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Purdue builds farmers’ market manager skills

Sources of healthy, local produce are important to many community members, especially for those in urban areas and food deserts. Area farmers also need options to market and sell their produce, meats or other goods. Farmers’ markets bring together ... more

Salinas Valley startup Food-Origins harvests data from fieldwork

At a busy office in a famous California valley, a small team of entrepreneurs, coders and customer reps work on a data-gathering blockchain system that’s already generating a substantial amount of press and interest, a project the group says will c... more

Assessing tomato grafting in low-disease high tunnels

Grafting is a proven way to incorporate disease resistance into tomato transplants. But in areas of the country with less history of tomato production and less soil-borne disease, is grafting still beneficial? “Are there suitable rootstocks that c... more

Late-planted cover crop rye won’t delay crimping

Unlike conventional growers who manage cereal rye in the spring with glyphosate, organic growers who no-till or strip-till must crimp the rye.

Crimping must be done at anthesis when the rye enters the reproductive stage and its stems stiffen.

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Some tips to curb bird damage in specialty crops

Vegetable growers deal with a large number of disease, insect and weed pests, which they control with varying levels of satisfaction through cultural, mechanical or chemical means.

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