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California Growers Look Immigration Reform Effects
California's Imperial Valley grew, in about 100 years, from a barren desert to the winter salad bowl of America after farmers found the Colorado River... READ MORE »
Flood of Immigrants Leads to Flood of Information
Ever feel flooded with too much information? Lost in a forest of statistics? You must be covering the national immigration debate. I feel your pain. I... READ MORE »
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. The source of an outb... READ MORE »
Agriculture Sector Faces Labor Squeeze
Communicating the importance of a healthy farm sector is a continual challenge. The U.S.-produced food supply is facing dozens of serious and difficul... READ MORE »
New York Grower Harvests 1,300 Acres of Sweet Corn Annually
If you'd like to eat fresh sweet corn on the cob every week of the year, you'll want to know the Gill family from Hurley, N.Y. They can fix you up. No... READ MORE »
Market Strives To Focus On Local Food
Being manager of a farmers' market isn't easy. Combine that with studying for a master's degree in business, helping out at the family farm on weekend... READ MORE »
Funding Cutbacks Force North Carolina Extension To Be Creative
This is the third story in a series about the future of Extension. Mary Helen Ferguson just got a job as a county agent with North Carolina Cooperativ... READ MORE »
March 2007
African Farmers Benefit From Organic Production When Bill Yeager first encountered the Kenyan farmers that would be supplying his new organic produce ... READ MORE »
November 2005
Acrylamide Controversy When Congress got rid of the controversial Delaney Clause by passing the Food Quality Protection Act in 1996, most Americans go... READ MORE »
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," durin... READ MORE »
