Our research on plants and microbes helps: protect the environment, apply genetic knowledge to improve plants, manage natural resources, control weeds and diagnose plant diseases.

Reagan Koester was 30 minutes into the eight-hour drive from her internship in Iowa to her parents’ home in Wadesville, ...

A dry season can be devastating to harvests, putting both farmers' livelihoods and communities' food security at risk.

A new report released by Purdue University’s College of Agriculture and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National ...

Michael Langemeier and James Mintert, Purdue Center for Commercial Agriculture Figure 3. Farm Financial Performance Index, January 2021- September 2025. Figure 4. Farm Capital Investment Index, ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — U.S. farmer sentiment edged slightly higher in October, with the Purdue University/CME Group Ag Economy Barometer rising 3 points to a reading of 129. The increase was fueled ...

Purdue’s College of Agriculture advances the One Health Initiative through pioneering research, technological advancements ...

The Purdue Student Farm (PSF), a small-scale sustainable farm managed by the Department of Horticulture and Landscape ...

The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated the need to rapidly develop, produce and distribute large quantities of new vaccines. A team of researchers at Purdue University and Merck & Co. Inc.

After decades of recording detailed information about different varieties of crops, their traits and the DNA sequences they ...

A robot “dog” may soon make its way from a Purdue entomology lab to fetch real-time data on tick populations in the wild.