Weeds are so frustrating. They keep popping up in the field or garden without heeding your desire to grow the perfect vegetable and to earn money. Sweet Corn Weeds Read about: Greenhouse Crops for the Off-Season It’s fair to say that weeds compete for light, nutrients and space for crops, such as sweet corn, which is the … Read more
Trying out ridge tillage at Cornell You see all kinds of activity when you drive by the Homer C. Thompson Research Farm, 10 miles from Cornell University’s campus in Ithaca, N.Y. During the growing season on 220 acres, workers lay irrigation pipe in rows while small tractors till, plant and cultivate plots that rotate greenery … Read more
Muranaka Farm was founded in 1947 by Minoru Muranaka and his wife, Matsue. They had a trucking fleet that hauled vegetable produce daily from the Japanese-American farms in the Culver City/West Los Angeles area to the downtown Los Angeles market. – Muranaka Farms Grows Kale Long before kale was trendy, Muranaka Farm, Inc. saw an opportunity. … Read more
Save the date: National Kale Day is scheduled for Oct. 4, 2017. Yes, there’s a national day to celebrate kale. In 2012, National Kale Day introduced an annual day to celebrate the nutritional benefits of kale. Many longstanding favorite vegetables already have similar days so with kale’s recent popularity, it made sense that this veggie, too, … Read more
Peppers rank among the top 10 most popular vegetables in the United States. “Peppers fall somewhere between seventh and 10th on the list,” said Michael Orzole, Ph.D., professor emeritus of vegetable crops, Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences. According to the Agricultural Marketing Resource Center (AgMRC) Americans consume an average of 10.6 pounds of fresh … Read more