The grant is for small businesses and nonprofits to cover COVID-related expenses such as workplace safety measures e.g., personal protective equipment (PPE), retrofitting facilities for worker and consumer safety, shifting to online sales platforms, transportation, worker housing, and medical costs. Application due 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on Monday, November 22, 2021. Applications must be submitted…Read more about Apply for Pandemic Response and Safety Grant Program Due Nov. 22[Read More]
Don’t miss this year’s Indiana Hort Conference & Expo. Jan 19-20, 2022. More detail of this years’ program and registration is at https://www.indianahortconference.org/
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has extended the deadline for agricultural producers who are certified organic, or transitioning to organic, to apply for the Organic and Transitional Education and Certification Program (OTECP). This program provides pandemic assistance to cover certification and education expenses. The deadline to apply for 2020 and 2021 eligible expenses is…Read more about Deadline Extended to Apply for Pandemic Support for Certified Organic and Transitioning Operations[Read More]
For over 40 years, vegetable growers from across Southern Indiana and Northern Kentucky have attended this event each winter to learn about the latest information regarding the production of fresh vegetables. Growers (including home gardeners) wishing to spend a few hours learning about the latest information in the field of vegetable crop production are encouraged…Read more about 2022 Southeastern Indiana Vegetable Growers Meeting[Read More]
Indiana Hort Conference & Expo will be held virtually across nine Tuesdays and Thursdays in February, at 2 – 4 pm beginning Feb. 1, next Tuesday. Here is the link to the full schedule, topics and speakers: https://www.indianahortconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/IHC2022_Virtual_Schedule.pdf The webinar series is free, please register at http://www.indianahortconference.org/ PARP will be available for 3 of these…Read more about Indiana Hort Conference and Expo Virtual Webinar Series[Read More]
The photo here (Figure 1) shows a spaghetti squash with many lesions on the fruit. At first glance, it may seem to be several lesions of different sizes. However, if one looks closely, there are actually two different diseases on the fruit. The larger, brown, irregular water-soaked areas are black rot, caused by the same…Read more about Two Diseases of Spaghetti Squash[Read More]
Over the last few years, we’ve heard of 2 or 3 unusual cases of high tunnel tomato producers losing entire crops of their tomatoes, with plants suddenly looking brown and covered in leaf mines/tunnels (Figure 1). After collecting specimens, we’ve confirmed the very hungry and tiny culprit is the caterpillar of the tomato pinworm (Keiferia…Read more about Lookout for Tomato Pinworm: a Rare but Very Hungry Caterpillar that can Devastate Tomatoes[Read More]
The last several weeks have certainly been warmer than normal. Figure 1 illustrates just how warm with some parts of Indiana almost 7°F above normal over the past 30 days. That is quite incredible, however not many records were broken over this period. Climate outlooks for the next several weeks are indicating that above-normal temperatures…Read more about Warmer Temperatures Expected Over Next Several Months[Read More]
Date: November 18, 2021, 5:00 pm (EST) Location: 4207 Purdue Rd, Vincennes, IN 47591. Purdue Extension Food Safety Training Hub, in the newly constructed Vincennes University Agricultural Center, located on highway 41 adjacent to Southwest Purdue Agriculture Center. The Southwest Indiana Melon and Vegetable Growers Winter Meeting will be back in person in 2021! Note the new…Read more about Southwest Indiana Melon and Vegetable Growers Winter Meeting[Read More]
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