October 2006
- Agriculture Sector Faces Labor Squeeze
- Flavor, Color And Health Are Driving The Vegetable Seed Industry Each vegetable seed company has its own priorities when it comes to the characteristics of its products. However, some of those priorities overlap and become general trends within the industry. According to a handful of companies, three such industry trends right now are flavor, color and health.
- Growers, Customers Cautious As Spinach Returns To Stores Spinach growers, processors and industry groups are working to restore public trust and get their product back on store shelves.
- Hawaiian Farm Cruise Will Study Exotic Agritourism Quick quiz: Name a state with more than 5,500 farms, 50 percent growth in agritourism in the last three years and a jump in sales from $26 million in 2000 to $34 million in 2003?
- Little Farmer Learns To Survive In Big World In many ways, Matt Roloff is your average farmer. He’s 44. He owns Roloff Farms, a u-pick peach and pumpkin farm near Portland, Ore. He has a wife, Amy, and four kids: Jeremy, Zach, Molly and Jacob. He hopes the 34-acre farm will one day be able to sustain itself, not only paying for his retirement but for his kids’ college tuitions.
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