As vegetable growers get ready for the 2021 season, it might be a good idea to keep the list below handy. Most of the names one would need to contact during the season are listed along with their contact information. Tamara Benjamin – Farm Planning (765) 496-1930 tamara17@purdue.edu Amanda Deering – Food Safety (765) 494-0512…Read more about Purdue Specialists[Read More]
Vegetable Crops - General
A special project group of the North Central Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Center wants to learn about your concerns and experiences with herbicide drift. The group is surveying growers of fruits, vegetables, and other specialty crops in the upper Midwest. To truly understand the frequency, severity, and economic impact of herbicide drift on specialty crops,…Read more about Grower Survey to Assess Herbicide Drift Damage in the North Central U.S.[Read More]
Date: Mar. 12, 2021 Time: 9:00am-noon EST Location: Virtual, connection information will be sent 3 days prior to the event. There is no cost for this program unless you need PARP/CCH credits. To receive PARP/CCH credits you must register and pay by Mar. 5th, at https://www.cvent.com/d/tjq1sp. PARP participants must attend all sessions between 9:55-11:55am to receive credit. CCH participants…Read more about Southwest Indiana Melon and Vegetable Growers Annual Meeting[Read More]
Midwest Vegetable Trial Reports provide yield and quality data based on field test results under different cropping conditions. Reports based on projects in 2020 include variety trial results for asparagus, peppers – bell, specialty, and chile, cantaloupe, pickling cucumber, summer squash, and seedless watermelon. Cultural practice trials include no-till sweet corn and pumpkin after winter…Read more about Midwest Vegetable Trial Reports Update[Read More]
Welcome to a new year of the Vegetable Crops Hotline (VCH), Purdue Extension’s newsletter for people in the business of growing vegetables. As usual, we will have fifteen issues throughout the 2021 growing season. The first issue of the year is sent to all who subscribed to VCH via US-mail in 2020 as well as new…Read more about Welcome to a New Year of the Vegetable Crops Hotline[Read More]
We would like to remind readers about the 2021 version of the Midwest Vegetable Production Guide (ID-56). The new guide has been produced; however, the usual printed versions will not be for sale since we will have no in-person meetings at which to sell them. To find out how to access the on-line guide, or to…Read more about The Midwest Vegetable Production Guide for Commercial Growers 2021 (ID-56)[Read More]
Cornell Cooperative Extension is a partner on a Rochester Institute of Technology project that is creating new methods for manufacturing plastic mulch and promoting its field break-down. The project aims to tightly match new product development to real-world grower preferences, on-farm use patterns, and current economic constraints surrounding plastic film use. This 5-minute survey is…Read more about Plastic Mulch Survey[Read More]
USDA is implementing Coronavirus Food Assistance Program 2 for agricultural producers who continue to face market disruptions and associated costs because of COVID-19. Here is an expanded list of fruits and vegetables eligible for CFAP2. USDA will accept CFAP 2 applications from September 21, 2020 through December 11, 2020. More information about this program can…Read more about Coronavirus Food Assistance Program 2 for Specialty Crop Producers[Read More]