9.17.19 Join the Nisshin Crop Quality Team for their swing south from Spokane on August 20, 2019 as they continue to investigate growing conditions and harvest expectations for Eastern Washington’s crop in episode 143, entitled: It’s Always a Delight Leading the Nisshin Crop Quality Team! Second Day. Listen in as elevator company officials from Rockford, […]
9.10.19 The Nisshin Crop Quality Team which surveys Eastern Washington’s wheat fields every August during harvest season is not an obligation to Scott Yates, director of communications and producer relations for the Washington Grain Commission. Instead, Yates, who leads the team, views the Nisshin visits as an opportunity to get the straight scoop from six […]
9.3.19 Anyone who has ordered anything over the internet knows how e-commerce has changed the retailing game—changes that have come to agriculture. Various websites now offer farmers discounted chemicals and fertilizers delivered direct to the farm. Jim Fitzgerald, executive director of the Far West Agribusiness Association, acknowledges the phenomenon, but says it also represents an […]
8.27.19 If you’ve never had the opportunity to listen to Jim Fitzgerald speak about issues of importance to agriculture, you’re in for a treat in episode 140 as the executive director of the Far West Agribusiness Association combines years of bureaucratic experience with his background as a wheat farmer and cattle rancher. Fitzgerald left his […]
8.20.19 Direct seeders practice what they preach and Ty Meyer, executive director of the Pacific Northwest Direct Seed Association, (PNDSA), is an articulate spokesman for what that is exactly. Meyer, who also serves as production ag manager for the Spokane Conservation District, suggests that direct seeding is as much a system of change as a […]
8.13.19 Robots are on the cusp of transforming agriculture, but a potentially bigger revolution is in the field of synthetic biology. In episode 138 entitled: Is Synthetic Biology the Playbook for Playing God?, Michael Neff, a professor in the Department of Crops and Soil Sciences at WSU, outlines how scientists now have the tools to […]
8.6.19 Jeremy Wolf, meteorologist at the National Weather Service outside Spokane, returns for a fourth time to Wheat All About It! in episode 137 entitled: The February From Hell and the March and April from Heck, as he looks back at the record breaking snow, cold and blizzard events that occurred as the 2018/2019 winter […]
7.30.19 In the second half of his conversation with Jim Cook entitled: Retired, Not Forgotten: Jim “Root Disease” Cook—2, Scott Yates, director of communications and producer relations for the Washington Grain Commission, quizzes the retired ARS plant pathologist about the demonization of glyphosate, his relationship with wheat breeder Orville Vogel and research on two Eastern […]
7.23.19 A refresher course in wheat root diseases and the havoc they cause, the discovery of the importance of “the green bridge” when planting, how pH levels affect disease pathogens and much more is on tap in episode 134 entitled: Retired, Not Forgotten: Jim “Root Disease” Cook. A plant pathologist who spent most of his […]
7.16.19 It’s rare that an industry can lay claim to changing the world, but the Mill City Museum in Minneapolis, Minnesota argues that modern flour milling did just that. Join Scott Yates, director of communications for the Washington Grain Commission, on a tour of the museum on the banks of the Mississippi River in episode […]
