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Labor Group Protests Outside Chipotle HQ
A Florida-based farm workers' group protested outside Chipotle's headquarters Wednesday, accusing the fast-food chain of buying tomatoes from growers who pay substandard wages to workers. azcentral.com more »
Immigration Issues End a Pennsylvania Grower’s Season
As in politics, timing is everything in tomatoes. The New York Times more »
Immigration Issues Endangering Agriculture’s Future
Kay Hollabaugh's jaw dropped when she learned this week that the state's largest tomato grower would not plant a crop this year because there might be too few workers to harvest it. The Evening Sun more »
Looking to Extend Your Growing Season
Your tomato plants looked great and then a frost killed your loaded plants, then the weather turned nice for three weeks. Have you experienced this scenario and been frustrated? Crookston Daily Times more »
Syngenta’s Revus Top Registered
Syngenta Crop Protection has received federal registration for Revus Top fungicide, a powerful premix of two active ingredients, mandipropamid and difenoconazole, for use on potatoes against destructive oomycete pathogens. State registrations or specific crop and/or... more »
Major Grower Ends Crop, Lacking Workers
Saying the nation's immigration system is broken, Pennsylvania's largest grower of fresh-to-market tomatoes announced Monday he will no longer produce the crop because he can't find enough workers to harvest it. Associated Press more »
Crop Scientists Discover Gene That Controls Fruit Shape
Crop scientists have cloned a gene that controls the shape of tomatoes, a discovery that could help unravel the mystery behind the huge morphological differences among edible fruits and vegetables, as well as provide new... more »
Winter Vegetable Acreage Lower, Prices Down
This winter (largely January-March), fresh-market vegetable and melon area for harvest (excluding onions) is expected to decline 3 percent from that of a year earlier, according to USDA's Economic Research Service. Despite lower acreage and... more »
Montana Market is Growing Into a Popular Destination
Greg Johnson went to New Zealand for six weeks back in 2006. In between all the golfing, fishing, talking and wandering around he did, he managed to pick up a few ideas to improve his... more »
Tearless Onions Have Their Debut, Hurdles Remain Ahead
It used to be thought that teary eyes were the price you paid to enjoy an onion. But about five years ago, a team of Japanese researchers found that might not be true. They found... more »
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