Compost Tea and Food Safety
Bary, A. and D. Granatstein. 2003. This article discusses the increasing interest in use of compost teas for food production and potential food safety risks.
Publications
The Precision Irrigation Development and Demonstration Project – December 2003
Article in Sustaining the Pacific Northwest Newsletter
Vanquishing the Vole – June 2003
Article in Sustaining the Pacific Northwest Newsletter
Green Manuring Mustard: Improving an Old Technology – June 2003
Article in Sustaining the Pacific Northwest Newsletter
Dairy Waste Composting
Myers Collins, K., R. Shumway and Q. Liu. May, 2003. WSU Extension Bulletin EB1947B. This bulletin discusses on-farm manure and straw bedding composting methods, costs, benefits and economics of composting, and marketing of compost. Additional information on this topic can be found in Extension Bulletins EB1947E and EB1948E.
Mustard Green Manures
WSU Extension Bulletin FS219E. Updated in 2016
Using Green Manures in Potato Cropping Systems
WSU Extension Bulletin FS218E. Revised 2016.
Green Manuring with Mustard: Improving an Old Technology
Green manure summary article in Agrichemical & Environmental News, June 2003.
Bioenergy inventory and assessment for Eastern Washington.
Shulin Chen, Craig Frear, BingCheng Zhao, and Guobin Fu. October 2003. This Phase 1 project assessed Eastern Washington′s twenty counties for available biomass and calculated the potential energy production from twenty four organic resource types. Annual production of 4.3 million tons of underutilized dry biomass was found.