Bob Rimol discussed high tunnel construction and other recommendations at the 2025 Ohio Ecological Food & Farm Association ’s annual conference. Rimol is the owner and founder of Rimol Greenhouse Systems based in Hooksett, NH. Rimol manufactures and distributes greenhouses across the U.S. Framing Ma...

University of Vermont Extension Professor Vern Grubinger summarized the results of research to address the economics of high tunnel production that he and his research colleague, UVM Assistant Professor Becky Maden, initiated in 2024, at the 2025 High Tunnel Production Conference in West Lebanon, NH...

“More than 70% of cyber attacks are aimed at businesses with less than 100 employees. They’re not going for the big guys because the big guys can afford the big cybersecurity firms,” said IRS employee Sheba Gonzalez. At an event hosted by USDA, Gonzalez and her colleagues, all IRS specialists in tax...

Look at a penny and zero in closely at Lincoln’s nose. That’s the size of the redbay ambrosia beetle (RAB), a tiny insect and key player in laurel wilt, an aggressive fungal disease of trees in the Lauraceae family transmitted by the RAB. Although important landscape and forest trees are in this fam...

At the American Society for Horticultural Science ’s sizzling summer summit in New Orleans, an unexpected underdog dazzled the data-driven crowd: the snow pea. Crisp and colorful, this cool-season crop took the spotlight in a seminar by Jacob Schwab, a graduate research assistant at the University o...

Flower production in the Northeast is experiencing a revival as consumer demand for locally grown flowers rises alongside increased interest in sustainable agriculture. That’s according to work from Ankit Singh, Ph.D., UMaine assistant Extension professor and Maine Sustainable Agriculture & Ornament...

First, federal news: On Dec. 18, President Donald Trump issued an executive order to amend marijuana’s longstanding classification as a Schedule I federally controlled substance without accepted medical value. The order seeks to finalize a 2023 recommendation by the Department of Health & Human Serv...

Happy New Year, farm family! As I type these words, I find myself straddling the space-time continuum in a way that I don’t often do. The change from one year to another has heightened my awareness of both the nature and passage of time. What is the nature of time? In my writing present, it is still...

Sue Greene, who moved to northern New Hampshire in the last decade after successfully working for years as a certified physical therapist in the Boston area, has forged her own path as an independent farmer at Slopeside Farm on Stebbins Hill Road in Lancaster. Mike, her data scientist husband who wo...

Ashley Walsh never thought a career in organic farming was in the cards. Her work as an assistant director at Fox Sports kept her on the road, and she rarely gave much thought to what she ate. “I couldn’t even keep a basil plant alive,” she said. But when she was diagnosed with gastroparesis , a rar...

It’s no secret that summers are getting hotter – as are autumns, winters and springs. That can make growing cold-season crops, such as broccoli, difficult. Luckily, a team of university researchers have assembled like the Avengers to help mitigate this dilemma. Conducting a multistate evaluation of ...

Anyone considering obtaining a worker, or multiple workers, through the H-2A program may have heard that navigating the program is tedious, but the process for employers to hire workers through the program is straightforward. During the Virtual Agricultural Seminar, sponsored by the U.S. Department ...

Receiving funding through a grant is a huge honor and success, but it takes a lot of work to earn it. Going through the process of applying for a grant can be really overwhelming, but the Tri-State Extension Dairy Team hosted a webinar to make the process easier to comprehend. UVM Extension Dairy Re...

On Nov. 12, President Donald Trump signed the Congressional bill that will fund the U.S. government into the new year, ending an unprecedented 42-day government shutdown. The bill is largely a stopgap continuing resolution (CR), setting up another voting deadline for the end of January. Recent NPR c...

Over the past few years, there’s been a lot of uncertainty when it comes to the environment. With droughts, floods, fires, heat waves and other extremes, a lack of control can be completely paralyzing. Maud Powell, a professor of practice in the Small Farms Extension program at Oregon State Universi...