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Keep tabs on your employees, machinery and records with help from a location-based application called foursquare.
Balancing rations for nitrogen (protein) and energy is the key to a sound AI or ET program.
A Wisconsin analysis showed that 64% of the areas sampled were deficient in sulfur.
Bill Donald loves having his sons and young grandson on the ranch with him.
With increasing demands for specialized meat, small processing plants have the opportunity to fill profitable niche markets.
At Wheat College, our agronomic team will present lessons you can take directly to the field.
Four basic business management principles can help drive your farm’s growth.
New online features allow you to get answers to your employment questions.
This conventional grain producer goes organic for better returns.
To bee or not to bee is not the question. How to attract natural pollinators is and a new program aimed at luring back our working insects might be an answer.
After several years of strategy review and consultation, Zespri shareholders have voted to strengthen grower ownership and control of the company.
In Domex Superfresh Growers’ latest orchard update, chief horticulturist Dave Gleason delves into the importance of soil health for its orchards.
As Honeybear Brands imports its first organic Honeycrisps from Chile, the company has achieved a milestone with year-round supplies of the popular variety.
DENVER — A year ago, Potatoes USA members started a new campaign to market potatoes as a performance food. A year later, they confirmed that’s the right track.
Georgia blueberries suffered some damage as temperatures dipped below freezing the week of March 5.
John Hollay has been hired by the United Fresh Produce Association as senior director of government relations.
Fresh Express is relaunching its chopped salad kits.
An extended period of warm, dry conditions — uncommon even to Florida — during the winter has drawn rave reviews from growers.
Suntreat Packing & Shipping Co.’s Suki mandarins are now available, and this season marks the first one with promoteable volumes.
Industry leaders have rallied to ask for renewed funding for the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Technical Assistance for Specialty Crops program.
Staff writer Ashley Nickle and Produce Retailer editor Pamela Riemenschneider discuss what happens next for Southeastern Grocers, which plans to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy by the end of the month.
Shoppers will again have the chance to sample Florida peaches as production gets going toward the end of March and beginning of April.
The organizers of the 2018 Viva Fresh Produce Expo have lined up a diverse range of topics for the event’s educational sessions.
Schmieding Produce, which ships watermelons grown in most of the major watermelon areas in the U.S., has acquired North Carolina grower Moore’s Produce.
Dollar General plans to carry fresh produce in about 450 stores by the end of 2018.
Gotham Greens, a New York-based greenhouse grower, recently broke ground on its second greenhouse in the Chicago’s Pullman area.
California’s 2018 strawberry season got off to a rousing start, with volume as of March 3 more than double that of last year — 7.78 million trays compared to 3.7 million trays in 2017.
Organic strawberries account for 11.8% of the acreage in California, according to the California Strawberry Commission, and growers say volume has been holding steady or making small gains over the past few years.
Superior Fruit has selected Joseph Rumley as its chief financial officer.