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Expo shows global impacts of WSU irrigated research center

The first scientific expo at WSU’s Prosser research station hailed advances made in central Washington by scholars from around the globe.

“Science at IAREC,” hosted by the Irrigated Agriculture Research and Extension Center to showcase its contributions to society, featured more than 30 graduate students, postdoctoral scholars and researchers working at the Prosser station.

“This has really been an eye-opening experience for all of us,” said Gary Grove, IAREC director and plant pathologist.

Spencer Marshall, a graduate student in Crop and Soil Sciences, holds up an imported grocery-store tomato infected with spotted wilt virus during his presentation at the “Science at IAREC” expo.

Washington Cherry, Stone Fruit Growers Approve $5 Million Special Project Assessment to Support WSU Research, Extension

PULLMAN, Wash. – Cherry and stone fruit growers throughout the state have agreed to make a $5 million investment over the next eight years at Washington State University research and extension centers in Prosser and Wenatchee. This builds on a similar measure voted on by apple and pear growers in 2011 to galvanize cooperation between […]

Washington’s 2011-12 winter was average but certainly not normal

PROSSER, Wash. — Sometimes you have to see the game to understand what really happened. If ever there was a time when the scorecard failed to capture the essence of an event, it was this winter. “Although Washington’s 2011 – 2012 winter season was fairly average according to the numbers, it was far from a […]