News

Tips for growing and maintaining cut flowers in your garden

Published on June 13, 2025
Learn how to grow healthy cut flowers and keep them blooming with key maintenance techniques like pinching, deadheading and support.
Legacy phosphorus and water quality with MSU Extension Virtual Breakfast

Published on June 13, 2025
The Field Crops Virtual Breakfast Series continues June 19 with a discussion on water quality and phosphorus loss through tile lines with MSU specialist Ehsan Ghane.
A Summer of Discovery: Welcoming REU Students to the PSM Labs at MSU

Published on June 13, 2025
Summer on campus means more than field days and quiet streets—it also means a fresh crop of students bringing new energy to our labs, thanks to an amazing group of undergraduate researchers joining us for the season.
Wheat Watchers Week of June 9, 2025

Published on June 12, 2025
See how the wheat crop is progressing across the state this week.
Michigan hop pest report - June 12, 2025

Published on June 12, 2025
Mite numbers are building, and adult corn borer flight has begun in most of the Lower Peninsula.
Michigan chestnut crop report – June 12, 2025

Published on June 12, 2025
Black stem borer is active and potato leafhopper populations are building.
Southwest Michigan field crops update – June 12, 2025

Published on June 12, 2025
Potato leafhopper is present—watch for it in potatoes and alfalfa. Wheat is done flowering and starting kernel fill.
Graduate spotlight on Michael Ozolins

Published on June 12, 2025
Completed his MS and aiming for a PhD!
Michigan hop crop report week of June 11, 2025

Published on June 12, 2025
Hops are growing with vigor.
Maximize your summer harvest with companion planting

Published on June 12, 2025
Companion planting, also known as intercropping, is “cropping” up on social media as if it is the latest garden discovery. But companion planting can be traced back thousands of years to ancient civilizations.