Parker Dawson

Technology in the form of virtual meetings, have been a lifesaver at the Washington Grain Commission during the pandemic. But as a re-placement for face-to-face interactions with our overseas customers, it’s a pale substitute. We have done our best to pivot during the quarantine, with our office and our national export organization, U.S. Wheat Associates, […]

PACIFIC NORTHWEST WATERWAYS ASSOCIATION FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEContact: Scott Clemans, PNWA Communications Director503-234-8551 (office) / 360-980-2650 (mobile) / scott.clemans@pnwa.net PNWA reacts to Simpson proposal to breach dams, increase regional carbon emissions PORTLAND, Ore. – The Pacific Northwest Waterways Association has reviewed a plan proposed by Rep. Mike Simpson (R, ID-2) to establish a $32 billion “Columbia

NEWS RELEASE A Congressman plans to breach dams Lower Snake River Dams targeted again –increasing carbon with end to navigation and removing clean power (February 4, 2021, Spokane, WA) A southern Idaho Congressman who has more than a dozen dams within his state without fish passage has floated a plan to breach the four lower

By Joe Bippert After years of study and millions of dollars spent, a draft federal environment impact statement (EIS) on hydroelectric dam operations in the Columbia Basin is being debated. Public comments addressing the draft will be received until April 13. The latest iteration is the sixth time federal agencies have attempted to come up

Australia’s early weed resistance informs PNW path forward By Ian Burke and Arron Carter We’re in a very different world now from the one that five of us left last February for a two weeks fact finding tour of Australia to investigate that country’s response to weed resistance and weed management. Besides ourselves, the group

By Drew Lyon I’ve spent a good deal of my time in recent years working on herbicide resistance, observing in real time as Eastern Washington wheat growers lose effective herbicides as resistance in weeds, including Italian ryegrass and downy brome, grows. The phenomenon is not limited to this region. The Midwest is well ahead of

By Bob Brueggeman Barley was an important small grain cereal crop grown on large acreage in Washington State until about a decade ago. The grain back then was targeted for domestic and overseas feed markets, hence the barley breeding program at Washington State University has historically been focused on high yielding feed varieties. As advanced

Breeders soak up oversea experiences By Mike Pumphrey One of the best things about working in agriculture is seeing the fruits (or seeds) of my labor turn into products people enjoy and rely on for nutrition. Watching people eat foods baked from wheat that I’ve had a hand in creating gives me enormous satisfaction. And

Soft white (SW) wheat is the fourth largest class of wheat grown in the United States with an annual average production over the last five years of 6.32 million metric tons (MMT), or about 232 million bushels. Although SW is the fourth largest class measured by production, it is the third largest if measured by exports