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Announcements

February 26, 2025

Purdue University to host inaugural resilient agriculture summit - Click for more information.

January 17, 2025

The 2024 Watermelon Variety Trial Reports are now available on the Indiana Watermelon and Melon Variety Trials website. Click for more information.

January 17, 2025

Indiana Melon and vegetable growers annual meeting The 2025 agenda and meeting presentations can be found here. Click for more information.

Research Updates

February 26, 2025

A recent study from Dr. Ian Kaplan’s lab found that using broad-spectrum insecticides to control cucumber beetles is inadvertently triggering spider mite outbreaks in watermelon fields. The study also discovered that spider mites do not appear to use rye as a pathway to enter watermelon crops. You can find more details in the full article. Click for more information.

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Grower Advisory Board (Nov. 1, 2024)

A Grower Advisory Board meeting will be held on November 19 at 3:00 p.m. at the Southwest Purdue Agriculture Center. Purdue Extension specialists will be present to meet with growers, discuss production challenges, share current research activities, and outline future plans. The research team is eager to gather input from growers to help guide our efforts. We are still looking to fill additional seats on the advisory board. If you are interested in joining, please contact Wenjing Guan at guan40@purdue.edu or César Escalante at escalac@purdue.edu.

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