Crop Management
EPA Sued Over Pesticides
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is being sued to stop the continued use of four organophosphate pesticides commonly used in California on a wide variety of fruit, vegetable and nut crops. Central Valley Business Times more »
Syngenta’s Revus Top Registered
Syngenta Crop Protection has received federal registration for Revus Top fungicide, a powerful premix of two active ingredients, mandipropamid and difenoconazole, for use on potatoes against destructive oomycete pathogens. State registrations or specific crop and/or... more »
Grower fills seasonal need for chipping potatoes
Florida potato production is counter-cyclical. While growers in other states are looking at snow-covered fields, tinkering with their equipment and watching their storage sheds get lower and lower, growers in Florida are planting a winter... more »
Winter Vegetable Acreage Lower, Prices Down
This winter (largely January-March), fresh-market vegetable and melon area for harvest (excluding onions) is expected to decline 3 percent from that of a year earlier, according to USDA's Economic Research Service. Despite lower acreage and... more »
Earworm Becoming a Legitimate Threat for Sweet Corn Growers
The image of corn earworms floating on the winds is a bit tough to handle, but, of course, it's not the worms themselves that float. It's the moths that float in, and then they lay... more »
Great Lakes Water Compact Still Spurs Controversy
Michigan – along with the other seven states and two Canadian provinces in the Great Lakes Basin – is either undertaking one of the greatest environmental protection and conservation measures in the history of the... more »
Editor has Energetic Resolution for the Coming Year
It's a great year to make New Year's resolutions. Elections are coming this fall, and from the amount and earliness of the political activity, everybody seems to be getting primed to cast a few important... more »
State Tries To Clean Up Farms
Florida is enlisting the help of hundreds of farmers and nursery growers to clean up the state's polluted waterways, but environmentalists complain the environment is suffering under the partnership. The Tampa Tribune more »
Young Vegetable Growers Ponder Their Futures
The Vegetable Growers News sought the opinions of young vegetable growers to get their perspective on the future of the industry – and their own future aspirations. Paul Ruszkiewicz, 31, is a fourth-generation onion grower... more »
Michigan Green Bean Broker a Vegetable Industry Leader
You've heard about people who don't know beans. Vic Shank is not one of those. Not only is he the president of the Michigan Vegetable Council, a leadership position in which knowing about vegetable industry... more »