CSS in the News
2008
- Jones named 2008 Mentor of the Year. Winter wheat breeder and crop science professor Stephen Jones received the 2008 Mentor of the Year – Research Faculty Award, in conjunction with the 13th Annual Women’s Leadership Conference at Washington State University. ( CSS Spotlight, 4/3/08) Read more.
- Organic wave—Produce in demand, farm to triple size. Two decades ago, organic agriculture was a fringe movement. It was generally ignored by land-grant researchers when John Reganold began comparing the soil quality, food nutrition, flavor and environmental impacts of conventional and organic methods. (WSU Today, 3/18/08) Read more.
- Craig Cogger is quoted in an article on home composting in the latest edition of Organic Gardening Magazine. (March, 2008) Read more.
- Washington State University Releases Four New Wheat Varieties. Washington State University has released four new wheat varieties for commercialization, including Xerpha, a soft-white common winter wheat, which is highly adapted to a broad range of production zones in Washington, Oregon, southern Idaho and northern California. (CAHNRS News Release, 2/29/08) Read more.
- John Reganold is quoted in an article on the environmental web site Grist.org about the reduction in agricultural research funding in President Bush’s proposed federal budget and how such cuts would impact organic research. (2/19/08) Read more.
- AgWeatherNet Hits the Palouse. The Washington State University AgWeatherNet team recently installed a weather station at WSU’s Spillman Agronomy Farm located two miles southeast of Pullman. (CAHNRS News Release, 1/29/08) Read more.
- John Reganold is quoted in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer front-page story on the loss of topsoil and the benefits of direct seeding in controlling erosion. (1/22/08) Read more.
- IAREC agronomist Stephen Kenny is quoted in the Daily Tarheel, the newspaper of the University of North Carolina, in an article on how a worldwide hops shortage is driving up beer prices. (1/15/08) Read more.
- Separating Truth from Myth: Understanding Biotechnology. New class is designed to help students develop an understanding of biotechnology in the 21st century. (CSS, 1/3/08) Read more.
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