Seminar

Steve is the founder of innov8.ag, a Walla Walla-based agtech startup and Microsoft-partnered company.  Prior to embarking on the startup, Steve spent 12 years at Microsoft with a focus on cloud services. He envisions Walla Walla as the perfect base for ag startups given the convergence of progressive farmers and three colleges with strengths in […]

The summer Virtual Meetup program has brought together growers, researchers, government, and Extension agents to have an international conversation about important tree fruit topics, connecting industry leaders across North America. This year's webinar series will focus on the topic of "Managing the Uncontrollable." Over the past decade, growers have been forced to confront wildly vacillating […]

Over the past decade, growers have been forced to confront wildly vacillating winter temperatures, uneven and often excessively heavy precipitation events, and extremely hot temperatures coupled with extended droughts. We will showcase growers and other specialists who are leading the development of solutions to these challenges facing the industry. This effort is being conducted across […]

AgWeatherNet (AWN) provides Washington State farmers, gardeners, researchers, and policy makers with weather data and weather-related decision-support tools to improve agricultural production (yield and quality), efficiency, and profitability while minimizing environmental impacts. AWN was established to serve irrigated agriculture in central Washington, but with a legislative mandate to serve the entire state has expanded to better […]

The AgAID Institute is a university-led, transdisciplinary, National AI Research Institute with core funding from the US Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture. Launched in 2021, our Institute is developing Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions to help address the complex challenges of agriculture related to labor, water scarcity, weather events, and climate change. […]