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CSANR, BSE researchers seek sites to grow tomorrow’s produce

Thanks to a changing climate, production of fruits and vegetables may be more challenging in some regions of the country in the future. To help ensure tomorrow’s fruits and vegetables, researchers with the WSU Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources (CSANR) and Department of Biological Systems Engineering are on a four-year, $3.4 million research project to find more places to […]

WAVE Minute: AgWeatherNet & Grape Growers

May 11, 2017  |  Good Fruit Grower  |  Kate Prengaman How can AgWeatherNet help grape growers across the Inland Northwest? WSU’s Melba Salazar explains.   [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/322173191″ type=”visual” autoplay=”0″]   See the full story on the Washington Ag Network

Predicting Phenology: A New Tool from AgWeatherNet

Spring 2017  |  Viticulture and Enology Extension News Phenology refers to “the science of appearance”. This translates into understanding nature’s “calendar” of plant development. Important phenological events in viticulture include bud break, bloom and veraison, which are tied closely with management practices. Predicting when these events will occur can be difficult; most key phenological stages of grape are sensitive to climate and seasonal weather. Seasonal changes can include […]

Sophisticated presentations in Spanish

November 30, 2016  |  Good Fruit Grower  |  Ross Courtney The range of topics for the presentations in Spanish of the annual WSTFA convention is from handling or handling pesticides to economics. BSE faculty Melba Salazar-Gutiérrez, from Washington State University, talks about the practical use of AgWeatherNet in orchards in one of the sessions in Spanish […]

Student Wins First Place

September 22, 2016 Congratulations to BSE, Tri-Cities student Hector Camargo! Hector won a Student Award at the 2016 International Society for Horticulture Science in Avignon, France. He presented two papers, one poster, and one oral presentation. His poster titled: Modeling the growth of pollen tubes for Gala and Fuji Apples and his oral presentation: Predicting the Release […]

Cuts to Manure Gas Earns Student Kudos

Ph.D. student, George Mathew Neerackal, won 2nd place at the Ron Sheffield Memorial Student Poster competition at the Waste to Worth conference, Seattle, WA; March 30-April 03, 2015. Poster Title: Manure pH Management for Mitigating Ammonia Emissions from Manure Flush Dairy Barns Advisor: Dr. Pius Ndegwa Dairy cows produce lots of manure. A WSU student’s […]

Warmest winter since 1992

March 2015 | by Seth Truscott, College of Agricultural, Human & Natural Resource Sciences PROSSER, Wash. – The last time Prosser experienced a month as warm as February 2015, relative to normal, some people were still using typewriters and cordless telephones. According to Washington State University’s AgWeatherNet, the February monthly anomaly was up 5.9 degrees overall and […]