November 2006

• Extension Adapts to New Challenges What does Michigan State University Extension (MSUE) mean to Michigan’s fruit and vegetable industries? It depends upon who you ask.
• Life’s Simple Pleasures Get Harder to Derive
• New York Grower Harvests 1,300 Acres of Sweet Corn Annually If you’d like to eat fresh sweet corn on the cob every week of the year, you?ll want to know the Gill family from Hurley, N.Y. They can fix you up.
• Saving the Farm In 1974, Michigan and Pennsylvania bolted from the starting gate together, as they began efforts to protect farmland from conversion to non-farm use. That year, each state passed legislation providing property tax breaks to farmers who signed contracts of 10 or more years agreeing not to develop their land during the contract period.

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