WSU plant pathologist James Cook wins prestigious award

Washington Ag Today February 17, 2011 James Cook, former dean of the Washington State University College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences and emeritus professor of plant pathology and crop and soil sciences is being awarded the Wolf Prize for Agriculture. The Wolf Prizes are awarded annually by the Israel-based Wolf Foundation and Cook will receive the award at a ceremony in May in Jerusalem from the President of the State of Israel. He will share the 100-thousand dollar 2011 prize with a scientist from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

The prize description states that Cook is being acknowledged “for seminal discoveries in plant pathology and soil microbiology that impact crop productivity and disease management.”

Now this from Stockland Livestock;

“This is Jack McQuinnes with Stockland Livestock here in Davenport. Good sale here last week. Five hundred cattle on the market. Cows and bulls stronger again. A lot of the better quality and high yielding in the high 60’s low 70’s with the best of them in the high 70’s. Bulls topped at 95 dollars. A big Angus weighing 2325 pounds. Feeder cattle stronger again. Plenty of demand for all weights and classes. Next week we have a big sale. We have stock cows, we have bred heifers and we have feeder cattle and we will feature all those bunches of feeder cattle and all the bred stock at one o’clock. That’s next Monday, Stockland Livestock here in Davenport.

Thanks Jack.

I’m Bob Hoff and that’s Washington Ag Today on Northwest Aginfo Net.

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