Ashley Adair and a team of northern Indiana field extension specialists and educators (Jeff Burbrink, Mark Evans, Kathryn Jennings, Emily Kresca, Bryan Overstreet, and Brieanna Slonaker) hosted the Northern Indiana Organic Field Day. The event brought together organic dairy and crop producers from across the northern half of the state to IMS Dairy in Nappanee…Read more about Northern Indiana Organic Field Day Draws Producers from Across the Region[Read More]
Liz Maynard and Emily DeaKyne participated in the Vermillion County Diverse Farm tours on August 4, 2026. The group learned about grazing and marketing sheep, goats, chickens, and cattle at Royer Farm Fresh meats in Clinton on a morning tour. Over lunch Emily presented results from the Diverse Corn Belt project. After lunch the group…Read more about Diverse Farm Tour Highlights Livestock, Produce, and Local Marketing[Read More]
Karen Sullivan (head gardener), MJ Smith and Isaac Thompson (student gardeners) and visited Ball Seed in West Chicago, Ill. on Friday, July 31st. they viewed acres of gardens and containers displaying current annuals and perennials produced by Ball Seed and their affiliates. They also toured their scientific research and plant diagnostic labs, propagation, seed processing, and…Read more about Student Gardeners Explore Ball Seed[Read More]
Salutation farm loving nation! Greetings from our student farm It’s been another lovely week, The land is lovely, rich with charm And full of the veggies that you seek. We’ve been a little low on labor But we’re having such fun, and spirits are high We’re dealing with typical pest misbehavior And protecting…Read more about This Week at the Purdue Student Farm (In Quatrains)[Read More]
Miranda Purcell presented at the Indiana Winery & Vineyard Association Meeting on July 28th at Butler Winery in Bloomington, IN.
Sungeun Lim and Dr. Celina Gómez published a paper in HortScience: Species-Specific Responses of Ornamental Cuttings to Light Quality During Indoor Acclimation. The study is part of Sungeun’s doctoral research.
Purdue turf science student Bailey Arbic transformed her lifelong passion for soccer into a career in sports turf management through a summer internship with the Kansas City Current, where she helped maintain fields used by professional athletes and the Dutch National Team during the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Read more: From playing on the pitch…Read more about Bailey Arbic Featured in Purdue Agriculture Story[Read More]
Dr. Ariana P. Torres (Horticulture & Landscape Architecture / Agricultural Economics) has published a new paper with former MS student Jean Pierre Zavala (now at Texas Tech University) in HortTechnology: “HortCalculator: A Web-based Financial Decision-Support Tool for Midwestern Spinach Production in High Tunnels.“ The paper presents HortCalculator, a free, web-based financial planning tool developed for…Read more about New Publication from Ariana Torres and Jean Pierre Zavala[Read More]
Welcome to the off-farm edition of this week’s email! As much as I would love to talk about our pest struggles for the third week in a row, we’re at a point in the season where a lot of the on-farm happenings are more of the same, more of the same. To avoid the redundancy…Read more about This Week at the Purdue Student Farm[Read More]
On July 16 and July 23, Karen Sullivan, Vicki Stirm, Karen Mitchell, and Becky Stevenson hosted The Beauty of Flowers in Floral Design for Purdue University’s Grandparents University. They first talked about the ‘branches’ of horticulture (what you can study and have as a career) and then each participant created a bud vase arrangement to…Read more about HLA Hosts Grandparents University[Read More]
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