The Purdue Fruit and Vegetable Field Day, held on June 20 at Meigs Farm, was a success. Seventy attendees came out to learn more about the latest research on weed and pest management in horticultural crops. Ashley Adair, Jeanine Arana, Josué Cerritos, Emmanuel Cooper, Petrus Langenhoven, Steve Meyers, and Dennis Gustavo Toc Mo all participated[Read More…]
The Horticulture Crops Weed Science Lab published “Simulated dormant peppermint (Mentha x piperita L.) response to mesotrione: a greenhouse study” by Emmanuel G. Cooper, Jeanine Arana, and Stephen L. Meyers in Weed Technology. To read the “ahead-of-print” article visit: https://doi.org/10.1017/wet.2023.27 “Thank you” to Nathaly Vargas, Laura Rodríguez, Luz Cardona, Julie Young, and Nathan Deppe for[Read More…]
Four HLA members attended and presented research at the Weed Science Society of America Annual Meeting in Arlington, Virginia January 30 to February 2: Evaluation of Weed Removal Timing for Three Sweetpotato (Ipomoea batatas L.) Cultivars. Emmanuel Cooper. Poster. Ethofumesate Resistant Annual Bluegrass in Oregon Grass Seed Production Systems. Vera Vukovic. Poster. Using Black Soldier[Read More…]
Six members of the Horticulture Crops Weed Science Lab presented research at the 77th Annual North Central Weed Science Society Meeting in St. Louis, Missouri December 5-8. Poster Presentations: Evaluation of Weed Removal Timing for Three Sweetpotato Cultivars. Emmanuel G. Cooper*, Stephen L. Meyers, Jeanine Arana. Combinations of PRE and Layby Herbicides in Watermelon. Josue[Read More…]
Members of the Meyers lab published a new research article in Weed Technology, available now ahead-of-print: Tolerance of peppermint (Mentha x piperita) to tiafenacil applied post-harvest by Stephen L. Meyers, Jeanine Arana, and Brandi C. Woolam. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1017/wet.2022.78 Thank you to Nathan Deppe and the HGRH crew for their help with this greenhouse-based research[Read More…]