Anyone one who says farming life is simple has obviously never worked on a farm. There’s a lot going on behind the scenes, making your agri-business as complicated as any downtown startup or global company. It takes a lot of time and effort to manage it all, especially if you’re the only one in charge. … 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
For four years now, researchers at Penn State University, led by plant pathologist Kari Peter, Ph.D., have been battling the sudden demise of young dwarf apple trees in high-density systems. The damage was first noticed when trees, planted in one block at the plant pathology research farm, began to die off rapidly. The decline and … Read more
Making the most of pollination is key. For example, more than $240 million of produce is predicted to come from apple orchards in New York State. Apples are a dependent crop that honey and wild bees are required to pollinate to bear fruit. “The major pollination dependent crops in those regions where growers are renting … 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