The WSU Mount Vernon NWREC Annual Field Day is a free event open to the public. Beginning at 3:00 pm faculty and graduate students will host a walking tour of some of the nearly 150 acres of active research plots at the Center. Hear about current research projects and learn how work at the Center impacts growers, consumers, agricultural businesses and local economies throughout the region. Two tractor-driven wagons will be available for non-walkers. At 4:45 pm we will return to the Sakuma Auditorium to provide an opportunity for more in-depth questions. Our program will conclude at 5:30 pm. Visitors are invited to stay for a barbecue in the Center’s Auditorium. Enjoy a locally prepared meal and help us welcome new Dean of the College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences, Dr. André-Denis Wright.

2018 Mount Vernon Field Day Flier

Field Day Agenda (pdf)

Field day presentations include:

• Composting, biochar and potatoes
  Steven Seefeldt
• Plastic mulches in red raspberry
  Huan Zhang
• Spinach Fusarium wilt
  Sanjaya Gyawali
• Sweet corn damping-off
  Mike Derie
• Mycorrhizae project
  Louisa Winkler/Paul Morgan
• Improving pollination and yield in blueberry
  Gan Weixin
• Increasing runner production in day-neutral strawberry
  Nadia Bostan
• Bulb fennel production in Northwest Washington
  Yao Mu
• Cover crop impact on potatoes
  Don McMoran
• Cider education program
  Brianna Ewing
• Grafting for watermelon production and its importance
  Pinki Devi
• Cider apple orchard management and fruit quality
  Travis Alexander
• Grafting as a management technique for verticillium wilt
  Abigail Attavar
• SCRI BDM study on sweet corn
  Huan Zhang
• Can lignin degrading organisms reduce verticillium wilt
  Lydia Tymon