Katherine Pivaral successfully passed her M.S. thesis defense this week. Her thesis focused on creating markets for diversified crops in the Midwestern US and she did a phenomenal job collecting and analyzing complex data. Katherine’s MS thesis advisor is Dr. Linda Prokopy and committee members are Dr. Ariana Torres and Dr. Leigh Raymond (University of[Read More…]
Case IH North America (East Region) included the Purdue Student Farm in their equipment agreement with the Purdue Agricultural Centers this year. Jon Leuck, Director of the Purdue Agricultural Centers, led the negotiations with Case IH. The students and farm manager, Chris Adair, are very excited. “We have always wanted to use a spading machine[Read More…]
Monday, April 29, was a very exciting day for HLA and the Purdue Student Farm. Two Freight Farm growing containers and a cooler container were delivered and installed at the Purdue Student Farm. What are Freight Farm growing containers? They are a controlled environment agriculture system that gives you complete control of all production elements.[Read More…]
Please join us to celebrate the upcoming graduations of three SFS students by attending their SFS Capstone presentations. When: April 18th, 5:30p – 7:00p Where: HORT 222 Robert Luecke will talk about the prospects for permaculture on a small property in Brown County, Indiana. Sophia Mears will talk about her experiences preparing fine farm-to-fork meals[Read More…]
HLA members of the Diverse Corn Belt project (Dr. Aaron Thompson, Shivika Aggrawal, Dr. Lauren Asprooth, and Emily Usher) hosted a Reimagining Agricultural Diversity Meeting with farmers and other ag stakeholders in Marion, IA last week. This engaging meeting had 20 participants and lively conversations about what is needed to increase agricultural diversity on the[Read More…]