Progress: Advancing the future of agriculture and natural resources
The Research Magazine for the Oregon State University Agricultural Experiment Station
By Heidi Happonen The School IPM Program at Oregon State University’s College of Agricultural Sciences Extension works with schools and school districts across the state to ensure a safe environment…
An Overview of Research in the OSU Honey Bee Lab by Ben Davis Most of us are familiar with the grim truth about bee declines worldwide. Terms like “honey bee decline” and “colony collapse…
Research, teaching and outreach continues during the COVID-19 crisis When Oregon State University closed its buildings statewide in mid-March to help limit the spread of the COVID-19 virus, Dave Stone…
As the COVID-19 pandemic hit Oregon, faculty in the College of Agricultural Sciences responded by creating trusted resources for the public. Victory for Gardening For decades, the Oregon State University…
OSU expert helps keep Oregon No. 1 in the nation for holiday evergreens There are no picture-perfect Christmas trees at Oregon State University’s North Willamette Research and Extension Center. That’s…
Video Playtime: 2 minutes. Greg Harris earned his Bachelor of Science in Crop & Soil Science from OSU’s program at Eastern Oregon University in 1997. He later joined Threemile Canyon…
Oregon State University’s turfgrass program is a national leader in researching alternatives to chemically treating golf courses for disease. Forty years after the release of the classic golf comedy Caddyshack,…
The economic and scientific opportunities with a material that has been illegal for the past 80+ years is nearly immeasurable. “Why ‘Global’?” That’s one of the first questions Dr. Jay…
Working with germplasm from around the world, OSU breeder Shawn Mehlenbacher turns disaster into opportunity for Oregon’s now-thriving hazelnut industry. Late each fall, Shawn Mehlenbacher plants hazelnut trees at the…
Oregon hazelnut growers begin to benefit from the blight-resistant trees bred by OSU’s Shawn Mehlenbacher. In the field, in the lab, or travelling the world, Shawn Mehlenbacher concentrates on a…