Lind Dryland Research Station keeps Washington on the cutting edge of wheat

LIND — Some of the driest of dry land in the Northwest is to be found in the middle of Adams County, Washington, where a team of scientists is working hard to improve the region’s biggest crop, wheat. “We have a lot of projects ongoing right now,” said Surendra Singh, director of the Washington State University’s Lind Dryland Research Station. “We have an organic wheat trial in Adams, Oregon … and then we recently got funding to do research on (Conservation Reserve Program) land. We are doing research on, when land goes into the CRP and out of CRP, what changes happen to the crop and plants and soil, what changes growers should expect, and how soil recovers, how long those benefits last, and how the function of microbial microbial function within soil changes and how it will affect the crop yield and grain quality.”