Department Head Dr. Linda Prokopy has been busy this month! June 1-3, she and other HLA faculty, staff and graduate students (Camila Ulloa Gómez, Steve Hallett, Liz Maynard, Michael O’Donnell, Katherine Pivaral, Aaron Thompson, Ariana Torres, Emily Usher) traveled to Davenport, Iowa for the annual meeting of the Diverse Corn Belt project. Members of this…Read more about A Busy Month for Dr. Linda Prokopy[Read More]
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
Ariana Torres traveled to Peru for the kick-off of the PERU-Hub project. The project is part of the latest collaboration of Dr. Torres funded by the USAID with the goal to improve the economic conditions of farmers in the Huallaga Valley, building a collaborating base for the generation and extension of innovative technologies, promoting sustainable…Read more about Ariana Torres and Colleagues Kicks Off the PERU-Hub Project[Read More]
Ariana Torres received funding from the HRI (Horticulture Research Institute) to work on the Marketplace Acceptance of Native Plants. She will be working with collaborators from University of Tennessee, University of Delaware, and Michigan State University to investigate consumers’ demand, preferences, and attitudes for native plants.
Ariana Torres and Ben Van Dyke are co-leading a Spring Break Study Abroad program to Southern Spain. They and 18 students will visit the largest greenhouse fruit and vegetable production (13,000 hectares) in El Ejido. Other production systems included in the program are: olive oil, manchego cheese, bullfighting breeding, horse breeding, citrus production.
Ariana Torres attended the S1087 multi-state meeting in Miami, FL. The multistate group titled Sustainable Practices, Economic Contributions, Consumer Behavior, and Labor Management in the U.S. Environmental Horticulture Industry met to discuss project’s outcomes and new data collection efforts. We also visited ornamental growers in Florida adopting automated machinery and growing specialty ornamentals.
Petrus Langenhoven and Ariana Torres were quoted in the ag industry magazine Fastline Big Ag Farm‘s article: “Vertical Farming: More than Lettuce Fields in the Sky.” Read it online: https://www.fastline.com/digital-editions/big-ag-farm/2022/03/
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 about Ariana Torres and Wenjing Guan Part of $3.7M Project[Read More]