…that may allow growers to maximize their income per acre. Managing overall cropload by pruning and thinning trees can be helpful. Avoiding an early harvest time and waiting for the…
Harvest and Store Your Homegrown Potato Crop
…That’s coming up on This Land of Ours. Harvest and Store Your Homegrown Potato Crop When you’re ready to harvest your homegrown potato crop, the first step is cutting the…
Gardeners Preserving with a Pressure Canner
…That’s coming up on This Land of Ours. Gardeners Preserving with a Pressure Canner If you’re as diligent about preserving your harvest as you are about growing it, you know…
Participation Encouraged for the 2019 Labor Survey
…harvest jobs despite improved recruiting efforts, increased wages and increasing benefits. An interesting figure from the 2017 survey showed that less than three percent of respondents reported using use H-2A…
How to Harvest Your Chamomile Plant
In the third and final part of her series, Cathy Isom tells you how to harvest your chamomile plant. That’s coming up on This Land of Ours. How to Harvest…
Plant a Garden Specifically for Canning
…Canning is a great way to preserve an abundant harvest, as well as being a time and money saver. Canning will help you save produce before it spoils so you…
Navigating the H-2A Guest Worker Program
…whether they will have the workers necessary at harvest,” said Boehm. The program has been a success within the state and Boehm encourages other state Farm Bureaus who wish to…
Table Grape Industry Feeling Secondary Impacts of Tariffs
…with a significant harvest of table grapes have left the U.S. with a substantial amount still left in the domestic market. That has caused an issue for Chile, who traditionally…
Celebrating National Pumpkin Pie Day
…Pumpkin Pie Day! This traditional dessert is often eaten during the fall and winter months and invited to Thanksgiving and Christmas tables. The pumpkin itself is a symbol of harvest….
Almond Update: Almond Orchard 2025 Goals
…of environmentally friendly pest management tools by 25%, achieve zero waste by putting everything produced in the orchard to optimal use, and reduce dust during harvest by 50%. Almond Board of California’s…
More Produce Recalled from E. coli Outbreak
…have come in contact with the new produce recalled after harvest. No test involving the filtered and treated water has come back as positive for the disease, and Adam Bros. said the…
Almond Industry Remains Committed to Continuous Improvement
…also be working towards achieving zero waste and reducing dust during harvest by 50 percent, all by 2025. “So now we’re really setting out not only to make sure the…
World Ag Expo Gearing Up with Top Product Winners
…aid in the efficiency of harvest, alleviate worker fatigue, and reduce bruising during harvest. As fruit is being picked, pickers place the fruit into the padded bucket, attached to the…
Harvesting Homegrown Christmas Trees
Cathy Isom has taken us through each step of raising Christmas trees. In this program she gives us a few great pointers on how to harvest a Christmas tree. That’s…