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Agritainment Requires Patience, Personality And People Skills
Before you decide to specialize in agritainment, you need to ask yourself one question: Do I have the personality for it? Patience and self-control are the two most important qualities you need when dealing with... more »
Corporate Social Responsibility As Good As Good Government?
Back in "the old days," it was conventional wisdom that some people and most large corporations, given the opportunity, would do bad things sometimes, and it was the role of government to make or keep... more »
USDA Proposes Ending Fruit And Vegetable Ban On Program Acres
When Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns announced Jan. 31 that USDA was recommending "planting flexibility of fruits, vegetables and wild rice on base acres" be allowed in the next Farm Bill, Steve Smith was very, very... more »
Area Crops Appear to Escape Widespread Cold Damage
The usual pitch-black darkness of western Palm Beach County's farming area was pierced with the lights of at least 30 helicopters today as they swooped over sweet corn and green bean fields on the east... more »
Specialty Growers Preparing for Insect Battle
The combination of a mild winter, the corn earworm's possible development of resistance to insecticide, and the spread of aphids in Illinois could present some different challenges to growers this season. Farm Week more »
Fresh Vegetable Harvested Acreage Up 2 Percent
The prospective area for harvest of 11 selected fresh-market vegetables during the winter quarter is forecast at 183,900 acres, according to USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service. This is 2 percent above 2005 and 3 percent... more »