The Midwest Mint Growers Conference was held on February 23 and 24 at Fair Oaks Farms, Fair Oaks, IN. The annual meeting is organized by Meredith Cobb (Ag Research) and Petrus Langenhoven (HLA) in partnership with the Indiana Mint Market Development and Research Council (IMMDC). Speakers from HLA include Linda Prokopy and Stephen Meyers. Elizabeth[Read More…]
Congratulations to Kranthi Varala and Celina Gomez for receiving 2023 AgSEED grants. Kranthi Varala’s project is “Improving oil content and composition of Camelina seeds through overexpressing novel regulators of lipid biosynthesis.” Wenjing Guan and Petrus Langenhoven are co-PI’s for this project. Celina Gomez’s project is “Using a Citizen Science Approach to Strengthen Research and Extension[Read More…]
Lori Hoagland and Petrus Langenhoven attended the national Mint Industry Research Council conference in Charleston, SC, on January 25 & 26, 2023. We presented Opportunities and Limitations Associated with Anaerobic Soil Disinfestation to Control Verticillium Wilt in Mint, our SARE project research findings to mint growers and industry stakeholders from Washington State, Oregon, California, Idaho, Michigan,[Read More…]
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…]
The Biological Approaches to Sustainable Mint Production SARE project team will host its final workshop at Fair Oaks Farm on January 19, 2023. The workshop will focus on presenting our research findings to the project Advisory Committee, the Indiana Mint Market Development & Research Council (IMMDC) board, and Indiana mint growers and industry stakeholders. Presentations[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…]
The 2022 Small Farm Education Field Day was held earlier today, Friday, July 29, at the Purdue Student Farm. Participants from HLA included Ashley Adair, Chris Adair, Miranda Purcell, Wenjing Guan, Liz Maynard, Emerson Espinoza, Petrus Langenhoven, Lian Durón, Eduardo Miranda, Stephen Meyers, Luis Medina, and Lori Jolly-Brown. Other participants included Amanda Deering, Scott Monroe,[Read More…]