Crop Management
Okray Farms Enters 101st Year
The governing philosophy at Okray Farms is slow, steady growth. And that's exactly what they've done over the last 100 years. What started as a small operation buying and selling produce in 1905 has grown... more »
Phase-Out Continues; Critical Use Exemptions Continue
An international environmental agreement that may be the most successful of its kind in human history – a model of cooperation and achievement – continues to beleaguer farmers, who are having problems meeting its idealistic... more »
Family Grows ‘Best Lettuce in Central Texas’
Susan Staub grows the best lettuce in central Texas, and she's not shy about saying so. "Our lettuce is superior to any other bib lettuce out there," she said. "People just flip over the color."... more »
Immigration Concerns Are As American As Apple Pie
Spring is just around the corner, which means one thing to a farmer. It's time to revisit our fields and orchards in preparation for the growing season ahead. For fruit and vegetable growers, however, spring... more »
More Increases Coming
We had to find a way to stop this thing. So we raised the minimum wage. It was something very un-Republican that we did, but we had to do it. With these words, state Sen.... more »
Organic Grower Focus of Film, PBS Program
Farmer John Peterson and filmmaker Taggart Siegel stood in the fields of Angelic Organics in 1996, and the only thought going through their minds was, "How did this happen?" The farm, about 75 miles west... more »
Booming Population Threatens Unique National Treasure
This is the second in a series of articles on farmland preservation. When Edward Thompson Jr. took over as California state director for American Farmland Trust in the fall of 2003, he passed up a... more »
Wappel Farms Thrives on Mint
Mint farming is a tricky business that involves specialized equipment, efforts to thwart soil disease and the constant threat of imports decreasing demand for American-grown mint, but Larry Wappel of San Pierre, Ind., has mastered... more »
Pennsylvania Leads Nation in Rescuing Farmland
It wasn't Jane Gordon Fletcher's fault she got rich. Over the years since her birth in 1901, the value of the family farm near Malvern, Penn., just kept rising as people pressure from Philadelphia, 24... more »
Law: Farmers Receive 100 Percent Tax Credit On Development Rights
This story is the fourth in a series about farmland preservation. A federal law changed recently, and in California a vineyard owner who worked hard for its passage stepped forward to be one of the... more »
