Michigan State University Extension is excited to announce Jeremy Jubenville will be joining the floriculture and ornamental horticulture team as a greenhouse Extension educator July 17, 2017. He joins Heidi Lindberg (serving western Michigan) and Garrett Owen (serving eastern Michigan) as field-based educators who provide MSU Extension programming to the greenhouse industry in Michigan.
Michigan is the third largest producer of floriculture crops, an industry with wholesale sales exceeding $409 million annually. Floriculture is also the fourth largest agricultural commodity in Michigan behind corn, soybeans and dairy.
As a Kalamazoo, Michigan, native, Jubenville earned a bachelor’s of science in biology in 2012 at Western Michigan University and a master’s of science in entomology in 2015 at MSU. He earned his degree while working with MSU entomologist Zsofia Szendrei on a project analyzing the dispersal patterns of insects in commercial celery fields in Michigan.
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