By JEFF BURBINK Extension Educator, Purdue Extension Elkhart County GOSHEN— Driving through the county, you might see some white heads of wheat standing out against a sea of green. In other cases, you might see a patch of these white heads standing together in a pocket of a field. What causes this?  There are several common …read more.

By JEFF BURBRINK Extension Educator, Purdue Extension Elkhart County GOSHEN — I began to write this story at 8:35 a.m. Dec. 21, 2015.  At that time, there were 7,389,298,829 people on Earth. The big challenge of our collective lives will be to feed 8 billion-plus people, projected to occur sometime in the year 2024. But within …read more.