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Just in time for the holidays, some domestic Christmas tree producers are hoping to emulate the nation’s dairy, beef and cotton farmers, who tax themselves to pay for common ads. But first, they must rally support for an idea some producers oppose on principle. On Monday, the Agriculture Department began public consideration of the proposed [...]
Washington apple growers are going to take an estimated $44 million hit this year from a new Mexican tariff, another chapter in an ongoing trade dispute that has already hurt cherry and pear growers. The 20 percent tariff took effect Thursday and affects all U.S. fresh apple sales to this state’s largest export market. State [...]
Farmers’ markets are springing back in a big way, and dark skies and a threat of rain failed to dampen the enthusiasm today. Just 4 miles apart on High Street, the Clintonville and Worthington farmers’ markets drew thousands of shoppers. Both opened this month. Renee Hall, 36, visits the Worthington market at least once a [...]
The flowering phenomenon in mango is a complex one. Normally, it crops heavily in one year (on year) and bears less or no crop the following year (off year). Again, it yields heavily the next year. Thus the rhythm of bearing in mango is not strictly ‘alternate’ but ‘irregular’ or ‘erratic’. Research findings have clearly [...]
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