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April 2001 Asparagus Growers Slice Minimum Price A marketing committee representing the vast majority of Michigan asparagus growers has agreed to cut its per-pound minimum base price for processing contracts by nine cents in order to compete against cheap foreign imports. Anti-drug Trade Deal Pushing U.S. Asparagus Prices Down Industry wants asparagus excluded from Andean Trade Preference Act Greenhouse Growers Explore New Energy-Conserving Measures Greenhouse growers across the Great Lakes region have been left scrambling in the wake of a major increase in the price of natural gas. Growers Grow Greens for Winter Harvest in High Tunnels Art and Kathy King, who farm with Art’s brother Larry in Valencia in western Pennsylvania, are innovative growers and marketers. Some Eastern States Offering Farmland Preservation Funding The American Farmland Trust (AFT) named the Northern Piedmont region of Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Virginia as the number two most threatened land resource in the country. Production Threatened by Urban Expansion In 1993, American Farmland Trust (AFT) published its first Farming on the Edge map and study. Since then, the rate of farmland disappearance has increased to nearly 1.2 million acres per year. |
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