Submitted by WSU News Service An international team of scientists from Italy, France, New Zealand, Belgium and the U.S. have published a draft sequence of the domestic apple genome in the current issue of Nature Genetics. The availability of a genome sequence for apples will allow scientists to more rapidly identify which genes provide desirable [...]
Organic grain growers in Washington looking for new crops with new markets could be producing buckwheat and quinoa, if Washington State University scientists can confirm their viability and develop varieties specifically for the Pacific Northwest. Researcher Kevin Murphy currently has trial plots of 44 varieties of quinoa and 30 varieties of buckwheat in five different [...]
Washington State University Extension is offering a swine artificial insemination school in Moses Lake Monday, Sept. 20, from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Grant County Fairgrounds, 3953 Airway Drive N.E. Tom Platt, WSU Area Extension Educator in Davenport, said swine producers who attend the one-day school will learn the basics of artificial insemination [...]
By Briana Alzola Staff writer Nineteen-year-old Othello resident Jessica Schmidt is no stranger to cows. After starting to show cows when she was 9 years old, she advanced through different leadership positions and was recently elected as the secretary-treasurer of the Northwest Junior Angus Association at a show in Prineville, Ore. In this role, her [...]
By Bob Kirkpatrick Editor Construction is slated to begin this week on a storage-distribution warehouse at 515 Bruce Road. Angel Garza, owner of Angel Garza Trucking, purchased the property from Bob Boersma with Washington Carriers, which was originally earmarked for a bio-diesel plant. “This facility will service the entire Columbia Basin,” he said. “We’ll be [...]
