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…]
Janna Beckerman and Austin Pearson are special guests for this episode. They talked about spring disease management and frost/freeze guidance. Visit https://anchor.fm/strawberrychat to listen to this and previous episodes Strawberry Chat is a virtual program about strawberry production at small and diversified farms in Indiana. This program is hosted by Wenjing Guan and Miranda Purcell.[Read More…]
