Grower profile
Hartung Brothers’ is a cucumber powerhouse that has been farming vegetables for 50 years
Marking its 50th year, Hartung Brothers has become a successful grower and shipper of pickling cucumbers through effective practices in disease and pest management, harvest equipment efficiencies and valuing its workers’ ideas. [caption id="attachment_36650" align="alignright"... more »
Editor’s letter: Considering new varieties, pest prevention
Welcome to the November 2024 issue of Vegetable Growers News, the new varieties issue. With winter debuting and summer and fall harvests in the rear view mirror, many growers find more time to look to... more »
Titan Farms diversifies, expands from peaches into vegetables
Since before the turn of the century, Titan Farms has been a leading East Coast grower of vegetables and peaches. From its beginning, however, the Ridge Spring, South Carolina, grower-shipper has successfully diversified into other... more »
Vidalia onion grower A&M Farms trials laser weeding, battles pests
Technology, including autonomous robots, is a part of A&M Farms’ sweet onion production success. Aries Haygood, president, grows Vidalia sweet onions with his wife, Megan, company co-owner whom the company’s initials represent. Though growing up... more »
Nature’s Reward battles disease, pests through mechanization, biologicals
Controlling insects and weeds that spread viruses and can devastate crops is a big challenge for Nature’s Reward. Formerly known as Steinbeck Country Produce, the Huntington family’s longtime growing operation employs biological products to protect... more »
