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Will Immigration Law Doom America’s Lettuce?
Salinas, California, is known as America's salad bowl, but each fall, as evening temperatures drop in Steinbeck's home valley, farmers pack up and head south to what the industry simply calls The Desert. The Atlantic... more »
Freshway Foods Issues Voluntary Recall of Lettuce
Freshway Foods, Sidney, Ohio, announced a voluntary recall today of certain Romaine lettuce products because of the possible connection between the recalled Romaine lettuce and an outbreak of foodborne disease. The outbreak, which is still... more »
California Pumpkin Grower Seeks to be a Facilitator
If there's anybody out there who can take a farmer, a politician, a regulator, a corporate CEO and an environmentalist, sit them down on hay bales and get them to share their viewpoints, it's probably... more »
Ohio Wants a Say in Produce Safety Plan
Bob Jones hoped that this food safety thing would have been cleared up by now, but it's more confusing than ever. Produce growers today have to live up to a multiplicity of standards to keep... more »
EXPO Has Got the Goods
If you were at the Great Lakes Fruit, Vegetable & Farm Market EXPO a few weeks ago, you might have seen me: I was the guy wearing the ugly orange vest with a big manpurse... more »
West Michigan Cooks Get Food Directly from Producers Through Co-op
Inside a long corridor of a renovated warehouse on a cold December evening, Kris Van Haitsma, of Hudsonville's Mud Lake Farm, lays out arugula, mixed lettuce, rosemary and micro-herbs on a wooden table. Grand Rapids... more »
Urban Farmers Collide with Kansas City Rules
Steve Mann doesn't look like an outlaw as he harvests giant rutabagas and luscious lettuce bunches from a friend's garden in Kansas City. Missourian Click here to read the rest of the story. more »
Growers Getting Desperate in California Water Crisis
Like a lot of growers on the western side of California's San Joaquin Valley, Joe Del Bosque has had to cut back on his plantings. Water shortages forced him to fallow roughly half his 2,300... more »
New Jersey Farmers Buffer Bottom Lines with Agritourism
Pumpkins - for painting, carving and cooking - hayrides, pony rides, petting zoos and corn mazes are just a sampling of fall family fun on New Jersey farms, which also sell corn stalks, mums and... more »
Organic Certification all in the Record-keeping
Behind the lettuce, beans and zucchini that sit in bins at Amanda Gervais's farmstand was a lot of planning and paperwork. BurlingtonFreePress.com Click here to read the rest of the story. more »
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