MSU Southwest Michigan Research and Extension Center

MSU Southwest Michigan Research and Extension Center Located in Berrien County, growing and conducting research on fruits and vegetables.

12/23/2025

🚨This time we are going to South West Michigan🤗Berrien County Conservation District Berrien County Farm Bureau Berrien County Michigan - Government are you ready for an amazing Hands-On Mushroom Workshop Experience⁉️This one's for you 🫵 Learn to Grow Mushrooms 4 different ways ✅ Free Gourmet Mushroom Food ✅ Free Mushroom Coffee on Tap ✅ Free 5lb Ready-To-Fruit Mushroom Grow Kit🤯 Oh did I mention it's hands-on and you will be inoculating your very own All-In-One Grow Kit⁉️ Tickets are only $35 😲 And will sell out fast☝️Don't snooze you don't wanna miss this 🤗 Ticket Link below ⬇

https://www.berriencd.org/events/hands-on-mushroom-workshop

New tree fruit specialist, Dan Dick, engaged with Lehman's Orchard's, Steve Lecklider, during the recent flash freeze to...
12/22/2025

New tree fruit specialist, Dan Dick, engaged with Lehman's Orchard's, Steve Lecklider, during the recent flash freeze to discuss bud hardiness, training systems, and added-value marketing.

Our new tree fruit specialist, Dan Dick, has a "rule of thumb" about peach buds. NHBP Food Sovereignty
11/23/2025

Our new tree fruit specialist, Dan Dick, has a "rule of thumb" about peach buds. NHBP Food Sovereignty

08/01/2025

MSU Extension vegetable specialist Benjamin Phillips received the Distinguished Service Award from the National Association of County Agriculture Agents (NACAA) during the 2025 Annual Meeting and Professional Improvement Conference in Billings, Montana in July.

"I really enjoyed cutting my teeth in the vegetable industry with the Amish groups in the Thumb, the market growers around Bay City and Macomb, and the big vegetable growers in Imlay City,” Phillips said. “The pickling cucumber industry in the Saginaw Bay region and the vegetable growers in southwest Michigan have also been very supportive in my learning. I am always humbled that they put their trust in me to help them in return..."

Read more about Phillips' work at the link in the comments.

We have a lot of weeds here, but this one I like. It's called knawel, and it fills in the gaps in our rye wind breaks wi...
06/05/2025

We have a lot of weeds here, but this one I like. It's called knawel, and it fills in the gaps in our rye wind breaks with a low growing mat. It is easy to manage in areas where I don't want it. I'd say it's a friend.

This week we tweaked a newly designed cone-seeder from SRES/Kincaid, hardened-off brassicas in the shade house, installe...
05/10/2025

This week we tweaked a newly designed cone-seeder from SRES/Kincaid, hardened-off brassicas in the shade house, installed fence, dibbled rows, marked plots, planted brassicas and squash, plumbed and fixed irrigation, and designed a part for irrigation on our 3D printer.

Spring activities in the veg program at SWMREC
05/03/2025

Spring activities in the veg program at SWMREC

Ben Phillips, from SWMREC, is happy to be working with the Benton Harbor Community Development Corporation again this ye...
02/26/2025

Ben Phillips, from SWMREC, is happy to be working with the Benton Harbor Community Development Corporation again this year for a seed starting series. You are welcome to register at https://bentonharborcdc.org/flourish/

Our partner, Tillers International, is hosting a master class with market gardener, Ken Laing. I'll be there with some n...
01/08/2025

Our partner, Tillers International, is hosting a master class with market gardener, Ken Laing. I'll be there with some neat weed-control equipment, and ValleyHUB KVCC will be present there too with some great marketing resources. It should be a good time.

01/07/2025

The Michigan AgrAbility team is supporting a worker at the MSU Southwest Michigan Research and Extension Center with the design and implementation of assistive technology.

Views around the research station on a bright, sunny November day. Our blueberry bushes have beautiful reddened leaves, ...
11/07/2024

Views around the research station on a bright, sunny November day. Our blueberry bushes have beautiful reddened leaves, cover crops are establishing well, and plants are beginning to enter dormancy for the winter season ahead.

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49022

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