Marketing is more than just setting up your farm stand and hoping for the best. Utilizing social media for promotion, figuring out what your speciality is and giving customers first-hand experience of your produce is just the beginning. Here are four steps to getting the most sales out of your farm stand. 1) What is your specialty? If you … Read more
Preventing overexposure and sunburn Late last year, Time magazine released its annual list of top inventions. You may not need the number one pick, a retail DNA test (on which you can learn more here), and you may not have the funds for its runner-up, the $100,000 sporty electric Tesla Roadster, but chances are, number 44, … Read more
Packaging is one of the most important final steps you can do to ensure the freshness and quality of your produce. With the different types of packaging, it’s hard to know where to start and how to do it right. Remember the primary market drivers. The ideal retail-ready package is a shipping package that can … Read more
Through a series of 2015 field trials, NutriMag™, a new suite of liquid magnesium fertilizers, is proving to be a solution for potato, corn, soybean, alfalfa and wheat farmers. According to data released by Innovative AgSolutions, creator of NutriMag™, all trials saw increases in yield and visibly healthier plants. Read about: EPA Moves to Cancel the … Read more
Arguably the cheapest part of a spray rig, nozzles are key to making sure expensive spray material is delivered in accurate amounts to the proper spot on the plant or soil. Be Careful When Spraying Read about: Potato Power Anyone who follows auto racing has a favorite story about a race lost because a $5 oil filter … Read more