PULLMAN, Wash. – Arron Carter, a 2009 Ph.D. graduate with an emphasis in wheat breeding and genetics, is the new winter wheat breeder at Washington State University. The appointment was announced today at the annual WSU Spillman Agronomy Farm Field Day.
PULLMAN, Wash. – Washington State University’s Spillman Agronomy Farm field day will be held Thursday, July 9, 2009. Registration begins at 7:30 a.m. Field tours begin at 8 a.m. followed by a complimentary lunch program.
PULLMAN, Wash. – The Washington State University AgWeatherNet team recently installed a weather station at WSU’s Spillman Agronomy Farm located two miles southeast of Pullman. The station is equipped with sensors for monitoring and recording air temperature, wind speed and direction, relative humidity, solar radiation, leaf wetness, soil temperature and moisture at a depth of […]
PULLMAN, Wash. – State Sen. Mark Schoesler and new Washington State University President Elson S. Floyd are scheduled to speak during the noon program of the Spillman Agronomy Farm Field Day on Thursday, July 12. Registration for the field day begins at 7:15 a.m. Tours are scheduled from 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., followed by […]
It’s a Fact Washington’s growers are the top processing-carrot producers in the nation. They grew 157,700 tons in 2004, 37 percent of U.S. production. The sale of processing carrots accounted for $11 million of Washington’s agricultural economy that year. On Solid Ground is a weekly, electronic newsletter for the friends and stakeholders of the Washington […]
Map to Spillman Agronomy Farm in PDF format. Daniel J. Bernardo, who will begin duties as the new dean of Washington State University’s College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences, later this summer, will be available for interviews after the noon luncheon of the Spillman Agronomy Farm Field Day on Thursday, July 7. Two […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — Two important milestones will be marked at the July 7 field day of Washington State University’s Spillman Agronomy Farm, just south of Pullman: the 50th anniversary of the purchase of the Spillman Farm site and the 100th anniversary of the release of the first of more than 90 wheat varieties developed and […]
PULLMAN, Wash. – Valoria Loveland, Washington State Department of Agriculture director, will speak at the luncheon during Washington State University’s annual Spillman Agronomy Farm Field Day, Thursday, July 10, 2003. Loveland will speak on the importance of agriculture. The half-day program will feature field tours of WSU and USDA Agricultural Research Service cereal and legume […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — Potential synergies between Washington State University and General Mills, Inc., to enhance production and utilization of Pacific Northwest wheat will be the subject of the luncheon speaker at the WSU Spillman Agronomy Farm Field Day, Thursday, July 11. Tom Willis, General Mills merchandising manager for specialty products, Great Falls, Mont., will discuss […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — Katharina Zimmer, senior vice president of investments for Salomon Smith Barney in Portland, will discuss the edge that Pacific Northwest breeding programs provide in international wheat markets at the annual field day of Washington State University Spillman Agronomy Farm on July 12. The field day provides area growers an opportunity to observe […]