Fresh Produce News and Industry
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Maddening, creepy, ugly.
Those are the nicer words people use to describe the growing numbers of stinkbugs that have munched their way across many fields and orchards of Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
Now the shield-shaped pest, known for emitting a pungent odor when disturbed, is ready to bed down for the winter – in [...]
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Riverland wine grape growers in South Australia are being urged to reconsider signing contracts for their grapes this year.
Many growers are without contracts following a number of wine companies folding, and not renewing contracts last vintage.
But Riverland Wine Grape Growers Association chief executive Chris Byrne says growers will have more bargaining power without a [...]
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POMONA, Calif. — Members of the California Rare Fruit Growers meet each summer to share seeds, cuttings and knowledge about exotic fruit and rare varieties of more common fare, such as apples and oranges.
The organization founded in 1968 encourages gardeners and hobby farmers to plant unusual fruit, and members search the [...]
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The month of September is California Wine Month, and Temecula is ready to celebrate.
Proclaimed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger for the sixth consecutive year, California Wine Month celebrates the Golden State’s wineries, grape growers and regional associations.
“California has long been known for our production of superior, award-winning wines,” Schwarzenegger said in his proclamation. [...]
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By Jere White, Executive Director
Kansas Corn Growers Association and Kansas Grain Sorghum Producers Association
Monday, August 30, 2010—Some folks will burn the midnight oil trying to write written responses to EPA’s charge questions for the agency’s September atrazine science advisory panel. The questions were released Friday and comments are due Tuesday.
We have to [...]
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Dahlia growers throughout Northern California will take the cream of their crops to Soquel in a week for the annual Monterey Bay Dahlia Society show.
The admission-free event, planned for Sept. 3-4 inside the Soquel High auditorium, will showcase blooms and bouquets that won titles for 2010. The growers will be [...]
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HARVEST time is here and gardeners across the city are proudly picking their produce. But some growers have a gargantuan goal. On the eve of the UK’s giant vegetable competition,
Environment Reporter Mary Griffin finds out how to crop a whopper.
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THIS weekend Britain’s biggest gardeners will gather for a fruit and veg extravaganza where [...]
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CONSERVATIONISTS hope to arrest the decline of Gwent’s traditional orchards through a project to encourage the planting of new ones, and support the management of those remaining.
Gwent Wildlife Trust’s ambitious two-year project aims to map existing orchards, develop a network of owners and fruit buyers, and help schools, community groups and [...]
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Germany, the European Union’s second-biggest wheat grower, will likely follow Russia in reporting a slump in grain harvests this year after crops were stricken by both drought and flooding, a farmers group said.
Grain harvests will fall to 43.9 million tons in 2010 from 49.7 million tons last year, the DBV German Farmers Association said today [...]
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Peter J. Dreher was a rags-to- riches kind of guy – a poor immigrant who worked hard in his adopted land to capture a share of the American Dream.
When 1893 brought lousy economic conditions nationwide, it was hard for anybody to be terribly optimistic, even him.
But that’s the time when the German-born Dreher [...]
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Westpac Banking Corp Ltd is likely to lose as much as $NZ22 million ($A17.38 million) from the collapse of New Zealand wine grower Awatere Vineyard Holdings and Awatere Vineyard Estates,
Westpac is the main creditor for the grape grower, which owes a total of over $NZ24 million, McGrathNicol administrator Andrew Grenfell [...]
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By Holly Zuluaga
TRI-CITIES — It might be a tough year for apple growers.
Not only are they expecting a huge crop, which likely means a lower price.
They’re also being hit with a new tariff from Mexico.
Farmers say they’re being charged 20% more for apples going to Mexico and with a third of all Washington apples [...]
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Recent USDA estimates show increased corn production numbers from Ohio and the rest of the U.S. Corn Belt.
The USDA notes that an estimated 3.38 million acres of corn could be harvested in Ohio this fall, compared with 3.14 million acres harvested in 2009. Once again Ohio leads the nation in yield, with a [...]
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