How Dixondale Farms Is Aiming To Protect Its Legacy By Carol Miller|October 30, 2024 Dixondale Farms’ Bruce and Jeanie Frasier have built a loyal workforce, feed a local economy, and much more. Now they're looking for the right next owner. Read More
California Ag Department Makes Big Investment in Sustainable Pest Management By California Department of Food and Agriculture|November 4, 2024
This Organic Vegetable Farm Finds Itself at a Crossroads — So, Which Way Now? By Carol Miller|October 2, 2024 With increasing labor challenges, the owners of Aspen Moon Farm in Colorado are considering downsizing.
Defining What It Takes To Be an American Vegetable Grower By Carol Miller|July 10, 2024 Meet a few folks who bring the statistics from our 2024 State of the Vegetable Industry survey to life.
How This First Generation Farmer Shows Grit, Guts, and a Love for the Earth By Dianne Munson|May 29, 2024 Emma Jagoz started Moon Valley Farm from scratch and now manages a profitable business that employs 20 people.
How Howell Farming Co. Fights for Great Watermelon By Carol Miller|March 6, 2024 Its arsenal includes trust-worthy neighbors, solid IPM, and great genetics.
Taylor Farms Digs Into the Secrets of Cover Crops By Carol Miller|January 31, 2024 In its quest for sustainable practices that work, cover crops take center stage.
How This Young Vegetable Grower Found Her Way To Success By Carol Miller|January 10, 2024 Strohauer Farms’ Amber Vander Dussen had a lot to learn when she joined the family farm. Here’s how she did it.
How Shuman Farms Scores Big Being a Game-Day Grower By Thomas Skernivitz|December 6, 2023 Georgia-based operation partners with local college football programs to promote the state’s favorite vegetable, premium sweet onions.
How Dennis Ramseyer Protects His Farm for the Future By Carol Miller|November 1, 2023 This Ohio grower approaches the challenge on two fronts: preserving the land for farm use and keeping his business thriving.
How One Thriving Farmer Loves To Grow and Talk About Organic Vegetables By Thomas Skernivitz|October 4, 2023 Grower Michael Kilpatrick is one of the internet’s leading voices on organic farming. His ‘Thriving Farmer’ podcast has more than a million downloads.
How Jaemor Farms Has Found Way More Ways To Profit and Prosper By Thomas Skernivitz|August 2, 2023 Already a popular on-farm market, Jaemor Farms, a Georgia produce operation, saw sales skyrocket due to agritourism.
What We Know About the Vegetable Sector’s No. 1 Issue By Carol Miller|July 4, 2023 How labor challenges are shaping the future of vegetable farming.
Wisdom on What It Takes To Grow Amazing Watermelons By Carol Miller|May 31, 2023 Van Groningen & Sons shares its hard-earned knowledge of production and displays its devotion for this juicy cucurbit crop.
Uncommon Produce Stepping up to the Plate for This South Dakota Grower By Thomas Skernivitz|May 3, 2023 What’s on the menu in Sioux Falls restaurants? Quite often some of Jeremy Nelson’s eye-catching crops from his Tillford Rye Farm.
Modern Vegetable Growing Is Alive and Thriving in the Desert Southwest By Pam Caraway|April 5, 2023 Minds open to technology and innovation deliver “centsible” sustainability and succession success at Morrow Farms.
What Top-Level Food Safety Looks Like at a Vegetable Farm By Carol Miller|March 1, 2023 JV Smith Companies shares how it reached its exemplary cleanliness levels.
Sharing the Soil Spreads the Wealth at Plainville Farm By Pam Caraway|February 1, 2023 The Massachusetts-based operation may own the land, but workers are encouraged to grow their own crops and learn the business of farming.
Vegetable Grower Works Hard To Help His Industry Overcome Labor Issues By Pam Caraway|January 4, 2023 Bill Brim calls on fellow growers to spark change in government regulations. With his years of leadership, he has easy-to-follow advice.
A New Take on a 110-Year-Old Vegetable Farm By Carol Miller|November 30, 2022 Justin Long is finding new ways to strengthen his fourth-generation farm during his turn as custodian.
At Lady Moon Farms, Success Has Deep Roots By Carol Miller|October 5, 2022 A 5-acre organic market family farm in the 1980s is now a 3,000-acre commercial operation. Here’s how the Beddards did it.
