Fruits & Vegetables
- 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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- July 13, 2022
- Project seeks to raise leafy greens for hotter climate
- July 6, 2022
- 'Steady' melon crop is ready for summer
- July 6, 2022
- Farmers markets rebound, but pandemic effects linger
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Vincent Garcia of J&J Ramos Farms sells oranges to Michael and Nancy Neils at the certified farmers market at Arden Fair Mall in Sacramento, where several markets closed during the pandemic.
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- July 6, 2022
- Trials of strawberry varieties show promising yields
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Glenn Cole of the University of California, Davis, strawberry breeding program says researchers are breeding new varieties in hopes of building resistance to soil-borne diseases.
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- June 15, 2022
- Birds at farm provide pest control, add biodiversity
- June 15, 2022
- Trainees sow dreams for futures in organic farming
- June 8, 2022
- Lack of water means smaller tomato crop
- June 8, 2022
- As fertilizer costs spike, farmers reducing nitrogen
- June 8, 2022
- Drip irrigation can reduce mildew threat for lettuce
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Spinach plants which receive sprinkler irrigation, are infected with downy mildew.
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- April 27, 2022
- Studies uncover E. coli outbreak patterns in lettuce
- April 20, 2022
- Demand for specialty mushrooms surges
- April 20, 2022
- A farmer's advice: 'Know what kind of soil you have'
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