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…]
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…]
The HLA Weed Science team attended the YCC Career Development Symposium hosted by the Younger Chemists Committee of the American Chemical Society Indiana Local Section at the Corteva Agriscience headquarters in Indianapolis. They were able to learn about financial literacy in grad school, industry hiring practices, interview tips, soft skills, and CV building. They also had the[Read More…]
Four members of HLA competed in the 2022 North Central Weed Science Society Weed Contest. Participants included Jeanine Arana, Emmanuel Cooper, and Josué Cerritos from the Meyers Lab and Vera Vukovic from the Patton Lab. The event was hosted by Corteva in Johnston, Iowa. Participants competed in written and hands-on sprayer calibration, weed identification, herbicide[Read More…]
On Thursday, July 21, Purdue Horticulture Extension hosted the 2022 Purdue Fruit, Vegetable, and Hemp Field Day at Meigs Purdue Ag Center. Presenters from HLA included Petrus Langehoven, Miranda Purcell, Stephen Meyers, Peter Hirst, Jeanine Arana, Emmanuel Cooper, Luis Medina, Eduardo Miranda, Lian Durón, and Josué Cerritos. Other presenters included Nathan Shoaf (Purdue Extension Urban[Read More…]
Josué Cerritos is from Tegucigalpa, Honduras and graduated from Zamorano University with a bachelor’s degree in agricultural science and production. He is interested in weed management and entomology, focusing on horticultural crops. In the near future, he would like to support agriculture development in Honduras. On June 6th, he joined the HLA weed science lab[Read More…]