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Bryan Carlson presented during the WSU Crop and Soils Sciences Seminar series. The title of his talk was "Managing Agroecological Data: Challenges and Solutions from a Member of the Long-Term Agroecological Research Network". Although the presentation was not recorded, his slides can be found here:   ...

As more data begins to show up on the website (http://www.cafltar.org/data/) and with the reformatting of the Eddy Covariance Flux Tower Data dashboard, it behooves us to take a minute to explain the data being displayed and its potential usage from a researcher’s perspective. Today, the core meteorology data. The “research-grade” data and instruments will be presented in subse ...

Given the sudden onset of some rather chilly (and snowy) weather; I thought it would be worth taking a quick look at how early Pullman experiences freezing temperatures. There are two metrics I’ll be looking at: the first day after July 1 where we record a minimum daily temperature (TMIN) below freezing and the first day after July 1 we experience a maximum daily temperature be ...

With harvest season comes interesting work at the Cook Agronomy Farm. To illustrate, here's a fun image by Larry McGrew of one of our combines after the changing of the concave grate and upper sieve from 16 mm wheat concave and sieve to a 6 mm concave grate and sieve for millet and canola. ...

David Huggins, our research leader, was asked to give a presentation about CAF during a recent Long-Term Agroecological Research network meeting. You can view a recording below: (click here if the below video does not play) ...

I've found that, sometimes, the work that we do here at the Cook Agronomy Farm, well it may take a very long time to see the power of it, if at all. Sometimes, it can be a little discouraging in fact. The Palouse Conservation Field Station has been collecting Acid Rain data since August 20, 1985. Our own Bob Barry has been doing it since 1995. For those of you that ran out of f ...

So, there were some conversations about doing the same pleasant day calculation but to take into account just the period of day when people are generally active. In part, this came from the discussion of the diurnal temperature range and the minimum temperature as they relate to the criteria used and from my own curiosity.