Leading agricultural advocacy association AmericanHort recently released their “Top Performers from All-America Selections Vegetable & Herb Variety Trials.” The webinar was presented by Diane Blazek, who serves as executive director of All-America Selections as well as the National Garden Bureau. “I...

Many farms wouldn’t have an adequate labor force without the presence of H-2A workers. L.G. D’Arrigo, co-leader of the immigration practice at Harris Beach in Albany, NY, said there isn’t a reliable supply of labor in the U.S., and part of that is because the American government is concerned about w...

Wildfires have burned mind-boggling numbers of acres, destroying towns, farms and lives this year. Climate change is implicated in this mass burning: severe droughts, hotter, drier seasons with less rainfall and early snow melt due to warmer winter weather patterns has created a tinderbox. Combined ...

Recently, a longtime peach and apple grower faced a dilemma. After losing his entire peach crop to frost this season – the first time in his eight decades of growing fruit trees on the same land where his father started the orchard – Bob Best Sr. was debating whether or not to purchase peaches from ...

We have all learned valuable lessons during the pandemic, and one lesson I hear about above all other business concerns is a recommitment to accurate and timely recordkeeping. Why? To apply for grant and loan programs, to work with state and federal agencies, to report risk assessments and to gauge ...

If you want to expand your farm’s maple production, going with tubing rather than collection buckets can make the entire system work more smoothly. It’s vital to set up your sugarbush’s tubing properly so that it works well. Adam Wild, director of the Cornell Uihlein Maple Research Forest, and Aaron...

Rodney and Lynn Martinez are new to farming, but not new to hard work. Rodney retired from the Coast Guard in 2016 and Lynn is an Army veteran. The couple met in in Massachusetts, and despite frequent moves around the country, Rodney said he always wanted to return to New England and have a farm. “W...

Earlier this year, NAFDMA hosted an online roundtable to ask producers how they were preparing for an autumn influenced by COVID-19 restrictions. At the beginning of October, the international agritourism association brought in three different growers to discuss how the harvest season has been going...

Horticultural advocacy group AmericanHort recently hosted “Top Performers From Perennial Variety Trials,” the latest production in the organization’s “Grower Insider Series.” The program was administered by Paul Westervelt, chief of container operations at Saunders Brothers Nursery in Piney River, V...