Find yourself a tin roof, a rain gauge and enjoy the smell of petrichor on the horizon – we’ve got a potential thunderstorm this morning! And I say now as many a farmer has said before me: we suuuuure needed it. As a whole, it’s been a slower week, mostly harvest and maintenance. A classic case[Read More…]
A research article entitled “Effect of in-row spacing on weed suppression and yield of ‘Covington’ and ‘Monaco’ sweetpotato” was published in Weed Technology on October 16, 2024. The research was conducted as part of the Master’s thesis of Emmanual Cooper, funded by the USDA-NIFA-OREI grant program. Co-authors include Stephen Meyers and Ashley Adair from HLA,[Read More…]
The 7th annual Midwest Mechanical Weed Control Field Day took place at Meigs Horticulture Research Facility took place Wednesday, September 11th. Welcoming about 250 participants from as far away as Quebec and Tennessee, the event showcased mechanical weed control tools and techniques for all scales of farming, ranging from tarps and hand tools to camera-guided cultivators[Read More…]
Ashley Adair wrote an article for the Flanagan State Bank Specialty Growers Ag Newsletter entitled “Raw Manure, Raw Produce – New Research at Purdue to Investigate Crop-Livestock Integration and Produce Safety” featuring Moriah Bilenky’s integrated crop-livestock study with poultry and sheep. FSB is a bank in central Illinois that specializes in ag lending and has a strong history[Read More…]
The Purdue Small Farm Education Field Day was held July 25 at the Purdue Student Farm. Petrus Langenhoven, Sofia Catucuamba, Miranda Purcell, Stephen Meyers, Wenjing Guan, Lian Duron, Ashley Adair, Brittany Weerts, and Hoagland Lab members Ada Martinez and Sophia Mears presented their research to attendees. Colleagues from the Departments of Entomology, Food Science, ABE,[Read More…]
Ashley Adair was recently interviewed by Brownfield Ag News about the USDA-NIFA funded project “Empowering Indiana’s Organic Farmers: Assessing Regional and Farm Scale Soil Health with a Farmer Network.” Ashley discussed the fledgling Indiana Organic Network and Purdue’s efforts to complete an organic soil health census across the state this year. Forage/pasture, specialty crops, and[Read More…]
The first chapter of Emmanuel Cooper’s MS thesis entitled “Evaluation of critical weed-free period for three sweetpotato (Ipomoea batatas) cultivars,” was recently accepted and published by Weed Science. The journal article is co-authored by HLA members Stephen Meyers, Ashley Adair, and Jeanine Arana as well as Katie Jennings from North Carolina State University and Kevin[Read More…]
Ashley Adair, Chris Adair, Moriah Bilenky, Emmanuel Cooper, Celia Corado, Josué Cerritos García, Wenjing Guan, Petrus Langenhoven, Liz Maynard, Steve Meyers, Karen Mitchell, Jean Zavala and Linda Prokopy all attended the Indiana Small Farm Conference, which took place 2/29 and 3/1 last week. Ashley Adair presented a cover crops demonstration on 2/29 and facilitated the[Read More…]
Ashley Adair hosted the Indiana Organic Grain Farmer Meeting on Wednesday, 2/28 for about 70 participants. The day was a success, with several breakouts, a keynote from Advancing Eco Ag’s John Kempf and an insightful panel discussion with farmers Dan DeSutter (IN), John Kempf (OH), Will Glazik (IL) and Wyatt Muse (IL). The event also[Read More…]