Has someone brought to your attention a situation, incident or problem related to your business? Perhaps it was a loose railing on a staircase, an obstruction or hole in the parking lot, or an employee who may have acted inappropriately? If someone has brought this type of information to you, now is...

Creating an agritourism destination isn’t all fun and games — though it’s certainly helpful to provide a huge variety of fun and games. Developing Long Acre Farms from a produce and crop farm to an agritourism site that draws visitors from hundreds of miles around has taken 25 years. These days, the...

Winter is often welcomed for its slower pace. For many farmers, it is a time of reflection, whether it’s thinking about retirement, purchasing land or contemplating future land use. Land trusts are helping farmers across the country with these tough decisions. With a variety of goals and missions, l...

Soil Health – New Soil Health Innovations, Initiatives, and Farmer Networking Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2018, 3:45 – 5 p.m. Session organized by David Wolfe, Cornell University At this session you will hear directly from a panel of innovative growers regarding how they have addressed challenges of adoptin...

Plant diseases are caused by three categories of pathogens. Ranked in the order of prevalence, these disease-causing agents are: fungi, bacteria and viruses. “Fungicides may be able to stop or slow down some of the fungi, but there are just too many to defeat totally,” Dr. Daniel Egel, Extension Pla...

Customer Resource (or Relationship) Management (CRM) programs are becoming increasingly more sophisticated to provide a layered strategy for developing and sustaining customer loyalty. You might say CRM software has grown up from an online Roladex to programs linked by sales incentives, marketing ou...

WORCESTER, MA — The soil under our feet is so much more than just “dirt”. It can grow our food and remove carbon from the atmosphere and store it in the soil. Soil regeneration has been getting much attention as one way we can combat the dire effects of climate change. Growers will learn how to impl...

It’s that time of again, reflection, resolutions, new starts and, sigh, word slides — sooo many word slides. I see your heavy eyelids, blank looks, frequent trips to the bathroom and intensive texting with others. Yes, ladies and gentleman, it’s officially conference season with countless presenters...

Dr. Tom Bjorkman, professor of vegetable crop physiology at Cornell University’s Geneva research facility, says that most of the broccoli consumed in the United States is grown in California, and that’s because the state’s climate is ideal. Broccoli grows well in the winter in a Mediterranean climat...