Also known as WOWNet, the network has over 150 newsletter subscribers, with plans to expand in the next year through workshops and events around the state.
Symone Hildenbrand, an OSU Extension intern this past summer in Lincoln County, followed her mother, Kaety, and grandfather, Bob, into Extension service.
This year, the Oregon State University Extension Service has been offering classes for small-acreage farmers to create a better understanding of the law and its 2023 changes.
Jenifer Cruickshank, Melissa Fery and Audrey Comerford won awards at the 2024 National Association of County Agricultural Agents (NACAA) annual meeting, held in Dallas in July.
In each newsletter there are suggestions and modifications — sticky notes — that allow each topic to be accessible and customized to ingredients on hand or mobility level.
The Extension internship provides opportunities for interns to gain hands-on experience as an Extension employee. Four former interns went on to land jobs with OSU Extension, and three are current employees.
Christy Tanner, an assistant professor of practice based in the Willamette Valley, uses the drone and its two cameras to measure the damage voles are doing to the grass seed crop.
Francesca Lear |
Sep 5, 2024 |
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Cultivating Companions is a partnership with the Jackson County Library District that uses plants as a means of building connection among local older adults.
To keep waterways healthy and sewage free, boat holding-tank pumpouts, portable toilet dump stations and floating restrooms are available across Oregon’s popular boating and fishing areas.
In addition to hosting more than two dozen webinars that have been viewed by thousands of people, in the last four years the program has facilitated community preparedness partnerships and landscape planning processes.
The project aims to provide a basic overview and proactive activities and measures that people can take to mitigate production market and financial risks, and the process by which cattle producers can resume business
The scientists involved were OSU Extension’s Ariel Cowan and Katie Wollstein, who spent several days with the cohort talking about wildfire on Oregon’s high desert rangelands and forests – its ecology, what drives it and the challenges to manage it.
The conference brought together six land grant universities, including OSU, to highlight initiatives funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture National Institute for Food Agriculture.
The overarching goal of this all-day field trip for students from Alliance at Joseph Meek Technical High School was to explore careers in natural resources and hear from those in the field.
