Crop Management

Sweet Corn Charlie: Season Extension Is Strategy For Success

If you can have sweet corn by the Fourth of July in northern Indiana, you'll grab customers and, if the corn's good enough, you'll keep them for the entire season. That doesn't mean knee-high corn... more »

Researchers Expect Downy Mildew Pressure In 2007

Cucurbit growers – especially cucumber growers aiming for either fresh market or pickling – should plan now to implement a full fungicide spray schedule this year and assume that the downy mildew epidemic of the... more »

Hydroponic lettuce wins customers’ hearts

People's desire for tender, baby lettuce shows up in the price tag. A small head of Boston butter or Bibb commands $3 or so while bigger heads of iceberg are selling for $1 in the... more »

Cornell Cooperative Extension Adopts A Team Approach To Survive

Eric Brown is a huge fan of Cornell Cooperative Extension. CCE supplies Brown – owner of Orchard Dale Fruit Farms in Waterport, N.Y. – with the critical information he needs to run a diversified farming... more »

Aloha Marketing Is All About Putting Value First

Ali'i Kula Lavender Farm is one of those rare agritourism destinations that once you've been there you will never forget it. In January, I led a group tour of agritourism farms on four islands of... more »

Produce companies announce merger

Heeren Brothers and J.A. Besteman Co. announced Oct. 9 that they plan to merge, creating one of the largest family-owned produce wholesalers in Michigan. The asset purchase will create a company with approximately 175 employees,... more »

Fresh Vegetable Harvested Acreage Up 2 Percent

The prospective area for harvest of 11 selected fresh-market vegetables during the winter quarter is forecast at 183,900 acres, according to USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service. This is 2 percent above 2005 and 3 percent... more »