Blueberries
Tart Cherry Growers Consider Spending More on Advertising
Cherry Marketing Institute (CMI) staff members used the occasion of the CMI annual meeting in mid-January to press tart cherry growers to double their investment in advertising and promotion. They were talking to the right... more »
Letters to the Editor: Health Claims, Intellectual Property Rights
FDA Not Too Tough On Health Claims This letter is in response to your question, “Is the FDA too tough on health claims for fruits and vegetables?” I say no because the agriculture industry, food... more »
Program Could Help Struggling Concord Growers
Concord grape producers may have permanently lost a market for 70,000 tons of grapes, about 15 percent of total supply in a normal year. That may be enough to encourage some growers to quit growing... more »
High-Value Crops Perfect for High-Value Land
Over the years, northern Maryland has changed from a bucolic rural countryside into a high rent district. Soaring land prices have driven out certain kinds of farming, but farmers who have changed what they produce... more »
There’s Blueberry Production Potential in China
China is quickly reforming its economy to encourage entrepreneurial activity and exports. With the strong international demand for blueberries, it is no surprise that the Chinese are considering blueberries as a new crop. That’s according... more »
Pennsylvania Farm Specializes in Adding Value
Soergel Orchards sells fruit salad in a special basket for $54.99 – and people are willing to pay for it. The secret is the basket: a carved-out watermelon. Each hollow melon can hold 12 to... more »
Kentucky Couple Spreads the Good News About Blueberries
When Jenny and Larry Martin moved to Kentucky in 1995, they brought more blueberry bushes with them than there were in the entire state. It was the genesis of the burgeoning Kentucky blueberry industry. The... more »
Growers Await EPA’s Decision about Guthion
It’s going to be more difficult and more expensive to control worms in apples, blueberries and cherries if proposals made by the EPA June 9 take effect. The final decision is expected in early October... more »
Guthion Use Set To End Sept. 30, 2012
The decision by EPA in mid-November to phase out all remaining uses of azinphos methyl (Guthion) by Sept. 30, 2012, will hit various sectors of the fruit industry differently. Three Michigan State University entomologists, speaking... more »
New Disease – Colony Collapse Disorder – Strikes Honeybees
Researchers are scrambling to find answers to what’s causing “colony collapse disorder,” a recently named disease that has struck commercial beekeeping operations across the country. The alarming die-off of honeybees has beekeepers fighting for commercial... more »
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