September, 2024: Purdue-led TOMI project receives $3.5M grant to turn a decade of data into new tools and strategies for tomato farmers
Purdue Ag News published an article on September 30, 2024, reporting that Lori Hoagland, a professor in Purdue University’s Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, recently received a third grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA-NIFA) for the Tomato Organic Management and Improvement (TOMI) project, which aims, through a variety of strategies, to help farmers overcome some of the most challenging aspects of production: foliar diseases caused by fungal and bacterial pathogens.
Funding
This project was funded in 2014, 2019 and 2024 by the Organic Research and Extension Initiative grant, part of the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture. Award numbers 2014-51300-22267, 2019-51300-30245 and 2024-51300-4337