Saturday, February 04, 2012
The U.S. potato industry is looking for a better french fry. Researchers hope to find potato varieties that form less acrylamide, a naturally occurring chemical compound, when cooked. Acrylamide is created when starchy foods are cooked at a high temperature, said Chris Voigt, executive director ...
Thursday, February 02, 2012 10:00 AM
ABERDEEN, Idaho -- All of the barley is hand-harvested in Victor Raboy's 1-acre experimental plot at the University of Idaho Aberdeen Research and Extension Center, and the seeds from each plant are individually bagged and labeled. Raboy explained his barley crop has been selected through the yea ...
Thursday, February 02, 2012 10:00 AM
The past year had its ups and downs, but luckily for the family, one of the ups has been the cattle market. Having just sold last year's calves and having close to 20 years of cattle markets to compare since I came back to the ranch after college, I can say I much prefer selling in an "up" market ...
Thursday, February 02, 2012 10:00 AM
ABERDEEN, Idaho -- Recent discoveries made at the USDA's Small Grains and Potato Germplasm Research Unit could speed development of improved cold-tolerant barley lines and eventually expand the crop's winter production in Idaho. While examining data on winter and spring barley varieties in a USDA ...
Thursday, February 02, 2012 2:00 PM
Leaders of the Pacific Northwest potato industry are tackling challenges that range from research to nutrition standards and politics. Here is a roundup of issues industry leaders discussed during the recent Washington-Oregon Potato Conference: Research: The Washington, Oregon and Idaho commissi ...
Thursday, February 02, 2012 10:00 AM
Potato growers who use manure on sandy soils should be cognizant of copper levels in their fields, a University of Idaho researcher advises. Amber Moore, a UI Extension soils specialist, has researched manure on crops for the past four years. Growers' concerns led her to investigate effects of co ...
Thursday, February 02, 2012 2:00 PM
LA GRANDE, Ore. -- Size does matter, at least when it comes to cattle, according to Kenneth Olsen, range beef specialist at South Dakota State University. Olsen said today's fed cattle (steers and heifers) compared to 1990 are 14 percent larger at slaughter, spend eight more days on feed, gain we ...
Thursday, February 02, 2012 2:00 PM
ABERDEEN, Idaho -- Symptoms of glyphosate contamination in seed potatoes vary by variety, and tubers sustain severe damage without exhibiting foliar symptoms when exposure occurs after bulking starts, new research suggests. Weed scientist Pamela Hutchinson, with the University of Idaho Aberdeen R ...
Thursday, February 02, 2012 1:00 PM
State plant officials and the nursery industry hope to eradicate a plant disease new to Oregon before it gets a foothold. State officials uncovered boxwood blight in a Washington County nursery in December after tracing back infected plant material that had moved from the nursery to an outlet i ...
Tuesday, January 31, 2012 10:12 AM
DENVER (AP) -- People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has filed complaints with federal officials seeking fines and the revocation of federal grants awarded to the University of Colorado Denver, which it accuses of animal-welfare violations. PETA has told the U.S. Department of Agriculture ...
Sunday, January 29, 2012 8:58 PM
MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) -- Residents and college faculty in northeast Kansas said Friday they were worried health and safety would be threatened if deadly pathogens escaped from a new federal research lab. They expressed their concerns during a field hearing held by a National Research Counc ...
Friday, January 27, 2012 10:47 AM
MOSCOW, Idaho -- Sanford Eigenbrode first fell in love with entomology when he was a boy. "I can remember my surprise as a little kid discovering every day you could find an insect you hadn't seen before," he said. "You could do that for the rest of your life." Eigenbrode was drawn by the divers ...
Thursday, January 26, 2012 10:00 AM
A worrisome tuber necrotic strain of Potato virus Y, called NTN, is now present in Idaho, Washington, Oregon and Montana, according to results of the 2011 Washington Commercial Seed Lot Trial. "All four Pacific Northwest states had PVY NTN isolates present in their seed system, which is not a goo ...
Thursday, January 26, 2012 12:00 PM
KIRKLAND, Wash. (AP) -- Bill Gates has a terse response to criticism that the high-tech solutions he advocates for world hunger are too expensive or bad for the environment: Countries can embrace modern seed technology and genetic modification or their citizens will starve. When he was in ...
Tuesday, January 24, 2012 2:14 PM
Dryland wheat farmers will get a look at a new Washington State University wheat variety next week. WSU winter wheat breeder Arron Carter will talk about WA8092, a soft white winter wheat with a pedigree of varieties Eltan and Madsen. The new variety is similar to Eltan, a popular variety aroun ...
Monday, January 23, 2012 2:02 PM
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) -- The University of Nebraska-Lincoln is receiving a $25 million federal grant to research various forms of E. coli bacteria. The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Monday that it has awarded the grant to help reduce the public health risks from Shiga toxin-producing E. ...
Monday, January 23, 2012 7:41 AM
Tiny, highly specialized tools known as nanoparticles have the potential to transform agriculture and make current "precision ag" devices look like blunt implements in comparison. Nanotechnology in farming is in its infancy but researchers envision a multitude of uses for nanoparticles -- structu ...
Thursday, January 19, 2012 9:00 AM
A survey of alfalfa growers from across the U.S. found that fewer than a third had planted the genetically engineered Roundup Ready variety of the crop. However, those farmers represented more than 50 percent of the surveyed acreage, according to researchers from the University of California-Davi ...
Thursday, January 19, 2012 9:00 AM
New research suggests the antioxidant properties of grapes could help a consumer slow or prevent the onset of age-related blindness. The study published in the journal Free Radical Biology and Medicine found a grape-enriched diet protected against oxidative damage of the retina and prevented blin ...
Thursday, January 19, 2012 10:00 AM
Washington State University is reaching out to national and international candidates to apply for a vacant weed science position. The university is contacting individuals and inviting their applications for the Endowed Chair in Small Grains Extension and Research, Weed Science, Rich Koenig, chair ...
Thursday, January 19, 2012 11:00 AM
A new tool in the fight to eradicate the citrus pest Asian citrus psyllid is in the testing stage in California. An insect collected in Pakistan by University of California biological control specialist Mark Hoddle was released in California in December to see if it will take on the invasive pest ...
Thursday, January 19, 2012 10:00 AM
WENATCHEE, Wash. -- Don Elfving was raised on a walnut orchard near Walnut Creek, Calif., back in the 1940s and '50s when that town was a long way by two-lane highway from San Francisco. He was interested in science, collecting insects and reptiles as a youngster. He went to the University of Cal ...
Thursday, January 12, 2012 10:00 AM
The timber industry traditionally had a "bulletproof" approach toward building logging roads, according to forest hydrologist Curt Veldhuisen. The strategy focused on redirecting water flow and reinforcing roads to withstand the destructive pressures exerted by it, he said. Now, the industry is ...
Thursday, January 12, 2012 12:00 PM
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The U.S. can safely increase its drinking water supply by reusing some of the 12 billion gallons of wastewater that pours down sewers and into the ocean each day, a panel of experts concludes in a new report. The health risks from using reclaimed wastewater in aquifer ...
Thursday, January 12, 2012 9:41 AM
The head of Monsanto's research department said yield is a top priority for the company's development pipeline. Robb Fraley, chief technology officer for the biotech company, provided an update Jan. 5 during a conference call with reporters. "Farmers buy yield, and that's where we're focused an ...
Thursday, January 12, 2012 12:00 PM
A consortium of U.S. universities has received more money to continue the effort to help rebuild Afghanistan's agriculture. Washington State University, part of a consortium led by the University of California-Davis, will receive $3.12 million to help strengthen the Afghan extension system. The ...
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