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…]
Indiana Green Expo will be held January 17-19, 2024 at the Indiana Convention Center, Indianapolis. Many HLA members will be presenting, including Naba Amgain, Cale Bigelow, Kyle Daniel, Maria Camila Ulloa Gomez, Brandon McNally, Aaron Patton, Jada Powlen, Vera Vukovic, and Jean Pierre Zavala. More information on the Indiana Green Expo can be found at[Read More…]
Editor’s Note: One of our HLA Presenters was inadvertently missing from the previous version of this story. Antonio Verzotto will also present at the Indiana Green Expo. HLA Happenings regrets this error. Fourteen of HLA’s Faculty, Staff, and Graduate Students will speak at the Indiana Green Expo, January 30 – February 1 at the Indiana[Read More…]
Thanks to the excellent weather, over 400 attendees came out to the Daniel Turf Center for the 2022 Turf and Landscape Field Day, presented by the Midwest Regional Turf Foundation. HLA faculty and staff who helped put on this program included Aaron Patton, Kyle Daniel, Ashley Breed, Cale Bigelow, Jada Powlen, Glenn Hardebeck, Ben Royal,[Read More…]
Ross Braun and Aaron Patton published two research articles now available: Braun, R. C., & Patton, A. J. (2022). Species, clover-inclusion, and nitrogen fertilizer effects on sod tensile strength of fine fescue taxa. Agronomy Journal, online. https://doi.org/10.1002/agj2.21039 Braun, R. C., Watkins, E., Hollman, A. B., Mihelich, N. T., & Patton, A. J. (2022). Management, harvest,[Read More…]
On January 31, the Purdue Landscape Report officially received the Purdue Agriculture TEAM Award recognizing their interdisciplinary achievements. Led by Kyle Daniel, the team includes HLA faculty and staff members Lori Jolly-Brown, Kirby Kalbaugh, Rosie Lerner, and Aaron Patton as well as members from BPP, FNR and Entomology. Read more about the Purdue Landscape Report’s[Read More…]