Country Folks Grower is a business to business publication offering coast to coast coverage through three regional editions.
Each monthly issue covers all facets of growing and marketing fresh market and ornamental crops.
From one holiday event to the next
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 […]
Raise prices, keep customers
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. […]
Keeping women safe from head to toe
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 […]
Secondary impacts of new technology on the farm
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 […]
Managing and co-existing with birds
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 […]
Plant Disease Defenses
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 […]
