Wenatchee Tree Fruit Research and Extension Center

Research at WSU Tree Fruit Research and Extension Center near Wenatchee is focused on bacteria that can wipe out an entire Northwest apple orchard in a single season.  Fire Blight was named for the crooked, blackened branches it leaves behind.  Gr...

As cherries continue to ripen across the Inland Northwest, Washington State University is warning growers to be on the lookout of Spotted Wing Drosophila.  According to WSU’s Tree Fruit Research Center in Wenatchee, Spotted Wing Drosophila has started to appear in monitoring traps.  The impa...

Washington State University’s Board of Regents recently approved the university’s 2019-21 operating and capital budget, which included several agriculture related requests.  In the Capital Budget the school approved $36.4 million for Phase II of the Global Animal Health Building.  The capital an...

On Wednesday, Washington State University announced the four final candidates for the dean of the College of Agricultural, Human and Natural Resource Sciences.  Identified through a national search process, the finalists will visit WSU the two weeks following Thanksgiving (the weeks of Nov. 27 ...