Ariana Torres and Wenjing Guan are part of a $3.7M project that explores high-tunnel pest management, rural-urban variations in high-tunnel pest management, and creates an online tool for farmers to calculate whether an investment in an integrated pest management strategy or crop diversification will be profitable. This project is led by Elizabeth Barnes in Entomology. [Read More…]
Former ESE-HLA graduate Kyle Richardville published the first article from his MS thesis titled ‘Leaf mold compost reduces waste, improves soil and microbial properties and increases tomato productivity’ in the journal Urban Agriculture and Regional Food Systems doi.org/10.1002/uar2.20022. Co-authors include Lori Hoagland, Amit Jaiswal, Aaron Thompson (HLA), Andrew Flachs (ANTH), Dan Egel (BPP) and Dan[Read More…]
Students in Ariana Torres’ lab presented at the 2022 Indiana Green Expo on Feb 25-26. Camila Ulloa presented Economic Tools for Tall Fescue Production (Spanish), Enrique Velasco presented Key drivers for landscape services in the U.S. (Spanish), and Sanchez Philocles gave 2 presentations (English and Spanish) Profitability in the sod in the sod industry: What[Read More…]
The Indiana State Department of Agriculture awarded $459,866 to four projects designed to grow the state’s specialty crop sector. Some of the projects awarded this grant cycle include Increasing Productivity & Consumer Accessibility of Hydroponically Grown Organic Lettuce in Indiana and Improving Drip Irrigation Management for Vegetable and Melon Production in Indiana, to researchers/ extension[Read More…]
Lori Hoagland presented an invited talk at the Organic Horticulture Symposium 2020 (III International Organic Fruit Symposium and I International Organic Vegetable Symposium), which was held online and hosted by the University of Catania. Her talk focused on her lab’s research investigating how changes in soil and root microbiomes induced by soil and crop management practices[Read More…]