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Specializing in mixed-heritage vegetables

Lee Newspapers2022-07-28T14:57:27-05:00August 3, 2022|Grower, Grower West|

by Aliya Hall

For owner and farmer Leslie Wiser, Radical Family Farms has been a way for her and her children to connect with their cultural heritage. As a first-generation multiracial person of Chinese-Taiwanese, German (more…)

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Delivering the perfect tree

Lee Newspapers2022-07-28T14:45:55-05:00August 3, 2022|Grower, Grower West|

by Sally Colby

Purchasing trees, plants and landscape materials is a personal experience, and most consumers devote a significant amount of time prior to making buying decisions (especially for big dollar items). Delivering (more…)

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Successful cut flower sales

Lee Newspapers2022-07-28T14:40:50-05:00August 3, 2022|Grower, Grower East, Grower Midwest, Grower West|

by Sally Colby

Long-time cut flower expert Dave Dowling said, “You aren’t going to make any money growing cut flowers – you make money selling cut flowers.” (more…)

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From one holiday event to the next

Lee Newspapers2022-07-28T14:39:26-05:00August 3, 2022|Grower, Grower East, Grower Midwest, Grower West|

by Courtney Llewellyn

The growing and harvesting season for farmers can only be extended so far. The entertainment season, however, can be year-round for those who are investing in agritourism ventures (more…)

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Raise prices, keep customers

Lee Newspapers2022-07-28T14:36:10-05:00August 3, 2022|Grower, Grower East, Grower Midwest, Grower West|

by Sally Colby

Ann Miller, Extension educator with Penn State Extension’s Energy, Business and Community Vitality Unit, said input costs have gone up for everyone and consumers are behaving differently. (more…)

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Keeping women safe from head to toe

Lee Newspapers2022-07-28T14:34:43-05:00August 3, 2022|Grower, Grower East, Grower Midwest, Grower West|

by Sally Colby

Women are important players in agriculture, and often perform tasks that require personal protective equipment (PPE). However, most PPE is sized for men, which means women are often (more…)

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Secondary impacts of new technology on the farm

Lee Newspapers2022-07-28T14:33:07-05:00August 3, 2022|Grower, Grower East, Grower Midwest, Grower West|

by Courtney Llewellyn

If you haven’t had labor issues in the past 24 months, you will, but a lot of autonomous equipment is coming down the pike for smaller farms, not just those with thousands of acres. That’s according (more…)

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Managing and co-existing with birds

Lee Newspapers2022-07-28T14:31:22-05:00August 3, 2022|Grower, Grower East, Grower Midwest, Grower West|

by Jessica Bern

There are many tools to help manage the birds that can damage a farmer’s crops. With help from Dr. Page Klug, a research wildlife biologist with the USDA National Wildlife Research Center, and (more…)

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Plant Disease Defenses

Lee Newspapers2022-07-28T14:27:38-05:00August 3, 2022|Grower, Grower East, Grower Midwest, Grower West|

Keeping crops healthy is the focus of farmers no matter what crop they cultivate or how they grow it. Although growers are familiar with disease preventative measures, protective (more…)

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Thoughts on Fall Vegetable Crops

Lee Newspapers2022-07-28T14:25:55-05:00August 3, 2022|Grower, Grower East, Grower Midwest, Grower West|

The summer is progressing, along with vegetable crops being harvested and sold at all levels of the supply chain. Even though growers are very busy, it is time (more…)

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It’s important to keep perspective – State of the Industry 2022

Lee Newspapers2022-07-28T14:51:02-05:00July 29, 2022|Grower, Grower East, Grower Midwest, Grower West|

by Courtney Llewellyn

The new varieties and the networking and the education sessions are all great reasons to attend AmericanHort’s annual Cultivate conference, but the highlight every year is the State of the Industry address. (more…)

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Scenes from Cultivate22

Lee Newspapers2022-07-27T13:41:38-05:00July 27, 2022|Grower, Grower East, Grower Midwest, Grower West|

The team from Country Folks Grower and Lee Newspapers Inc. once again visited Columbus, Ohio, to be a part of AmericanHort’s highly anticipated trade show, Cultivate22. (more…)

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