Dec 29, 2016 | News
Today, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion (CNPP) launched a New Year’s campaign to help Americans turn their resolutions into real solutions for healthy eating in 2017. This campaign is supported by new and existing...
Dec 26, 2016 | News
The details of the Farm Market Bus Tour planned for January 30, the day prior to the opening of the 2017 Mid-Atlantic Fruit and Vegetable Convention have been announced here. The tour will visit Flinchbaugh’s Orchard and Farm Market in York, Brown’s...
Dec 26, 2016 | News
The schedule for the Hydroponics session on Tuesday afternoon, January 31, at the 2017 Mid-Atlantic Fruit and Vegetable Convention was recently finalized. It is as follows: Hydroponics – Empire Room CD 1:30 The Latest in Greenhouse LED Research – Dr. A....
Dec 26, 2016 | News
The American Farm Bureau Federation and the National Association of State Departments of Agriculture have petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency to delay the January 2017 start date of its worker protection safety rule. AFBF and NASDA cited EPA violations of...
Dec 26, 2016 | News
Thanks to a newly re-positioned farmer cost share program, announced December 23 by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), organic producers and handlers will have improved access to organic certification cost share assistance starting in spring of 2017. To read...
Dec 18, 2016 | News
These Tomatoes Ripen Weeks Earlier Using a simple and powerful genetic method to tweak genes native to two popular varieties of tomato plants, a team at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) has devised a rapid method to make them flower and produce ripe fruit more...
