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As operations and business continue to grow, Del Rey Avocado adds a new sales representative to its team.
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Honeybear Growers, Brewster, Wash., recently received the Brewster Chamber of Commerce’s Best Large Business of the Year Award.
The California Avocado Commission has new board members and executive officers.
Effort will establish continuous improvement criteria and metrics focused on feed yards.
Several microbreweries in suburban Chicago share grain left over from the brewing process with local farmers, who can use it to feed their animals, instead of throwing it away.
Experts encourage dairy producers to lock in cottonseed needs for high-group rations.
Florida’s Ranch aims to keep the family operation going for generations.
The 236-191 vote today goes beyond Republicans’ pledge to reverse the president’s November orders shielding about 5 million people in the U.S. from deportation.
This mantra has been pounded into the agriculture industry for the past decade: “Food production must double by 2050 to feed the world’s growing population.” Just Google that statement and watch scores of results appear. There’s just one problem – this assertion isn’t supported by the latest data, according to research just published in the journal Bioscience.
Britain’s farmers rely on foreign workers to pick strawberries and raise chickens. Brexit puts that model at risk.
If President Donald Trump’s hardline stance on illegal immigration leads to large-scale deportations, among those hurt could be the U.S. economy.
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The labor situation for U.S. agriculture has only worsened in recent years.
Comstock Park, Mich.-based Vine Line Produce Distribution is a new organization formed by the merger of Heeren Bros. Inc. and Walsma & Lyons.
After rapid gains from vertical tillage, pH and fertility, the improvement pace slows down.
Across America’s orchards and crop fields, a shrinking supply of migrants has already driven pay up faster than in the broader workforce. President Donald Trump’s immigration policy may turbocharge that trend.
Helping sub-Saharan African farmers modernize the way they raise crops, and doing the same for the continent’s agricultural system as a whole, stands to benefit everyone.
Decline of immigrant labor has spurred agricultural automation.
An Oregon ranch hopes to save 1 billion gallons of water annually.
Farmers wanting to apply for funding through the Natural Resources Conservation Service’s Conservation Stewardship Program still have a couple of weeks left to do so – the next application deadline is Feb. 3, 2017.
Officials in Vermont are looking at how to adress farm labor in the state should immigration policies change under the Trump administration.
About 40 years ago Maria “Pilu” Giraudo’s father bagan to notice his soil eroding. He and neighboring farmers tried tirelessly to reverse the damage. After some years and many, many trials and advice he reduced and then stopped tilling, rejuvenating the tired soil. Yesterday, Giraudo received the Kleckner Award, an annual recognition given by Global Farmer Network to a farmer who shows leadership and vision, for her work in promotion of no-till agriculture in Argentina.
On Wednesday, the Council for Agricultural Science and Technology recognized a scientist who builds awareness of biotechnology’s benefits by finding common ground with consumers.
Retail research conducted this year by San Jose, Calif.-based Zest Labs finds big variability in the shelf life of strawberries, romaine lettuce and packaged salads.
This could be a year like no other for California’s table grape industry.
Tommy’s Produce Market Inc. and UEC Enterprises are new companies to the Market. AJ Produce Imports, California Leafy Greens Marketing Agreement, and Pure Produce have changed company profiles.
Northwest pear growers are estimating the 2019-20 fresh market crop will be 17.3 million 44-pound box equivalents, a drop of 9% from the previous harvest, and 6% the industry’s five-year average.
Produce growers are evolving to meet federal food safety requirements, but a new study shows that many are not are optimistic that federal rules will make compliance with buyer expectations easier.