Petrus Langenhoven and Meredith Cobb are working with the Indiana Mint Market Development and Research Council (IMMDC) to plan the 2024 Midwest Mint Growers Conference. This year, the conference will be held in South Bend, IN, and we expect to see growers from Indiana, Michigan, and Wisconsin attend the conference. For more information, visit https://ag.purdue.edu/department/hla/extension/mint.html. Look[Read More…]
The Indiana Green Expo (IGE) is an annual three-day conference for professional turfgrass, landscape, and nursery managers. Aaron Patton, Kyle Daniel, and Ashley Breed lead and coordinate the educational programs that are central to the success of the Expo with help from several other specialists, staff, and students. Annually this event influences the educational resources[Read More…]
Liz Maynard and Stephen Meyers provided two presentations each to attendees of “Everything Local- The Illinois Food, Famers Market, and Specialty Crop Conference” in Springfield, Illinois January 17-19, 2024. Maynard presented “Managing High Tunnel Soil Fertility for Vegetable Crops” and co-presented “When and Why Do Greens Bolt?” with Marian Rodriguez-Soto. Meyers presented “Effects of Dicamba[Read More…]
Ashley Adair explained the importance of having a social media or website presence for small farms in an article published in FarmProgress: How to tell your farm story using social media The LED lighting research of Dr. Fatemeh Sheibani and Dr. Cary Mitchell was published in AgriView: New strategies for Vertical Farming More Productive, less[Read More…]
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