Keep on Trucking: Growers aim to navigate driver shortage, new regulations
A nationwide shortage of truck drivers and shifting federal rules add obstacles to the task of shipping fresh plants and product.
Difficulty hiring and retaining drivers, federally-mandated electronic logging devices and hours of service in the trucking industry are likely to increase shipping costs and affect availability.
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Chlorpyrifos pesticide ban ordered by appeals court
The ban will take away a tool that many growers are still using, and its manufacturer says that additional legal recourse is being considered.
But others in the industry say the action was overdue and there are softer chemicals and biological controls lined up to take chlorpyrifos’s place as a bug-killer.
Potato late blight confirmed in Michigan’s Monroe County
Alan R. Sams to lead OSU ag college, experiment station
United Fresh Commends USDA for harmonized standard support
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Heirloom tomato research a team effort at Western Illinois
Great American Media Services Ag Group named finalist in Eddie & Ozzie Awards
Great American Media Services’ Agriculture Group has been named a finalist in five categories of the 2018 Folio Magazine Eddie and Ozzie Awards. Vegetable Growers News is a finalist in the B2B Full Issue Category with two entries: the January 2018 issue and the February 2018 issue.
Specialty crops industry not stopping for EU’s GMO ruling
Specialty crop industry leaders see a future in new gene editing techniques, despite an unfavorable European Union high court ruling.
The Court Justice of the European Union (ECJ) ruled in July that both mutagenesis and transgenesis produce genetically modified organisms (GMOs).
Sanitation, seed choice help control hydroponics pathogens
“There is a big difference, as far as diseases and their causes, in what you see outside in the field and what you see inside the greenhouse.”
Outside, the challenges are rain-splashed diseases like septoria and bacterial spot. In greenhouses, it’s diseases that prefer high humidity.
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WSU research to protect onions from pests, pathogens honored
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CIFT announces new board member
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Industry veteran Mike Krull joins Nufarm portfolio solutions
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Link to cattle operation eyed in romaine lettuce E. coli outbreak
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Organic Grower Summit plans second intensive education session
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