New research aims to help fruit growers battling the dreaded Spotted-wing drosophila
By Heidi Happonen The Spotted-wing drosophila (SWD; Drosophila suzukii) is a notorious pest that feeds…
Hope to an End of Pointing Fingers Across the Klamath Basin
New research may finally determine exactly what is causing water quality issues in the region…
$3 million USDA grant seeds future of an industry
By Heidi Happonen Dr. Jeremiah Dung, Associate Professor in the Department of Botany and Plant…
New NIFA funding advances understanding of agricultural microbiomes
A USDA NIFA research grant was recently awarded to expand the work of Dr. Posy…
Urban Agriculture | Cultivating opportunity
When Gail Langellotto first started building an urban agriculture program at Oregon State University in…
Teaching in the time of COVID-19
Transforming hands-on, sensory-intensive classes for a virtual environment At the beginning of March, it was…
The Pursuit of an Impossible Food
Dr. Reva Barewal noticed her patients had trouble eating long after their surgeries, and collaborated…
What can plants teach us about a pandemic?
At the start of the year, the United Nations declared 2020 the International Year of…
Research, Readers and Reinvention
A look at what surveying our readers taught us about Oregon’s Agricultural Progress. Oregon’s Agricultural…
Launching a New Frontier: The Global Hemp Innovation Center
The economic and scientific opportunities with a material that has been illegal for the past…