The 2023 Indiana Horticultural Conference and Expo was held January 23 and 24 at the Beck Agricultural Center in West Lafayette. The Conference consisted of educational tracks in fresh vegetables, apples, small fruits, farming basics, food safety, and business & marketing. Presenters were from several Purdue University departments, government organizations, and industry. HLA faculty and[Read More…]
Liz Maynard attended the Great Lakes Fruit, Vegetable, and Farm Market Expo in Grand Rapids, MI, to present No-Till Sweet Corn after Winter Rye Cover Crop with Dan Quinn (Purdue Agronomy) on Dec. 6, and Selecting Growing Media for Organic Transplants on Dec. 8. Wenjing Guan, Petrus Langenhoven and Lori Hoagland contributed to the information[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…]
The 2022 Midwest Vegetable Production Guide website, book and online app received a national award from the American Society of Horticultural Science in the multimedia category of the Extension Division 2022 Educational Materials Awards. The executive editor is Ben Phillips from Michigan State and lead editors are Purdue Extension Specialists Dan Egel, Laura Ingwell, Liz[Read More…]