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...

When it comes to making educated decisions in today’s hi-tech world of vegetable and crop farming, growers have a number of ways to provide themselves with the information they need to make wise choices. Making the most of technology and data analysis is one of the best ways to help get that job don...

Consider growing hydroponic herbs and greens in your greenhouse this fall, in place of traditional fall crops with “commodity” prices. Greens and herbs grown in a fall greenhouse have several advantages, according to Dr. Chris Currey, of Iowa State University. First, herbs can be sold value-added si...

You know you’re guilty of saying it, or at least thinking it, at some point: “Ugh. Young people these days!” And often, you are probably justified in the sentiment. I’ll admit to something we Millennials have valiantly tried to keep secret: we do make mistakes — a lot of them. And sometimes, those m...

In 1911 Maricopa County AZ, the Spur family began to farm about 15 miles west of Phoenix. In 1956 Spur’s successors began to develop feedlots, and in May of 1959 developer Del Webb started planning a retirement community to be known as Sun City, about 10.5 miles north of the Spur feedlot. By 1965, t...