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Vegetable Crop Rotation Headlines

A Gardener's Diary: Crop rotation helps reduce pests

Rotating your crops is a great way to ensure a reduction in pests and can be used in any size garden for most annual vegetable crops.

Canada may find canola too much of a good thing

WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) - Western Canada's farmers might be getting too much of a good thing by planting canola more often than usual to satisfy voracious demand for the oilseed, which is used to make vegetable oil and livestock meal. Canadian farmers are expected to plant a record-large area to canola for the sixth straight year, snatching acres from cereals and legumes out of their usual ...

Canada farmers boost canola plantings-trade

WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) - Canadian farmers will take advantage of dry planting conditions this spring to sow a record-large canola area, and boost acreage of wheat and other crops, according to a Reuters trade survey. After spring floods the past two years washed out millions of acres in Manitoba and Saskatchewan, farmers have started planting early this year. In Statistics Canada's first ...

UGA pays tribute to Colquitt County’s Extension chief

ATHENS — At a recent awards ceremony at the University of Georgia, Glenn H. Beard, county extension coordinator for Colquitt County, received the Walter Barnard Hill Award for Distinguished Achievement in Public Service and Outreach for his almost 30 years of service to the advancement of Georgia agriculture through the UGA’s College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences cooperative ...

NRDC Announces the Winners of the 2012 “Growing Green Awards”

SAN FRANCISCO, CA (May 16, 2012) – The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) today honors four remarkable food visionaries for their trailblazing work to make our food systems healthier and more sustainable at the fourth annual “Growing Green Awards”. The winners, who are leaders in regenerative ranch management, farmworker justice, farm-to-school food, and making organic food mainstream ...

Grim reapers: the exploitation of Brazil's savannah

In this extract from his book The Landgrabbers: The New Fight Over Who Owns the Earth, Fred Pearce witnesses the relentless plundering by intensive commercial farmers of Brazil's rich savannah

Boxford hayfield eyed for cultivation

Mary Van Dusen, a descendent of the Lord Family who moved back into her grandmother’s Main Street home in 2005, wants to grow crops on the Davis Hayfield, an open field located across the street from her house. The Boxford selectmen have agreed to take Van Dusen’s proposal to Town Meeting to seek a non-binding opinion on whether the hayfield can be used as Van Dusen wishes. When the hayfield was ...

Nottinghams win state honor as exemplary farmers

W.T. and Tammy Nottingham show the Joint House Resolution and 2011 Coastal Basin Award that recognized them as exemplary farmers and stewards of the area's soil and water resources.

Growing the Perfect Tomato

My friends, perfect tomatoes are not those red tasteless orbs for sale at your local national grocery chain store, however nice they look . The most perfect tomato is the one you're going to grow in your garden this summer and is defined by its taste and texture : It is juicy, acidic, flavorful, maybe even spicy, and a whole different tomato from store-bought fare.

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Shoes from the Netherlands. Moving from central Florida, to Sylvania, Ala., Meindert and Eileen Dijkhuis farm 20 acres of land that produces vegetables, fruit trees, eggs and pastured broilers.