Bob Rimol discussed high tunnel construction and other recommendations at the 2025 Ohio Ecological Food & Farm Association ’s annual conference. Rimol is the owner and founder of Rimol Greenhouse Systems based in Hooksett, NH. Rimol manufactures and distributes greenhouses across the U.S. Framing Ma...

University of Vermont Extension Professor Vern Grubinger summarized the results of research to address the economics of high tunnel production that he and his research colleague, UVM Assistant Professor Becky Maden, initiated in 2024, at the 2025 High Tunnel Production Conference in West Lebanon, NH...

“More than 70% of cyber attacks are aimed at businesses with less than 100 employees. They’re not going for the big guys because the big guys can afford the big cybersecurity firms,” said IRS employee Sheba Gonzalez. At an event hosted by USDA, Gonzalez and her colleagues, all IRS specialists in tax...

Look at a penny and zero in closely at Lincoln’s nose. That’s the size of the redbay ambrosia beetle (RAB), a tiny insect and key player in laurel wilt, an aggressive fungal disease of trees in the Lauraceae family transmitted by the RAB. Although important landscape and forest trees are in this fam...

At the American Society for Horticultural Science ’s sizzling summer summit in New Orleans, an unexpected underdog dazzled the data-driven crowd: the snow pea. Crisp and colorful, this cool-season crop took the spotlight in a seminar by Jacob Schwab, a graduate research assistant at the University o...

Flower production in the Northeast is experiencing a revival as consumer demand for locally grown flowers rises alongside increased interest in sustainable agriculture. That’s according to work from Ankit Singh, Ph.D., UMaine assistant Extension professor and Maine Sustainable Agriculture & Ornament...

First, federal news: On Dec. 18, President Donald Trump issued an executive order to amend marijuana’s longstanding classification as a Schedule I federally controlled substance without accepted medical value. The order seeks to finalize a 2023 recommendation by the Department of Health & Human Serv...

Happy New Year, farm family! As I type these words, I find myself straddling the space-time continuum in a way that I don’t often do. The change from one year to another has heightened my awareness of both the nature and passage of time. What is the nature of time? In my writing present, it is still...