Findings From Two Years of Organic Sweet Potato Weed Management Research May 2, 2024 - From Issue: 735 By: Emmanuel Cooper and Stephen Meyers Read More Background Sweet potato is a staple crop that provides nutritional benefits to humans globally, but weed interference (Figure 1) can reduce yields by 22 to 90%. Despite increased organic sweet[Read More…] Article Categories: Root, Tuber, and Bulb Crops Sweet Potato Article Tags: Weed Management
Purdue Fruit and Vegetable Field Day – July 20, 2023 April 5, 2023 - From Issue: 716 By: Petrus Langenhoven Read More Purdue Extension presented its first Fruit, Vegetable and Hemp Field Day post-pandemic at the Meigs Ag Center in July 2022. Extension Specialists and Graduate Students presented specialty crop research to[Read More…] Article Categories: Carrots Sweet Potato Collards Peppers Potatoes Pumpkins Watermelon Strawberry Article Tags: Field Day Fruit Meigs PAC Research Vegetables
Purdue Fruit and Vegetable Field Day – July 20, 2023 March 15, 2023 - From Issue: 715 By: Petrus Langenhoven Read More Purdue Extension presented its first Fruit, Vegetable and Hemp Field Day post-pandemic at the Meigs Ag Center in July 2022. Extension Specialists and Graduate Students presented specialty crop research to[Read More…] Article Categories: Carrots Sweet Potato Collards Peppers Potatoes Pumpkins Watermelon Strawberry Article Tags: Field Day Fruit Meigs PAC Research Vegetables
Optogen®- a New Herbicide Available in Select Vegetables and Strawberry February 22, 2023 - From Issue: 714 By: Stephen Meyers Read More What is Optogen®? The active ingredient in Optogen® (Figure 1) is bicyclopyrone. Corn growers may recognize bicyclopyrone as one of the four ingredients in Acuron® herbicide. Bicyclopyrone is a Group[Read More…] Article Categories: Strawberry Broccoli Horseradish Onions Sweet Potato Strawberry Watermelon Article Tags: Herbicide