Tri-Cities Tech Business Update
Easterday Farms support BSEL
The Bioproducts, Sciences and Engineering Laboratory at WSU Tri-Cities received a $225,000 donation from Easterday Ranches and Farms to support research for turning local agricultural waste into bioenergy. The donation, to be given over three years, will pay for an Easterday Graduate Research Fellow to focus on the anaerobic digestion of wastes such as those produced by Easterday's row crop and cattle feeding operations. BSEL also unveiled a new one-of-a-kind mechanism that the laboratory believes will provide the bridge needed to convert laboratory research into the basis for a local industry producing useful goods from agricultural waste. BSEL staff worked with Vista Engineering Technologies in Richland to design and assemble the $575,000 system. Read more or contact Annette Cary at (509) 582-1533.
