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Wind turbines for US vegetable growers
The wind blows steady in Gonzales and it will soon turn the blades of a 350-foot-tall electric wind turbine that will help power a vegetable processing and cooling plant."It's something that we've been waiting for a year since the Board of Supervisors granted us a permit, so its very exciting," said Thomas.....
Georgia melon farmers did OK this year
Good yields, reasonable prices early in the season and low disease pressure has Georgia’s watermelon crop producing sweet results.“Typically, for overhead irrigated growers in the Tifton (south Georgia) area, we’re in the 40,000-50,000-pound range for watermelon yields, but I’ve heard a number of reports in.....
US (TN): Peaches thrive despite harsh winter
Some crops across West Tennessee are suffering after a cold winter, followed by a late spring and a wet, cool summer. There is one crop that's thriving in this unusual weather, the peach.For more than 50 years the Flippen family has been in the business of growing fruits and veggies on more than 170 acres of.....
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US: Sour outlook for Indiana grape yields
Indiana’s grape crop yields do not look as promising as they did last year due to the cold winter.Purdue Horticulture Professor Bruce Bordelon said the persistent sub-zero temperatures took a major toll on the state’s grape production. He said temperatures 10 below zero is the threshold when the grape plants.....
US: Hail took a bite out of Colorado melons
Watermelons and honeydew in Colorado’s Rocky Ford region, expected to start production around Aug. 5, will take a volume hit from the same hailstorm that wreaked havoc on the larger cantaloupe crop.Out of about 260 acres of watermelons in Rocky Ford, 15 were wiped out by the July 16 storm and another 45 or.....
Cranberry growers struggle for income amid oversupply
At the Dane County Farmers’ Market in November, cranberry grower Nodji VanWychen proudly lifted a bag of fresh berries and declared, “This is going to help keep our head above water.”VanWychen is a third-generation cranberry grower who runs the family’s Warrens-area Wetherby Cranberry Co. 110 miles northwest.....
US (FL): One in five citrus acres is diseased in Highlands County
So far, Asian psyllids have infected about 20 percent of the citrus acres in Highlands County.“If every tree is not infected, we’re not far from it,” grower Ben Norris said. “It’s getting worse. There’s a little bit of hope on the horizon — antibiotics, tetracycline. We just don’t have them for citrus.....
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US: Colorado peach volumes rebound
As Palisade, Colo.-based Talbott’s Mountain Gold LLLP started packing peaches July 23, the grower-shipper anticipated bigger volumes than last year when the crop suffered significant frost damage.“Last year was dismal,” said Charlie Talbott, president. “The frost then dramatically reduced our overall crop in.....
Duda Farm Fresh Foods wins chef demo competition at PMA foodservice
Duda Farm Fresh Foods won the chef demo competition at the PMA Foodservice Conference with a recipe that featured the company’s value-added fresh celery and radish ministick products.On Saturday, July 26, Chef Todd Fisher created and served a recipe for Lemongrass Steamed Chicken Bahn Mi Bun with Dandy®.....
New low-cost Air Cleaner Inspection Conveyor Combo for blueberries
The Econo Air Cleaner Inspection Conveyor, Lakewood Process Machinery’s newest addition to the company’s lower-cost “Econo” line of berry packing equipment, is hitting high marks with the first machine placed at a blueberry grower’s facility in Washington earlier this year. The 30” wide combo unit is.....
The Tree of 40 Fruits
Award-winning contemporary artist and Syracuse University art professor Sam Van Aken grew up on a family farm in Reading, Pennsylvania, but he spent his college years and much of his early career focused on art rather than agriculture. While Van Aken says that his work has always been "inspired by nature and.....
Central America
Costa Rica: Pineapple exports targeted by drug trade
Costa Rica is the leading exporter of pineapples in the world, according to the country’s Foreign Trade Promoter (PROCOMER). In 2013, pineapple exports generated US$834.2 million, which is 1.7% of the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP).However, the international trade in fruits and other products is.....
South America
High quality Cuban pineapples seduce European market
Pineapples grown in the Cuban province of Ciego de Avila have gained popularity in the European market, especially in countries like Spain and Italy due to the fruit quality.According to Reinaldo De Avila, head of the Pineapple Production Unit of the Ceballos Citrus Company in Ciego de Avila, 430 km east.....
Asia
Singapore's first indoor vegetable farm
Panasonic Factory Solutions Asia Pacific (Panasonic) announced today its pilot commercial supply of locally-harvested vegetables to Japanese restaurant, Ootoya. The premium Japanese crop varieties, mini red radish; red leafy lettuce; and mizuna (potherb mustard) are cultivated in the country’s first licensed.....
Vietnam: Bright prospect for dragon fruit exports
Vietnam now has more opportunities to ship dragon fruit, to some choosy markets such as the US, Japan, the Republic of Korea (RoK) and China’s Taiwan in the coming time as local scientists have found a new way to protect the fruit from melon fly disease, a local newspaper reported.According to the Saigon.....
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