Helping the worker and the work in hot weather
Heat stress happens when your body has excess heat it can’t get rid of. Heat strain is how your body responds to the excess heat. And everyone is at risk when the temperatures climb. (more…)
Heat stress happens when your body has excess heat it can’t get rid of. Heat strain is how your body responds to the excess heat. And everyone is at risk when the temperatures climb. (more…)
If you sell plants from a brick and mortar store but don’t offer them online, should you?
In a webinar presented by AmericanHort, three horticultural professionals (more…)
Here’s an intriguing number for those thinking about growing herbs: Annual sales of herbal dietary supplements in the U.S. totaled $12.35 billion in 2021, according to the American (more…)
ROANOKE, VA – The Virginia Association for Biological Farming (VABF) hosted its 23d annual conference recently. This year’s edition was one of the largest in its history, (more…)
“Social media puts the ‘public’ into PR and the ‘market’ into marketing,” said Chris Brogan, president of New Marketing Labs. And while you make think of yourself as a plant (more…)
One of the best things about NAFDMA, the International Agritourism Association, is that it’s truly a global organization. At the most recent annual conference in Austin, Texas, (more…)
Episode 49 of the Farm Commons podcast is titled “Legally sound internships on your farm.” “I’ve been at Farm Commons for a little over four years now, and over that time (more…)
What’s the most effective way to communicate with your farmworkers? Is it early morning meetings? Flyers posted in a break room? Videos that take valuable work time (more…)
Fire blight’s causal agent, the bacterium Erwinia amylora, has shown resistance to (more…)
Per a very educational poster presentation at the last Great Lakes Expo, grape berry moth (GBM) (more…)
I believe that the early researchers, Extension and industry personnel and growers involved with plastics (more…)
Perhaps you have been invited to market your product through a specifically orientated program (more…)
In a decade-long look, from 2007 to 2017, researchers at Penn State found more and more farmers are participating in agritourism – but overall, fewer (more…)
After several career changes, Christine and Seth Terramane started farming together about 10 years ago.
Prior to working together, Seth realized (more…)
If you’re going to farm lavender, what is your end goal? This was the central question Wendy Jochems, co-owner of Hope Hill Lavender Farm in Pottsville, (more…)