Our team Good Thyme Gang played against Spoilermakers II Monday afternoon at Mike Aulby’s Arrowhead Bowl for Week 4 of the Purdue Staff and Students league. We 4 out of 8 points, putting us in 5th place. In the Team Category: Good Thyme Gang placed 2nd with team handicap series scoring a 2776. In the Women’s Category: Alexandra Jewell placed 1st with scratch game scoring a…Read more about HLA Bowling Team[Read More]
The Hort 317 (Landscape Contracting and Management) and Hort 318 (Field Production of Horticultural Crops) visited several horticultural businesses on September 7th. Leaving campus at 7:00 am, with only a couple of complaints of an early Saturday morning, the classes first travelled to Van Drunen Farms in Momence, IL. Van Drunen is a large, international…Read more about HORT Classes Visited Regional Horticultural Businesses[Read More]
Wenjing Guan’s team published the research ‘Effects of Irrigation and Fertigation on Seedless Watermelon Yield in Southern Indiana’. This project is financially supported by an ISDA Specialty Crop Block Grant, and supports from National Watermelon Association, Illiana Watermelon Association and Indiana Vegetable Growers Association. This publication is highlighted in National Watermelon Association E-mail Magazine On…Read more about New Publication from Wenjing Guan’s Team[Read More]
Our team Good Thyme Gang played against Mind Your Biz Monday afternoon at Mike Aulby’s Arrowhead Bowl for Week 3 of the Purdue Staff and Students league. We won all 8 points, bumping our team up to 4th place. In the Team Category: Good Thyme Gang placed 2nd with team scratch game scoring a 682, placed 2nd with team scratch series scoring a 1902,…Read more about HLA Bowling Team[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]
HLA Professor Lori Hoagland and her team received $3.5M from the NIFA OREI program to continue working on their Tomato Organic Management and Improvement (TOMI) project. This is the third round of funding the team has received for their project aimed at developing new ways to control foliar diseases in tomato. In TOMI3, they will…Read more about Dr. Lori Hoagland and Team Receives Additional Funding for TOMI Project[Read More]
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