PULLMAN, Wash. — Eleven research programs involving new crop developments and direct seed management technologies in wheat, barley, dry peas, lentils and chickpeas will be featured at a combined field day for the Washington State University Spillman Agronomy Farm and Palouse Conservation Field Station near Pullman on June 29. Registration and refreshments will begin at […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — A combined field day for the Washington State University Spillman Agronomy Farm and USDA-ARS/WSU Palouse Conservation Field Station near Pullman will be held on June 29th. Eleven research programs will be highlighted. Registration and refreshments will be from 8:00 to 8:30 a.m. at the Spillman Farm, two miles south of Pullman on […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — Eleven research programs will be highlighted during the joint field day of the USDA Agricultural Research Service Palouse Conservation Field Station and Washington State University’s Spillman Agronomy Farm on Thursday, July 8. Registration starts at 8 a.m. at the Palouse Conservation Field Station with field tours beginning at 8:30 a.m. Farmers will […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — A joint field day for the USDA-ARS/WSU Palouse Conservation Field Station and WSU Spillman Agronomy Farm near Pullman, Wash., will be held on July 8, 1999. Eleven research programs will be highlighted during field tours at the two research farms. Registration will begin at 8 a.m. at the Palouse Conservation Field Station, […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — Rep. George Nethercutt has accepted an invitation to speak at Washington State University’s agronomy and conservation field day, Thursday, July 9. Representatives of Sen. Pat Murray’s and Sen. Slade Gorton’s offices also will attend. Twelve research programs will be featured in field tours at the Spillman Agronomy Farm and Palouse Conservation Field […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — Washington State University has combined its annual field days for the Spillman Agronomy Farm and Palouse Conservation Field Station. The field day will be held Thursday, July 9. Twelve research programs will be featured in field tours at the two research farms. They will include research on new varieties of grain legumes, […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — State and federal researchers will show off new varieties of wheat, dry peas, lentils, chickpeas and barley at the annual field day of Washington State University’s Spillman Agronomy Farm on Thursday, July 10. Steve Ulrich, WSU barley breeder, will discuss two new spring varieties released in 1997: Bear, a two-row, spring hulless […]
This year Washington’s wheat growers brought in a record crop, a crop that will contribute more than $1 billion to the state’s economy. Year after year, the wheat crop has been as dependable as the inevitable ringing phone at dinnertime. But it hasn’t always been that way. When Washington’s first wheat breeder, William Jasper Spillman, […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — Tom Ley, a Washington State University Cooperative Extension irrigation engineer, will be honored July 11 at the annual Spillman Agronomy Field Day. Ley will receive the 10th annual Kenneth J. Morrison Extension Award in Agronomy and Soils. The annual award recognizes WSU extension faculty for significant contributions to agronomic crop production and […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — Research on specialty barleys, a new tall red winter wheat and updates on karnal bunt will be highlighted Thursday, July 11, at the annual field day of Washington State University’s Spillman Agronomy Farm. Other stops on the half-day tour of research plots include: work to breed a new footrot-resistant semi-dwarf club wheat; […]