By Chris Bickers
Contributing Writer
Normally, you would think the end use of the sweet potato is baked and buttered. ...
By Patricia Clark McDaniels
University of Tennessee
A new initiative of the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture may have broad appeal for commercial producers, home gardeners and consumers alike....
By Mickie Anderson
University of Florida
One of the most enduring aspects of agriculture is going high-tech....
By Leah Chester-Davis
North Carolina State University
Nestled among the rolling hills of the North Carolina Piedmont Research Station in Rowan County just west of Salisbury are high-tunnel greenhouses that in the dead of winter are teeming with fresh, red strawberries....
By Bob Hochmuth
Florida Multi-County Extension Agent
Florida is well-known as a leading state for field production of vegetables, but you may be surprised to learn it’s also a leading producer of greenhouse-grown fruits, vegetables, herbs and specialty crops. ...
By Roy Roberson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Every day in the United States over one billion servings of U.S.-grown produce is consumed without anyone getting sick. ...
By Chris Bickers
Contributing Writer
Two flavorful new berry varieties — one a blackberry and one a strawberry — are helping growers in the South produce better quality and yields in 2009....
A delegation of produce buyers and wholesalers from the Ontario province of Canada will visit Florida in March to meet with leading agricultural producers and tour farms, packinghouses and state farmers' markets....
By Roy Roberson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The reality of herbicide resistance has created the need to use multiple modes of action on large acreage row crops and the side-effect has created some management challenges for vegetable farmers, who also grow grain, cotton and peanuts in the Southeast....
Florida Agriculture Commissioner Charles H. Bronson has unveiled a new program to increase the amount of locally grown produce available to Florida schools. ...
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