Glanbia’s dairy product innovations can be hard to see, their impacts hard to quantify.
CROW, Ore. — Phil Hibler had been interested in hop production from a young age, but it wasn’t until after he recovered from a neck injury that he decided to pursue it as a business venture.
Hazelnuts are the most important orchard crop in Oregon’s Willamette Valley, where nearly the entire U.S. crop is produced.
When a sparkling new combine, tractor or sprayer debuts with big fanfare in equipment dealers’ lots, chances are it took years and many millions of dollars to develop and build.
TWIN FALLS, Idaho — You won’t find a high-volume, see-what-sticks approach to innovating products at Chobani, the Greek-style yogurt maker that’s expanding again in south central Idaho.
CLACKAMAS, Ore. — Stephen Burtt has seen the future and it’s. ... wait, let him ask you: Have you seen “Star Wars?”
Stefano Musacchi: A top thinker in tree fruit physiology finds a home in Washington state
Philomath, Ore. — John Eveland’s farming venture started modestly enough: He wanted a source of fresh produce for his sister’s vegetarian restaurant.
MOUNT VERNON, Wash. — A scientist who investigates diseases that afflict vegetables in northwest Washington grew up in a large city in South Africa uninterested in plants.
Forester Norm Johnson was enticed by “a career that lets me wander around the woods,” but his time is often spent in the thicket of controversy.
Mary Palmer Sullivan cultivates relationships, whether it’s between Washington grain growers and their overseas customers or between the commission she represents and the university researcher…
PORTLAND — In case there is any doubt how New Seasons Market views its vendors, a reminder is posted in the entry of the chain’s less-than-palatial headquarters in North Portland.
WENATCHEE, Wash. — Mark Mazzola has been investigating replant disease in apple orchards for 20 years and says he’s found a solution that may work better than soil fumigation.