Pinney Purdue Vegetable Field Day Aug. 9, 2022, 5 to 8 p.m. Central Time. Register at https://puext.in/VegEvening2022 . More info at https://extension.purdue.edu/events/county/porter/2022/08/pinney-purdue-vegetable-field-day.html or view the flyer.
On June 24, Purdue Horticulture Extension hosted the 2022 Purdue Mint Field Day in Fair Oaks, Indiana. The first presentation of the day was Stephen Meyers who talked about the results of various herbicide trials at the research plot. Next, Petrus Langenhoven and Alejandro Rodriguez presented research on the biological approaches to Verticillium wilt management. 5…Read more about 2022 Purdue Mint Field Day[Read More]
At Southwest Purdue Agricultural Center (SWPAC), we welcomed a tour of about 20 people from Illinois Jasper County Farm Bureau on June 7, 2022, and a tour of about 35 people from WIN Energy on June 23, 2022. SWPAC superintendent Dennis Nowaskie, and specialists Wenjing Guan and Dan Egel introduced the farm and research projects…Read more about SWPAC Welcomed Tours of Research Farm[Read More]
Petrus Langenhoven is leading a farmer-to-farmer peppermint tour to the Pacific Northwest from June 27 to July 1, 2022. Indiana mint farmers, ANR Extension Educators, an Extension specialist, and HLA graduate student will be traveling to Washington State and Oregon to visit growers, researchers, and industry partners. They will visit growers around Yakima and Sunnyside…Read more about Petrus Langenhoven to Lead Farmer-to-Farmer Peppermint Tour of the Pacific Northwest[Read More]
On Thursday, June 2, Lori Hoagland, Karen Mitchell with Nathan Shoaf (Purdue Extension/Urban Agriculture Program) partnered with SWCD’s Urban Soil Health Director, Elli Blaine, to host the “Get the Dirt: Urban Soil Health Conference” for over 100 participants. The conference was followed by a farm tour and dinner at Maple Hill Farm in West Point.
Ariana Torres and coauthors published a paper titled “Investigating Drivers of Native Plant Production in the United States Green Industry”. Citation: Rihn, A.L.; Knuth, M.J.; Peterson, B.J.; Torres, A.P.; Campbell, J.H.; Boyer, C.R.; Palma, M.A.; Khachatryan, H. Investigating Drivers of Native Plant Production in the United States Green Industry. Sustainability 2022, 14, 6774. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14116774