SHELTON, WA – Washington State University Extension Forestry offers a seminar on the impacts recent droughts have had on trees and what that means for privately- owned forests in the region. An example of root…
PULLMAN, Wash. – Pork producers will learn about emerging issues in their industry at the Washington Swine Information Day from 8:45 a.m. to 5:15 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 6, at the Red Lion Hotel in Pasco. The event will offer educational sessions of interest to pork producers of any age and scale, including 4-H youth, […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — Working seminars aimed at breaking free of chronic economic crisis in Northwest agriculture are scheduled September 13-14 in Moscow, Idaho and Pullman. The September 13 seminar will look at how the conventional focus on bottom line profits has created the current situation and how the economics of sustainability can turn the crisis […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — John H. Perkins of Evergreen State College will present a seminar titled “Geopolitics and the Green Revolution: Wheat, Genes and the Cold War,” from 3:10 p.m. to 4 p.m., Monday, March 1, in Johnson Hall 204 on the Washington State University Pullman campus. In a recent book, Perkins argued that the Green […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — Washington State University’s 1999 Beef Information Days are scheduled April 15-16 at the Quality Inn Paradise Creek Conference Center in Pullman. Gary C. Smith, the Monfort Endowed Chair in Meat Science at Colorado State University, will keynote the event Thursday evening with a presentation on the current status and future of the […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — Wes Jackson, director and co-founder of The Land Institute, Salina, Kan., will speak on “New Routes for Agriculture” at 5 p.m., Tuesday (Nov. 3) in room C107 of Johnson Hall on the Washington State University Pullman campus. Founded in 1976, The Land Institute is an environmental, social and agricultural research institute focusing […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — New crops, new income sources, new thinking and new hope for Eastern Washington and Central Washington farmers will be the focus of a seminar scheduled June 12 at the Community Building in St. John. “Value-Added Opportunities for Eastern Washington Agriculture” should interest people in all segments of agriculture, according to Paul Peterson, […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — Carlos Crovetto Lamarca will describe the dramatic success of 20 years of no-till production on his 1,000 acre farm in Chile, at a Washington State University seminar here on March 17. Lamarca has gained worldwide recognition as a promoter of no-till farming to enhance cropland soil resource and farm profitability. Lamarca has […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — The future of U.S. farm policy will be the subject of a seminar scheduled at 1 p.m. Friday, Feb. 14, at the Holiday Inn Express. Speakers include Jack Silzel, agricultural aide to Rep. George Nethercutt, R-Washington; Gretchen Borck, director of issues for the Washington Association of Wheat Growers; and Bill Broughton, eastern […]