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Amy Shambach talks about the future of shrimp farming – IISG

Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant Newsroom: A group of Midwestern shrimp farmers are on a mission to provide Americans with better-tasting, sustainable shrimp. The industry struggled during the COVID-19 pandemic, but farmers remain hopeful that indoor shrimp farming will come back stronger than...

Can I Plant Trees in the Fall?

Purdue Landscape Report: When I was a kid, if you’d asked me what my favorite season was it would always immediately be summer. No school, time for playing outdoors, swimming, hiking, and late nights playing flashlight tag. Now, if I...

Deer Season in Full Swing, Check Out the FNR Resources

Hunters have been busy preparing food plots, hanging tree stands and working on their marksmanship skills in hopes for getting that buck of a lifetime.  The Indiana deer hunting season for 2023-2024 started September 15th and goes to January 31st. ...

IFWOA Newsletter Packed With Information: Habitat for Pollinators, Invasive Plants and Timber Taxes

Indiana Forestry & Woodland Owners Association (IFWOA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to conservation and sustainable management of forests in Indiana. The Fall Leaves & Limbs Newsletter is now available online and is open to all who would like to...

Early Fall Color – A Symptom of Stress, Purdue Landscape Report

Purdue Landscape Report: Many trees are planted for their beautiful fall color, especially in locations where the climate provides reliable autumn weather. I have said this multiple times during extension talks and conversations with submitters to the Purdue Pest &...

Publication: Invasive Plant Series-Tree of Heaven, Ailanthus altissima

Tree-of-heaven (ToH), also known as Chinese sumac, varnish tree, or stink tree, is a large, rapidly growing deciduous tree native to parts of China. Tree-of-heaven was introduced to North America as early as the late 1700s and has since become...

Publication-Homeowner Conservation Practices to Protect Water Quality

We all want clean water but sometimes it is hard to know how one individual or family can make a difference. People who have a home with a yard have the opportunity to make decisions that can protect and improve...

MyDNR: New multi-agency research partnership to benefit Indiana’s wildlife and wild places

MyDNR, Indiana's Outdoor Newsletter: The Indiana Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, or CRU, that Purdue will host, brings together the U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Purdue University, the DNR, and the Wildlife Management Institute. Its focus...

New Invasive Predator of Honeybees-Purdue Landscape Report

Purdue Landscape Report: A new invasive insect of concern has been identified in the state of Georgia. In August of 2023, Georgia’s Department of Agriculture, along with the USDA, confirmed the presence of the yellow-legged hornet, Vespa velutina, outside of...

Beat Back Borers Attacking Pines and Other Cone Bearing Trees-Purdue Landscape Report

Purdue Landscape Report: Trees stressed by prolonged drought are more subject to attack by boring insects. This article provides tips and a video link on how to manage pines for borers. Record breaking heat and sporadic rainfall during July of...

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