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Country Folks Grower is a business to business publication offering coverage through two regional editions.

Each monthly issue covers all facets of growing and marketing fresh market and ornamental crops.

Verifying the value of on-farm trials

Have you ever wondered about on-farm trials? Louis Longchamps, assistant professor of digital agronomy at Cornell University, […]

Pollinators are essential to the lifecycle of most flowering plants, and they play a role in improving the quality of crop yields […]

Lately I’ve been thinking about those that till the land and produce the crops that feed our population. When I was actively involved […]

The take-home message that Matt Mika, vice president of advocacy and government affairs at AmericanHort, gave to the hundreds […]

Nestled off busy Route 6 in Dennis, MA, is Cape Abilities Farm. As a part of the Cape Abilities nonprofit organization, the farm is one […]

There’s a lot of focus on keeping plants healthy – and keeping pests away – while they’re growing, but there are dangers post-harvest as […]

During his Ph.D. work at Ohio State University, Justin Whitehill witnessed the devastation caused by the emerald ash borer and […]

There’s a balance everyone must find between doing too much and not doing enough. Sunnycrest Farm in Londonderry, NH, is a great […]

Dr. Kari Peter, Penn State tree fruit pathologist, has seen trees in apple orchards declining over the past 10 years. These declines have […]

Over the past few years, farmers in the Northeast have experienced both ends of the rain spectrum: too much and too little. Much of the […]

For as long as growers have been seeding, germinating and propagating plants indoors, they’ve been doing their best to give their plants […]

While rapid genetic improvements have been made in livestock and numerous plant species, the most elusive and positive traits […]