Equipment
Greenhouse-grown Produce Prolongs Harvest Season
As harvest season is wrapping up for area corn and soybean farmers, it is just beginning for the staff at Plantpeddler, where zucchinis, tomatoes, strawberries, green beans and radishes are ripening, safe from the jarring... more »
Sprayer Hits Weeds, Avoids Tomatoes
Researchers at the University of California, Davis, are developing new precision weed control technology for processing tomatoes. The UC Davis researchers have been collaborating with the California Tomato Research Institute on the project since 2004... more »
Gerber Plans Expansion at Home-town Facility
At a ceremony in December, state and local officials and executives from Gerber Products-Nestlé Nutrition announced plans for Gerber's $75 million investment in its 65-acre baby food production complex in Fremont, Mich. The project creates... more »
Florida Eases Truck Weight Rules To Save Crops from Freeze
Florida farmers can use bigger trucks to haul their crops to safety, thanks to an emergency declaration from Florida Governor Charlie Crist. Weight restrictions were eased yesterday by executive order and will remain in effect... more »
Ohio Sweet Corn
McMaster Farms grows and sells 250 acres of fresh sweet corn in Columbiana, Ohio. In addition, McMaster Farms runs about 100 acres of sweet corn from a neighboring farm through its packing shed, which also... more »
Greenhouse-grown Produce Prolongs Growing Season
As harvest season is wrapping up for area corn and soybean farmers, it is just beginning for the staff at Plantpeddler, where zucchinis, tomatoes, strawberries, green beans and radishes are ripening, safe from the jarring... more »
UK Asparagus Grower Extends His Season
Extending the season for fresh asparagus production in the United States would be of great benefit to the industry, from efficiencies of scale all the way to marketing. A United Kingdom grower has been experimenting... more »
Producers Pay More as Growing Gets More Expensive
Despite the skyrocketing cost of inputs and a national economy that seems to get gloomier and gloomier with each passing day, Tim Boals has never seen more opportunity in agriculture. Sure, the emerging credit crisis... more »
Mulch Contributes to Bumper Crop of Tomatoes
For the first time in 10 years, I had a successful tomato harvest because of mulching. Las Vegas Review-Journal more »
North Olympic Peninsula Farmers Lament Lack of Migrant Workers
Washington state's fields and forests are missing a key element during this fall's harvest, say two well-seasoned statesmen of agriculture. Peninsula Daily News more »
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