A Dutch robotics firm says its machine could be automatically harvesting greenhouse cucumbers in a few years.
Harvests for greenhouse cucumbers can run nine months to year-round with artificial lig...
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Preference lists filled out by their customers guide Dennis Zehr and Ellen Davis-Zehr of Coneflower Farm near Princeton, Illinois, to grow and deliver produce that best meets the members’ needs.
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Vegetable growers are gearing up to supply consumers’ growing interest in celery as a diet food.
Sammy Duda is the senior vice president of national operations for Duda Farm Fresh Foods, the pare...
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For the third consecutive year, the majority of growers who responded to a labor survey conducted by Vegetable Growers News reported they experienced severe worker shortages. Most continue to search f...
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Fourth-generation growers lead Van Groningen & Sons, and with a fifth crop of family in the field, so to speak, the vertical grower-shipper-marketer is prepared to navigate the future of produce.
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Two E. coli outbreaks involving romaine lettuce last year has tracking and traceability at the forefront of the produce industry once again. While there is nothing good about E. coli contamination, th...
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