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Several HLA faculty members were recently featured in the media. Purdue’s College of Agriculture highlighted the recent grant for Dr. Lori. Hoagland’s TOMI Project: Purdue-led TOMI project receives $3.5M grant to turn a decade of data into new tools and strategies for tomato farmers Purdue’s College of Agriculture also featured Dr. Ariana Torres’s work on…Read more about HLA Members Recently Featured in the Media[Read More]


Several HLA folks traveled to Honolulu, Hawaii this week for the annual meeting of the American Society for Horticultural Science. A few of us went a day early to tour local farms and we visited a plumeria farm and a fruit farm where we sampled passion fruit, guava, bananas, papaya, dragon fruit, and much more…Read more about HLA Members Attend ASHS[Read More]


USDA recently announced recipients for its Specialty Crop Research Initiative grant program (https://www.usda.gov/media/press-releases/2024/09/10/usda-invests-nearly-121m-specialty-crops-research-and-organic). Stephen Meyers is a member of a team of scientists receiving a planning grant for their proposal entitled “Identifying needs and overcoming barriers for adopting novel weed control technology in perennial crops”. The project is led by Lynn Sosnoskie at Cornell University with…Read more about Weed Scientists Awarded USDA Planning Grant[Read More]


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 about Midwest Mechanical Weed Control Field Day[Read More]



Stephen Meyers and PhD student Jeanine Arana published “Adding cover crops into integrated weed management program” in the Veg Connections section of the July/August 2024 issue of Vegetable Growers News. To read the article, visit page 24 of VGN or click this link: July/August 2024 – Vegetable Growers News.


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 about 2024 Purdue Small Farm Education Field Day[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 about Recent Papers from Turfgrass Researchers[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 about Emmanuel Cooper and Colleagues Publish Sweetpotato Research[Read More]



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