USDA’s Simplified Direct Loan Application is Now Available for all Producers March 15, 2023 - From Issue: 715 By: Petrus Langenhoven Adopted from a Farmers.gov bulletin, March 7, 2023 A new, simplified direct loan application is now available for all producers seeking a direct farm loan from the Farm Service Agency[Read More…] Article Tags: Finance FSA
NRCS Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) Financial Assistance March 15, 2023 - From Issue: 715 By: Petrus Langenhoven The EQIP program is a great program that helps growers to get access to finance and technical assistance. I reached out to Sarah Vaughn, District Conservationist at the Lafayette NRCS[Read More…] Article Tags: EQIP Finance Greenhouses & High Tunnels NRCS
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
Planning on Growing Summer Squash this Summer? March 14, 2023 - From Issue: 715 By: Petrus Langenhoven Read More I conducted a summer squash (zucchini) variety trial at the Throckmorton Purdue Agriculture Center/Meigs Horticulture Facility, Lafayette, IN, a few years ago (Figures 1 & 2). We evaluated ten[Read More…] Article Categories: Cucurbits Squash
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
From the Editor’s Desk March 14, 2023 - From Issue: 715 By: Petrus Langenhoven Read More Welcome to the Vegetable Crops Hotline (VCH), Purdue Extension’s exclusive newsletter for people in the business of growing vegetables. Our outstanding contributing authors have outdone themselves once again. Spring is[Read More…] Article Tags: Editor's Desk
From the Editor’s Desk February 22, 2023 - From Issue: 714 By: Petrus Langenhoven Welcome to the Vegetable Crops Hotline (VCH), Purdue Extension’s exclusive newsletter for people in the business of growing vegetables. As things might change from year to year, so did the[Read More…] Article Tags: Editor's Desk Purdue Extension
Digital Farm Records – Easy Conversion from Notebook February 22, 2023 - From Issue: 714 By: Petrus Langenhoven “My guess is that almost all are still using a dashboard notebook of some sort in combination, of course, with the farm management information system,” says Dennis Buckmaster, Professor of[Read More…] Article Tags: Digital Ag Food Safety Horticulture Record Keeping
Selecting Vegetable Varieties for your Farm February 22, 2023 - From Issue: 714 By: Petrus Langenhoven Are you still thinking about varieties for the upcoming season? Purdue has been keeping a record of vegetable variety trials in the Midwest since 1999. The Midwest Vegetable Trial Report[Read More…] Article Categories: Cucumbers Pumpkins Squash Watermelon Peppers Sweet Corn Article Tags: Production Management Varieties
Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) News February 22, 2023 - From Issue: 714 NCR-SARE Funded Awards NCR-SARE Announces 2022 Research and Education Awards – February 1, 2023 NCR-SARE is pleased to announce the projects selected for funding for the 2022 Research and Education[Read More…] Article Tags: Cover crop Crop Rotation IPM Organic Production Weeds Wholesale Markets « First‹ Previous678910 (current) 11121314Next ›Last »Page 10 of 14
