Summer Cover Crops for Improved Soil Health and Weed Management June 13, 2025 - From Issue: 755 By: Petrus Langenhoven Read More Summer cover crops offer clear benefits to vegetable growers and the environment. Cover cropping offers clear benefits to growers and the environment. It is a valuable opportunity to add organic[Read More…] Article Categories: Cover Crops Buckwheat Cowpea Sorghum Sudangrass Article Tags: Cover crop Soil health
Understanding Farm Decision-Making: Insights from the 2024-2025 Producer Survey June 13, 2025 - From Issue: 755 By: Petrus Langenhoven, Maria Marshall, Nathan Shoaf and Renee Wiatt Read More Small and medium-sized vegetable farms face unique challenges balancing profitability with sustainable production practices and food safety requirements. To better understand how these farmers navigate complex decision-making processes, the Soil[Read More…] Article Categories: Vegetable Crops – General Article Tags: Cover crop Soil health Soil to Market
Understanding Farm Decision-Making: Insights from the 2024-2025 Producer Survey May 30, 2025 - From Issue: 754 By: Maria Marshall, Petrus Langenhoven and Renee Wiatt Read More Small and medium-sized vegetable farms face unique challenges balancing profitability with sustainable production practices and food safety requirements. To better understand how these farmers navigate complex decision-making processes, the Soil[Read More…] Article Categories: Vegetable Crops – General Article Tags: Cover crop Irrigation Soil Fertility and Fertilizers Soil health Soil to Market
Indiana Nutrient Management Tool March 14, 2024 - From Issue: 732 By: Kevin Allison Read More The Indiana Nutrient Management Tool is a new Excel workbook that provides fertilizer and amendment recommendations for vegetables commonly grown in Indiana. Whether for a backyard garden or a market[Read More…] Article Categories: Vegetable Crops – General Article Tags: Soil Fertility and Fertilizers Soil health Soil Nutrient Management
New Purdue Extension Northern Indiana Soil Conservation Coordinator June 29, 2023 - From Issue: 722 By: Bryan Overstreet Read More Bryan Overstreet is the new Purdue Extension Northern Indiana Soil Conservation Coordinator / Conservation Cropping System Initiative Northern Indiana Conservation Agronomist. Bryan has been the Jasper County Extension ANR educator[Read More…] Article Tags: Soil health
Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education News March 15, 2023 - From Issue: 715 By: Petrus Langenhoven and Lais McCartney The 2023 cover crop survey is underway Adopted from NCR SARE news release, “Farmers: Share Your Thoughts on Cover Crops in the National Cover Crop Survey!“, March 1, 2023 Farmers[Read More…] Article Categories: Beets Carrots Lettuce Article Tags: CSA Mushrooms SARE Soil health Veggie Box
Are You Thinking of Applying Compost to Your Soils? March 14, 2023 - From Issue: 715 By: Nathan Shoaf and Petrus Langenhoven Read More Recent price increases and supply chain shortages for fertilizers, chemicals, and energy have impacted farm profitability and viability. As a result, many Indiana farmers are interested in alternative and more[Read More…] Article Tags: Compost Cover crop Soil Fertility and Fertilizers Soil health
Observations of Sweet Corn Lodging in No-till and Tilled Plots at Pinney Purdue September 15, 2021 - From Issue: 697 By: Liz Maynard and Joe Rorick Read More Rain and wind demonstrate influence of tillage practices on sweet corn lodging. Article Categories: Corn Sweet Corn Article Tags: Cover crop Reduced tillage Soil health
No-till Sweet Corn, Pumpkin and Winter Squash after Winter Rye – Reports from 2020 April 6, 2021 - From Issue: 686 By: Liz Maynard At the Pinney Purdue Ag Center in northern Indiana we had plots in 2020 with no-till sweet corn, pumpkins and winter squash following a rye cover crop. As is common[Read More…] Article Categories: Pumpkins Squash Sweet Corn Article Tags: Crop Culture Soil health
Specialty Crops Soil Health Podcast Episodes – Cover Crops on Market Farms, Microbes and Soil Health October 19, 2020 - From Issue: 683 By: Liz Maynard Read More New podcast episodes on cover crops for market farms and urban ag, and microbes and soil health. Article Categories: Vegetable Crops – General Article Tags: Announcement Cover crop Soil health
