Crop Management
2026 vegetable industry outlook: How labor, technology and trade will shape the year ahead
With the dawn of the new year, America’s vegetable and leafy-green growers find themselves balancing steady consumer demand with rising operational pressures. The past year reinforced a familiar truth for the sector: while produce remains... more »
AgroFresh announces AI imaging and orchard analytics tie-ups with Aerobotics, Neolithics
AgroFresh Solutions, a post-harvest freshness supplier, is expanding its FreshCloud digital ecosystem through strategic global partnerships with Aerobotics and Neolithics, according to a news release. The company says the partnerships position its FreshCloud software as... more »
Unlock spray drone best practices: Attend Great Lakes Expo’s Drones in Specialty Crops Symposium
Great Lakes Expo is offering a spray drone educational session on Thursday, Dec. 11 from 9 am to 4 p.m. in Ballroom D at Devos Place in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The 2025 Drones in Specialty... more »
Rodent attack: How growers can battle rat, squirrel, gopher damage
Battling burrowing rodent wildlife pests is more challenging today than a couple of decades ago. Last year saw a spike in vole numbers throughout the western U.S., said Roger Baldwin, a University of California Cooperative... more »
Owyhee’s Idaho-Oregon onion, asparagus legacy
Taking its name from a band of Native Americans who helped shape the West, Owyhee Produce is a successful family growing operation. Owyhee grows a variety of onions along the Idaho-Oregon Snake River border east... more »
Hydroponic farming: Great Lakes Growers’ sustainable lettuce growing
Great Lakes Growers is a Midwest hydroponic grower of fresh, nutritious lettuces and herbs — growing everything in a state-of-the art greenhouse using water instead of soil. By providing its plants with the optimal amount... more »
USDA, Labor department investigating high farm input costs
The USDA and Department of Justice (DOJ) are investigating high farm input costs. The agencies have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to immediately begin jointly scrutinizing input costs for farmers. U.S. farm production inputs... more »
Golden Stock Farms’ asparagus success
Growing asparagus is notoriously challenging, but that hasn’t stopped Golden Stock Farms. Located on the west side of Michigan’s Lower Peninsula, the fourth-generation family farm has found success cultivating the crop in Oceana County, one... more »
Organic Grower: AC Foods’ sustainable organic betterful Blues
The mission of AC Foods is to expand access to healthy food through better farming, with a focus on regenerative agriculture, responsible land stewardship and supporting local communities where it grows and operates. “We are... more »
Veg Connections: Cellulose mulch shows promise for sustainable agriculture
As growers face increasing pressure to reduce plastic use while maintaining productivity, researcher Tian Li and her team at Purdue University have developed a new Janus cellulose mulch (JCM) that matches the performance of traditional... more »
