Achievement

The Cook Agronomy Farm (CAF) at WSU provides an intersection of research programs involving a number of NSPIRE students as well as students involved in our Regional Approaches for Climate Change (REACCH) USDA program. During the past year, NSPIRE students Brown, Kelley, Martin, Moon and Waldo helped coordinated a large faculty/student effort to develop a comprehensive Nitrogen, Carbon, and Water budget for CAF which will be the first detailed budget of this type for dryland cereal cropping systems. The initial results, presented for the NSPIRE poster competition, shows that as much as 30% of the N inputs cannot yet be accounted for in N losses due to harvest, leaching, or air emissions.