At the 2024 Ohio Ecological Food & Farm Association Conference, Joel Dufour said, “When you say ‘tractor’ to an American, they automatically think of something with a steering wheel, a seat and four wheels. If you say ‘tractor’ in Europe, you have to specify what type of tractor you’re talking about...

Planning and running an agritourism event is difficult, as there are many factors to consider. There are many strategies to focus on to have a successful and profitable event on your farm, and Hugh McPherson, the founder of Maize Quest , talked about a few at the NAFDMA Convention earlier this year....

Residents of Vermont, New Hampshire, New York and Massachusetts have depended on David and Diane Kalinowski of Rock Ridge Farm in Northfield, MA, to supply them with healthy, colorful and bountiful Mother’s Day hanging baskets, pansies, annuals and vegetable starter plants for the last 22 years. The...

As far back as the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, man was known to experiment with growing plants in water rather than soil. The Greek terms “hydro” (water) and “ponein” (work, toil) are the root words of what is known today as hydroponics, a sustainable farming method that offers the benefits of resou...

Dr. Richard S. Cowles is an agricultural scientist at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station and the owner of Humming Grove Farm in East Windsor, CT. He has conducted extensive research on aphids and wants Christmas tree growers to be aware of just what they are and the damage they can pote...

Elizabeth Higgins, agriculture business management and production economics specialist with Cornell Cooperative Extension, recently spoke about staffing considerations as part of a CCE series on agritourism. Cultivating Supervision Skills According to Higgins, management is the ability to get work d...

America has always had a soft spot for robots. Whether warning Will Robinson of danger, letting Obi-Wan Kenobi know that he really was Princess Leia’s only hope or terminating/protecting John Connor, robots have long been imagined as making life better for us humans. Clint Brauer has that kind of im...

“The thing to remember is that most employees really do expect benefits because these benefits help them maintain their overall economic security,” said Jason Entsminger, Ph.D., at a Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners (MOFGA) workshop. Entsminger is the state specialist for small business with Univ...

Simply put, irrigating is taking water from outside the growing season and bringing it into the growing season. That’s how Lyndon Kelley, Michigan State University Extension/Purdue Extension irrigation educator, defined it. “The question is how much crop per drop can I get?” he asked during his pres...