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- February 2000
- Diversity Stacks Up
- Fifer Orchards, which grows 2,500 acres of vegetables, fruits and field crops near Wyoming, Del., has an interesting marketing philosophy.
Selecting a Cooling Method for Vegetable Quality
Vegetable quality is generally at a peak at harvest, and decreases as the produce moves from packing to the final consumer. One of your goals as a vegetable producer should be to establish conditions and procedures that will help maximize the quality of your harvested produce
Frito-Lay to growers:
‘no more genetically altered corn’
Responding to consumer confusion, concerns and queries, Frito-Lay is telling its growers not to sell the company genetically altered corn.
Future of Genetically Engineered
Potatoes Hangs in the Balance
The future of genetically engineered crops is hanging in the balance, waiting for U.S. public opinion to sway the issue one way or the other.
EPA’s Calls to Industry Players
Could Ease FQPA Process
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is giving more time for the industry to react to chemical-use assumptions it is making under the Food Quality Protection Act (FQPA) that could result in label changes to pesticides.
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