A research article entitled “Effect of in-row spacing on weed suppression and yield of ‘Covington’ and ‘Monaco’ sweetpotato” was published in Weed Technology on October 16, 2024. The research was conducted as part of the Master’s thesis of Emmanual Cooper, funded by the USDA-NIFA-OREI grant program. Co-authors include Stephen Meyers and Ashley Adair from HLA,[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…]
This summer, two of Yiwei Huang‘s co-authored/contributed articles were published. In 2022-2023, Yiwei Huang collaborated with Dr. Weijie Hu, whom she met at the 2020 AAG conference, to write an article exploring whether place attachment can be formed in Public Rental Housing in China. The article has now been published in Urban Geography: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02723638.2024.2362507 In[Read More…]
Ashley Adair wrote an article for the Flanagan State Bank Specialty Growers Ag Newsletter entitled “Raw Manure, Raw Produce – New Research at Purdue to Investigate Crop-Livestock Integration and Produce Safety” featuring Moriah Bilenky’s integrated crop-livestock study with poultry and sheep. FSB is a bank in central Illinois that specializes in ag lending and has a strong history[Read More…]
Dr. Avtar Handa and collaborators has published an original refereed paper in Plant Growth Regulation entitled “A comprehensive endogenous phytohormone metabolite landscape identifies new metabolites associated with tomato fruit”. In this manuscript they report characterization of endogenous levels of 47 compounds including active plant hormones. Several of this compound has been quantified first time during[Read More…]
The Diverse Corn Belt project is pleased to announce the open-access publication of “‘Safer to Plant Corn and Beans?’ Navigating the Challenges and Opportunities of Agricultural Diversification in the U.S. Corn Belt” in Agriculture and Human Values. Led by former HLA postdoc, Rebecca Traldi, the paper includes several HLA co-authors: Lauren Asprooth, Emily Usher, Elizabeth Maynard, Aaron[Read More…]