$5000 Available For Student Scholarships
The Pacific Northwest Vegetable Association (PNVA) is offering up to $5,000 in scholarships for the 2020/21 school year. This scholarship can be used in any area of study in agriculture,…
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How Does Flooding Affect Farms?
Patience is a virtue for on-farm flood recovery Severe flooding caused devastation for farmers across the Midwest in the spring of 2019. The March 7th Sustainable, Secure Food blog explores the effects…
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New Plant-Based Frozen Pizza Hits Market
A new frozen pizza has hit the market from GOOD PLANet featuring Beyond Meat sausage. Beyond Meat makes their products using plant-based proteins, fats, minerals and flavorings. The carbs come…
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Cover Crops Can Benefit Hot, Dry Soils
The Southern High Plains of the United States have low annual rainfall. When it does rain, though, intense storms can cause severe soil erosion. Strong winds also strip away valuable topsoil….
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Thymox Biopesticide Now Available in U.S.
Kemin Crop Technologies, the Kemin Industries business unit focused on providing crop protection and crop health solutions for specialty crops and commercial greenhouses, has announced a strategic partnership agreement with…
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Vive Crop Protection Adds to Board of Directors
Vive Crop Protection has added Joe Dales to their Board of Directors. Dales has extensive business and corporate governance experience with over 35 years serving in various leadership, agri-marketing and…
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Potatoes USA Releases 2019 Retail Sales
Potatoes USA has released IRI data for the calendar year 2019 (January through December 2019) that showed success with dollars and volume sales for total potato sales at retail. Total…
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New Brunswick Seed Shows Low PVY
Potato virus Y in 2019 crop near lowest levels since regulatory caps began in 2011 Recent research presented at the N.B. Potato Conference and Tradeshow, Feb. 6th 2020, has highlighted…
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WPC Webinar on Powdery Scab Set for March 18
The World Potato Congress (WPC) is presenting a powdery scab webinar on March 18 at 9 a.m. EDT. The webinar will be presented by Dr. Leah Tsror. Powdery scab causes significant…
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Potato Growers, House Supporters of Ag Labor Reform to Call for Senate Action on Legislation
Wed., Feb. 26 at 1:00 pm ET, potato growers from across the United States will host a press conference with agricultural industry partners and members of the U.S. House of…
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