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Home Download Summer 2009 issue [pdf] Science Update 16.5 NIH grant for Idaho Savings from drip irrigation Hope for hops pest Idaho bean seed & Mexico Helping crop producer manage cost Extend your financial know-how Trout's selenium surprise Features Cover Stories Wheat: 50 years of collaboration Updating wheat growers What's next? Hard whites, etc. Testing Idaho wheat quality 6 classes of wheat Who-done-its? Research Other Features Managing wasps at home Dual credits for HS students Streching food $$$ 6 Tips for great victory garden Alums go global    Winowiecki in Africa    Mothershed & Abu Ghraib    Greene in Russia, etc.    Schumakers in Jamaica    Boise's Manzo helps refugees Bookshelf: Short Season Gardening Backpage: CALS at Special Olympics Roots: Alumni Alumni Awards Calendar Class notes Alumni board Why Thiessens donate to UI CALS Letters Dean's letter Editor's letter Alum president's letter Readers' letters Archives

Science Update A $16.5 NIH grant—the largest scientific research grant in Idaho’s history—continues research opportunities for Idaho youth. Already more than 500 Idaho undergraduates have benefitted. more . . . CALS and Idaho Wheat Commission (IWC) celebrate 50 years of collaboration Idaho wheat’s have done very well in world markets and avoid wide swings in quality. One big reason for success is that funds collected from each bushel of Idaho wheat sold go to support UI wheat research to aid Idaho growers. . more . . . Updating wheat growers Keeping Idaho’s wheat growers advised of new varieties and strategies is the role of UI Extension county educators--the first stop when growers have question. They also conduct cereal schools and produce media to help growers. more . . . What's next Preferred for Asian noodles, hard white wheat also provides domestic and international consumers with whole-grain baked products free of the bitterness of hard reds. Idaho is now growing the newest of six globally recognized wheat classes—a hard white wheat with a potential for yielding 1 to 2 percent more flour than hard red wheat. more . . . Testing Idaho wheat quality The University of Idaho opened the Pacific Northwest’s first wheat quality lab in 1907. Today’s Idaho Wheat Quality Lab in Aberdeen evaluates up to 14,000 individual wheat samples from throughout Idaho each year. testing . . . 6 classes of wheat Wheat is grown in most of the 50 states, hundreds of varieties of it. Here’s a guide to the 6 classes of wheat. Learn their distinctions and which ones are grown in Idaho. We also list top varieties grown in Idaho that were developed by UI researchers. more . . . Who-done-its? UI researchers unravel mysterious worlds of weeds and global pests impacting Idaho’s wheat industry. Learn about current hot topics of research. more . . . Managing wasps at home Why do bees, yellowjackets, and wasps buzz your picnic, and how can you discourage? Read tips and learn about three new tell-all publications. more . . . Dual credit for HS students Some 200 Idaho high school students earned UI credit in their own high schools during spring semester. Meet five participating students and hear their views of the program. more . . . Stretching food $$ When grocery budgets are tight, low-income families are wise to stretch their scarce dollars across foods dense in nutrition. UI Extension Family & Consumer Sciences educators suggest ways to help Idaho families stretch their food dollars. more . . . 6 Tips for great Victory Gardens One UI Extension educator shares tips for planning your own victory garden more . . . Alums go global Meet six UI College of Agricultural and Life Sciences alums who are impacting the world stage shortly after completing their UI educations. more . . . Winowiecki in Costa Rica, Africa more . . . Mothershed & Abu Ghraib more . . . Greene in Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine more . . . Will & Andrea Schumaker in Jamaica more . . . Boise’s Rabiou Manzo helps refugees more . . . Thiessens: Romance & Commitment UI alums Wayne and Peggy Thiessen of Boise share highlights of their life including why they have contributed nearly $1 million to UI CALS and 4-H in Idaho. more . . . Bookshelf: Short season gardening Growing productive plants in Idaho’s high desert or mountain regions above 4,500 feet requires help unavailable in many gardening books. To the rescue comes a new series by UI Extension’s Steve Love and a team of horticulturalists and landscapers more . . . Backpage: CALS at Special Olympics World Winter Games more . . . Cover caption Wheat—1.4 million acres of it—is grown throughout Idaho. Southeastern Idaho produces 630,000 acres; the northern quarter of the state grows another half million acres. The remaining 300,000 acres grow in southwestern and southcentral Idaho. In 2008 wheat surpassed hay and regained the title of Idaho’s second-largest crop revenue producer. Revenues for 2008—some $707 million—were up 55% from 2007, according to year-end estimates by UI agricultural economists. top