The Top Leafy Greens You’ll Want To Grow Now

What’s new in vegetable varieties? Watch video clips of leading seed breeders discussing cool developments in lettuce, cabbage, and kale.

Dutch vegetable seed company Rijk Zwaan, following years of research, is launching two romaine lettuce varieties for the U.S. market.

New research from USDA ARS suggests microbe communities in romaine play a bigger role than expected.

It’s no longer enough to prevent cosmetic damage. Thrips are now a known vector for impatiens necrotic spot virus.

No matter what comes their way, the Petrocco family meets the challenge with its values intact.

Following a series of deadly E. coli outbreaks, the leafy greens industry makes updates that will hopefully prevent future infections.

Learn more about five new varieties scientists have found to feature extra shelflife.

Find out what the California and Arizona Leafy Greens Marketing Agreement are doing to help prevent another significant E. coli outbreak. 

FDA declares the food safety outbreaks are over.

The main Salinas-linked outbreak and the two smaller ones have a common denominator — an unnamed grower. The agency, however, emphasizes that it is treating the three investigations as independent outbreaks at this time.

Government agencies update number of reported illnesses in E. coli outbreak tied to lettuce grown in California’s Salinas Valley.

CDC and FDA say Salinas-grown romaine is at the heart of E. coli outbreak.

The numbers look just as we all thought they might. Growers harvested 15% fewer acres of romaine in 2018 — a big drop in one year.

Food safety scares — no matter where they take place — affect an entire industry sector.

In the years leading up to 2018, leafy greens and romaine saw a surge in sales. In the weeks following the Yuma outbreak, sales dropped in double digits.

After calling for those in the U.S. food chain to destroy all romaine lettuce last week, FDA and […]

Efforts being made on labeling to show where the lettuce is grown so Arizona and Florida growers can still bring their crop to market.

With the latest romaine-linked foodborne illness outbreak making news, here’s a look back at the three previous outbreaks. […]

After the leafy greens industry took extensive steps to prevent another outbreak following last spring’s deadly Yuma-AZ-linked romaine E. coli scare, the CDC announced a new multistate outbreak is occurring.