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…]
On Thursday, July 21, Purdue Horticulture Extension hosted the 2022 Purdue Fruit, Vegetable, and Hemp Field Day at Meigs Purdue Ag Center. Presenters from HLA included Petrus Langehoven, Miranda Purcell, Stephen Meyers, Peter Hirst, Jeanine Arana, Emmanuel Cooper, Luis Medina, Eduardo Miranda, Lian Durón, and Josué Cerritos. Other presenters included Nathan Shoaf (Purdue Extension Urban[Read More…]
A research article from the HLA Specialty Crop Weed Science Lab is available ahead-of-print in Weed Technology. The article features work from Jeanine Arana’s masters thesis with HLA co-authors Stephen Meyers and Wenjing Guan, as well as Bill Johnson (Botany and Plant Pathology). Dose-response of two Jack O’Lantern pumpkin cultivars to fomesafen applied preemergence.[Read More…]
On June 24, Purdue Horticulture Extension hosted the 2022 Purdue Mint Field Day in Fair Oaks, Indiana. The first presentation of the day was Stephen Meyers who talked about the results of various herbicide trials at the research plot. Next, Petrus Langenhoven and Alejandro Rodriguez presented research on the biological approaches to Verticillium wilt management. 5[Read More…]
The Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture successfully presented the 2022 Indiana Horticulture Conference Webinar Series between Feb. 1 and March 1, 2022. We delivered 18 educational hours to 785 attendees from 19 States and Puerto Rico. We also had several international attendees. The co-chairs Petrus Langenhoven, Stephen Meyers, Lori Jolly-Brown, and Nathan Deppe would like to thank[Read More…]
The Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture (HLA) and the College of Agriculture (CoA) are vital partners of the Indiana Mint Market Development and Research Council (IMMDC). Meredith Cobb (CoA research administration specialist), Petrus Langenhoven, Lori Hoagland, Stephen Meyers (HLA), and Elizabeth Long (ENT) support Midwest mint grower efforts with research projects on peppermint and[Read More…]
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