AGRICULTURE Celebrating winter vegetables and developing Oregon’s Winter Vegetable Market Plant breeders and chefs collaborated in creating tasting dishes for the Variety Showcase in February in Portland. Photo by Shawn Linehan NWREC hosted over 90 participants for the winter vegetable Read More
AGRICULTURE New approach to machine harvesting blueberries The continued growth of the blueberry industry in the Pacific Northwest, coupled with the ongoing and critical labor shortages in the agriculture sector, has made it imperative to find new effective ways to Read More
AGRICULTURE Small Farms program provides support for farmers during Pandemic Agriculture is essential work, and now more than ever our communities will benefit from – and need – our local food system. The OSU Extension Small Farms Program is working Read More
AGRICULTURE Harvest Dinner has a different look in 2020 Alan Sams, Dean of OSU College of Agricultural Sciences, shared thoughts about Oregon agriculture at the 2019 Harvest dinner. He spoke virtually at the 2020 Harvest Dinner. The NWREC Harvest Dinner Read More
AGRICULTURE Summer student help adjusts to COVID-19 Every summer the faculty at NWREC hire students to assist with their field research projects. Over the past several years we have had about 30 students join us to work and learn. Half Read More
AGRICULTURE A quest for the best Oregon olive Olive plants trials at NWREC will help determine the hardiest cold weather varieties for growing in Oregon. The olive industry shows promise as another potential specialty crop in Oregon, but one of Read More