New Washington State University spring wheat variety named for Black family with deep roots in...

“The family just, it’s an remarkable story of persistence and coming and pioneering not just … the state, and what would become a big part of our country, but actually pioneering agriculture here in the region,” said Mike Pumphrey, the new spring wheat breeder with Washington State University, who developed Bush wheat. “Including the sort of civic aspects of that, and public support and university education and all of those things that have truly been a big part of the development of Washington.”