Corey Gerber News Today

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Interns at agricultural companies are invited to attend a Field Scout Intern Training event hosted by the Purdue Crop Diagnostic Training and Research Center. The instructors will teach the basics of agronomic scouting and relevant practices in agriculture.

Six years ago, Jim Provost, president of I Love Produce LLC. saw a notice on a bulletin board at his daughter’s high school — Special Olympics Basketball was looking for volunteers. “I used to coach, and I was looking for ways to give back to my community, so I called up the head coach and that was it,” he said.

Courtesy Jim Beaty HISTORIC DRIVE: Jim Beaty “drives” this restored Farmall tractor, used in wheat breeding at the Purdue Agronomy Farm, to its destination atop the loft inside the Beck’s Ag Center. Longtime ag center superintendent recalls advances in technology over his career. Anyone who has visited the former Purdue Agronomy Farm over the past 35 years has likely met Jim Beaty. He served as superintendent of the Purdue Departmental Farm near West Lafayette un...