Stephen Meyers and Wenjing Guan received $123,700 for a USDA- Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) Specialty Crop Block Grant via the Indiana State Department of Agriculture for a project entitled Developing a Novel Multi-Year Production System for Strawberries Grown on Plastic Mulch in Indiana. With the project, the team at Purdue will investigate strawberry runner and[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…]
Strawberry Chat is a virtual discussion about strawberry production at small and diversified farms in Indiana and neighboring states. Drs. Wenjing Guan and Miranda Purcell are the program’s hosts. We invite guests to discuss various topics in strawberry production. We post the discussion as a podcast. The project has six episodes now. You can access[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…]
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…]
Department Head Dr. Linda Prokopy has been busy this month! June 1-3, she and other HLA faculty, staff and graduate students (Camila Ulloa Gómez, Steve Hallett, Liz Maynard, Michael O’Donnell, Katherine Pivaral, Aaron Thompson, Ariana Torres, Emily Usher) traveled to Davenport, Iowa for the annual meeting of the Diverse Corn Belt project. Members of this[Read More…]
At Southwest Purdue Agricultural Center (SWPAC), we welcomed a tour of about 20 people from Illinois Jasper County Farm Bureau on June 7, 2022, and a tour of about 35 people from WIN Energy on June 23, 2022. SWPAC superintendent Dennis Nowaskie, and specialists Wenjing Guan and Dan Egel introduced the farm and research projects[Read More…]
