Field day returns to WSU wheat farm
WSU researcher Clark Neely, right, describes this year’s spring wheat research trials while WSU researcher Mike Pumphrey looks on during the WSU Dryland Research Station in Lind’s annual field day on June 16. It was the first field day tour at the research station since 2019, when the event was canceled in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Charles H. Featherstone
Winter wheat test plots at the Washington State University Dryland Research Station in Lind. Wheat is doing better this year, thanks to ample rain, though late planting and cooler mean it’s about two weeks behind where it would normally be in development.
Participants in the 2022 field day at WSU’s Dryland Research Station in Lind stand in the midst of spring wheat trials. Farmers and researchers came from across Eastern Washington to listen to presentations on winter and spring wheat tests, the latest information on wheat diseases affecting the region, oilseed crop rotation alternatives and high-tech herbicide spraying technology.
LIND — Washington State University wheat researcher Mike Pumphrey said that after last year’s drought and heat wave, he simply did not expect it to rain as much as it has this year.
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