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Bush Wants Immigration Reform By End of Year
President George Bush is committed to reforming the "problematic" immigration system in the United States by the end of the year, said Mike Johanns, secretary of the USDA. In order to do that, however, the... more »
Phase-Out Continues; Critical Use Exemptions Continue
An international environmental agreement that may be the most successful of its kind in human history – a model of cooperation and achievement – continues to beleaguer farmers, who are having problems meeting its idealistic... more »
Pumpkin-Eating Dinosaur Draws Crowds
To attract fall customers, farm markets have come up with many creative uses for their pumpkins – such as stacking them, carving them or launching them in a catapult – but there's probably only one... more »
FDA Releases Final Rule on Nutrition Labeling
If an apple a day keeps the doctor away, perhaps we should eat a bigger apple. That seems to be a conclusion American consumers have reached. One of the most noticeable changes in the Food... more »
Well-Rounded Market Draws Tourists
History has been vital to the success of the Round Barn Farm Market. First, there's location. The market is about 8 miles west of Gettysburg, Pa., site of the famous Civil War battle. Second, there's... more »
Flavor, Color And Health Are Driving The Vegetable Seed Industry
Each vegetable seed company has its own priorities when it comes to the characteristics of its products. However, some of those priorities overlap and become general trends within the industry. According to a handful of... more »
New York Grower Harvests 1,300 Acres of Sweet Corn Annually
If you'd like to eat fresh sweet corn on the cob every week of the year, you'll want to know the Gill family from Hurley, N.Y. They can fix you up. Not only do the... more »
Life’s Simple Pleasures Get Harder to Derive
Writing about fruit and vegetables is, for me, made doubly satisfying because I try to practice some of what I preach. I have a large garden and a small collection of fruit trees, and I... more »
Funding Cutbacks Force North Carolina Extension To Be Creative
This is the third story in a series about the future of Extension. Mary Helen Ferguson just got a job as a county agent with North Carolina Cooperative Extension. It's the first step in her... more »
Sweet Corn Charlie: Season Extension Is Strategy For Success
If you can have sweet corn by the Fourth of July in northern Indiana, you'll grab customers and, if the corn's good enough, you'll keep them for the entire season. That doesn't mean knee-high corn... more »
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