Fresh Produce News and Industry
The Chinese camera crew from China gathered around Scott Stewart, director of horticulture and agriculture programs at Kankakee Community College, ready to capture his every word for an agriculture education program aimed at their nation’s 800 million farmers. “We work with the minimal fertilizer applications here,” Stewart said to Zheng Xunling, a Chinese national who [...]
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) seeks applications for grants to help farmers improve rural environmental quality and energy efficiency. The USDA is seeking proposals for grants to improve water quality, air quality and promote energy conservation. USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) is making available $25 million through the Conservation Innovation Grants (CIG) program [...]
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In the old days, farmers produced, people bought and that was that. Today, all that is changing. Nowadays, consumers are calling the shots, telling farmers not only what they want to eat (fresh, heirloom vegetables, artisan cheeses), but how they want it grown (as naturally as possible, with no harm to animals), where they want [...]
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Is farmland going to be the next gold? It isn’t as implausible as it may sound. Forecasts are always a sucker’s game, but there are good reasons why the next few decades could see a new boom in farm country—and big money for those who own the land. Demand for food is soaring. The world [...]
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THE National Farmers Union is disputing the time-frame given by the Fiji Sugar Corporation to the resumption of crushing at the Rarawai mill in Ba. “Repairs to the electrical system attached to boiler at Rarawai mill are expected to take close to a month and not the two weeks stated by the FSC,” said NFU [...]
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A first draft of the cacao genome is complete, a consortium of academic, governmental, and industry scientists announced today. Indiana University Bloomington scientists performed much of the sequencing work, which is described and detailed at the official Web site of the Cacao Genome Database project. Despite being led and funded by a private company, Inc., [...]
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Central Queensland mango growers are spending thousands of dollars spraying crops to prevent a fungus disease that could damage their crops this season. Capricorn Coast farmer Ian Groves says prolonged wet weather can cause a fungus disease that kills fruit as soon as it sets. Mr Groves says his crop has not been affected but [...]
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Weary Canterbury farmers picking themselves up from days of earthquakes face new threats – floodwaters and herd sickness. Farmer Paget Milsom last night worried that a rising river could top its banks and flood a faultline cutting through his property towards his house. Mr Milsom has spent the past week digging out the bottom of [...]
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BY LUTHER DORR The cows are gone, their kids are gone and the barn stands unused on Ray and Betty Edgren’s century farm about seven miles southwest of Milaca. But Ray and Betty, who have been married for 56 years and have lived on the farm the past 48 years, love where they are and [...]
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LITTLE RIVER – Farmers in Bell County are struggling to deal with an unusually large amount of a toxin that is infecting their corn crops and cutting into their wallets. It’s called aflatoxin, and the heat wave that hit Central Texas this month caused excessive amounts of it to pop up in corn. It comes [...]
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Zealand is affected the worst as rain ruins corn crops Many farmers across Denmark are considering completely giving up on the harvest this year, following weeks of unusually bad weather. The continued intense rain that has been pounding down on the country in recent weeks could lead to a catastrophic wheat and barley harvest this [...]
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LUDHIANA: Central Institute of Post Harvest Engineering and Technology, on Tuesday, issued license to a Khanna based farmer for commercial scale production of Soya milk. The farmer, Mohinder Singh, said that demand for soyabean and groundnut milk has increased manifold, owing to its nutritional benefits for being low in fat. He added that soyabean milk [...]
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Orange-juice futures fell after independent forecaster Elizabeth Steger predicted a 15 percent increase in the 2010-2011 Florida orange crop, the world’s second biggest. Cotton rose. Florida’s next crop will total 154 million boxes, according to Steger, the founder of Citrus Consulting International in Orlando, Florida. This year’s harvest totaled 133.6 million boxes, the smallest since [...]
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GRANDVIEW, Wash. (AP) – Small farmers in central Washington say they are in a crisis – private loans are tougher to get and it’s hard for them to get enough aid from the federal government to expand or simply hang on. The Yakima Herald-Republic says farmers met with bankers, lawmakers and government officials in Yakima [...]
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