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Open House on Aug. 20
The Northwest Michigan Horticultural Research Station (NWMHRS) Open House will be held Thursday, Aug. 20. The equipment show and grounds open at 1 p.m. Educational sessions will begin at 3 p.m., and will conclude with... more »
Grape Growers Grabbing onto Sustainability
“Sustainable” is a soft, fuzzy buzzword, but grape growers are grabbing onto it, and it’s spreading like a virus in grape-growing areas. First it was California, then Washington, Oregon and New York, and now Michigan.... more »
What Effects Will Shrinking/Disappearing Extension Budgets Have for Your Farm?
(Editor’s note: Our question drew a huge response. We had to settle for a sampling in Fruit Growers News and present others here). We, as a food processing company, rely heavily on Extension to provide... more »
Earmarked for Slander
Earmarks have a bad name, only partly deserved. While they don’t represent ideal procedures for getting things in the U.S. Congress, they should not be put into the same barrel with pork. Earmarks are sort... more »
Wanted: More Cranberries. Call Today.
Ocean Spray is looking for more cranberries, either produced by its existing 600 or so growers who own the cooperative company or by other growers who’d like to join the co-op and the growing market... more »
Getting Started with a Food Safety Audit
Before you decide to pay $92 an hour or more to have an auditor visit your farm or packing facility, you need to lay a lot of groundwork. Ninety-two dollars per hour is what the... more »
The Right to Farm Right
Back in the 1970s, after 20 years of urban sprawl born from a new interstate highway system, people started thinking farmers were somewhat of a nuisance, with their dust and noise and odors and such.... more »
Ultor Insecticide Registered
Ultor insecticide from Bayer CropScience was recently registered for use by EPA for control of sucking insects such as aphids, mealybugs, psylla and scales on pome fruits, Christmas trees and hops.Kevin Adam, insecticide product manager... more »
Pheromone-Based Approaches To Managing Pests
Many fruit growers are making pheromone-based mating disruption the foundation of their pest management programs. An estimated 500,000 acres worldwide, including nearly 175,000 acres in North America, are treated with pheromone to control codling moth... more »
Not Many Have Been Able To Grow Them
When Anthony Owens started on the path to growing apples organically, he was part of a group of growers who decided to collaborate and take a shot at it. Now, eight years later, he has... more »
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