Growing communities means growing job needs and opportunities. Across its four program areas, Purdue Extension is helping the Hoosier workforce adapt traditional skills and build new ones.

Wetlands once made up 25 percent of Indiana. Many of these 5.6 million acres were located in the fertile farmground of northern Indiana. Early in the 19th century, landowners began using open ditches ...

Welcome to the Hamilton County 4-H Program! I am excited for the adventure that awaits you. Our 4-H mission is to give all youth equal access to opportunity. We have youth participate in 4-H from ...

In the simplest terms, a crop growing season refers to that period of the year when seasonal weather is favorable for growth. In the Corn Belt, the "growing season" is often defined as the number of ...

One of the questions most commonly asked by amateur fruit growers is "Why do my plums and peaches rot and dry up just as they are getting ripe?" The brown rot disease that is responsible for this rot ...

Arrange to have a security survey conducted. Your insurance agent probably performed a limited assessment of your property to identify risks on which to base premiums. But since insurance appraisals ...

Many combinations of tillage methods are available for corn and soybean production. Currently much of the primary tillage is done in the fall. Deep tillage with the moldboard plow is still common, but ...

Stalk rots occur to a greater or lesser degree every year in Indiana. Losses from stalk rots may occur directly when plants are prematurely killed and ears are lightweight and poorly finished or ...

The mode-of-action is the overall manner in which a herbicide affects a plant at the tissue or cellular level. Herbicides with the same mode-of- action will have the same translocation (movement) ...

Because of the tight supplies and soaring costs of nitrogen materials, Indiana farmers are taking a critical second look at their fertilizer programs. The object of such an evaluation is to insure the ...

Earthworms have long been associated with healthy, productive soils. In his 1881 book entitled. "The Formation of Vegetable Mould through the Action of Worms," the great biologist Charles Darwin ...

George Bender, National Crop Insurance Adjusters Gerry Posler, Kansas State University Dale Hicks, University of Minnesota Jim Rink, Farm Bureau Crop Insurance In the U.S., approximately half of all ...