Seeds

Youth of the Colville Reservation partner with WSU Extension, 4-H to help nature heal from fires.

Sharing discoveries in seed quality, new varieties, pests, and growing practices to help NW potatoes thrive

Lindsey du Toit is part of a new $3 million USDA Specialty Crops Research Initiative project, led by Oregon State University, that aims to help carrot farmers.

Extension experts urge gardeners to be aware of and report unsolicited seeds mailed from overseas.

Acknowledging her world-renowned reputation in service to agriculture, Washington State University named plant pathologist Lindsey du Toit as the recipient of the Alfred Christianson Distinguished Professorship in Vegetable Seed Science. The award provides extra funding that du Toit can apply to pivotal crop seed research projects as needed. “We hope this endowment will continue to […]

MOUNT VERNON, Wash. — Hideo Takahashi first came to the Skagit Valley more than a quarter century ago to be an intern at the Alf Christianson Seed Co. As a young employee of Sakata Seed, he spent a year in the Mount Vernon area working on a joint venture breeding project for spinach in the […]

PULLMAN, Wash. — Jim Maguire retired from Washington State University three years ago after 39 years on the crops and soils faculty. But you wouldn’t know it. The former professor and director of the WSU Seed Technology Laboratory has continued to teach part-time and has remained active in such organizations as the International Herbage Seed […]

PULLMAN, Wash. — The coming year should be a generally good one for most segments of Washington’s agricultural industry, according to the 1998 Pacific Northwest Agricultural Situation and Outlook Report, which will be published Jan. 2. A notable exception will be wheat. The economic report is the product of 44 agricultural economists and other authorities […]

PULLMAN, Wash. — Although it found some problems with Washington State University’s controversial grass seed field-burning study, an independent panel of six scientists says the study is credible. It reviewed the Grass Seed Field Burning Report of January 1997, issued by the WSU Agricultural Economics Department for the state Department of Ecology. The report estimated […]

PULLMAN, Wash. — With 55-gallon drums full of gasoline strappedto their vehicles, Washington State University’s James D. Maguire and a group of other expatriots dashed over the roadless desert for four days, from Kadugli to Khartoum, Sudan. A coup resulted in grounding all airplanes, stranding them in Kadugli. The only way back to their homes […]