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- May 2000
- Great Lakes Show Will Be Week Earlier
Participants in the Great Lakes Vegetable Growers Convention and Farm Market Show should be aware that there is a change coming before the big change next year, when the show will merge with the Michigan State Horticultural Society annual meeting.
Department of Agriculture
Sets New Organic Food Standards
Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman announced a new proposal for uniform and consistent national standards for organic food.
Erwin is New President
of Strawberry Organization
Sam Erwin is used to wearing many hats. Now he has one more.
Cornell Introduces Late Blight
Resistant NY 121 Cultivar
In the 1840s, the late blight fungus, phytophthora infestans, swept across the potato fields of Ireland, turning the vegetables into a rotten mess and leaving the country’s people to fight a losing battle against famine. Now the fungus might have met its match in a potato developed at Cornell University, the New York 121.
More and More Growers in Country
Turn to Farmers’ Markets
With the flood of produce imports coming into the country from overseas, lots of larger commercial growers are taking a second look at high-return marketing outlets like farmers’ markets.
Maenner to Head Wisconsin Group
Anna Maenner has been named executive director of the Wisconsin Berry Growers Association (WBGA) effective Feb. 1.
Soil Temperature May Hold Key to Stewart’s Wilt Severity
Stewart’s wilt is a disease of corn, caused by the bacterium Erwinia stewartii (E. F. Smith) dye. It is transmitted to corn seedlings during feeding by the corn flea beetle.
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