Indigo Rose tomato featured in photo show "A Year in the Willamette Valley"
OSU Vegetable Breeding Program's Indigo Rose tomato proves that vegetables can be beautiful as well as healthy.
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Plant breeder and professor Shawn Mehlenbacher explains how research from OSU saved the Oregon hazelnut industry.

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Growing Berries on the Oregon Coast
An overview...
A gutsy study of pear psylla (Good Fruit Grower)
Other collaborators include Beers; Dalila Rendon, an Oregon State University postdoctoral associate; and Richard Hilton, an OSU entomologist. They have been sending Cooper samples of psylla from...
Armyworms surprise grass seed growers (Capital Press)
“There was massive feeding to newly harvested fields; it was really an all-hands-on-deck type of situation,” said Nicole Anderson, Oregon State University Extension Field Crops Agronomist in...
No room for a vegetable garden? Create a space with potted plants (Oregonian)
Limited garden space precludes being able to grow some of the larger vegetables, according to Brooke Edmunds, Oregon State University Extension Service horticulturist. For instance, growing corn on...
Pink radicchio is ready for its close up – and your plate (Bon Appetit)
However, many varieties exist, some of which have even sought protected geographical status. Lane Selman, an agricultural researcher at Oregon State University and the founder of the Culinary...
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Strawberry Field Day
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Caneberry Field Day
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Blueberry Field Day
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