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Investing in your plant health

Nov 30, 2024 | vegetablegrowersnews.com | Michael Brownbridge |Mark Freeman |Julie Graesch

Plant health in its simplest terms, integrated pest management (IPM), is a decision-making process that combines tools and strategies to identify and manage pests. Integrated plant health management (IPHM) takes things a step further, emphasizing a more holistic approach that includes plant nutrition and other methods that promote plant tolerance of abiotic (environmental) and biotic (pests and diseases) stresses as a first line of defense.
UGA trials examine variety performance to help improve watermelons

Nov 28, 2024 | vegetablegrowersnews.com | Doug Ohlemeier

With consumers going from seeded to seedless watermelons and desiring darker rinds and smaller size melons, breeders are upping their game and producing better varieties that aren’t seeded, too big or light- skinned and possess characteristics other than disease resistance.
Hartung Brothers’ is a cucumber powerhouse that has been farming vegetables for 50 years

Nov 22, 2024 | vegetablegrowersnews.com | Doug Ohlemeier

Marking its 50th year, Hartung Brothers has become a successful grower and shipper of pickling cucumbers through effective practices in disease and pest management, harvest equipment efficiencies and valuing its workers’ ideas. The family-run company grows cucumbers in Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Canada and recently expanded its operations into Yucatan, Mexico.
The Gingerichs’ journey to organic farming is rooted in family

Nov 17, 2024 | vegetablegrowersnews.com | Keith Loria

Farming has always been home to Luke and Annie Gingerich. The couple has turned that lifelong love into a successful organic peach growing operation called Bluebird Organic Fruit Co. in Colorado. As both had grown up on farms, the couple considered starting their own orchard after they moved to Colorado in 2009 for new job opportunities. For five years, they searched for a place where they could grow fruit.
Editor's letter: Considering new varieties, pest prevention

Nov 11, 2024 | vegetablegrowersnews.com | Doug Ohlemeier |Veg Connections

Welcome to the November 2024 issue of Vegetable Growers News, the new varieties issue. With winter debuting and summer and fall harvests in the rear view mirror, many growers find more time to look to the future and consider new varieties.
Research indicates medium mesotunnels can exclude insects in cucurbits

Oct 28, 2024 | vegetablegrowersnews.com | Doug Ohlemeier

Mesotunnels, intermediate in scale between low and high tunnels, can impact the incidences of pests, diseases and quality of fruit produced through such systems. Two studies, one on integrated pest management and the other on pollination, focused on muskmelon Athenas and acorn squash cultivars under mesotunnels, which are 36 to 42 inches high. In the pollination trial, mesotunnels increased marketable fruit by 730%.
Earth-friendly practices reinvigorate land, aid grower efficiencies

Sep 20, 2024 | vegetablegrowersnews.com | Doug Ohlemeier

Trent Graybill is a regenerative agronomist and co-founder and owner of Soilcraft Inc. The Zillah, Washington-based agronomic crop consulting service, works with growers on changing their farming practices to be less harmful to the environment. Despite lacking a real definition or regulation of the phrase, regenerative agriculture is becoming better known globally among growers as well as consumers, Graybill explained.
Producers, suppliers may be on an accelerated deadline with FSMA 204 compliance

Sep 18, 2024 | vegetablegrowersnews.com | Melinda Waldrop

A new U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) rule requiring additional traceability records for certain foods goes into effect in January 2026, but the deadline for compliance may become a reality even sooner.
Editor's Letter: Growers benefit from new apps, spraying tech

Jul 29, 2024 | vegetablegrowersnews.com | Doug Ohlemeier

New University of Florida research shows how strawberry growers can use fewer pesticides to control a destructive pest. As they say in real estate, it’s location, location, location. The study discovered chilli thrips prefer to aggregate in a 330-foot radius outside the center of strawberry fields. That field-border area provides the invasive pest a staging area close to adjacent woods, where they can easily live during the summer and reinfest during the next strawberry season.
USDA opens disadvantaged farmer grant application process

Jun 17, 2024 | vegetablegrowersnews.com | South Central

Underserved and disadvantaged farmers can learn more about U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) grants that benefit them through a webinar. Community-based and nonprofit organizations, institutions of higher education, and Tribal-serving organizations are invited to join staff from the USDA Office of Partnership and Public Engagement (OPPE) for a webinar about the 2501 grant application process.