Ariana Torres gave 2 presentations during the 2022 Agricultural and Applied Economists Association (AAEA) Annual Meeting. Value Added Strategies in the Specialty Crops Industry Exploring the Adoption and Impact of Online Markets During COVID-19
Many faculty, staff, and graduate students from HLA attended this year’s American Society for Horticultural Science (ASHS) in Chicago earlier this week. The department hosted a table at the Graduate Student Recruitment Event. About 20 current, former, and soon-to-be faculty, staff, and students joined Department Head Linda Prokopy for a fun and lively dinner at…Read more about HLA at ASHS[Read More]
Four members of HLA competed in the 2022 North Central Weed Science Society Weed Contest. Participants included Jeanine Arana, Emmanuel Cooper, and Josué Cerritos from the Meyers Lab and Vera Vukovic from the Patton Lab. The event was hosted by Corteva in Johnston, Iowa. Participants competed in written and hands-on sprayer calibration, weed identification, herbicide…Read more about HLA Graduate Students Competed in the 2022 North Central Weed Science Society Weed Contest[Read More]
Many thanks to Christian Charlson and Momin Mirza who worked this summer at Pinney Purdue as field research assistants with Liz Maynard and are now moving on to fall activities. Christian will continue as a 3rd year Environmental Engineering major in Purdue’s ABE. Momin has started a master’s degree in analytics and modeling at Valparaiso University…Read more about Pinney Purdue Field Research Assistants[Read More]
Dr. Aaron Thompson attended the groundbreaking ceremony for the J Long 2nd Street Memorial Park in Connersville, Indiana on July 26th. The park is currently under construction with a late October timeline for being opened to the public. Purdue landscape architecture students played a critical role in the redevelopment of this park through a Fall…Read more about Aaron Thompson Attended Ground Breaking[Read More]
Dr. Krishna Nemali’s Lab, in collaboration with Purdue Extension Marion County, have put together a home hydroponics display at the Indiana State Fair. The display showcases systems that can be used by home growers to produce healthy food and portrays the importance of hydroponic systems, especially for improving community health. This display will be at…Read more about Nemali Lab’s Home Hydroponics Display at the Indiana State Fair[Read More]
Ashley Adair spoke about cover crop variety selection, cover crop considerations for weed, disease, and pest control, and cover crop termination methods at the Byron Seeds Advanced Soil Health Training event on 7/26 to an audience of about 50. Byron Seeds is an Amish-owned cover crop seed dealer based out of Parke County, IN. The…Read more about Ashley Adair Talk at Byron Seeds Advanced Soil Health Training[Read More]
The 2022 Small Farm Education Field Day was held earlier today, Friday, July 29, at the Purdue Student Farm. Participants from HLA included Ashley Adair, Chris Adair, Miranda Purcell, Wenjing Guan, Liz Maynard, Emerson Espinoza, Petrus Langenhoven, Lian Durón, Eduardo Miranda, Stephen Meyers, Luis Medina, and Lori Jolly-Brown. Other participants included Amanda Deering, Scott Monroe,…Read more about 2022 Small Farm Education Field Day[Read More]
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