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Produce calendars displayed in stores with help from Colorado group

The Colorado Fruit & Vegetable Growers Association (CFVGA) is encouraging the public to look for CFVGA's colorful produce calendar when shopping at Sprouts Farmers Market, City Markets and King Soopers stores. Produced by CFVGA in cooperation wit... more

Breeding better blueberries at North Carolina State University

It’s blueberry season in North Carolina, a time when the market for the fresh, locally grown fruit surges. At NC State University, Hamid Ashrafi is busy breeding better blueberries for that market. When Ashrafi joined NC State’s Horticultural... more

Will SWD become a pest of saskatoon berries in 2017?

Laboratory studies at the Northwest Michigan Horticultural Research Center have shown spotted wing Drosophila (SWD) is capable of laying eggs and causing damage in saskatoon berries. This was a “no-choice” study, in which the adult female SWD... more

Ag water security targeted in University of Florida project

The UF Water Institute has received a grant from the United States Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture program totaling $5 million over five years to protect the Floridan aquifer. The Water for Agriculture proj... more

CAWG seeks winegrape exemption from FDA’s Produce Safety Rule

The California Association of Winegrape Growers (CAWG) has requested the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) exempt winegrapes from its produce safety rule under the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) and place them on a list of produce commodi... more

Engage Agro names national sales manager

Engage Agro, a distributor of crop protection products, has appointed Mark Kennedy as national sales manager - agriculture for Canada. Reporting to General Manager Cade Morse, Kennedy will oversee the sales force servicing the needs of cash crop a... more

Rockit apple wins supreme export award

Miniature apple grower and exporter Rockit Global has been crowned ExportNZ, Hawke’s Bay ASB Exporter of the Year. Rockit Global has the international license for the Rockit Apple variety. The product positioning in the snack market and away fro... more