The Washington State University College Assistance Migrant Program (CAMP) was named one of the top 10 programs nationally to exceed requirements at the National Association of State Directors of Migrant Education annual conference April 11. CAMP’s mission is to provide financial and academic support to students from a migrant or seasonal farm worker background to [...]
Fueled by a $1.2 million USDA Specialty Crops Research Initiative grant, Washington State University has mobilized a large interdisciplinary team of scientists and Extension educators to try to beat back the rapid encroachment of spotted wing drosophila. First introduced into California in 2008, SWD is a red-eyed “vinegar fly” that attacks ripening fruit, as well [...]
Researchers at Washington State University are working to develop a biodegradable mulch that would provide an alternative to costly and environmentally detrimental plastic mulch. The research project spans three states and five research institutions, Debra Inglis, associate plant pathologist and project director, said. Inglis is based at WSU’s Northwest Washington Research and Extension Center in [...]
Scott VanderWey, director of 4-H Adventure Education, has been honored with the regional Association for Experiential Education Willie Unsoeld Award for his innovative facilitating and training for the past 17 years. A leader in outdoor education, VanderWey has been instrumental in building several new statewide Adventure Education programs, including the 4-H Rock Climbing and the [...]
In an effort to provide valuable data to their technologically savvy clientele, the Washington State University AgWeatherNet development team has released two new weather products, as well as a third product developed by 4Quarters, Inc.. The first product is a new Web site, designed and formatted specifically for mobile computing devices. The AgWeatherNet mobile Web [...]
Washington State University Extension’s 4-H Youth Development Program is among the handful of higher education institutions working with the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Department of Defense to strengthen support for military families throughout the United States and abroad. WSU has been awarded a one-year, $1.75 million grant to enhance the communications and information resources [...]
By Bob Kirkpatrick The Washington State University Center for Risk Management Education has received a $748,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute for Food and Agriculture for its Beginning Farmers and Ranchers Program. ‘This is a three-year project,” Jon Newkirk, WSU Extension economist and director, Western Center for Risk Management Education Team, [...]
The WSU Grant/Adams County Master Gardeners will be offering gardening and landscaping classes at the Grant County Fair this year. The 30-minute mini seminars will cover a variety of topics including basic vegetable gardening, landscaping with native plants, designing a lake-friendly shoreline, protecting our lakes and aquifers, and making gardening easier. All the classes are [...]
A total of 331 stripe rust samples were obtained from 18 states, of which 297 wheat stripe rust and 34 barley stripe rust (from 3 states) were successfully identified to races. A total of 33 Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici (PST, wheat stripe rust) and 11 P. striiformis f. sp. hordei (PSH, barley stripe [...]
When the first irrigation water from the Columbia Basin Reclamation Project flowed through the sage brush of Quincy, Keith F. Kirkbride was there launching a program at the high school to educate the area’s future farmers. Now, Kirkbride’s sons, Frank and Charlie Kirkbride, are launching a scholarship program at Washington State University to honor the [...]
