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The Department of Crop and Soil Sciences at Washington State University serves the Land Grant tradition by offering nationally competitive undergraduate and graduate education programs, conducting fundamental and applied plant and soil research, and extending the science of our disciplines to serve the public. Read more.
Nationally ranked faculty.
Agronomy #7 in the nation (second in the West).
Plant Science #2 in the nation.
Researchers in the agricultural sciences at Washington State University are among the most productive in the nation, ranking in the top 10 in almost every ag-related discipline. Learn more about about the productivity of our world-class faculty.
Jones wins college Faculty Research Excellence award.
Stephen S. Jones
Congratulations to Dr. Stephen S. Jones, professor and winter wheat breeder, who was selected to receive the 2009 CAHNRS Faculty Research Excellence award.
All are welcome to attend the award presentation on April 4, 2009 during the CAHNRS Awards banquet. The event begins at 4pm in the Ensminger Pavilion on the WSU campus. Tickets are available in Clark 116, Daggy 330, FSHN 166, Johnson Hall 345, Johnson Tower 501, Kruegel 51, and Hulbert 423. Read more.
Stevens Honored by Grape Growers
Robert G. Stevens, who serves as director of Washington State University’s Prosser Irrigated Agriculture Research and Extension Center, received an Industry service Award from the Washington Association of Wine Grape Growers. Read more.
Fellowships Focus on Training Leaders
The USDA awarded more than $3.4 million to train the next generation of policy makers, researchers and educators in the food and agricultural sciences. Of that amount, WSU received $258,000 in the form of a National Needs Fellowship grant. The WSU award was equal to the other largest grant, which went to U.C. Davis.
The grant will support three Ph.D. students for three to four years. The program targets a number of areas short in expertise, including agricultural systems engineering, agricultural management and economics, and sustainable sciences. Read more.
Team Organic Targets Stewardship, Profitability
WSU Soil Scientist Craig Cogger explains growing cycles at a Puyallup Field Day.
A 16-member organic farming systems team led by Craig Cogger, a soil nutrient management specialist at Washington State University’s Puyallup Research and Extension Center, has landed a $644,232 grant from the USDA-CSREES Integrated Organic Program to design production strategies for stewardship and profit on fresh market organic farms. Read more.
Looking for field tour information?
Small grain crop research tours (link)
Conservation and cropping system tours (link)
WSU/OSU Turfgrass Field Day (link)
Lettuce gets a close look in Alaska and Washington
A parallel study of nitrate levels is simultaneously being conducted in Fairbanks and Pullman, Wash., this summer. Washington State University graduate student Haly Ingle is at UAF for seven weeks closely examining the effects of the midnight sun and other factors on lettuce and spinach. Read more.
Haly Ingle, WSU graduate student, plants Cracoviensis leaf lettuce in research plots at the Fairbanks Experiment Farm
Turf Senior Selected for USGA Green Section Internship
Marcus Harness, a senior in WSU’s turfgrass management program, is one of 15 students selected from a nationwide pool to participate in the 12th annual United States Golf Association (USGA) Green Section Internship Program. Read more.
Rebuilding New Orleans
Turf Students Work on Floors, Too
WSU turf management program seniors Jerry Langreder and Nick Magnuson traded golf clubs for hammers while volunteering for Habitat for Humanity in hurricane-devastated New Orleans. For one day, Langreder and Magnuson helped build a subfloor on one home’s concrete blocks. Read more.
Jerry Langreder (center) and Nick Magnuson (right) discuss plans with their Habitat for Humanity foreman.
CougParents Fund Clubs
Thanks to a grant from the CougParents Program Fund, four student organizations in the Department of Crop and Soil Sciences are redesigning and upgrading their student resource and study center in Johnson Hall. Read more
Planning change: (L-R) Robert Krikac, Susan Hodges, Marv Kleene.
Classic Science Lab Exercise Germinated
A journal article authored by Michael Neff, assistant professor of crop biotechnology, and two Washington State University undergraduate students, may revive interest in a classic high school and college science laboratory exercise. Read more.
A classic science experiment teaches plant-light interactions.
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