Vera Vuković, Ph.D. student in the Patton lab, placed 1st in the Crop Science Society of America (CSSA), Turfgrass Science Division (C-5), graduate student research poster presentation contest and 3rd in the CSSA, Turfgrass Science Division (C-5), graduate student research oral presentation contest last week in San Antonio, TX. These presentations focused on her recently published work[Read More…]
Members of the Hoagland Lab attended the ASA, CSSA & SSSA Tri Society Meeting 2024 in San Antonio, Texas: Henrique Petry presented his talk “Understanding the impact of tomato domestication on rhizosphere metabolites and root microbiomes”, and his poster “Impact of nanoplastics on rhizosphere microbiomes and rhizosphere metabolites in tomato and lettuce.” Lily Berry Presented[Read More…]
Ashley Adair presented “The Dirt… on soil health, cover crops, and the bottom line” at private applicator recertification programs in Clark, Harrison, and Washington Counties on 11/12/2024. The talk covered soil health, N-credits from cover crops, and organic transition (an unusual topic for a PARP meeting!). Across the three events, Ashley reached approximately 100 farmers.[Read More…]
This week at the Soil Science Society of America in San Antonio, Anna Paltseva presented 3 talks where she explored the public health and socioeconomic impacts of heavy metal contamination in Lafayette, Louisiana soils, discussed the development of urban soil health indicators for resilient ecosystems, and introduced The Urban Soil Guide as a community resource to advance[Read More…]
Ashley Adair presented at the Rooted & Resilient Homesteading Conference in Kendallville, IN this past Saturday. She co-presented a talk on organic labeling and certification with Noble County ANR Educator Ann Kline, and presented a talk “From Scraps to Soil: Mastering Composting and Organic Production.” Shout out to the educators in Area 11 and Wabash[Read More…]
Several HLA folks traveled to Honolulu, Hawaii this week for the annual meeting of the American Society for Horticultural Science. A few of us went a day early to tour local farms and we visited a plumeria farm and a fruit farm where we sampled passion fruit, guava, bananas, papaya, dragon fruit, and much more[Read More…]
