S everal farmers and gardeners in Washington State lost most of their vegetable crops in 2010 due to the effects of aminopyralid herbicide residues that originated from composted dairy manure. For...
Agroforestry combines agriculture and forestry technologies to create a more integrated, diverse, productive, profitable, healthy, and sustainable land-use system that is especially beneficial to the...
In 2008, Dr. Dan Sullivan and I published an OSU publication about heavy metals in garden and landscape soils due to many questions of concern about this topic. Here I will summarize the main points...
One year ago I wrote an article about agroforestry being an option for small scale farmers who may have forestry land that is not is not currently providing any income until harvest time (Figure 1)....
In the past decade, there has been rising interest in reducing livestock supplementation/hay and increasing grazing and use of stock-piled winter forages. While this can be very successful depending...
Nitrogen is an essential element necessary for plants to grow especially for forages. Nitrogen is important in so many physiological pathways such as chlorophyll, protein synthesis, photosynthesis,...
F ood-borne illness outbreaks have made numerous headlines in the past two years and the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), estimates that every year, 76 million cases of food-borne...
Potassium (K) is an essential nutrient to corn production. It is associated with movement of water, nutrients, and carbohydrates in plant tissue and if deficient, growth is stunted and yields are...
