Washington agriculture
2 stories filed under Washington agriculture on Wazzu. The newest of them: “At the Fair, WSU Serves Up a Century of Washington Farm History” and “Dean Khosla Makes the Case That Land-Grant Still Means Something”. The Washington State Fair runs for a few weeks each fall, but WSU's booth there runs for a century. Dean Khosla says the land-grant mission still means something. The unofficial read for people who left Pullman and stayed Cougs. The list below is every Washington agriculture story on Wazzu, newest first.
At the Fair, WSU Serves Up a Century of Washington Farm History
The Washington State Fair runs for a few weeks each fall, but WSU's booth there runs for a century. That is the kind of fact that stops you mid-bite into a scone. The university is serving up a hundred years of Washington farm history at the fair this year, and it is exactly the right thing to do. Pullman is a farm town. The whole Palouse is. WSU started as an agricultural college, and that work still pays the bills in ways most people never see. So standing at the fair and telling that story, how the research from our ag programs shaped what grows in this state, how it keeps farms running, how it puts food on tables, is not nostalgia. It is the truth. This is the kind of coverage that matters. Not every WSU story has to be about a game or a grant number. Sometimes it is about a booth at the fair where a family can learn why Washington apples taste the way they do. That is the university showing up for the people who pay for it. If you want to see how that same practical, roll-up-your-sleeves thinking shows up in other places, read our piece on President Betsy Cantwell talking about AI. She says WSU's job is making it useful, not flashy. Same instinct, different century. Go Cougs.
Dean Khosla Makes the Case That Land-Grant Still Means Something
Dean Khosla says the land-grant mission still means something. Not as a dusty plaque on a wall. As a real, working promise. The Cashup Davis Family Endowed Dean of WSU's College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences wrote an essay making that case, and it lands hard because he's not selling nostalgia. He's talking about what a university owes the place it sits in. That matters here. Pullman isn't a backdrop. It's the point. When a dean of a college with "Agricultural" in its name says land-grant still counts, he's not defending history. He's drawing a line from the research plots to the dinner table to the rural clinic. We see that same thread in our piece on WSU taking health care into a Spokane elementary school hallway. It's not a theory. It's a hallway. Khosla's essay is worth your time because it doesn't pretend the work is easy or that the mission is finished. It just says it's still ours. That's a take you can text a friend in Seattle, Spokane, or wherever the Palouse wind blew you. Go Cougs.