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UMATILLA COUNTY — COVID-19 may be transitioning to an endemic phase, but health care still was on the top of many Umatilla County residents’ minds at a Monday, March 22,
PENDLETON â Experimental plots of wheat unfold across the Columbia Basin Agricultural Research Center like a patchwork quilt of amber and gold. Christina Hagerty, an assistant professor of cereal pathology at the station 7 miles north of Pendleton, walked through the fields on an early July morning pointing out various trials â everything from tests of new wheat varieties to new techniques for managing weeds and diseases. Each trial could ultimately impact farmersâ bottom lines. âAs researchers, we need to lose our shirt before the farmer does,â Hagerty said. The purp...