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Posted on August 1, 2025
Farmers are familiar with AI as the abbreviation for artificial insemination or avian influenza, and many know it also stands for artificial intelligence. Alexis Stevens, farm management specialist with Iowa State University, said there are more than 36,000 AI tools available today – and the number ...
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Courtney Llewellyn 
Posted on August 1, 2025
Waking up early to hear a lecture on economics sounds like something you had to do in college, not something you’d choose to do as a plant-growing professional. Still, the annual State of the Industry address at Cultivate, the conference and trade show organized by AmericanHort, has grown so popular...
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Holly Devon 
Posted on August 1, 2025
Stews, sides, gratins, fritters – is there anything potatoes can’t do? But as with many everyday heroes, it’s easy to take the tubers for granted. Enter specialty potatoes: petite, colorful and full of flavor, these spuds are entering the spotlight as consumer demand rises. In 2024, potato sales wen...
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jkarkwren 
Posted on August 1, 2025
Hello, farm family! Since you’re reading this, you already know that “farmer” is really a hyphenated word. It stands for farmer-carpenter, farmer-mechanic, farmer-veterinarian, farmer-sales manager, farmer-marketing director – you get the idea! Farmers take great pride in that hyphenated identity, a...
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jkarkwren 
Posted on July 31, 2025
A Central New York fixture since the 1960s – both at their previous long-time location in Palatine Bridge and at their current offices in Canajoharie – Lee Newspapers Inc. shows no signs of letting off the gas pedal. Publishers of the regional commercial agricultural weekly Country Folks , the month...
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Sally Colby 
Posted on July 1, 2025
When Kristin Flowers wanted to devote part of the family grain farm to growing specialty cut flowers, some people she talked with weren’t sure it was a good idea due to location. The McClure, Ohio, farm is in a rural area, about 30 minutes from any sizable towns, and people might not bother to make ...
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Sonja Heyck-Merlin 
Posted on July 1, 2025
“The food preservation team spent a couple of years getting questions from the public about freeze-drying, and we recognized that there was not a lot of evidence-based information,” said Shari Gallup and Candace Heer. Gallup and Heer are assistant professors and Extension educators with the family a...
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jkarkwren 
Posted on July 1, 2025
As the last of the harvest comes in and the fields begin to rest for winter, the energy shifts. The air feels heavier, the nights stretch longer. You can feel it – the turning of the year! Samhain (pronounced sOW-in) marks the end of the harvest season and the start of the darker half of the year. I...
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Courtney Llewellyn 
Posted on July 1, 2025
Planting the trees, getting them to produce healthy fruit and then successfully harvesting from the orchard takes a lot of work for those in the apple industry – so optimizing management to limit post-harvest apple rots while in storage makes sense. That was the focus of a discussion led by Kari Pet...
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