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From the Capital Press
It makes sense that Washington State University’s agronomy farm is named after William Jasper Spillman — the first wheat breeder at the college.
“He was an agronomist and agricultural economist,” said Kimberly Garland-Campbell, USDA Agricultural Research Service research plant geneticist and club wheat breeder. “He wanted to figure out how to make farming more profitable.” Read the rest of the article here.