Sparking an interest in agriculture
The CAHNRS Spark program took high school students on a tour to show the wide variety of job opportunities in agriculture.
Winery
Organic Vineyard, Research Winemaker, VEEN
WSU’s First Certified-Organic Wine Grape Vineyard Harvests First Study on Weed Control As vineyard acreage in western Washington continues to increase, more farmers seek strategies for controlling weeds, especially in new vineyards. Heightened interest in organic wine grape growing on the west side also has growers looking for certified-organic weed control methods. Researchers Carol Miles […]
WSU Opens Research Winery
PROSSER, Wash. — Washington State University now features the largest experimental, non-commercial winemaking facility in the Pacific Northwest. The research winery, which is located at the WSU Irrigated Agriculture Research and Extension Center in Prosser, has a production capacity of about 5,000 gallons. The new facility was designed by enologists James Harbertson and Kerry Ringer, […]