Oregon grape growers face challenges as the frequency and severity of extreme heat events increase due to climate change. Here's how grape growers can protect their crops during a heat wave.
As Oregon gardeners have noticed, our climate is changing — it's hotter, drier and more severe. Learn how to adapt your home garden to climate change, from consuming less to planting with the environment in mind.
Mature cattle grazing in pastures with rapidly growing grass are sometimes afflicted with a disease called grass tetany. The cause is a lack of magnesium in the grass. Here's what to look for and how to treat it.
This report examines the relationship between the size of individual farmers' markets and the set of management tools used by farmers' markets. Farmers' markets will benefit from using the specific set of management tools and resources appropriate for the size of the market.
Garry Stephenson, Larry Lev, Linda Brewer |
Dec 2007 |
Extension Catalog publicationPeer reviewed (Orange level)
Reports on research conducted with farmers markets in Oregon. Explores how market resources influence success and failure, gives insights into markets that fail, and suggests other concerns related to market failure. ...
Garry Stephenson, Larry Lev, Linda Brewer |
Dec 2006 |
Extension Catalog publicationPeer reviewed (Orange level)
Most farmers' markets lack information to make effective changes and improvements. Tools for Rapid Market Assessments provides three simple, low-cost methods to address the information gap.
Larry Lev, Linda Brewer, Garry Stephenson |
May 2008 |
Extension Catalog publicationPeer reviewed (Orange level)
Provides: (1) Basic information necessary to develop a plan for marketing fresh produce and other specialty products, (2) A framework for conducting a thorough market analysis, and (3) Information sources to help ...
Q: Several brown, dead rings have formed in my lawn this summer. They seem to coincide with a type of mushroom. Are the mushrooms causing this? Is there any treatment short of applying a fungicide that is effective? Will the lawn recover on its own?
The OSU Dry Farming Project continues as the go-to resource for dry farming and model for participatory climate adaptation research as growers throughout the West continue to feel the impacts of drought and seek alternatives to unreliable summer irrigation.