December 2009

• Asparagus Payment Delayed Maybe next year, asparagus growers.
• Growers Getting Desperate in California Water Crisis Like a lot of growers on the western side of California’s San Joaquin Valley, Joe Del Bosque has had to cut back on his plantings. Water shortages forced him to fallow roughly half his 2,300 crop acres this year – even though he?s still paying rent on much of the land.
• Growing Better Carrots Back in the good old days, carrot growers in Michigan didn’t need to grow perfect carrots. They had a pretty good market for cull carrots, as the state’s half-million deer hunters lapped them up to use as bait for the state’s 2 million deer.

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