March 2007
- African Farmers Benefit From Organic Production When Bill Yeager first encountered the Kenyan farmers that would be supplying his new organic produce company, he was met with a song that, translated from Swahili, said: “We welcome the foreigner who will bring prosperity to our tribe.”
- Agritainment Requires Patience, Personality And People Skills Before you decide to specialize in agritainment, you need to ask yourself one question: Do I have the personality for it?
- Corporate Social Responsibility As Good As Good Government?
- Make A Difference And The Headlines Will Come Just about everybody has some special cause or organization they feel strongly about. Maybe it’s an orphanage or a food pantry, a special hospital or an organization that helps the widows of firemen.
- Researchers Expect Downy Mildew Pressure In 2007 Cucurbit growers – especially cucumber growers aiming for either fresh market or pickling – should plan now to implement a full fungicide spray schedule this year and assume that the downy mildew epidemic of the last two or three years will continue.
- Sweet Corn Charlie: Season Extension Is Strategy For Success If you can have sweet corn by the Fourth of July in northern Indiana, you’ll grab customers and, if the corn’s good enough, you’ll keep them for the entire season. That doesn’t mean knee-high corn stalks – it means ears of ripe, supersweet corn ready for Independence Day festivities.
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