All of us in CAHNRS and across the Cougar Nation were heartened to hear the news of our colleague Jim Cook’s receipt of the prestigious Wolf Prize in Agriculture. The Wolf Prize is awarded once a year by the Wolf Foundation and is one of the six Wolf Prizes established by the Foundation and awarded […]
Even though they knew he couldn’t hear them, applause and cheers went up from the 70 or so people watching at the WSU Mount Vernon Northwestern Washington Research and Extension Center as Paul Allen announced his donation.
During these challenging economic times, it is easy to lose sight of many of the things we should be thankful for.
There are many ways to measure the impact of the science we produce in the College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences: adoption of new crop varieties or “best management practices,” research expenditures, and of course, economic development and return on investment, to name a few. Another way to assess the impact of our […]
Recently, I completed over 20 visits to some of the larger and most sophisticated tree-fruit operations in Washington State to touch base with them about WSU tree-fruit programs and some capacity-building initiatives we are planning for the future. These firms likely account for about 80 percent of the state’s total tree-fruit production. My findings from […]
While some of our constituents still refer to us as the “College of Ag,” I appreciate the breadth and diversity captured in our full name — the College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences. The “big H” in CAHNRS represents all of the human sciences in the college, which includes human development, economics and […]
Last week I spent three days on the road with President Elson Floyd touring Clallam, Jefferson, and Grays Harbor counties as part of his statewide tour. While I am not able to accompany him to all 39 counties, I have arranged to participate in about half of his county visits. I was particularly interested in […]
Big guns or boom carts? That is the choice agricultural producers in northwestern Washington were facing in deciding how to provide supplemental irrigation water to certain crops.
At a time when the state most needs to support its primary and reliable economic engines, a movement is afoot in Olympia which would cripple one of the state’s most economically important industries — agriculture.
Today, budget decisions are being made at all levels of government — federal, state and local – that will have lasting impact on our future success in CAHNRS and WSU Extension. These decisions are being made in an environment that reflects a new political reality for higher education, in general, and for CAHNRS and WSU […]