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Dole gives $750K to Center for Produce Safety, citing stakes, gains

Dole Food Co. Vice President Food Safety and Quality Natalie Dyenson is frank about the two-sided coin that motivated her company to contribute $750,000 to Center for Produce Safety’s new capital fundraising campaign: much is at stake, and much can... more

Valerie Shepler joins Fall Creek as commercial manager for US and Canada

Valerie Shepler has joined Fall Creek Farm & Nursery Inc., as commercial manager for the United States and Canada, where she is responsible for establishing and developing strong relationships with the company’s blueberry nursery and genetics c... more

Strawberry, blueberry pollination tips offered in Delaware

Strawberries are aggregate fruits. They have multiple ovules per receptacle where the fruit is formed. The strawberry receptacle may have up to 500 ovules per berry. You will see these as “seeds” on the outside of the strawberry fruit which are c... more

UF/IFAS Extension St. Lucie announces new director

Four weeks ago, Grantly Ricketts made the switch from the Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences and University of Florida Extension Osceola to Extension St. Lucie County to fulfill a role he has trained for most of his life. As the new comme... more

$132.5B economic impact reported for Pennsylvania agriculture

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf's administration on April 28 released a new economic impact report for Pennsylvania’s leading agriculture industry, in coordination with Team Pennsylvania and eConsult Solutions Inc., and Wolf made one thing clear: agricu... more

Results of a national stakeholder survey of the US blackberry industry

A national survey of growers and related industry professionals was recently conducted to assess the current status and needs for research and Extension in the U.S. blackberry industry. The survey was launched with the goal of updating production ... more

Juliet Carroll: Using hummingbirds to protect New York’s berries

I'm a senior Extension associate for New York State Integrated Pest Management (NYS IPM), located at Cornell AgriTech in Geneva, New York. My program focuses on translating research into pest management solutions that reduce the pesticide footprint o... more