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Shikha Singh is a soil scientist at WSU’s Lind Dryland Research Station who specializes in soil health.

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WSU director has a love for dry land farming
June 15, 2023 5:15 p.m.

WSU director has a love for dry land farming

LIND — The dryland wheat farming region of Washington state is probably the driest place in the world where farmers manage to grow wheat without irrigation, according to Surendra Singh, the new director of Washington State University’s Lind Dryland Research Station. “Because we have rain for around nine and nine-and-a-half inches, which is just barely enough,” Singh said...