Thursday, December 25, 2025

ARTICLES BY SHELDON TOWNSEND

WSDA Seed Program It All Starts With A Seed

"It All Starts with a Seed, Seeds feed the world," says Washington State Department of Agriculture Seed Program Manager Victor Shaul. You go into a grocery store, Shaul explains, and nearly everything in there "starts with a seed." Shaul, who has been with the WSDA seed program for thirty years, …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 9 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO

Matthew Blua Assists Growers in Multiple Ways

"I get to work with really great people," says Matthew Blua, Director of Industry Outreach at the Washington State Potato Commission. Not only the people in the Commission office, he explains, but "potato people are great to work with." Blua's job at the potato commission has four areas, he explains. …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 9 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO

National Holstein Convention Where Youth Learn and Compete

"They learn a lot," says Cathy Boisseranc, Washington State Junior Holstein Advisor for the National Holstein Convention of the youth from Washington State that will be attending the convention in late June.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 9 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO

Tanner Pugh Benefits From NILE Merit Heifer Program

COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 9 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO

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