WASHINGTON AGRICULTURE &
FORESTRY EDUCATION FOUNDATION
9211 E. Mission, Suite J; Spokane, WA 99206-4096
509-926-9113; FAX 509-926-6993
E-mail: leaders@agforestry.org
Web site: www.agforestry.org
David Roseleip, President
E-mail: dave@agforestry.org
WASHINGTON APPLE COMMISSION
P.O. Box 18; Wenatchee, WA 98807
509-663-9600, Ext. 234; FAX 509-662-5824
Web site: www.bestapples.com
The purpose of the commission is to administer the federal MAP grants, to protect the Washington apple logo, and to subsidize industry organizations. The commission has 13 board members, nine growers and four shippers, and is representative of all major production districts of the state.
WASHINGTON APPLE
EDUCATION FOUNDATION
P.O. Box 3720; Wenatchee, WA 98807-3720
509-663-7713; FAX 509-682-1293
Web site: www.waef.org
Jennifer Whitney, Executive Director
E-mail: jennifer@waef.org
"The Washington Apple Education Foundation (WAEF) fosters educational opportunities, encourages academic excellence and promotes the values of Washington's tree fruit industry."
WAEF is best known for providing and managing industry scholarships. Yearly, over $100,000 is pledged to students continuing their education at community colleges and four-year universities. Scholarships are made honoring the memory of industry leaders, in the name of industry organizations, and through funds voluntarily contributed to WAEF.
A farmworker education program is also coordinated and promoted by WAEF. The program provides college scholarships to the students of farmworkers, to farmworkers themselves and to organization providing educational enhancements to farmworkers and their families. "English as a Second Language" curricula, summer learning programs, and library book purchases are a few of the programs receiving support from WAEF.
WAEF also manages the healthy Choices for Kids Web site, www.waef.org. This is a nutritional curriculum for first to fifth grade classrooms promoting the value of good nutrition and is distributed nationwide to educators.
Funding for WAEF is voluntary with support coming from growers, packers, shippers, industry suppliers and others. WAEF is governed by a board of directors consisting of industry members and by various committees.
WASHINGTON ASSOCIATION
OF WINE GRAPE GROWERS
P.O. Box 716; Cashmere, WA 98815
509-782-8234; FAX 509-782-1203
Web site: www.wawgg.org
Vicky Scharlau, Executive Director
Keith Klingele, Chair
The Washington Association of Wine Grape Growers was organized in 1983. The Association is supported solely by membership dues and proceeds from an annual educational meeting and trade show (the first week of each February), and support of allied and associate members.
The Washington Association of Wine Grape Growers are advocates for the Washington wine-growing industry by providing promotion, information, representation, education plus helping to maintain the unity of the industry.
The Association activities include work on their best management practices guidebook, cold hardiness, price list and market analysis, grape-dating service, helping to create Washington wine ambassadors, training growers, nurturing a system to promote local support system to sell Washington wine, a program/system to train growers, the Washington State Viticulture and Enology Education Consortium, identifying areas of industry concern (like water, minimum wage index, drift, quarantine), a plant improvement program education effort and educational events.
The nine-member board are elected by their peers and serve three-year terms. There is representation from growers, winemakers, and others associated with the wine grape industry.
WASHINGTON GROWERS
CLEARING HOUSE ASSOCIATION
1505 North Miller, Suite 260, P.O. Box 2207
Wenatchee, WA 98807-2207
509-662-6181; FAX 509-664-6670
E-mail: clearhse@waclearinghouse.org
Web site: www.waclearinghouse.org
Kirk Mayer, Manager
Serving some 2,600 grower-members in both north and south central Washington State, the organization disseminates marketing information. The association also acts as a vehicle to enable and facilitate grower participation in industry, state, and federal discussions of issues and regulatory processes impacting growers. It is governed by an elected 20-member tree fruit grower board of directors and is member-funded.
The marketing information provided over the years by the Clearing House has evolved into an extensive and timely tracking of pricing and movement of fruit according to grade, size, and pack of apples, pears, cherries, and other soft fruits. The Clearing House monitors both domestic and export sales.
The information is available to grower-members via a weekly newsletter and on the Internet. Internet reports include the weekly bulletin, daily market updates, annual summaries, storage and shrink information, and organic sales. Annual apple and pear summaries are also published showing a compilation of the monthly average f.o.b. price received for all major varieties separated by storage type. Red and Golden Delicious information includes monthly grade and size breakdowns.
WASHINGTON GROWERS LEAGUE
406 West Chestnut Avenue; Yakima, WA 98902
509-575-6315; FAX 509-452-4834
E-mail: info@growersleague.org
Mike Gempler, Executive Director
The Washington Growers League assists growers, packers, processors, and other employers in dealing with all agricultural labor-related issues. The league performs an advocacy function for ag employers on labor and employment legislation and regulations. At present, the league is representing member interests with regard to such issues as immigration, farmworker occupational safety and health, farmworker housing, wage and hour laws and regulations, and seasonal unemployment, among others. The league offers compliance handbooks, consultation, legal information, and training to its members.
WASHINGTON-OREGON
CANNING PEAR ASSOCIATION
1108-B West Lincoln Avenue; Yakima, WA 98902
509-452-8515; FAX 509-452-8528
E-mail: wocpa@yvn.com
Jay Grandy, Secretary/Manager
The association represents Bartlett pear producers in Oregon and Washington states. The association was formed to bargain on behalf of member producers with canning pear processors in Oregon and Washington to establish the per-ton price growers receive for their Bartlett pears of a determined grade and size.
In addition to its bargaining mandate, the association has become an information clearing house for both canners and Bartlett pear producers in the two states.
The association works closely with both fresh and canned product promoters and marketers to boost the sales and consumption of canned pears, including the Pear Bureau Northwest and the Pacific Northwest Canned Pear Service.
WASHINGTON STATE FARM BUREAU
P.O. 2009, 1011 11th Ave SE; Olympia, WA 98501
800-331-3276; Web site: www.wsfb.com
Dean Boyer, Public Relations Director
E-mail: dboyer@wsfb.com
Dan Wood, Government Relations Director
E-mail: dwood@wsfb.com
Linda Harvey, Retro/Safety Program Director
WASHINGTON STATE
FRUIT COMMISSION
105 South 18th Street, Suite 205
Yakima, WA 98901
509-453-4837; FAX 509-453-4880
E-mail: info@wastatefruit.com
Web site: www.wastatefruit.com
B.J. Thurlby, President
JoAnne Daniels, Treasurer
The Washington State Fruit Commission is a nonprofit political subdivision of the State of Washington. The commission collects assessments on sweet cherries, peaches, apricots, prunes, plums, pears, and nectarines for the purpose of promotion, advertising, education, and consumer research.
Northwest Cherry Growers, comprised of fresh sweet cherry producers from Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Utah, operates under the umbrella of the commission.
Since 1991, all Washington fresh pear promotion has been served by the Pear Bureau Northwest. Processed pears from Washington and Oregon are promoted through the Pacific Northwest Canned Pear Service.
WASHINGTON STATE GRAPE SOCIETY
P.O. Box 267; Grandview, WA 98930
509-786-7888; FAX 509-786-7880
Web site: www.grapesociety.org
Craig Bardwell, Board President
Debbi Heintz, Executive Secretary
The purpose of the Washington State Grape Society nonprofit organization is for the overall advancement of the grape industry in Washington State. Its duties include collecting and distributing valuable data and information to our members, and protecting and assisting the grape interest in the state. Members are growers and industry personnel who have an interest in and lend their assistance to promoting the organization's purpose. The society organizes an annual grape seminar and trade show every November. The annual proceedings and a bi-monthly newsletter are posted on the Web site. The Washington Grape Society serves as a unified voice on important issues, supports legislative activities, sponsors annual pruning strategies and demonstrations, awards an annual scholarship, organizes a summer tour, and recognizes the Grower of the Year and Walter J. Clore Award. This year's annual meeting, seminar, and trade show tentatively has been scheduled for November 20-21, 2003, at the Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church, Grandview, Washington.
WASHINGTON STATE
HORTICULTURAL ASSOCIATION
1505 North Miller, Suite 260; Wenatchee, WA 98801
509-665-9641; FAX 509-665-8541
Web site: www.wahort.org
Barclay Crane, Board President
Jim Hazen, Executive Director
Now in its 99th year, the Washington State Horticultural Association is the tree fruit industry's advocate. Hort's goal is to advance and enhance the tree fruit industry through education, training, and political affairs.
Hort highlights include a three-day annual meeting and accompanying trade show each December. The annual meeting alternates between Wenatchee and Yakima, and the 2003 meeting will be held in Wenatchee. This will be the first year that the March Postharvest Conference will be combined with the December Annual Meeting. Hort continues to be the voice of tree fruit in Olympia and is building a full-scale government affairs program to promote and protect the livelihood of the tree fruit industry.
WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY
411B Hulbert Hall; Pullman, WA 99164-6230
509-335-2933; FAX 509-335-2926
Dr.Michael J. Tate, Dean and Director of
Cooperative Extension
Web site: http://ext.wsu.edu
Dr. Ed Adams, Director of Agriculture and
Natural Resources Programs
WSU Spokane, Phase 1, P.O. Box 1495
Spokane, WA 99210-1495
509-358-7960; FAX 509-358-7900
E-mail: adamse@wsu.edu
DEPARTMENTS
Agricultural Economics
Dr. Richard Shumway, Chair, 509-335-5555
Biological Systems Engineering
Dr. Claudio Stockle, Chair, 509-335-1578
Plant Pathology
Dr. Timothy Murray, Chair, 509-335-9541
Crop & Soil Sciences
Dr. Thomas Lumpkin, Chair, 509-335-3475
Entomology
Dr. John J. Brown, Chair, 509-335-5504
Food Science & Human Nutrition
Dr. Alan McCurdy, Chair, 509-335-9103
Horticulture & Landscape Architecture
Dr. William Hendrix, Chair, 509-335-9502
Dr. Preston Andrews, Physiology--Crop Management
509-335-3603
Dr. B.W. Poovaiah, Physiology--Growth Regulators
509-335-2487
Dr. John Fellman, Postharvest Physiology, 509-335-3454
EXTENSION SPECIALISTS
Dr. Herb Hinman, Farm Business Management,
509-335-2855
Carol Ramsay, Entomologist, Pesticide Education,
509-335-9222
Dr. Thomas Schotzko, Marketing, 509-335-2854
Dr. Sara Spayd, Viticulture and Enology, 509-786-9285
RESEARCHERS
Dr. Ken Casavant, Transportation, 509-335-1608
Dr. Raymond Folwell, Fruit, 509-335-5556
Dr. Thomas Wahl, Director, IMPACT, 509-335-6653
WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY
RESEARCH & EXTENSION CENTERS
WSU Irrigated Agriculture
Research & Extension Center
24106 North Bunn Road; Prosser, WA 99350-8694
509-786-2226; FAX 509-786-9370
Web site: www.prosser.wsu.edu
Dr. Art Linton, Assistant Dean and Director,
Animal Science
E-mail: alinton@wsu.edu
COOPERATIVE EXTENSION
Ellen Bentley, Plant & Insect Diagnostic Lab
E-mail: ellen_bentley@wsu.edu
Dr. Robert Parker, Weed Science
E-mail: rparker@wsu.edu
Dr. Bob Stevens, Soil Management
E-mail: stevensr@wsu.edu
Dr. Doug Walsh, Entomology
E-mail: dwalsh@wsu.edu
CENTER FOR PRECISION AG
Dr. Fran Pierce, Director
E-mail: fjpierce@wsu.edu
Eileen Perry, Assistant Director
E-mail: eileen_perry@wsu.edu
Todd Elliott, WSU-PAWS Network
E-mail: todd_elliott@wsu.edu
RESEARCHERS
Dr. Joan Davenport, Soil Science
E-mail: jdavenp@wsu.edu
Dr. Kenneth Eastwell, Viruses
E-mail: keastwell@wsu.edu
Dr. Clyde Fraisse, Water and Nutrient Management, Frost Protection, Cooling Vineyard and Orchard Crops
E-mail: cfraisse@wsu.edu
Dr. Gary Grove, Diseases
E-mail: grove@wsu.edu
Bill Howell, Viruses
E-mail: wehowell@wsu.edu
Dr. David James, Grape Entomology
E-mail: djames@wsu.edu
Dr. Markus Keller, Viticulture
E-mail: mkeller@wsu.edu
Dr. Ekaterini Riga, Nematode Control
(grapes and other crops)
E-mail: riga@wsu.edu
Dr. Sara Spayd, Wine Quality
E-mail: spayds@wsu.edu
Dr. Matt Whiting, Tree Fruit Physiology
E-mail:mdwhiting@wsu.edu
USDA-ARS
Dr. Julie Tarara, Micro-meteorologist--Grapes
E-mail: jtarara@wsu.edu
WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY
National Virus-Tested
Fruit Tree Program
WSU-IAREC
24106 North Bunn Road; Prosser, WA 99350-8694
FAX 509-786-9370
Web site: www.nrsp5.prosser.wsu.edu
Ken Eastwell, Director; 509-786-9385
E-mail: keastwell@wsu.edu
Bill Howell, Manager; 509-786-9251
E-mail: wehowell@wsu.edu
WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY
Mt. Vernon Research & Extension Unit
16650 State Route 536; Mount Vernon, WA 98273
360-848-6131; FAX 360-848-6159
Web site: http://mtvernon.wsu.edu/frt_hort/
fruit_horticulture.htm
TREE FRUIT & WINE GRAPE RESEARCH
Gary Moulton, Horticulturist
E-mail: gamoulton@wsu.edu
WSU-Mt. Vernon fruit research programs provide both home orchard and commercial growers with information on tree fruit and wine grape varieties, hard cider production, improved culture methods, and potential alternative fruit crops. For dates and times of Field Days open to the public and further information on projects, please check the regularly updated Web page.
WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY
Puyallup Research &
Extension Center
7612 Pioneer Way; Puyallup, WA 98371-4998
EXTENSION SPECIALISTS
Carrie Foss, IPM and Pesticide Safety Education
253-445-4577
Dr. Arthur Antonelli, Extension Entomologist,
253-445-4545
Jenny Glass, Plant Diagnostician, 253-445-4582
WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY Tree
Fruit Research & Extension Center
1100 North Western Avenue; Wenatchee, WA 98801
509-663-8181; FAX 509-662-8714
Dr. Jay Brunner, Director, Ext. 238
SPECIALISTS
Dr. Bruce Barritt, Apple Breeding/Orchard Systems,
Ext. 233; E-mail: etaplz@wsu.edu
Dr. Elizabeth Beers Peryea, Entomology,
Ext. 234; E-mail: ebeers@wsu.edu
Dr. Jay F. Brunner, Tree Fruit Pest Management,
Ext. 238; E-mail: jfb@wsu.edu
Dr. John Dunley, Entomology/Resistance Management
Ext. 236; E-mail: dunleyj@wsu.edu
Dr. Don Elfving, Horticulture,
Ext. 252; E-mail: delfving@wsu.edu
David Granatstein, Sustainable Agriculture
Ext. 222; E-mail: granats@wsu.edu
Dr. Vincent P. Jones, Pest Management of Deciduous
Fruit Insects, Ext. 273; E-mail: vpjones@wsu.edu
Dr. Eugene Kupferman, Horticulturist/Postharvest
Ext. 239; E-mail: kupfer@wsu.edu
Dr. Frank Peryea, Soils/Mineral Nutrition
Ext. 232; E-mail: FJPeryea@wsu.edu
Dr. Larry Schrader, Physiology
Ext. 265; E-mail: schrader@wsu.edu
Dr. Chang-Lin Xiao, Epidemiology and Control of
Fungal and Bacterial Diseases of Tree Fruits, Ext. 229;
E-mail: clxiao@wsu.edu
WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY
Area Tree Fruit Cooperative
Extension Educators
BENTON-FRANKLIN COUNTIES
1121 Dudley Avenue; Prosser, WA 99350
509-786-5609; FAX 509-786-5525
Jack Watson; E-mail: watson@coopext.cahe.wsu.edu
CHELAN-DOUGLAS-OKANOGAN COUNTIES
303 Palouse Street; Wenatchee, WA 98801-2670
509-667-6540; FAX 509-667-6561
Web site: http://www.ncw.wsu.edu
Timothy J. Smith; E-mail: smithtj@wsu.edu
GRANT-ADAMS COUNTIES
35 C Street NW; Ephrata, WA 98823
509-754-2011; FAX 509-754-0163
Web site: http://grant-adams.wsu.edu
Karen Lewis; E-mail: kmlewis@wsu.edu
SKAGIT COUNTY
306 South First Street; Mt. Vernon, WA 98273
360-428-4270; FAX 360-428-4263
Dyvon M. Havens; E-mail: dyvonh@co.skagit.wa.us
WHATCOM COUNTY
1000 N. Forest Street, Suite 201
Bellingham, WA 98225-5594
360-676-6736; FAX 360-738-2458
Web site: http://whatcom.wsu.edu
Craig B. MacConnell; E-mail: cbmac@wsu.edu
YAKIMA COUNTY
128 N. 2nd St., Room 233, Yakima County Courthouse
Yakima, WA 98901-2631
509-574-1600; FAX 509-574-1601
Web site: http://treefruit.yakima.wsu.edu
Dr. Dana Faubion; E-mail: faubiond@wsu.edu
Dr. Michael Bush; E-mail: bushm@wsu.edu
WASHINGTON TREE FRUIT
RESEARCH COMMISSION
1719 Springwater Avenue; Wenatchee, WA 98801
509-665-8271; FAX 509-663-5827
Web site: www.treefruitresearch.org
James Doornink, Chair
Jim McFerson, Manager
Established by the Washington State legislature in 1969 as a political subdivision, the commission is grower-funded and grower-administered. Funding is achieved through a per-ton assessment on all commercial tree fruit producers in Washington State. Each year, the nine-member board allocates about $3,000,000 in research funding.
The overriding purpose of the commission is to support applied research that gives growers tools they can take to the field and immediately implement. The benefits that have accrued to Washington growers from their research investments are incalculable. There are few aspects of tree fruit production and handling the commission's research efforts have not addressed since its formation.
WASHINGTON WINE COMMISSION/
WASHINGTON WINE INSTITUTE
93 Pike Street, #315; Seattle, WA 98101
206-667-9463; FAX 206-583-0573
E-mail: info@washingtonwine.org
Web site: www.washingtonwine.org
Steve Burns, Executive Director
WASHINGTON WOMEN
FOR AGRICULTURE
P.O. Box 43; Sunnyside, WA 98944
Cathleen Williams: 509-735-6722; FAX 509-783-7834
E-mail: liteoat@aol.com
Nancy L. Boettcher: 509-836-3080; FAX 509-836-3085
E-mail: nancy.boettcher@farm-credit.com
Washington Women for Agriculture is a nonprofit organization affiliated with American Agri-Women. It was organized in 1974 to focus on farm related issues impacting the diverse agricultural industry of the state at both the state and federal levels. Other areas of focus include youth and general population education on the importance of agriculture to the health and well being of the US economy.
A comprehensive newsletter is published eight times annually to update clientele on the impact of governmental actions on Washington agriculture.
Membership comes from all segments of the industry from the farm through the processor and the retailer. An annual meeting is held each May.
WENATCHEE VALLEY COLLEGE
AGRICULTURE DEPARTMENT
1300 Fifth Street; Wenatchee, WA 98801
509-662-2660
Dr. Kent Mullinix, Director
E-mail: mullinix@wsu.edu
Jim DuBruille, Leo Garcia,
Francisco Sarmiento, Janet Heath
The Wenatchee Valley College (WVC) agriculture department has five courses of study supporting Washington State's tree fruit industry. 1) The Orchard Business Management Program provides extensive instruction to professional orchardists in financial management of the orchard business. 2) The Hispanic Horticulture Education Program utilizes a variety of educational means to increase the technical communication and academic skills of the industry's Hispanic work force. 3) The Integrated Pest Management (IPM) technician program is a three quarter intensive course of study. It is designed to prepare orchard-level field scouts or technicians that support orchardists, horticulturists, and IPM specialists to implement and carry out IPM programs. 4) The Washington Tree Fruit Program is the nation's largest, most intensive undergraduate pomology program. This program was developed and is offered in collaboration with the Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture at Washington State University (WSU). Students originate their studies at WVC and, after two years of study, take an additional two years of study with WSU. Studies through WSU can be conducted either at the WSU learning center in Wenatchee or on campus in Pullman. This integrated, cooperative program offers students the opportunity to earn Associate and Baccalaureate degrees, sequentially. Students may exit at either degree level. All classes and both degree programs are available in Wenatchee. The curriculum features an exceptional combination of classroom and industry/orchard-based, experiential studies. Graduates prepare to function as leading professional horticulturists in the Pacific Northwest fruit industry. 5) The WVC agriculture department and WSU entomology department cooperatively developed and offer a Bachelor of Science degree in entomology, with a tree fruit IPM emphasis. The tree fruit IPM option is designed to train professional IPM specialists for deciduous tree fruit industries.
WESTERN WASHINGTON
HORTICULTURAL ASSOCIATION
2017 Continental Place, #6; Mount Vernon, WA 98273
360-424-7327; FAX 360 424-9343
E-mail: wwaa@fidalgo.net
Web site: www.fidalgo.net/~wwaa
Darrin Morrison, President
Mike Shelby, Executive Secretary
Wanda Horton, Office Manager
The Western Washington Horticultural Association (WWHA) consists of members involved in the small fruit and vegetable industry in western Washington State. The purpose of the association is to keep its members informed on cultural procedure, crop protection, farm management, and regulatory issues of concern to them. The 2004 WWHA Convention will be at the Radisson Hotel at SeaTac Airport, near Seattle. Additional information is available on the Web site.
WINEAMERICA
1200 G Street NW, Suite 360
Washington, D.C. 20005
800-879-4637; FAX 202-347-6341
David Sloane, President
E-mail: dsloane@wineamerica.org
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