Sustainable Farming
Agriculture makes up a small but impactful source of greenhouse gas emissions, waterway pollution, and resource usage. University researchers explore ways to develop and implement climate-friendly farming, encouraging and educating farmers about practices to help alleviate their effect on global climate change and reduce environmental pollution and resource usage.
With new practices investigated at WSU, agriculture has the potential to act as a “sink,” sequestering carbon dioxide in the soil and reducing the global greenhouse effect. This can occur through reducing methane emissions, restoring soil carbon, replacing fossil fuels with fuels made from biomass. As a national leader in organic and sustainable agriculture research, WSU also is discovering ways to reduce soil erosion, waterway pollution, and resource consumption associated with agriculture.