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The USAID Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Safety (FSIL), a collaborative effort between Purdue University and Cornell University, is instrumental in advancing food safety research as part of the Feed the Future mission. FSIL grants and manages awards...

The CFDAS at Purdue tracks consumer insights and the economics of the food system to produce timely reports on trends and emerging topics. The center brings data about consumers to farmers and information about farms to consumers. WE MAKE CFDAS DATA WORKFLOWS...

Lake Erie suffers from intense periods of low oxygen, causing massive die-offs During the summer months, Lake Erie experiences periods of pronounced hypoxic conditions that are dangerous to many aquatic organisms. These events are largely driven by overgrowth of algal...

To improve crop yield in poorly drained soil types common in the US Midwest, farmers commonly installed subsurface drainage systems to help remove excess water. Despite being a common practice, we have limited understanding about how different spacings of drain...

Dr. Brock Harpur's lab in Purdue Entomology studies how honey bees evolve and adapt — questions that matter for the health of a pollinator agriculture depends on. To understand what a newly sequenced bee genome reveals, the lab first has...

Purdue’s 7,300-square-foot phenotyping facility

Dr. Jackie Boerman and Dr. Luiz Britol wanted to analyze data produced at dairy farms. Dairy producers are utilizing multiple software programs and sensors on their farms to assist with the management of their farms. A challenge to fully utilizing...

Dr. Shalamar Armstrong's Soil Ecosystem and Nutrient Dynamics (SEND) Lab, in Purdue Agronomy, studies how cover crops protect farmland — the nutrients in the soil, the water that runs off it, and the yields that follow. The harder problem was...