On September 20, employees of the Mott’s plant in Williamson, NY, will return to work after a strike […]
California Tomato Farmers (CTF) now have additional reassurance for their buyers that the tomatoes they purchase are grown […]
Monsanto Co. and AgraQuest Inc. have entered into a collaboration to evaluate the potential use of AgraQuest’s pipeline […]
Fruit growers who wonder if their crops have been hit by the dreaded spotted wing drosophila (SWD) – […]
America’s Heartland, the only nationally-distributed program on agriculture in America, will again be available for viewing on several […]
USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service issued new procedures that will increase the effectiveness of enforcing national organic standards. Operating […]
The U.S. Apple Association’s annual Apple Crop Outlook and Marketing Conference, which is held in Chicago in August, […]
For the apple growers, packers, and marketers who met in Chicago in August for the U.S. Apple Association’s […]
There’s a lot of buzz lately about high tunnel growing, and not just for tomatoes and brambles. An […]
During that awful time about four years ago when three people died from eating spinach tainted with E. […]
Last January, for the first time in recorded history, temperatures in eastern Hillsborough County dropped below 34°F for […]
In March 2010, President Obama signed comprehensive health reform into law. The following timeline provides implementation dates for […]
Last year, 15 trees in New York tested positive for plum pox virus, and more than 30 acres […]
Consumers trust growers more and have more optimism about sound agricultural practices than we might think, according to […]
Beginning in 2010, I joined a team of scientists on a new federally funded four-year project through the […]
Last year, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that 67.5% of adults ate fruit […]
Monitoring traps for grape berry moth checked in the past few weeks across southwest Michigan have indicated an […]
Somewhat by chance, Osborn landed a job labeling wine bottles for the Konocti Winery in California, and later […]
The ancient Greeks recognized the four basic “elements:” Earth, Wind, Fire, and Water. If we bend the definitions […]