The 7th annual Midwest Mechanical Weed Control Field Day took place at Meigs Horticulture Research Facility took place Wednesday, September 11th. Welcoming about 250 participants from as far away as Quebec and Tennessee, the event showcased mechanical weed control tools and techniques for all scales of farming, ranging from tarps and hand tools to camera-guided cultivators[Read More…]
The Purdue Small Farm Education Field Day was held July 25 at the Purdue Student Farm. Petrus Langenhoven, Sofia Catucuamba, Miranda Purcell, Stephen Meyers, Wenjing Guan, Lian Duron, Ashley Adair, Brittany Weerts, and Hoagland Lab members Ada Martinez and Sophia Mears presented their research to attendees. Colleagues from the Departments of Entomology, Food Science, ABE,[Read More…]
Vera Vukovic, Brandon McNally, Aaron Patton and co-authors published paper in Crop, Forage & Turfgrass Management titled “A survey of ethofumesate resistant annual bluegrass (Poa annua) on US golf courses.” In December last year, Vera Vukovic, Brandon McNally, Cale Bigelow, Stephen Meyers, Aaron Patton and co-authors published a paper in Weed Technology titled “Ethofumesate-resistant annual[Read More…]
The first chapter of Emmanuel Cooper’s MS thesis entitled “Evaluation of critical weed-free period for three sweetpotato (Ipomoea batatas) cultivars,” was recently accepted and published by Weed Science. The journal article is co-authored by HLA members Stephen Meyers, Ashley Adair, and Jeanine Arana as well as Katie Jennings from North Carolina State University and Kevin[Read More…]
Members of the Horticulture Crops Weed Science Lab and the Specialty Crops IPM Lab published their collaborative research in HortTechnology this month. The team investigated the ability of black soldier fly larvae to reduce weed seed emergence in composts created from various substrates. Thank you to all those who helped with this project, including the[Read More…]
Together with Holly Wang (Agricultural Economics), Peter Hirst led the International Research Academy’s visit to Washington DC last week. Members of the Academy are Bernhard Dalheimer (Agricultural Economics), Jeneen Fields (Botany and Plant Pathology), Stephen Meyers (Horticulture and Landscape Architecture) and Diane Wang (Agronomy). The group visited NSF, FAO, USDA-FAS, USDA-NIFA, FFAR, USAID and Lewis-Burke.[Read More…]
Stephen Meyers and the Horticulture Crops Weed Science Lab were featured in an article released on February 15. Thank you to Lindsey Berebitsky for writing the piece, Tom Campbell for the accompanying photos, and Joshua Widhalm for suggesting the story to AgComm. The article is available here: Returning to his roots: Stephen Meyers and the land-grant[Read More…]