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Cary Mitchell and Celina Gómez in a horticulture and landscape architecture greenhouse with grow lights and tomato plants.

Horticulture & Landscape Architecture

NCERA-101 receives 2024 National Excellence in Multistate Research Award

03 October 2024

ncera-101, excellence in multistate research award, award, ncra, horticulture and landscape architecture, celina gómez, cary mitchell devyn raver

College of Agriculture Agricultural Economics

Farmer sentiment reaches lowest levels since 2016 as income expectations weaken

01 October 2024

farmer sentiment, cme ag economy barometer morgan french

Horticulture & Landscape Architecture Agricultural & Biological Engineering

Purdue-led TOMI project receives $3.5M grant to turn a decade of data into new tools and strategies for tomato farmers

30 September 2024

tomi, tomato organic management and improvement, tomato, organic, lori hoagland, pathology, foliar disease, fungi, early blight, late blight, septoria, machine-learning, artificial intelligence, extension lindsey berebitsky

Purdue research team uses a computer on top of a drone to gather data

Agronomy

Purdue researchers acquire and analyze data through AI network that predicts maize yield

24 September 2024

ai, artificial intelligence, agronomy, mitch tuinstra, melba crawford, prediction, machine learning, machine-learning, models, model, statistics, algorithm, maize yield, climate change lindsey berebitsky

Agricultural & Biological Engineering

Grain entrapment is the leading cause of agricultural confined space-related injuries and fatalities; researchers emphasize safety

19 September 2024

confined space, grain, entrapment, safety ashvini malshe

Animal Sciences

Fetch, kitty! New research shows that cats are more eager to retrieve than you might think

18 September 2024

dogs and cats fetching behaivor, fetch, dogs, cats, animal ownership emily matchar

uTREE Purdue colleagues in outside setting

Institute for Digital Forestry

Purdue AI urban tree monitoring and analysis initiative to improve city life

16 September 2024

daniel aliaga, songlin fei, ai, air quality, rainwater runoff, urban trees, maureen manier

Haley Oliver sitting on a wooden bench surrounded by yellow flowers

Food Science

Purdue researcher awarded $10M for extension of the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Safety

13 September 2024

haley oliver, feed the future, feed the future innovation lab for food safety, fsil, united states agency for international development, usaid, food science amanda garris

Scientist with laptop showing elements of his research.

Botany & Plant Pathology

Purdue team unravels regulatory mechanism that prevents stem cell differentiation and maintains gender balance in vascular plants

12 September 2024

cell differentiation, gender in vascular plants, fern model, stem cell-proliferation process steve koppes

Agricultural Economics

Most consumers are unfamiliar or only slightly familiar with regenerative agriculture

11 September 2024

regenerative ag, consumer, food, affordability steve koppes

Agricultural Economics

Indiana farmland prices reach new record highs in 2024

10 September 2024

farmland, prices, cash rents, survey ashvini malshe

two people tighten a box-shaped device to the SPRING tripod in an open field. A third is coming towards them to help

Agricultural & Biological Engineering

IoT4Ag Center is advancing data collection capabilities for rural farms

05 September 2024

iot, internet of things, iot4ag, the internet of things for precision agriculture center, spring, solar-powered remote iot4ag network gateway, dennis buckmaster, technology, digital, precision agriculture, andrew balmos lindsey berebitsky

Red crown rot, a disease that affects soybeans and other legumes, gets its name from the damage it causes to stems at the soil line.

Agriculture Environment

New-to-Indiana soybean disease may plague Hoosier farmers

04 September 2024

purdue extension, crops, red crown rot, diseased crops, indiana, soybeans olivia de young

Forestry & Natural Resources

Genomic analyses of prairie chickens cast doubt on species classifications

03 September 2024

prairie chickens, j. andrew dewoody steve koppes

College of Agriculture

Weakening Farm Income Prospects Weigh On Farmer Sentiment

03 September 2024

farmer sentiment, weakening farm income, ag barometer morgan french

Ewes preferentially grazing a dhurrin-free sorghum hybrid at Purdue University’s Animal Sciences Research and Education Center.

Agronomy

Researchers document animals’ preference for Purdue-patented sorghum technology

29 August 2024

sorghum, animal safety, dhurrin-free, mitch tuinstra nancy alexander

Agricultural & Biological Engineering

Validated simulations optimize solar power generation with row crops

19 August 2024

corn yields, margaret gitau, mitch tuinstra, agricultural engineering, agricultural and biological engineering, solar power arrays, photovoltaic, agronomy center for research and education, corn, soybeans, cell reports sustainability, agrivoltaics, solar panels steve koppes