WSU Lind Dryland research station

100-year weather watching award for Lind Dryland Station

By Seth Truscott, College of Agricultural, Human & Natural Resource Sciences LIND, Wash. – Staff at the Washington State University Dryland Research Station at Lind earned kudos for logging 100 years of official weather data that helps farmers and scientists understand the past and prepare for the future.

Satellites may help monitor soil conditions

  LIND, Wash. – In the six counties of central and eastern Washington where wheat growers can count on only 8 to 12 inches of precipitation annually, they fallow fields for a year between crops to accumulate enough moisture to grow the next crop. There’s another thing growers are trying to save: their soil.   […]