Sonia Tighe Joins GenNext Growers Advisory Council

Erik Jertberg fears the disconnect from food to fork and how it feeds the disconnect of ballot box and wallet. “Without an understanding of where their food comes from, and what it takes to get it there, our consumers will believe in an ideological standard when they vote, but purchase the food for their table based on a free market economics standard,” he says.

Experts say the time is right for ensuring the viability of transferring your farm to the next generation.

COO of family’s citrus farm oversees 5,500 acres of orange groves, active in citrus industry organizations.

Vice president of Petrocco Farms brings expertise in vegetable production.

Following an early career in engineering, Jim Holmes has become one of Eastern Washington’s most successful winegrape growers.

Production manager for Sea Mist Farms serves as chairman of Horticulture and Crop Science Advisory Council at California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo.

Listen up, GenNext Growers: It’s your time to grow!

This year may be the year of the International Year of Family Farming, but it is also the time for the next generation of growers to make their mark.

Workforce management, business models, market diversification among topics offered during the Jan. 27 session.

Extension vegetable specialist at University of Georgia expert in high tunnel production, fertility management, and variety specialist.

GenNext leaders will take to the stage in one way or another on behalf of agriculture.

Coordinator of Penn State University’s Young Grower Alliance is also specialty crop program manager with Penn State University Extension.

James Olmstead is an assistant professor of blueberry breeding and genetics at the University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences. He’s also part of a group of young researchers working closely with the fruit industry to help growers adapt for the future.

Steve Hale of St Bethany Fresh details what it takes to break into the greenhouse vegetable market — and stay there.

Growers deficient in digital skills need to plug in now. Your farm’s future is worth the effort.

What exactly is a “GenNext Grower™”? A GenNext Grower is anyone who was born after 1970; is preparing to assume, or already has assumed, leadership in a farming enterprise; has a passion to produce high-quality specialty crops: fruits, vegetables and/or citrus; and seeks to be an advocate for his or her industry.

Rhett Spear, horticulture Ph.D. graduate student at Washington State University accepts $10,000 grant awarded by NPC.

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A new minor at Penn State University that made its debut this fall offers students in the agriculture […]