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When I first wrote this column nearly four years ago, I thought it would just be a quirky story about my grandpa’s funny name for green peppers.

This restaurant has lettuce growing on the walls.

The Agriculture Department has begun talking with grocery retailers about their potential role in a proposal to replace some food-stamp allocations with prepackaged boxes of groceries.

The American cranberry industry is one of the biggest losers so far in the escalating trade dispute between the European Union and the U.S.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture, acting on requests from cranberry growers, is placing controls on the 2017-18 crop to help bring supplies in line with demand.

Hurricane Harvey hit Texas, but the state’s citrus was spared.

The Idaho Potato Commission is seeking out spud lovers for a new consumer contest.

A survey of California dried plum (prune) growers puts the 2018 crop at 80,000 tons, down 24% from last season’s 105,000 tons.