Recently, I met someone who works in management for a midsized corporation in Minnesota. Her company has hired several Millennials to work in their on-call help desk service. But the company discovered that whenever the supervisor wasn’t in the room, the majority of their young staff would shirk the...

FONDA, NY— Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) is a common way for vegetable growers to bring in a cash flow in the winter months as well as building an outlet for their produce during the growing season. Community Supported Ag allows the farmer to share a bit of the risk of growing as well as mai...

Plant pathologists in the U.S. are eager to determine the genotype of each late blight outbreak. The concern is that the population of pathogen that causes late blight might shift as a result of two separate mating types producing oospores as a result of sexual recombination that can overwinter in t...

It is no secret that the object of many major amusement and theme venues is to create memories. A good feeling promotes the intent to embrace the experience while you are there, and encourage you to return. A quality product, backed by exceptional customer service, sets the stage for this type of ex...

If anyone had told young Will and Lucas Brownback that they’d return to the Perry County, Pennsylvania farm their parents Mike and Terra started in 1978, they wouldn’t have believed it. “We couldn’t wait to get out of here and go to college,” said Lucas, recalling how he and his brother were anxious...

In 2012, Steven Bogash, PSU Extension, began a combination of studying the best ways of growing high tunnel cucumbers, variety trials, and trials of materials to prevent soil borne disease in potting media so it could be reused repeatedly. The work was completed in 2015. “By 2014, we were getting so...

Sixty members of the CT Christmas Tree Growers Association met at the Wilbert Snow School in Middletown, CT for their annual meeting this spring. The annual business meeting started the day’s activities, reports were received from the Secretary, Treasurer, Website Manager and Executive Director. Pre...

by William and Mary Weaver Don’t let pain from arthritis or carpal tunnel syndrome sideline you from the farm or greenhouse work you love. Help is available from a national organization called AgrAbility. All you need to do is ask. The first step is to see a doctor to find out for sure what is causi...

Cornell Cooperative Extension’s Eastern NY Commercial Horticulture Program presented their 2016 Small Fruit Regional School / Berry Production Workshop, bringing producers the latest information on berry nutrition, varieties, pests, diseases and a ‘hands on’ pruning workshop. Evaluating and perfecti...