TPAC 2025 Research
THROCKMORTON PURDUE AGRICULTURAL CENTER RESEARCH AND DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS 2025
Jay Young, Superintendent
Brian Schilling, Horticulture Research Manager
8343 South US 231
Lafayette IN 47909
765-538-3422
jayyoung@purdue.edu
bjschill@purdue.edu
https://ag.purdue.edu/arge/pac/Pages/tpac-home.aspx
Department of Agronomy
Corn Nitrogen – Biological Trial (Field Scale)
Purpose: Corn response to different nitrogen rates and comparing yield response to Xyway biological treatment.
Contact: Dan Quinn
Purdue MESONET Automated Agricultural Weather Station
Purpose: Automated collection of weather data from this site is sent to the Indiana State Climate Office at Purdue University - data can be observed at: http://climate.agry.purdue.edu
Contact: Beth Hall
Corn Planting Technology Comparison
Purpose: Comparing older planter technology vs. new planter technology using three hybrids.
Contact: Tom Beckman, Dan Quinn
Soybean Root Traits
Purpose: Identify and prioritize soybean root traits that can be targeted by breeders to enhance sustainability of soybean production, while increasing yields.
Contact: Anjali Iyer-Pascuzzi & Denise Caldwell
SOY25-SENTINAL-TPAC
Monitoring of disease development in soybeans over the growing season.
Contact: Darcy Telenko
COR25-SENTINAL-TPAC
Monitoring of crop disease development in field corn over the growing season.
Contact: Darcy Telenko
25-MGS-Burndown-01
Purpose: Burndown with HAI-333 (non-crop).
Contact: Bryan Young
25-MGS-Burndown-02
Purpose: Rapidicil vs Standard (non-crop).
Contact: Bryan Young
25-MGS-Corn-01
Purpose: SC500 Tank Mixtures in Corn.
Contact: Bryan Young
25-MGS-Corn-02
Purpose: Herbicide efficacy for weed control with Sipcam materials in Corn.
Contact Bryan Young
25-MGS-Corn-03
Purpose: Burndown with HAI-882 in Corn.
Contact: Bryan Young
25-MGS-Corn-04
Purpose: Weed Control Programs in Corn (Showcase).
Contact: Tommy Butts, Bryan Young
25-MGS-Corn-05
Purpose: [CONFIDENTIAL]
Contact: Bryan Young
25-MGS-Corn-06
Purpose: Metribuzin in Corn.
Contact: Tommy Butts
25-MGS-Corn-07
Purpose: Xarvio efficacy trials.
Contact: Tommy Butts
25-MGS-Corn-08
Purpose: Pyridate + HPPD Herbicide Interaction in Field.
Contact: Grant Issacs, Bryan Young
25-MGS-Soy-01
Purpose: Evaluating Authority Supreme and Anthem Maxx for Residual Weed Control
in Early Planted Soybeans.
Contact: Bryan Young
25-MGS-Soy-02
Purpose: Soybean Preplant Burndown Programs with Rapidicil.
Contact: Bryan Young
25-MGS-Soy-03
Purpose: Enversa and Kyber in Soybeans.
Contact: Bryan Young
25-MGS-Soy-04
Purpose: Diflufenican for Waterhemp Control.
Contact: Bryan Young
25-MGS-Soy-05
Purpose: Tolerance trial - no-till vs conventional.
Contact: Abi Norsworthy, Bryan Young
25-MGS-Soy-06
Purpose: SC500 Tank Mixtures in Soybeans.
Contact: Bryan Young
25-MGS-Soy-07
Purpose: Weed Control Programs in Soybean (Showcase).
Contact: Bryan Young
25-MGS-Soy-08
Purpose: Overlapping Residuals in Soybean.
Contact: Estevan Cason, Bill Johnson
25-MGS-Soy-09
Purpose: [REPLANT] Weed Control Programs in Soybean (Showcase).
Contact: Bryan Young
25-USB-IN
Purpose: The Value of Pigweed Management Strategies in the Planting Green Conservation System.
Contact: Bryan Young
25-TPAC-Corn-01
Purpose: Maverick Corn Herbicides PRE compared to industry standards.
Contact: Bryan Young
25-TPAC-Corn-02
Purpose: Surtain Early POST Programs.
Contact: Bryan Young
25-TPAC-Corn-03
Purpose: [CONFIDENTIAL]
Contact: Bryan Young
25-TPAC-Corn-04
Purpose: BAS894 vs Competitors in Corn
Contact: Bryan Young
25-TPAC-Corn-05
Purpose: Short stature corn multistate project.
Contact: Bryan Young
25-TPAC-Corn-06
Purpose: Encapsulated Saflufenacil vs non-encapsulated Saflufenacil and competitive products trials.
Contact: Jada Davis, Bryan Young
25-TPAC-Corn-07
Purpose: Encapsulated Saflufenacil programs in corn.
Contact: Jada Davis, Bryan Young
25-TPAC-Corn-08
Purpose: Phytotoxixcity of Corn from Pyridate + HPPD Tank Mix (Trial 1).
Contact: Grant Issacs, Bryan Young
25-TPAC-Corn-09
Purpose: Phytotoxixcity of Corn from Pyridate + HPPD Tank Mix (Trial 2)
Contact: Grant Issacs, Bryan Young
25-TPAC-Corn-10
Purpose: Crop safety with postemergence Surtain combinations.
Contact: Jada Davis, Bryan Young
25-TPAC-Corn-11
Purpose: Weed Control Programs in Corn.
Contact: Bryan Young
25-TPAC-Corn-12
Purpose: Showcase Resicore Rev and Kyro.
Contact: Bryan Young
25-TPAC-Corn-13
Purpose: Herbicide Corn Injury Detection & UAV Imagery Resolution Requirements.
Contact; Emmanual Cooper, Tommy Butts
25-TPAC-Corn-14
Purpose: Encapsulated Saflufenacil vs non-encapsulated Saflufenacil and competitive products trials.
Contact: Jada Davis, Bryan Young
25-TPAC-Corn-15
Purpose: Purpose: Encapsulated Saflufenacil programs in corn (replant).
Contact: Jada Davis, Bryan Young
25-TPAC-Drift-01
Purpose: BioGrip EC Formulation.
Contact: Tommy Butts
25-TPAC-Soy-01
Purpose: Overlapping Residual in early planted Soybean.
Contact: Estevan Cason, Bill Johnson
25-TPAC-Soy-02
Purpose: [CONFIDENTIAL].
Contact: Bryan Young
25-TPAC-Soy-03
Purpose: Zidua PRO vs Competitors.
Contact: Tommy Butts
25-TPAC-Soy-04
Purpose: Early Planted Soybean trials.
Contact: Estevan Cason, Bill Johnson
25-TPAC-Soy-05
Purpose: Herbicide Soybean Injury Detection & UAV Imagery Resolution Requirements.
Contact: Emmanual Cooper, Tommy Butts
25-TPAC-Soy-06
Purpose: To Respray or Not to Respray trials.
Contact: Emmanual Cooper, Tommy Butts
25-TPAC-Soy-07
Purpose: Soybean tolerance to glufosinate by application timing.
Contact: Bryan Young
25-TPAC-Soy-08
Purpose: Soybean tolerance to glufosinate hot mixes.
Contact: Bryan Young
Monitoring Codling Moth and Oriental Fruit Moth in Apples
Purpose: Monitor codling moth and oriental fruit moth in 2 blocks of apples at Meigs
Contact: Elizabeth Long
Monitoring Spotted-wing drosophila (SWD) in brambles
Purpose: Monitor the seasonal activity of SWD in/around the brambles at Meigs.
Contact: Elizabeth Long
Bee and Butterfly Forage Garden
Purpose: In an effort to supply a dedicated area of pesticide free, diverse, and season-long forage for a range of pollinating insects used in research and extension, an area of Meigs is being "rehabilitated" to remove poison ivy, brambles, and other low-value (for pollinators) species and replace with a mix of annual and perennial wildflowers and forbs that are native to the area.
Contact: Christian Krupke
Companion Planting in High Tunnels
Purpose: Determine what kind, and how much plant diversity, can be beneficial in a high tunnel tomato system of natural enemy recruitment and retainment to reduce pest pressure.
Contact: Laura Ingwell
Insect Pest Pheromone Trapping and Reporting
Purpose: Monitor with haystack traps for army worm (April to mid-June) and corn earworm (mid-June to September). PAC personnel will check trap daily and report captures.
Contact: Laura Ingwell
High Tunnel SCRI
Purpose: Classify the communities of pollinating insects that occur in high tunnel growing systems and compare this community to that of field growing systems. Evaluate changes in the composition of pollinator communities in different growing contexts, specifically in monoculture vs polyculture production.
Contact: Laura Ingwell & Robert Grosdidier
Sweet Corn Insecticide Efficacy Trial
Purpose: Examining five different planting dates, all with the same cultivar to evaluate the efficacy of 4 different insecticide spray schedules. Planting dates will extend from as early as we can get into the fields through late June.
Contact: Laura Ingwell
Flonicamid efficacy against harlequin bug on broccoli
Purpose: Preform an efficacy trial to expand the label of flonicamid to harlequin bug management in brassica crops
Contact: Laura Ingwell
Flonicamid efficacy against squash bugs on squash
Purpose: Preform an efficacy trial to expand the label of flonicamid to squash bug management in cucurbit crops
Contact: Laura Ingwell
Recruiting/retaining pollinators on high-tunnel tomatoes to optimize yield
Purpose: Determine 1. If pollination services are necessary to optimize fruit production in high-tunnel tomatoes, 2. If stocking tomato high tunnels with managed Bombus colonies increases pollination services, 3. If planting supplemental floral resources leads to higher retention or recruitment of pollinators in tunnels, 4. if there is a significant economic benefit to implementing steps 2 and 3. Help optimize tomato production in high tunnels.
Contact: Laura Ingwell
Insect-Derived Amendment Application
Purpose: Improve soil physical characteristics, microbial community, and obtain higher yields through use of insect-derived amendment sources in the production of specialty crops
Contact: Laura Ingwell
No-Till Sweet Corn Trial
Purpose: Monitor stink bug pests at the early stages of no-till sweet corn plantings. Evaluate three planting dates and four insecticide treatments
Contact: Laura Ingwell
Regenerative Agriculture Demonstration Plots
Purpose: To lay the groundwork for a long-term project measuring the impacts of regenerative (resilient) practices on specialty crops production, we will be growing sauce tomatoes.The field will be divided in half. One section will be dedicated to conventional practices (tillage, seed treatments, calendar-based pesticide applications) while the other half will be managed using regenerative practices (cover cropping, reduced or no tillage, pest scouting and threshold-based applications of pesticides).
Contact: Laura Ingwell
Resiliant Agriculture Study
Purpose: Pest/Beneficial insect survey in specialty crops.
Contact: Laura Ingwell
Resiliant Agriculture Study
Purpose: Pathogen surveys in specialty crops.
Contact: Wenjing Guan
Resilient Agriculture Study
Purpose: Quantification of soil microbiome.
Contact: Roland Wilhelm
Resilient Agriculture Study
Purpose: Georeferencing fields to map all data collected above onto high resolution.
Contact: Sidd Paul
Synergy of EPNs with Cultural Management Practices for Low-input Control of Flea beetles in Brassica Crops
Purpose: Aim to develop a technique for controlling flea beetles in high tunnel brassica crops using a combination of EPNs and trap crops.
Contact: Ian Kaplan & Julia Wooby
Bees and the bottom line: uncovering the effects of insecticides on crop pollination and yield
Purpose: Evaluate the indirect effect of insecticides on field-scale crop yield by reducing the need for pollenizers. This project proposes that with visitation from healthy pollinators in fields without pesticides it is possible to reduce the amount of pollenizer plants required to achieve field-scale productivity in the seedless watermelon system.
Contact: Ian Kaplan, Amy Bagby
USDA Ant Study
Purpose: Ant trials and sampling in continuous corn no-till system.
Contact: Christian Krupke, Sophia Motl
Resilient Agriculture Row Crop Trial
Purpose: Pest and beneficial insect surveys in corn and soybean systems.
Contact: Christian Krupke
Resilient Agriculture Study
Purpose: Deep and shallow soil cores for analysis of OM, nutrient and C content.
Contact: Yichao Rui
Resilient Agriculture Study
Purpose: Pathogen surveys in corn and soybean cropping system.
Contact: Darcy Telenko
Resilient Agriculture Study
Purpose: Quantification of soil microbiome.
Contact: Roland Wilhelm
Resilient Agriculture Study
Purpose: Georeferencing fields to map all data collected above onto high resolution.
Contact: Sidd Paul
Department of Forestry and Natural Resources
Spatially Explicit Densities of Indiana Wildlife
Purpose: Testing and optimizing methodology for the detection of nocturnal and diurnal wildlife.
Flying the UAS at various locations (including PACs) around the state and collect thermal (night-time) and RGB (daytime) imagery and video to use for counting the number of deer, coyote and turkey visible. This count data will be used to develop spatially explicit density models for the state of Indiana.
Contact: Tina Jackson
Department of Horticulture & Landscape Architecture
Hort 318- Field Production of Horticultural Crops
Purpose: An eggplant demonstration will be planted for class experiential learning opportunities. Ten varieties of different types will be planted and evaluated. Students will harvest, determine yield estimates, and look at IPM aspects of eggplant production.
Contact: Petrus Langenhoven & Kyle Daniel
SFS 391/ FS 491- Boilermaker Sauces and Pickles
Purpose: A scotch bonnet pepper variety trial will be planted for class experiential learning opportunities. 25 variest will be evaluated. Disease pressure and variety performance will be monitored. The produce will be used to make test recipes for the boilermaker black and gold hot sauces. Micronutrient and capsaicin content will be evaluated. Genotypes will be characterized.
Contact: Petrus Langenhoven
Self-cooling Water Harvesting Cellulose Mulch for Sustainable Agriculture
Purpose: Aim to develop a cellulose-based mulch with atmospheric water harvesting and optothermal management, addressing the pressing issue of water scarcity. Compare the cellulose-based mulch with common commercial white and black plastic mulches.
Contact: Petrus Langenhoven & Tian Li
Hort 317/ Hort 318
Purpose: Plant material will be grown to use in Hort 317 and Hort 318
Contact: Kyle Daniel
Herbicides Effectiveness in Driveways
Purpose: Evaluate different herbicides on gravel driveways
Contact: Aaron Patton, Brandon McNally
Effects of Early Post/Layby herbicides on Pumpkin
Purpose: Establish crop tolerance to herbicides at 14 and 28 days after planting in support of registrations.
Contact: Stephen Meyers, Helen Nocito
Termination and Fertilizer
Purpose: Determine suitability of combinations of cover crop termination, burndown, and fertility on cover crop termination, weed control, and pumpkin crop response.
Contact: Stephen Meyers, Helen Nocito
Zidua Carryover Trial
Purpose: To document crop safety of Zidua herbicide applied in the previous cropping season.
Contact: Stephen Meyers
Potato-Silage Tarp and Herbicides
Purpose: Investigate the use of silage tarps for early season weed control along with cultivation and herbicides for longer season control.
Contact: Stephen Meyers
Investigating the reintegration of organic food crops and animal production on above- and below-ground diversity, soil health, farm resilience, and food safety
Purpose: Study the potential of Integrated Cropping Systems (ICS) in organic farming to improve resilience, biodiversity, and soil health while reducing input costs.
Contact: Moriah Bilenky, Joe Tilstra
Addressing Knowledge Gaps in Animal Traction for Vegetable Production
Purpose: The innovation of this proposal is the revival of an old practice as a climate smart solution to powering small farms.
Contact: Moriah Bilenky
Sheep: Investigating the Re-integration of Organic Food Crops and Animal Production on Above and Below Ground Diversity, Soil Health, Farm Resilience, and Food Safety.
Purpose: Examine the impact of ICS on soil health, microbiome, and presence of food pathogens on vegetable farms and in turn the effects of ICS on animal and crop yield and quality and economic feasibility.
Contact: Moriah Bilenky & Jose Alvarez
Chicken: Investigating the re-integration of organic food crops and animal production on above and below ground diversity, soil health, farm resilience, and food safety.
Purpose: Examine the impact of ICS on soil health, microbiome, and presence of food pathogens on vegetable farms and in turn the effects of ICS on animal and crop yield and quality and economic feasibility.
Contact: Moriah Bilenky & Jose Alvarez
Evaluating Relay Cropping in Vegetable Crops
Purpose: Evaluate vegetable-small grain integration for enterprise diversification and seed seedbank reduction.
Contact: Moriah Bilenky, Joe Tilstra
Wine Grape Research
Purpose: Cold hardy variety trial and a few bulk rows for miscellaneous studies (crown gall, frost mitigation, laser bird control, etc.)
Contact: Miranda Purcell
VSD Monitoring on Trees
Purpose: Monitor VSD on infected redbud, tulip, and sweetgum trees
Contact: John Bonkowski
USDA-ARS
Long Term Phosphorous Stratification Study
Purpose: Purpose of project is to quantify the effects phosphorous products and crop rotation on yield and soil quality in corn and soybean.
Contact: Javier Gonzalez, Brenda Hoffman
Legacy Phosphorous Study
Purpose: Evaluation of soil phosphorous levels under different application rates.
Contact: Javier Gonzalez, Brenda Hoffman
Long Term Erosion Study
Purpose: Quantify the effects of tillage systems and crop rotations on corn and soybean yields and soil quality.
Contact: Javier Gonzalez, Brenda Hoffman