Fruits & vegetables news
2024-05-14
Fruit Resilience Research an Key Priority in Ontario
In a bid to enhance Ontario's fruit industry's resilience, Vance Badawey, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Transport, announced funding of up to $1,099,624 for the Ontario Tender Fruit... Read more
2024-05-14
Local asparagus season springs into action
Guelph ON, – Locally grown Ontario asparagus is now hitting store shelves and farmers markets across Ontario. This first fruit and vegetable crop of the season marks the unofficial start of spring... Read more
2024-05-14
Advancing Fruit Crop Resilience: Unveiling the Molecular Dynamics of Abscission in Woody Fruit Crops
A research team has made significant strides in understanding the mechanisms of fruit abscission in woody fruit crops, an essential process affecting fruit yield and economic value. This review... Read more
2024-05-14
Local asparagus season springs into action
Guelph ON, – Locally grown Ontario asparagus is now hitting store shelves and farmers markets across Ontario. This first fruit and vegetable crop of the season marks the unofficial start of spring... Read more
2024-05-14
More Than 4,000 Black Farms Are Gone and House Republican Proposals to Increase Reference Prices Will Make It Worse
The number of Black farms in the U.S. plummeted by more than 4,000 from 2017 to 2022, yet some farm groups and House Republicans
have proposed to tilt the playing field even further against them. Read more
2024-05-14
Salford’s MagnaSpread PLUS+ and It’s 120 Foot Swath
The MagnaSpread PLUS+ from Salford Group combines two decades of innovation with cutting-edge technology for unmatched productivity for fertilizer and lime applications. Read more
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2024-05-14
Salford’s MagnaSpread PLUS+ and It’s 120 Foot Swath
The MagnaSpread PLUS+ from Salford Group combines two decades of innovation with cutting-edge technology for unmatched productivity for fertilizer and lime applications. Read more
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2024-05-13
Preserving Tradition: APHIS’ Role in Safeguarding Cherry Trees
In a symbolic gesture of friendship, Japan ceremoniously gifted the United States with two live cherry trees at an event held on the D.C mall last month. The trees represent a future gift of 250 trees... Read more
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2024-05-13
USDA Forecasts Winter Wheat Production Up 2% in 2024, Orange Production Down 2% From April Forecast
U.S. farmers are expected to produce 1.28 billion bushels of winter wheat this year, according to the Crop Production report released today by USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS).... Read more
2024-05-13
USDA, HHS Announce New Actions to Reduce Impact and Spread of H5N1
On March 25, 2024, immediately following the first detection of H5N1 in dairy cattle in the Texas panhandle region, USDA and HHS began their work to understand the origin of the emergence and its... Read more
2024-05-12
Tunisia’s olive farmers adapt to extreme weather
Drought has had a severe impact on the olive harvest in Tunisia, resulting in exploding olive oil prices. Farmers are finding ways to adapt to extreme weather, such as switching to new irrigation... Read more
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2024-05-10
Report: There Are No Good or Bad Oil Crops, Only Good and Bad Practices
When shopping, have you considered the social and environmental impacts of your vegetable oil purchases? Most products offer limited information on these effects. Labels like "No Palm Oil"—linked to... Read more