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Water Quality Assessment Approved
The Washington State Department of Ecology is pleased to announce that the Water Quality Assessment submitted to EPA on September 28, 2015 has been approved…
Water Sampling Done Simply
This document is meant to provide simple, easy to follow recommendations for water quality sampling under the FSMA Produce Safety Rule for Agricultural Water testing. The…
Monitoring and Conserving Earwigs in Washington State Apple Orchards
Studies show earwigs can suppress woolly apple aphid populations and they also feed on many other pests, including rosy apple aphid, apple aphid, codling moth…
Quarantine Diseases: Biology and Current Research with Pathogens of Manchurian Crabapple
In 2012 China closed their doors to US apples because of three diseases Bull’s eye Rot, Speck Rot (Phacidiopycnis washingtonensis) and Sphaeropsis Rot (Sphaeropsis pyriputrescens).…
Bartlett Pear Pruning
Dr. Stefano Musacchi, professor of horticulture at Washington State University and Bob Gix, horticulturist at Blue Star Orchard shared pear pruning ideas at this spring’s…
“Sunrise Magic” new market name for WA 2 Apple
The first apple variety released by Washington State University, WA 2, will be given the brand name Sunrise Magic.
‘Alien’ Wasp that kills host discovered in Washington
The discovery in Washington state of a parasitic wasp that kills its host like a scene from the “Alien” sci-fi movie has entomologists cheering. That’s…
