The original title for Dr. Brian Krug’s lecture at Cultivate’22 focused on teaching people how to water plants properly. The technical lead for Syngenta Flowers LLC, Krug changed the name and the focus to something equally as important: “Drying Plants Out: Training for Success.” “Just because we hav...

Spider mites are an economically important crop pest, especially in tomatoes. Dr. James Walgenbach, professor and Extension specialist in entomology and plant pathology, North Carolina State University at the Mountain Horticultural Crops Research and Extension Center, and Dr. Tom Bilbo, a post-docto...

There’s a difference between copywriting and copyrighting. Corey Zimmerman, founder and owner of Wanderweb, a web design and search engine optimization agency in Maine, explained what sets them apart. “Copywriting is sales writing,” she said. (In the marketing world, it’s also called copy.) “The abi...

More visitors on your farm, spending more time with you and possibly spending more money, seems to be the obvious goal of agritourism, but for a lot of those in the ag community there’s more than that. It’s about educating the public. It’s about sharing your passion. Carla Barbieri, professor and Ex...

With almost everything in shorter supply or higher in price these days, looking into ways to extend what you have, or even changing up your usual modus operandi , may be the way to go. To help guide your way, W. Garrett Owen, Ph.D., from Ohio State presented “Extending Your Peat and Exploring Altern...

Agritourism operators are in a unique position to add regenerative practices to their enterprises, according to Nicole Vaugeois, associate vice president of research at Vancouver Island University in British Columbia. She spoke about regenerative tourism and its opportunities for agritourism operati...

Cover cropping has been growing in popularity as conventional growers of field and row crops have learned of its benefits, and the practice has become widely accepted outside of the organic and biodynamic realms. Benefits include enhanced soil organic matter and carbon sequestration and increased wa...

Over the years, I’ve read articles about controlled environment agricultural, indoor farming, protected agricultural production and vertical farming. My interest was recently piqued in an article about vertical farming, and I wanted to see what was going on in this field. According to Cornell Univer...

While the meetings and education sessions at events like Great Lakes Expo are valuable and informative, the posters sharing research from graduate students shouldn’t be ignored. They provide bite-sized nuggets of larger projects worth looking into. For example, Taylor Mauch, a graduate research assi...