Visit Your Farmers Market & Weed Scientist Retires

Visit Your Farmers Market & Weed Scientist Retires

Visit Your Farmers Market & Weed Scientist Retires. I'm Greg Martin with today's Northwest Report.

There's no better time to stock up on fresh fruits and vegetables than right now as National Farmers Market Week gets into full swing. The popularity of farmers markets is growing every year and according to Karen Kinney, Executive Director for the Washington State Farmers Market Association people who've never been to market would be surprised.

KINNEY: There's variety in pricing. These are all small businesses and they are featuring the food that they've grown or made specifically to be bought directly by the end-user and so the fruit is the freshest and tastiest.

Last week saw the end of a 35-year career at the University of Idaho College of Agricultural and Life Sciences for professor Donn Thill. His retirement was official on Friday. His role as the UI station's director connected him, symbolically at least, to roots deeper still, to a first field season that began in early 1892, months before the university's first classes met. The changes in agriculture nationwide and the Palouse have been enormous since the station's founding. Even during his career as a weed scientist, discoveries about the basic science of weed control have expanded dramatically.

That's today's Northwest Report. I'm Greg Martin on the Ag Information Network of the West.

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