Bringing Hazelnuts Back From the Brink: Chapter 2
Oregon hazelnut growers begin to benefit from the blight-resistant trees bred by OSU’s Shawn Mehlenbacher. In the...
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Bringing Hazelnuts Back From the Brink: Chapter 1
Shawn Mehlenbacher arrives at OSU to find the Oregon hazelnut industry defenseless against eastern filbert blight. In the fall of 1986, plant breeder Shawn Mehlenbacher arrived at Oregon State University….
Station Profile: Seeds of Success
OSU’s Central Oregon Agricultural Research and Extension Center remains rooted in central Oregon’s massive seed industry. Long before carrots become a snack or a side dish on your dinner plate,…
Station Profile: Going With the Grain
Their names included Turkey, Rex, Elmar, and Omar. And don’t forget Gaines and Moro. In the first 40 years at Oregon State University’s agricultural experiment station near Pendleton, wheat breeders…
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The Legacy of the Land Grant
A historic shift in education and engagement continues to serve our communities. Imagine a country where…
Station Profile: Research on the Range
It’s more than cattle at the Eastern Oregon Agricultural Research Center stations. A flock of…
The Evolution of Beer
The world’s second-oldest beverage keeps on bubbling along. The other day Patrick Hayes invited a…
In Search of the Granted Land
In preparing for the 150th anniversary of Oregon’s land grant university, we found ourselves wondering:…
Oregon’s Land-Grant Legacy Timeline
In 1862, at the height of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln signed the law that…
Update: Researchers Dig Deep into Dry Farming
In 2015, Amy Garrett planted tomatoes, squash, beans, and melons at Oregon State University in…
Farm to Ledger
The number of small farms in Oregon has steadily grown in the last few decades….
An Owl, Spotted
Nearly 50 years ago, an OSU student pioneered northern spotted owl research in the Pacific…