…sweet cereals like Frosted Flakes, there’s a healthy version in the color purple called Peace Cereal. The purple corn is rich in anthocyanins, which offer anti-inflammatory and antiviral properties. The…
Healthy Diet with Affordable Produce
…filling but will also help you stay on point with your budget. Sweet potatoes. They’re loaded with tons of vitamins, plus fiber, and they’ll help lower your blood sugar. Other…
Agri View: Good Vidalia Onion Crop
…first grown in Georgia. What makes it so popular is the mild, sweet flavor. Growers say that flavor comes from the low acid in the soil. The original plant was…
Tropical Fruit with a New Look-Pineapple
…producing these genetically modified beauties. The FDA said the pink pineapple simply has some genes toned down to keep the fruit of the flesh pinker and sweeter. Pink Pineapples are…
Agri View: Sweet Satsuma Orange
Everett Griner talks about the sweet Satsuma orange coming in today’s Agri View. Well, it looks like the Satsuma orange is on the verge of becoming…
Western View: Visit to Citrus State Park
…an especially sweet and flavorful fruit. Word of this far superior orange quickly spread, and a great agricultural industry was born. In the early 1900s, an effort to promote citrus…
Funding For Commodity Board Projects to Support Ag Industry
…State University, Corvallis, received an NIFA grant of $294,000, funded jointly by the Washington State Potato Commission, to improve data management tracking of potato early-dying disease. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and…
Agri View: Weather Costly to Producers
…registering unusually high crop losses. I told you about the peach crop, blueberries and early sweet corn. Now you can add the early watermelon crop. Not just winds. Wildfire losses…
Agri View: Hard Winter for Farmers
…The cold got them. Farmers who plant sweet corn for the early market normally are ready by Memorial Day. They will not have an early crop this year. This is…
The California Kitchen: Sweet Carrot Mahi
In today’s California Kitchen, learn to cook amazing sweet carrot mahi with The Untamed Chef, Albert J. Hernandez. Here is what you will need: 2 Carrots sliced 8oz Mahi Mahi…
Cauliflower at Center Plate
…food manufacturers have come up with cauliflower concepts such as mashed cauliflower, a frozen cauliflower-and-sweet-potato medley, and cauliflower “rice.” Then you add social media, and all of the do it…
2016 California Wine Sales in U.S. Hit New Record
…followed by Cabernet Sauvignon (15%), Red Blends including Sweet Reds (12%), Pinot Grigio/Gris (9%), Merlot (7%), Pinot Noir (6%), White Zinfandel/Blush (6%), Moscato/Muscat (5%) and Sauvignon Blanc (5%). The largest…
Idaho Researcher: Farmers Benefit from Drought
…them, they understand.” Taylor adds: “You’ve heard farmers say, gee, if we could just get everybody to reduce potato production 10 percent this year or onion production 20 percent, we’d…
Natural Pest Repellents
…soak for a couple of days, strain away the particles and put the liquid into a spray bottle. Colorado Potato Beetle Colorado potato beetle larva sitting on green foliage of…