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Local Farmers and Educators Connect at Pinney Purdue’s Small Farm Equipment Event

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A collage of five photos capturing students and instructors using agricultural machinery. Highlights include an instructor in a gray jacket and orange hat demonstrating a wire-weeding rake in a cultivated field bed, participants operating walk-behind soil tillers in a high tunnel greenhouse, and a small bowl of corn kernels soaking in water next to an ear of corn labeled "AP4010 M".
Liz Maynard, Ashley Adair, and Steve Meyers partnered with Northwest Region educators Becca Koetz, Marty Huseman and Nikky Witkowski for the Nov. 6 Small Farm Equipment Demonstration Day at Pinney Purdue Ag Center. Demos included flame weeding, bed preparation with BCS implements including vertical plow and power harrow, transplanting with paperpot transplanter, and winterizing small engines. Local farmer Dan Perkins demonstrated the compost spreader he uses in his no-till bed system for vegetable production. As a bonus participants enjoyed sampling 15 popcorn varieties from a variety plot at Pinney.
A collage of six photos showing participants at an outdoor agricultural workshop. Scenes include a demonstration of a flame-weeder tool in a greenhouse bed, hands-on training with a seed drill, viewing a mechanical walk-behind tractor, examining seed packets and ears of corn on an indoor table, and a safety presentation on chainsaws and leaf blowers.
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