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A classroom filled with plants, as Spring Fest attendees browse and purchase the greenery. Among them, a smiling girl holds her fluffy white and brown dog. In the background reads, “Welcome to Spring Fest 2024!!”

2025 Spring Fest: A celebration of family fun, flora and fauna

Girl shopping in grocery store

Most consumers see processed foods as potentially unhealthy but buy them anyway

Gateway Arch at Purdue University

Purdue, Kearney announce partnership to enhance agribusiness education and innovation

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DIAL Ventures Agrifood Economy Index posts 8-point increase since August

Esther George to speak at 50th James C. Snyder Memorial Lecture.

Esther George to speak at 50th James C. Snyder Memorial Lecture

Ag Barometer

Farmer sentiment rises as current conditions improve on U.S. farms

Using an input image, the Tree-D Fusion creates a 3D tree model that can be used to simulate various stages of development.

3D tree reconstruction algorithm contributes to a new era of urban planning

Woman working at a table wearing a mask with hand sanitizer and box of 3-ply masks

Detailed determinants of pandemic job losses featured in PAER 2025 Outlook issue

Rootworms on corn

Midwestern field trials suggest overuse of rootworm-resistant corn reduces farmers’ profits

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Purdue hosts ‘Metaphors for Microbiomes’ workshop on science rhetoric

The Indiana Forage Council board of directors

Indiana Forage Council will host annual meeting in Greensburg

Two grain towers with corn leaves in the foreground

No increase in dust explosion incidents last year, decrease in injuries

 Aerial view of a combine actively harvesting corn in a large field during harvest season.

Purdue DIAL Ventures issues report on climate-smart agriculture opportunities and challenges

A resilient agricultural systems infographic depicting limited disturbance of soils, inclusion of cover crops and preservation of biodiversity.

Purdue University to host inaugural Resilient Agriculture Summit

Woman shopping at grocery store

Consumer stress over grocery prices stands at midpoint

Purdue Digital Forestry Students

Purdue digital forestry students win first prize in 2024 Annual GeoChallenge

Tiffany Sanchez is seated in her specialized wheelchair beside a horse in a corral.

2025 AgrAbility National Training Workshop travels to New Mexico

Sujith Puthiyaveetil and Steve McKenzie look at a plant thylakoid in a lab at the biochemistry building at Purdue University. (Purdue Agricultural Communications/Joshua Clark)

Purdue biochemists discover self-repair function in key photosynthetic protein complex

Vidya Nagaraju and Kingsly Ambrose measure the size and shape distribution of particles

Particle science innovations focus on improving grain facility safety

Memorial Mall

U.S. farmers retain optimistic outlook for 2025 despite ag trade uncertainty

Purdue University’s Uris Baldos, research associate professor of agricultural economics, leads a new study assessing the impacts of agricultural research investments on biodiversity and land use. (Purdue Agricultural Communications photo/Joshua Clark)

New study assesses impact of agricultural research investments on biodiversity, land use

Farmland Market

Center for Commercial Agriculture partners with Acres to enhance farmland market insights in Indiana

lettuce cucumber and tomatoes

Purdue Student Farm debuts new spring salad kit

Bhagyashree Katare headshot

Purdue researcher studies innovative strategies to effectively promote plant-based food choices through online shopping nudges

Woman standing in a forest in front of a tree holding smart phone toward the tree and the screen shows the tree

New iForester application puts tree knowledge in the public’s pockets

Two women, an attendee and a vendor, talk at the Small Farm Conference trade show.

Indiana Small Farm Conference will feature speakers, trade show for small and diversified farmers

A sheep is drinking water from a trough.

Indiana sheep shearing school open for registration

Grocery shelves missing food

Consumer Food Insights Report: Out-of-stock foods rate drops for second straight year

Marquee sign at the 2024 Purdue Ag Alumni Fish Fry.

Purdue Ag Alumni Fish Fry to be hosted at the Tippecanoe County Fairgrounds

Ag Barometer Image

Farmer sentiment drifts lower while producers remain optimistic about the future

A woman puts food on a girl’s plate.

Child Care professionals can learn, network at Wabash Heartland Child Care Summit

Paul Ebner, head, Purdue Department of Animal Sciences (photo provided by Josh Clark, Purdue Agricultural Communications)

New animal sciences head appointed by Purdue College of Agriculture dean

Jay Akridge

Jay Akridge, former Purdue provost and Agriculture dean, announced as 2024 Hovde Award recipient

Green field

Purdue, Agricultural Retailers Association, ASU to host management workshop for ag retail leaders

Person holding box of food standing outside.

Consumers report impact of hurricanes Helene and Milton on their food supply

 A farmer drives a no-till tractor over a field harvested the previous fall.

New incentives for climate-smart farming available to Indiana farmers

Stephen Cameron, professor of entomology,

Insect genome offers insights into rare biological conditions, agricultural biosecurity

corn field

2025 Top Farmer Conference provides economic, policy and tech strategies for farmers

Jingjing Liang and Javier Gammara at the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization

Purdue forest ecologist enhances global effort to solve environmental challenges with AI

A man probes a rolled bale of hay

Hoosier Hay Contest winners announced at 2024 Hay Quality Seminar

Memorial Mall

Farmer sentiment following the U.S. election reaches highest levels since May 2021

The exterior of Stewart Center, located on Purdue University’s West Lafayette campus.

Moving at the speed of technology: Purdue to host the 2025 Pest Management Conference

Two researchers seated at a conference table smile at the camera while holding nuts and trail mix.

Purdue researchers identify infrastructure and communication challenges as barriers to food safety in the low-moisture food industry

A silhouette of a man’s face in front of a computer screen displaying a UV map with green, yellow and red lines.

Purdue’s Institute for Digital and Advanced Agricultural Systems to cultivate innovation at upcoming panel and networking event

Three women stand behind a table at an agriculture trade show as conference participants pass by.

Indiana’s premier vegetable and fruit grower’s conference to be held in Hendricks County

Professor adjusts equipment in Pilot Plant.

Purdue launches institute to help farmers commercialize new value-added products

dairy calf

Purdue Extension event will offer parturition and calf care training to enhance producer success

Bag of chips

Most surveyed grocery shoppers report noticing shrinkflation

Hand-held device with a screen displaying colored thermal camera images

Purdue wildlife and aviation programs collaborate on deer population study

A group of event participants watches as a woman is lifted by a seat on a mechanical arm, which is attached to a small tractor.

Assistive technology at AgrAbility Expo

Memorial Mall: Farmer Sentiment in October

Farmer sentiment in October rebounded ahead of the U.S. election

raking hay in a windrow

‘Hey there, hay here’ free virtual seminar offers insights on forage quality and testing

 Testing cantaloupe for salmonella

Purdue, FDA join Indiana produce growers in multiyear food safety study

Yichao Rui, assistant professor of agronomy, inspects soil in a cornfield at Purdue’s Water Quality Field Station. Rui leads a study investigating the viability of using kura clover as a perennial cover crop associated with corn production.

Purdue tests effects of perennial cover crops on soil health and corn production

A man uses a food delivery app.

Consumer Food Insights Report highlights increasing use of food-ordering apps

The 2024 Rooted & Resilient Homesteading Conference will take place Nov. 1-2 in Kendallville.

Homesteading conference will feature hands-on workshops for experts and beginners

Two people view an image of a research sample of muscle cells.

Fatty acids found in meat and poultry may be beneficial to human metabolism

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

NCERA-101 receives 2024 National Excellence in Multistate Research Award

Memorial Mall: Farmer Sentiment reaches lowest levels

Farmer sentiment reaches lowest levels since 2016 as income expectations weaken

Tomi Lori Ankita looking at tomato

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

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

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

grain bins at Purdue ACRE

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

Dog playing fetch

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

uTREE Purdue colleagues in outside setting

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

Haley Oliver sitting on a wooden bench surrounded by yellow flowers

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

Scientist with laptop showing elements of his research.

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

beef cattle at SIPAC

Most consumers are unfamiliar or only slightly familiar with regenerative agriculture

tractor in a field

Indiana farmland prices reach new record highs in 2024

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

IoT4Ag Center is advancing data collection capabilities for rural farms

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.

New-to-Indiana soybean disease may plague Hoosier farmers

prairie chickens

Genomic analyses of prairie chickens cast doubt on species classifications

Memorial Mall: Weakening Farm Income

Weakening Farm Income Prospects Weigh On Farmer Sentiment

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

Researchers document animals’ preference for Purdue-patented sorghum technology

Solar Panels in field

Validated simulations optimize solar power generation with row crops

Farmers market stand

Consumers continue to lower food inflation expectations and estimates

Purdue College of Agriculture.

Farmer sentiment improves despite financial performance concerns

Mariela Fernández-Campos, a graduate student in Purdue University’s Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, examines leaves for tar spot in a field at Pinney Purdue Agricultural Center.

Purdue researchers adopt interdisciplinary approach to assessing emerging tar spot disease in corn

Sonling Fei in front of digital trees

Digital forestry can help mitigate and prevent wildfires

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