Equipment
Poor Weather Has Cut Size of Most U.S. Fruit Crops
Crummy spring weather coast to coast has reduced the production for most fruit crops. The word “record” was used only once – for blueberries – during the 53rd annual Fruit Crop Guesstimate. The Guesstimate, sponsored... more »
Franklin County Farmers may Have Difficult Time Finding Labor for Harvest
Farm owners are unsure whether they will have enough laborers to harvest their fruit and crops this year, as migrant labor is becoming harder to find due to stricter state and federal immigration policies. Public... more »
Cherry Industry Administrative Board Sets ‘Free’ Percentage at 90
The Cherry Industry Administrative Board (CIAB), which administers the federal marketing order governing red tart cherries, recommended that the free percentage be set at 90 percent and the restricted percentage at 10 percent.The decision was... more »
Poor Weather Has Cut Size of Most U.S. Fruit Crops
By Dick Lehnert Managing EditorCrummy spring weather coast to coast has reduced the production for most fruit crops. The word “record” was used only once – for blueberries – during the 53rd annual Fruit Crop... more »
Georgia Blueberries: Outlook Optimistic for June’s Crop
After last year's lowly, weather-affected harvest, conditions are right for an excellent crop of the small round fruit ? and for peaches and apples come summer and fall. ajc.com more »
Orchard Controls Surrounding Space
According to his son, Art Jacobson came up with a brilliant way to check the urban development that was encroaching on his orchard: He bought the surrounding land and developed it himself. As Bill Jacobson... more »
Mechanical Thinning Brings Larger Peaches with Less Labor
Spring was slow to arrive in Adams County, Pa., this year, but eight growers had already lined up with Penn State Extension to use machines to thin their peaches when blossoms arrived several weeks later.... more »
Let’s Mechanize Our Way to a Better Future
The inscription on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty expresses well the ideals and, for some of us, the facts behind our citizenship in this country. They are the last words from the poem... more »
Emergency Relief Bill Might Take Heat off Growers and Workers
Fruit and vegetable growers who were hoping to get into the 2008 growing season with a greater sense of security about their seasonal labor supply did not get much encouragement from the Bush administration as... more »
Cuyama Orchards Makes Startling First Impression
If we’d been coming to Cuyama Orchards from Bakersfield, the scenery – the hills, the oilfields – would have been spectacular but not daunting. But we were coming in the back way, and that was... more »
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