There’s plenty of confusion surrounding employers’ obligations in relation to government programs and laws surrounding COVID-19. Schaun Henry, partner in McNees, Wallace and Nurick LLC, and Brooke Duer, staff attorney at the Penn State Center for Agricultural and Shale Law, recently discussed these ...

Farmers constantly have to be on the lookout for the next worst thing so they can still work toward raising successful crops. Cindy McKenzie, Ph.D., a research entomologist with the USDA-ARS, recently led an online session to talk about a growing threat throughout the U.S. – silverleaf whitefly. As ...

Female farmers face unique production challenges – one of which is that tools aren’t designed for their bodies. During a recent webinar, University of New Hampshire Cooperative Extension Field Specialists Elaina Enzien and Kelly Mcadam offered tips to help women protect their most important tools – ...

Haunted hayrides and after-dark corn mazes can be big draws to farms late in the season, but in a year when sales and visits to public attractions have been anything but normal, how can agritourism sites prepare – or even open? The Haunted Attraction National Tradeshow and Conference (HAuNTcon) host...

Online horticulture sales were already increasing at the beginning of 2020, as today, consumers can have basically anything they purchase online shipped directly to their doors. The new nursery model means customers are shopping using photos rather than in-store experiences – and that model grew exp...

Earlier this year, farmers who were directly negatively impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic were offered a helping hand via the USDA’s Coronavirus Food Assistance Program (CFAP). Those producing commodities including non-specialty crops, dairy, aquaculture, wool, eggs, livestock, nursery crops, cut fl...

Brad Edwards and Travis Birdsell, North Carolina Research and Extension, want to help Christmas tree growers create a welcoming environment for guests, and part of that effort involves eliminating weeds from the fields. Edwards and Birdsell presented an engaging session on weed management at the Pen...

Sometimes it seems as if growers are fighting the same crop issues, year after year, perhaps opting for new disease-resistant cultivars to try to get ahead of the problem. But there are innovations in natural vegetable disease control that have shown promise. One of those developments is the study a...

In many of the fruit and vegetable meetings I’ve conducted and attended over the years, the topic that growers can’t seem to get enough of is marketing, or “How do I sell?” Learning how to grow the crop can be easy but knowing what to do with it after harvest takes a lot of research before the crop ...