Vegetables
Growers rely on pesticides, but they can be harmful if they escape the farm. Here are some ways to ensure you are a good steward and a good grower.
Weeds not only offer refuge to pests (and the diseases they vector), they also interfere with insecticide applications.
Compare these varieties features to find the right ones for your growing operation.
USDA’s long-awaited 2017 Census of Agriculture has finally arrived. Find out which vegetable crops are growing — and shrinking — the most.
University of California’s Michael Cahn shares tested ways to protect local water ways from pesticides in your irrigation.
Researchers are turning their eyes on how effective organic fertilizers are. These two studies involved two popular vegetable crops: onions and eggplant.
Mid-sized operations continue to decline, while small and large farms continue to increase.
Dr. Leonard Pike, who developed the Texas 1015 Supersweet onion, has died. He was 78.
What you need to know to identify and manage this disease.
Since 2009, tomato production (as measured by hundredweight – cwt) fell 38%, according to data from USDA.
Rules and ways of doing things can evolve from just “a way to get the job done” to “the way it must be.” Spread that out among several crews with their own rules, and your operation can founder.
Fast food giant and growers benefiting from special promotional partnership that puts local produce on the menu.
Torac Insecticide from Nichino America features a unique mode of action to control pest in onions and other bulb vegetables.
Features to help growers with H-2A applications, managing loans, and more.
Recent exhibition shows the equipment giant making big advances in connectivity, automation, and data-driven decision-making.
Cooler waters and the potential for strengthening El Niño could help keep lid on what has been a hotbed of tropical activity the last few years.
U.S. potato exports losses could exceed more than $400 million annually.
Volatile forces are reshaping the fresh tomato industry, giving quick-thinking producers a wild adventure.
President of the Mexican Association of Protected Horticulture takes issue with Florida industry take on current deal that suspends antidumping probe of tomato imports.