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FUNGI HUNTERS UNCOVER HIDDEN WORLDS

Launching Technology from Discovery to Delivery

When David Wilson visited farmers in Ethiopia last fall, he watched oxen trample grain to remove the chaff.

Taming the Bear Market

A small printer tucked into a corner of Chris Hurt’s cluttered, busy office hums with rhythmic precision, spitting out page after page of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s grain crop production report.

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PHENOTYPING

Phenotyping, the process of measuring and analyzing observable plant characteristics, is a term used frequently in the College of Agriculture these days—and a technique that is now automated for field research at Purdue.