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February 1, 2026
Human resources may seem like a department or set of duties for a business far different from your farm; however, it’s important to perform these task...
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by Sonja Heyck-Merlin 
February 1, 2026
Planning on hosting a music festival on your commercial farm? Or a wedding? Or a different agritourism event? According to Lindsey Pashow, to reduce t...
Farmers First
Let’s Hear It For the Girls
Male or female, we’re all farmers, right?
Farmers 12 without a male co-signer. (That?s right: the same year the movie ?Die Hard? was released.) 
February 1, 2026
Happy International Year of the Woman Farmer, farm family! If someone had told me a decade ago that there would be an International Year of the Woman ...
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January 31, 2026
The Mid-Atlantic Nursery Trade Show (MANTS) returned to the Baltimore Convention Center Jan. 7 - 9, welcoming over 10,800 horticulture professionals, ...
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by Sally Colby 
January 1, 2026
Growing greens year-round at Twin Springs Fruit Farm in Ortanna, PA, started accidentally. “This house was built to grow ‘Tulameen’ raspberries starti...
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January 1, 2026
Bob Rimol discussed high tunnel construction and other recommendations at the 2025 Ohio Ecological Food & Farm Association ’s annual conference. Rimol...
Courtney Llewellyn 
May 1, 2026
Russell Wallack of Breadtree Farms and Brian Caldwell of Hemlock Grove Farm discussed commercial organic chestnut production, marketing and processing...
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by Sonja Heyck-Merlin 
May 1, 2026
Alby and Heather Brandon own and operate Brandon Family Farm in West Kingston, RI. It’s a certified organic diversified vegetable farm with about 15 a...
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by Kelsi Devolve 
May 1, 2026
The Association of Specialty Cut Flower Growers hosted a webinar recently focusing on flower growers interested in expanding their business by selling...
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by Deborah Jeanne Sergeant 
May 1, 2026
While helping develop a farmers market in Skowhegan, Maine, in 2007, Amber Lambke discovered a perplexing problem: many producers’ value-added product...