Sweet Grass Beef Farm
Attention to Animals and the Environment
It’s all in the details. It’s the way Scott Meyers knows how to move his cattle gently from one pasture to another. It’s the way he has taken his land, which had been severely overgrazed, and rejuvenated it to make it lush and green. Read More »
Stokesberry Sustainable Farms
Organic Pastured Poultry
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They’ve been raising meat and produce since the 70’s so last year when Jerry Stokesberry and his wife Janelle decided to venture into the small farm business they knew the animals they wanted and organic was their way to contribute to a healthy lifestyle. Read More »
WSU Snohomish County Extension Presents Farmer-to-Farmer Series
EVERETT, Wash. – Washington State University Snohomish County Extension is presenting a series of farmer-to-farmer tours this spring and summer. The purpose is to create opportunities for farmers to share information and expertise. Read More »
WSU Scientist Receives $510,000 Bioenergy Grant
Michael Kahn, a fellow in Washington State University’s Institute of Biological Chemistry and associate director of the Agricultural Research Center, has received a three-year $510,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Energy Biosciences Program to continue fundamental research that may someday reduce farmers’ reliance on an increasingly expensive farm input: industrially produced nitrogen fertilizer. Read more »
National Rankings for Ag Sciences at WSU
We're number two--and number four, six, seven and eight! Researchers in the agricultural sciences at Washington State University are among the most productive in the nation, ranking in the top 10 in almost every ag-related discipline, according to statistics recently released by The Chronicle of Higher Education. Nov. 15, 2007. Learn more about about the productivity of our world-class faculty.
First Year BIOAg Funding Produces Valuable Results
The first direct legislative funding for Washington State University’s Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources (CSANR) yielded significant outcomes in the areas of livestock, nutrient management, alternative crops/bioenergy and bioproducts, food quality, economics, and demonstration farms. Read more »
WSU Researcher Wins Grant to Research Poplar Wood Biofuel Feasibility
Poplar physiologist Jon Johnson, in collaboration with private industry partners, has won a $583,000 grant to assess poplar wood as a feedstock for the production of ethanol. Read more »
Ag Grants Spur Innovation
Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns awarded over $1.3 million in 26 matching grants to 21 states supporting agricultural market research and demonstration projects. These grants, provided under the Federal-State Marketing Improvement Program, explore new and innovative approaches to marketing U.S. food and agricultural products and help improve the efficiency and performance of the marketing system. Three of the 21 grants went to WSU and Washington state commodity commissions. Read more »
$2.3M Infusion Brings Resources to CAHNRS Faculty
Dan Bernardo writes that the College is making available $2.3 million in competitive grant funds. Funded in part by the Industry-Based Unified Ag Initiative, the grant program is "strongly supported by the state’s food and agriculture industry," Bernardo says. "When I conducted 50-plus meetings with industry groups in preparing the Initiative, one consistent theme was that we have good faculty, they just don’t have enough resources to work with. This has become known as the “hay and horses” argument; that is, we have great horses (i.e., faculty), they just need more hay (i.e., operating resources) to make them run faster (i.e., become more productive)." Read more »
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Ag Top Priority, Says New President
Make no mistake. Agriculture is a top priority of Washington State University, according to WSU President Elson Floyd. The new president reestablished the institution’s commitment to one of the state’s largest industries at the Spillman Farm field day. Read more »
On Solid Ground
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Upcoming Events
April 28, 2008: Golden & Diamond Grad Reunion. Learn more »
Our Farms to Your Table
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Check out this new video from the WSDA. It's about 10 minutes long and is available in both high- and low-bandwidth versions.
Good Bug, Bad Bug
"'When you're at the top of the food chain you have a vested interest in keeping the bottom of the food chain healthy,' entomologist Sharon Collman said as she scanned the shrubbery for insects," writes Kathryn True in The Seattle Times. "Collman, a 30-year veteran of Washington State University Extension specializing in horticulture and integrated pest management, is struck by a general shift in public insect awareness. Three decades ago people would routinely ask, "How can I kill it?" These days the most common question is whether it's a good bug or a bad bug. Approximately 95 percent of our six-legged citizens are considered beneficial or neutral, with the remaining five percent deemed pests by humans (think yellow jackets, tent caterpillars, and root weevils)." Read the article »
Derek McLean Honored with New Investigator Award
The Society for the Study of Reproduction has presented department of animal science researcher and educator with its 2007 New Investogator Award in recognition of the originality of
his research and its significance and impact in reproductive
sciences. Read more »
Berry Breeder Works with Chefs to Meet Consumer Demand
"Think back to that last handful of raspberries you ate. What made them memorable?" asks Karen Gaudette in the Seattle Times, which features an article about WSU Puyallup berry breeder Pat Moore. Read more »
Radio Waves Kill Bugs
The Spokane Journal of Business, following up on a story we covered in On Solid Ground, writes that "radio waves that generate heat to kill the insects hiding in nuts and dried fruits are a good alternative to methyl bromide." Read more »
Seven Students Receive First Organic Ag Scholarships at WSU
Seven students majoring in organic agriculture at Washington State University have been selected as the first recipients of the Pacific Natural Foods Organic Agriculture Scholarship, the first scholarship dedicated to the new organic agriculture systems major at the university. Read more »
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