Dr. Cook’s legacy expands well beyond his work on take-all, beyond his dissertation on Fusarium, beyond his work revealing the genetic potential of wheat. Cook was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1973, and in 1993, Cook became an inducted member of …
In September 2025, a team led by Kevin Murphy of the Washington State University (WSU) Breadlab was notified of a successful application for nontraditional research and Extension support from the Washington Research Foundation (WRF), a Seattle-based …
Also this month, the WGC will begin funding work on heat wave-resilient wheat by Smertenko, an associate professor in molecular plant sciences at WSU. Smertenko’s proposal outlined a goal of establishing a standardized framework to help scientists and …
Meeting these global expectations requires more than good seed, it requires reliable, local performance data. This is where WSU’s VTP becomes indispensable. The mission of the VTP is to provide growers and the agribusiness industry with comprehensive …
Washington State University (WSU) winter wheat breeder Arron Carter (left) gives a tour of the WSU greenhouses to the aquaculture trade team.U.S. Wheat organizes trade teams from all around the world. The trade teams that visit Washington, though, are most …
The typical field design for herbicide-tolerant trials has plots split in half: one side is not sprayed, and the other is sprayed. This allows visual observations of crop injury by comparing the sprayed to the nonsprayed plots.Weeds are among the most …
U.S. Wheat organizes trade teams from all around the world. The trade teams that visit Washington, though, are most often specifically interested in soft white wheat. Because Washington grows world-class soft white wheat, countries with high-quality …
Total Wheat: 2.3 million acres, -1.1% year over year, -0.2% vs. 5-year average (2.3 million acres). Washington accounts for 5.3% of U.S. prospective wheat plantings. Winter Wheat: 1.85 million acres, 0% year over year, +2.2% vs. 5-year average (1.81 …
Sockeye CL+ had the best yield among the Clearfield lines in the low-rainfall CLOAX trials (Table 3). A group of lines with the CoAXium trait, LCS Hydra AX, Nova AX, and LCS Kraken AX, performed similarly. In the high rainfall zone, Sockeye CL+, VI Voodoo …
The Washington Grain Commission is pleased to provide the 2026 wheat quality rankings for the Pacific Northwest (PNW). Considering about 80% of PNW wheat production is exported each year, producing a high-quality crop that meets customer demands is …
Under certain environmental conditions, both wheat and quinoa are vulnerable to a physiological problem that directly threatens grain soundness: preharvest sprouting (PHS). PHS occurs when mature seeds begin to germinate before harvest, typically following …
Acreage reporting from the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) estimated 80% of Washington’s spring wheat acres were soft white market class, and a total of 910,000 spring wheat acres were seeded in Washington and Idaho. Barley acres harvested …
One of the most tangible successes this year comes from South Asia. In January, U.S. wheat shipments arrived at Bangladesh’s main port in Chattogram as part of a Memorandum of Understanding signed in mid-2025 between USW and the government of Bangladesh …
Washington Grain Commissioner Mike Carstensen (far right) attends a U.S. Wheat Associates’ (USW) Unified Export Strategy meeting in Siem Reap, Cambodia. This meeting process helps USW plan, justify, and secure federal cost-share dollars for overseas market …
For nearly two decades, Kara Kaelber has been a driver of agricultural and conservation education in Franklin County and across Washington state. From the start of her career, Kaelber understood that agriculture is more than a livelihood — it is a legacy …
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