Petrus Langenhoven is leading a farmer-to-farmer peppermint tour to the Pacific Northwest from June 27 to July 1, 2022. Indiana mint farmers, ANR Extension Educators, an Extension specialist, and HLA graduate student will be traveling to Washington State and Oregon to visit growers, researchers, and industry partners. They will visit growers around Yakima and Sunnyside[Read More…]
On a windy, chilly Saturday HLA’s Spring Fest tent was abuzzed with excited attendees. Children and adults were lined up to get our famous plant necklaces. Our Purdue Extension Master Gardener Volunteers from Tippecanoe County recorded 350 educational contacts and 134 people taking the “Lawn Weed Challenge.” Children of all ages learned about landscape architecture[Read More…]
Members of Stephen Meyers’ HLA Specialty Crops Weed Science Lab authored and co-authored a total of five presentations given at the 2022 joint virtual meeting of the Weed Science Society of American and Canadian Weed Science Society (February 22-24). Jeanine Arana won second place in the MS level three-minute thesis (3MT) competition for her presentation[Read More…]
Jeanine Arana, MS student in Stephen Meyers’ specialty crop weed science lab, was awarded for her efforts earlier this week at the 76th Annual North Central Weed Science Society Meeting in Grand Rapids, MI. She placed first in her graduate student poster division (Peppermint Response to Mesotrione and S-metolachlor Applied Post-Harvest), second in her paper[Read More…]