September 2005
- Brassicas Have Multiple Values As Cover Crops For many vegetable crops, three- to five-year rotations are ideal. Rotations provide a “time out,” during which disease spores, insects and nematodes decline because they are deprived of a host.
- Farm Tour Corrects Writer’s Misperceptions
- Hunts Point Terminal Merchants Look to Remodel Market Plans are being made to modernize Hunts Point Terminal Market, that place in upper New York City where some $2 billion worth of fresh fruits and vegetables changes hands every year
- Tobacco Free The national bicentennial farm has been in the family since 1756. Until the 1980s, it primarily produced tobacco, soybeans and corn. At that time, the Holden brothers diversified from tobacco and planted an initial three-acre vegetable crop. Today, they have 225 acres in cultivation.
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