Department Head, Linda Prokopy, spent the last 2 weeks in Trinidad visiting horticultural farms and training staff at the Ministry of Agriculture about how to increase farmer adoption of improved agricultural practices. This was part of Purdue’s USAID funded farmer-to-farmer program led by HLA’s Dr. Raghothama. She saw crops we’re all familiar with like watermelon[Read More…]
PI Chloe Richard and Co-PI’s Jay Young, Stephen Meyers, Petrus Langenhoven, Laura Ingwell, and Elizabeth Long were awarded a Mary S. Rice grant. Funding will be used to purchase a Hylio AG-110 unmanned aerial vehicle for the application of pesticides at Meigs. The grant title is Acquisition of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) for spray applications to[Read More…]
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