Ashley Adair guest hosted the Organic Agronomy Training Service’s podcast, Organic Advisor Call Series for the episode “Organic Fertilizer – How Much?” on Tuesday, October 14. Ashley led a conversation with James Schroepfer, agronomist with Crop Fertility Services (Cokato, MN), discussing how organic crop advisors can approach fertility recommendations based on soil tests and a[Read More…]
On October 9, Maci Tetrick with WRTV News (ABC Indianapolis) visited the Meigs Horticulture Research Farm to learn about pumpkins and ongoing pumpkin research. She filmed Horticulture Crops Weed Science lab members harvesting pumpkins in Helen Nocito‘s MS thesis research plots. Check the 1:08-1:19 mark for cameos by Celia Corado and Helen Nocito. The full[Read More…]
Last week, Purdue Meigs farm hosted 8 classes of 3rd graders from West Lafayette Elementary School. Peter Hirst, Jay Young, Brian Shilling and Wil Brown-Grimm led the field tours and the kids had so much fun they didn’t realize they were learning about agriculture, photosynthesis, and genetics. Hopefully some of them will be back in[Read More…]
The Purdue Student Farm hosted the Purdue Extension Diversified Farming and Food Systems focus group for a tour and Q&A during the annual ANR Retreat. Chris Adair led the group and provided insight on small farm production practices and the farm’s approach to marketing and sales. Participants learned about a wide scope of subjects, including:[Read More…]
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