The American Floral Endowment hosted a webinar recently to help growers prepare for changes in trends in 2025. Dr. Melinda Knuth, an assistant professor at North Carolina State University, focused on the long-term trends they’ve seen with customers in the industry. Knuth was happy to announce that t...

In a presentation for Pennsylvania Farm Bureau, financial advisor Henry Mondschein, Connect Financial Group LLC, provided farmers with information on estate planning. Mondschein’s admonition was “a will does not make a transition plan.” “Today, there are about two million family farms across the nat...

It can feel impossible for one person to make a difference when it comes to a large problem, but every voice  matters. Pasa Sustainable Ag recently hosted a webinar to help agricultural enthusiasts find their voice in ag policy. In this virtual training session, Noah Erwin, a policy specialist at Pa...

There’s a reason agronomists and Extension educators are constantly urging growers to have their soil tested. Sometimes it contains things they definitely do not want in their crops. Consider root crops especially. The part of the plant that’s in the soil is the part consumers will eat. If those roo...

Hello, farm family! Welcome to “Farmers First,” a new column devoted to your farm’s most important asset: You! Let me introduce myself. I am a fifth-generation farm kid from Rhode Island who provides remote and in-person consulting to farmers who want more satisfying, efficient and peaceful farm liv...

Celosia is the workhorse of summer flower farmer fields. It’s prolific, responds well to pinching and fulfills both the spike and filler categories for bouquets. As a dependable field-grown crop, it leaves space in tunnels for higher value focal flowers. As it can be used as both a fresh and dried f...

There were multiple reasons Lissa Goldstein of Wild Work Farm , a diversified vegetable farm, needed a new wash/pack station. The outdated barn she was using was difficult to clean, the lighting insufficient, the ceilings too low and it was difficult to move produce efficiently in and out of the bui...

Snowmobile tourism brings significant income to northern states – but depends on the goodwill of landowners and snowmobile club members. The two entities must cooperate to maintain thousands of miles of trails. New York State alone has 10,500 miles of trails maintained by 250 clubs. Sharon Pathfinde...

BURNSVILLE, NC – “We were stocked and ready to go,” said Bill Jones, owner of Carolina Native Nursery in western North Carolina. “Not only for fall but also for spring.” Jones started Carolina Native Nursery over 20 years ago to provide wholesale and retail customers a source of perennial native pla...