Equipment

Farm Moves Toward Employee Ownership

The community of Sequim is nestled in Washington's Dungeness Valley, between the Olympic Mountains and Pacific Ocean, near the mouth of the Dungeness River. The area's geography and weather patterns have created a unique microclimate... more »

Singles Group Pairs Farmers Looking for Love

Farm life can be rewarding, but it isn't exactly "Sex and the City." The rural lifestyle has been known to put a crimp in more than one social life. That's where Singles In Agriculture comes... more »

Crops Are Wilting in Bone-Dry Fields

Dean Edgecomb's 62nd birthday afforded him no time for cake and ice cream. He was too busy hooking up an irrigation system to save acres of parched, wilting corn in a field just north of... more »

Michigan Farm Replaces Squash With Flowers

It was the summer of 2000, and one of the biggest squash crops Barbott Farms and Greenhouse had ever seen was sitting in the field, almost ready for harvest. The Barbott family had a lot... more »

Strawberry Harvest Disappointing

The unseasonably warm weather at the start of April may have been welcomed by the general public, but don't include the county's strawberry growers in that group. Leelanau Enterprise (Michigan) more »

Season’s Sweet Corn Harvest OK

Although the current drought threatened this year's crop of sweet corn, local farmers weren't about to let a little dry weather get in their way. Marrietta Times more »

Outlook Mixed for Supply of Workers

The shortage of farm workers growers had been fearing had not shown up by Memorial Day. And with Congress hotly debating new immigration policy that might take the pressure off the thousands of undocumented seasonal... more »

Growers Need to be Proactive to Attract, Keep Good Workers

When Gregory Billikopf goes into a field to watch farm workers pick produce, it's not hard for him to figure out their pay system. If they're all moving together in a row across the field,... more »

Time to Lobby for Immigration Reform Legislation

Well, it finally happened – the long awaited legislation to reform immigration and tighten U.S. borders finally came to Congress for debate. The AgJOBS provisions many farm groups wanted is in the package, along with... more »