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Greg Stewart
Winter 2022

Fair man: Meet Greg Stewart

A friend sent him the quote “probably five years ago,” and it really resonated.

It summed up his feelings for agricultural fairs, declaring they “bring us together, and thereby make us better acquainted, and better friends than we otherwise would be. … the chief use of agricultural fairs is to aid in improving the great calling of agriculture … to make mutual exchange of agricultural discovery, information and knowledge; so that, at the end, all may know everything which may have been known to but one…”

It’s an excerpt from a longer text, and if you talk with Greg Stewart (‘71 Ag.) long enough—and he … » More …

A farmer looks over his saffron crop in Herat province in Afghanistan in 2006
Spring 2022

Gallery: Looking back to Afghanistan

Washington State University has worked in Afghanistan for decades, helping Afghani people with agricultural outreach, English education, and developing communities.

Chris Pannkuk, former director of International Research and Development at WSU, shared some of his photos from work in Afghanistan between 2002 and 2017.

Photos courtesy Chris Pannkuk

 

Read more about the legacy in Afghanistan.