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: ...
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Measurements, and data, and more, oh my!
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 ...
Cold as Ice...
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 ...
Preparing the combine for millet and canola
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. ...
A presentation about Cook Agronomy Farm by Dave Huggins
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) ...