Benjamin Phillips
I work with commercial field and greenhouse vegetable growers who target the fresh, wholesale, and processing markets in Southwest Michigan, based at the Michigan State University Southwest Michigan Research and Extension Center. My duties entail crop scouting, pest identification, crop management and food safety consultation, resource development, educational programming, vegetable production research, and facilitation of research projects with MSU's main faculty researchers and grower collaborators.
Home gardeners should call the gardening hotline at 888-MSUE4MI (888-678-3464) or submit a question to Ask an Expert. There are also gardener resources here and an online class here.
Related Work
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Michigan vegetable crop report – May 28, 2025
Published on May 28, 2025
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Michigan vegetable crop report – May 21, 2025
Published on May 21, 2025
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Michigan vegetable crop report – May 14, 2025
Published on May 14, 2025
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Michigan vegetable crop report – May 7, 2025
Published on May 7, 2025
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Calibrating vegetable spreaders and sprayers
Published on May 1, 2025
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Boron in vegetables: Not too little, not too much
Published on April 8, 2025
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Vegetable program at Southwest Michigan Horticultural Days to focus on input suppliers
Published on January 23, 2025
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Vegetable 'Ag Ideas' will focus on pillars of production for 2025
Published on January 9, 2025
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AgrAbility helping MSU AgBioResearch center implement assistive technology to support worker
Published on January 7, 2025