Search Results for: farm bill
July 2007
Exotic Vegetables Cater to Needs of Immigrant Groups When the price of field corn nearly doubled last year, farmers responded. They added 10 million a... READ MORE »
Outlook Mixed for Supply of Workers
The shortage of farm workers growers had been fearing had not shown up by Memorial Day. And with Congress hotly debating new immigration policy that m... READ MORE »
Exotic Vegetables Cater to Needs of Immigrant Groups
When the price of field corn nearly doubled last year, farmers responded. They added 10 million acres to the planting schedule this spring. You don't ... READ MORE »
Growers Need to be Proactive to Attract, Keep Good Workers
When Gregory Billikopf goes into a field to watch farm workers pick produce, it's not hard for him to figure out their pay system. If they're all movi... READ MORE »
Petroleum, Not Ethanol, Is The Real ’Alternative Fuel’
People a thousand years from now (if there are still people) will probably write (if they can still write) with some amazement about the blip in histo... READ MORE »
May 2007
Federal Programs Are Worth Billions to Specialty CropsFinal Report Issued in Bagged Spinach Incident In a display of detective skills worthy of Sherlo... READ MORE »
Kentucky Grower Builds a Retail Destination
Back before Jimmy Dean came to mean sausage, the country singer crooned a tune that contained the line, "that spells Kentucky, but it means paradise."... READ MORE »
Fruit, Vegetable Industries Have Fresh Reason for Hope
Trade show season always is exciting because you get the entire industry together to talk about the past growing season and the possibilities of the f... READ MORE »
Go-Getter Family Builds Vibrant Market
For Bill and Michelle Bakan of Maize Valley Farm Market in Hartville, Ohio, just being big farmers wasn't going to save the farm. They needed to sell ... READ MORE »
President Bush Vows to Push Immigration Reform
It's been more than a year since President George Bush announced his immigration reform proposal, and the U.S. Congress has yet to take action on it. ... READ MORE »
