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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.

Chard: A vibrant and versatile vegetable

It's a beet, minus the root. Which doesn't make sense, except it does. Because it's chard, one of a growing number of common, yet often overlooked greens lurking at your grocer.

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 ...

Supporting business growth with information technology

Unlike most manufacturing and distribution organisations, produce companies face unique challenges and issues due to weather and product freshness.

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 ...

No change ... Shop shelves are now fully stocked but coins remain a problem

WHEN Zimbabweans say they are waiting for change, they are usually talking about politics. After all, the country has had the same leader since 1980. But these days, Robson Madzumbara spends a lot of time quite literally waiting around for change. Pocket change, that is.

Time to give props to theatre props

How different would stage history be without Desdemona's handkerchief? These uncredited accomplices are a vital part of the theatre experience In Nassim Soleimanpour's White Rabbit, Red Rabbit , which has just finished its run on the Brighton fringe festival, a new actor, fresh to the script each night, walks on stage with a small glass vial. During the course of the play, its contents are ...

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 ...

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.