The Purdue Green Industry team is excited to announce three diagnostic training opportunities in Indianapolis, Elkhart, and Evansville on August 7, 10, and 18. This event will feature Purdue Green Industry Specialists (Janna Beckerman (professor and pathology specialist), John Bonkowski (diagnostician), Tom Creswell (clinical engagement professor and diagnostician), Kyle Daniel (nursery and landscape specialist), Ben[Read More…]
Editor’s Note: One of our HLA Presenters was inadvertently missing from the previous version of this story. Antonio Verzotto will also present at the Indiana Green Expo. HLA Happenings regrets this error. Fourteen of HLA’s Faculty, Staff, and Graduate Students will speak at the Indiana Green Expo, January 30 – February 1 at the Indiana[Read More…]
This week we celebrated eight of our faculty and staff’s milestone years of service at Purdue: a total of 210 years of experience between them. Congratulations to: Cary Mitchell (50 years) Mike Dana (40 years) Elizabeth Maynard (30 years) Peter Hirst (25 years) John Orick (25 years) Cale Bigelow (20 years) Lora White (10 years)[Read More…]
3 The HORT 318 class visited Meigs on Wednesday. Lab concentrated on learning how to prune grape vines (with Miranda Purcell), peaches and apples (with Peter Hirst). Kyle Daniel showed them the effect of container type on root development. The students also harvested Cruciferous crops that were planted in September. Petrus Langenhoven showed them you[Read More…]
4 The HLA Welcome Back Bash was a success despite the rain ending it earlier than planned. Undergraduate students enjoyed the taco bar, cornhole, the photo booth, and bingo (with prizes!). Thank you to Robin Tribbet, Gloribel Rosales-Burdin, Ashley Breed, Pam Fisher, Kyle Daniel, Kirby Kalbaugh, Mike Dana, Kathryn Orvis, Steve Hallett, Josh Widhalm, Cale[Read More…]
Thanks to the excellent weather, over 400 attendees came out to the Daniel Turf Center for the 2022 Turf and Landscape Field Day, presented by the Midwest Regional Turf Foundation. HLA faculty and staff who helped put on this program included Aaron Patton, Kyle Daniel, Ashley Breed, Cale Bigelow, Jada Powlen, Glenn Hardebeck, Ben Royal,[Read More…]
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