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From the Capital Press The Pacific Northwest crop tour season kicks off May 29 in Wilbur, Wash., and runs through July 3, ending in Bickleton, Wash. “Obviously an interesting winter with the warmth and openness, with atypical insect pressure and pretty severe rust overwintering,” Washington State University spring wheat breeder Mike Pumphrey told Capital Press. “Spring wheat plantings went in ... Read More »
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WSU Spring Variety Testing plot information
From small grains.wsu.edu With all the spring sites in the ground and well on their way to becoming beautiful plots, we wanted to share that the spring variety trial plot maps and GPS coordinates are now available on the small grains website: https://smallgrains.wsu.edu/26springmaps/ There are a few changes to the spring variety trials this year. The total number of locations planted ... Read More »
PNW Crop Tours May 29-July 3
The 2026 WSU Variety Testing Program crop tour schedule is available on the WSU Small Grains website. Many of the traditional tours put on by the WSU Extension Dryland Cropping Systems Team on the schedule again, including the Lind Field Day, the WSU Spillman Farm Field Day, and the Wilke Farm Field Day. These field days offer a chance to ... Read More »
WSU’s new president, ag dean talk budget, research, the future
From the Capital Press Washington State University has entered a new era of leadership. Elizabeth “Betsy” Cantwell became president April 1. “This institution has proudly been one of the pre-eminent land-grant, agriculturally-focused universities in the U.S. since its inception in 1890,” Cantwell told Capital Press. “We haven’t lost the bubble on that, and we won’t. That’s why we hired Dean ... Read More »
Koenig steps in as interim CAHNRS dean at WSU
From the Capital Press Rich Koenig will take over as interim dean of Washington State University’s College of Agricultural, Human and Natural Resource Sciences on July 1. He replaces Andre-Denis Wright, who resigned effective June 30 to be the new provost of the Norman campus for the University of Oklahoma. Wright joined WSU as CAHNRS dean in 2018. Read the ... Read More »
$3 million gift establishes plant pathology endowment at WSU
From the Capital Press A $3 million gift will establish an endowed chair in plant pathology at Washington State University. The gift, from the Rosalie and Harold Rea Brown Foundation, establishes the Rosalie & Harold Rea Brown Distinguished Endowed Chair in Plant Pathology. Read the rest of the article here. Read More »