publishes 200th Issue You are reading the 200th issue of Washington State University’s agricultural science e-newsletter On Solid Ground. The biweekly, electronic newsletter has been published continuously since August 2006 and in that time has run more than 600 news stories. “We started out with a select group of subscribers we wanted […]
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.
PULLMAN, Wash. – A balanced approach to fertilizing turf grass is the topic for an upcoming webinar at 10 a.m., Wednesday, March 2. Delivered by Washington State University agronomists Gwen Stahnke and Eric Miltner, the session is the latest in WSU Extension’s “Research That Works for You” series. It is free and open to the […]
The Washington State University-USDA Precision Farming and Direct Seed field day at Cook Agronomy Farm is slated for Thursday, June 25. Registration begins at 7:30 a.m., with field tours scheduled from 8 a.m. to noon. This year’s topics include eye spot and stripe rust, in-field disease monitoring with real-time PCR, resistant prickly lettuce, weed control […]
PULLMAN, Wash – Fran Pierce, director of Washington State University’s Center for Precision Agricultural Systems and a professor in the crop and soil sciences and biological systems engineering departments, received the first Pierre C. Robert Precision Agriculture Senior Scientist Award at the ninth International Conference on Precision Agriculture in Denver this week. The award honors […]
PULLMAN, Wash. – The R. James Cook Agronomy Farm will be dedicated June 28 during the noon program of the Precision Farming and Direct Seed Field Day. Last year, Washington State University’s Board of Regents voted to name the university’s precision agriculture and direct seed farm north of Pullman for Cook, who retired in 2005 […]