Fruits & Vegetables
- January 4, 2023
- Weed control is key to protecting lettuce from virus
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- December 21, 2022
- Equipment manufacturers pitch robotics for farmers
- December 14, 2022
- Organic farmers embracing regenerative practices
- December 14, 2022
- Organic produce prices are up, but sales volume drops
- December 14, 2022
- Farmers get help transitioning to organic
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- November 30, 2022
- Soil studies aim to help organic growers on fertilizer
- November 16, 2022
- Sweet potato growers battle wind, freeze and costs
- November 16, 2022
- Virus found in spinach and celery not viewed as a threat
- November 9, 2022
- Salinas Valley farmers hit by lettuce virus
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A virus spread by insects is causing widespread damage to lettuce crops in the Salinas Valley, the renowned Salad Bowl that provides more than one-half of America’s lettuce.
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- November 2, 2022
- New app tracks movement of Salinas Valley ag pests
- November 2, 2022
- Grant funds UC strawberry breeding, gene editing
- October 26, 2022
- Ag business grad supervises automation for vegetables
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- October 19, 2022
- Wholesale pumpkin producers enjoy robust harvest
- October 12, 2022
- Can green waste help tomatoes? Studies seek clues
- October 12, 2022
- Farm supplies pumpkins for welcoming greetings of fall
- October 5, 2022
- Spinach drip trial cuts fungicide need, but not water
- October 5, 2022
- Shallow irrigation helps growers weather heat wave
- September 20, 2022
- Tomato growers seek plans to help manage insect pests
- September 20, 2022
- Foreign pest targeted as threat to state tomato crop
- September 7, 2022
- A farm steeped in history embraces new technology
- August 17, 2022
- Produce marketers pitch to cafeterias, young consumers
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Healthy produce selections are on display at the Foodservice Conference of the International Fresh Produce Association, held in Monterey.
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- August 17, 2022
- Organic farmers adopting regenerative agriculture
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Rodney Braga, president and CEO of Braga Fresh Family Farms, says he believes in integrating perennial cover crops into furrows of vegetable fields and “letting the cover crop work the ground for us.”
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- August 10, 2022
- A changing market gets a more durable cantaloupe
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- August 3, 2022
- Researchers detect tomato viruses, monitor spread
- July 20, 2022
- Field trial tests new means for growing watermelons
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Watermelons are harvested this month in San Joaquin County, where researchers and farmers are testing root grafting as a potential “wave of the future” for healthy plants and high-quality melons.
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