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Organic farm school offers an attractive career path, operators say

Does a lifetime of digging in the dirt (building soil!) sound like an enticing career goal? If so, we just may have the solution to your post-pandemic career blues. Next month the critically acclaimed Organic Farm School begins accepting applicati... more

Macfrut, the International Cherry Symposium to be held in 2022

Macfrut 2022 will be the world capital of cherries thanks to the International Cherry Symposium, to be held from May 2-6.. The event was previewed during a session at Macfrut 2021 opened by Renzo Piraccini, president of Macfrut, who said: ‘I bel... more

Natural disasters compound severe drought for Oregon farmers and ranchers

Oregon made national headlines this spring when the Bureau of Reclamation announced that the Klamath Project, an irrigation system spanning southern Oregon and Northern California, was not going to receive any water deliveries for the first time sinc... more

Indigo pays 267 farmers for first-ever scalable ag carbon farming program

Indigo Ag announced Sep. 9 the disbursement of initial payments to the inaugural cohort of Carbon by Indigo participants. The 267 paid growers are the first to implement on-farm practice changes and provide the data required to ensure the rigorous... more

United Fresh reacts to accountability office’s USDA Food Box Program report

"USDA Food Box Program: Key Information and Opportunities to Better Assess Performance,” released Sept. 8, sheds additional light on the program which delivered more than 176 million boxes of food from May 2020 to June 2021. The report indicates... more

USApple: Many apple businesses omitted from COVID-19 assistance program

Many U.S. apple businesses won’t qualify for critical COVID-relief assistance that was announced Sept. 9 by USDA, said the U.S. Apple Association. The $700 million Pandemic Response and Safety (PRS) Grant program is intended to support businesse... more

Arctic apple marketers report successful ‘tasting event’

Summerland, British Columbia-based Okanagan Specialty Fruits, developer and grower behind the Arctic apple varieties, recently launched a sampling event in the San Francisco Bay area with huge success. Over 12,000 Arctic apple samples were handed out... more