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Visit Powering Planes through Arrested Anaerobic Digestion Powering Planes through Arrested Anaerobic Digestion Posted by Katie Doonan | January 9, 2024 Waste is not glamorous. Just look at the moldy pumpkin leftovers from Halloween and Thanksgiving (yes, there are still quite a few around my neighborhood!)…
Visit Nitrogen Fertilizer and Soil Organic Matter: What Does the Evidence Say? Nitrogen Fertilizer and Soil Organic Matter: What Does the Evidence Say? Posted by Andrew McGuire | December 5, 2023 Does synthetic nitrogen fertilizer burn up soil organic matter? Whether you are focused on soil health, soil sequestration, or soil carbon credits, this is an…
Visit Where the Magic Happens: Climate-Smart Practices Funded through Sustainable Farms and Fields Program Where the Magic Happens: Climate-Smart Practices Funded through Sustainable Farms and Fields Program Posted by Karen Hills | November 14, 2023 I recently wrote a blog post announcing that Sustainable Farms and Fields (SFF) had launched. This innovative program housed in the Washington State Conservation Commission…
Visit Putting Numbers to the Difficult Task of Increasing Soil Organic Matter Putting Numbers to the Difficult Task of Increasing Soil Organic Matter Posted by Andrew McGuire | November 7, 2023 You may know that it is difficult to increase soil organic matter, but how difficult is it, with numbers? First, your crop harvest removes up…
Visit Biochar Doping: Not Another Olympic Scandal Biochar Doping: Not Another Olympic Scandal Posted by Katie Doonan | October 31, 2023 If you run in any of the same circles as me, biochar is a hot topic of conversation as of late. There is potential for…
Visit Drought Resilience in Dry Land: Plant Auxins and Adaptive Management Drought Resilience in Dry Land: Plant Auxins and Adaptive Management Posted by Anna Buetow | October 17, 2023 Eastern Washington averages over five million acres of farmland dedicated to growing wheat and other rotational grain crops that rely solely on rainfall to water…
Visit What’s so Good about Biodiversity in Crop Production? What’s so Good about Biodiversity in Crop Production? Posted by Andrew McGuire | October 10, 2023 In a 2012 book, Donald Maier asked, “What’s so good about biodiversity?” He describes how difficult it is to critique principles of biodiversity because all…
Visit Using Autonomous Pathing Orchard Robots Using Autonomous Pathing Orchard Robots Posted by Deven Biehler | August 29, 2023 I spent this summer working as an intern at the AgAid Institute, a renowned research facility dedicated to advancing the field of sustainable agriculture through…
Visit Building the Case for Compost and Carbon Sequestration Building the Case for Compost and Carbon Sequestration Posted by Katie Doonan | August 15, 2023 In the spirit of “what gets measured gets managed”, there has been recent attention directed to how we can quantify potential benefits of compost as…
Visit Tracking Beneficial Parasites to Safeguard Cherry Production Tracking Beneficial Parasites to Safeguard Cherry Production Posted by Cesar Reyes Corral | July 18, 2023 Cesar Reyes Corral, PhD student in the Washington State University Department of Entomology, has identified several beneficial insects that may be key to long-term management…