Leafy Greens
Technology helps track food from farm to table
Inside a Silicon Valley company's windowless vault, massive servers silently monitor millions of heads of lettuce, from the time they are plucked from the dirt to the moment the bagged salad is scanned at the... more »
Local produce shines in Texas
By Derrek Sigler, Assistant EditorAt the Pearl Farmers' Market in San Antonio, Texas, shoppers can find locally grown vegetables, some fruits and meats, potted herbs, baked goods, cut flowers, honey, fresh cheese, camembert, free-range eggs,... more »
USDA price index is up for vegetables
According to the USDA, the July price index for vegetables, at 174, is up 6.1 percent from last month and 29 percent above July 2009. Price increases during July for lettuce, tomatoes, snap beans, and... more »
Multi-state tunnel study looking at mulches and more
By Derrek Sigler, Assistant EditorAt the Washington State University (WSU) Northwest Research Center in Mount Vernon, they started a small-scale project to look at growing strawberries, tomatoes and lettuce under a high tunnel. When they... more »
Pre-Cut Lettuce Is Suspected Cause of Food Poisoning Outbreak
It's convenient and popular, a healthy option for harried shoppers. But bagged lettuce suspected of causing a multi-state outbreak of E. coli illness raises new questions about whether pre-cut produce is riskier than whole vegetables.... more »
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 »
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