When it comes to squash varieties, there are way too many to count. This delicious fruit is one of the longest cultivated food plants, with a storied history that dates back over 8,000 years. This is ...

Move over, Honeycrisp. We asked apple growers, marketers, and breeders to share the new varieties they’re most excited about. When surveying the dozen-plus apple varieties on display at the ...

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Container gardening is the perfect option for those short on space, especially apartment dwellers. But it tends to limit what types of produce you can grow, usually limiting you to smaller types of ...

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While rotating chemistries is essential to help manage weeds in continuous wheat-growing regions, rotating genetics can also improve yield potential and provide better grain quality and disease ...

The long, warm days of summer cause veggies like tomatoes, cucumbers, and squash to jump into overdrive. They seem to grow a few inches each day and begin cranking out fruits that demand near-daily ...

TOUGHER, TASTIER,... WHICH COULD MEAN BIG CHANGES FOR FARMS ACROSS THE REGION. WATSONVILLE IS KNOWN FOR ITS STRAWBERRIES- AND NOW, GROWERS ARE GETTING A FIRST LOOK AT TWO BRAND NEW VARIETIES.

The National Horticultural Research Institute (NIHORT) has released four new, high-performing varieties of tomato and pepper. The announcement, made by the Executive Director, NIHORT, Prof Mohammed ...

Researchers at the University of Nevada, Reno have unveiled 200 sorghum varieties that could be a game-changer in the food, brewery, dairy feed and biofuel industry. Preliminary research underscores ...

The Exchange, on Seed Savers’ website, pairs the people who save heirlooms with those who want them, all for the price of postage. By Margaret Roach I’m several hundred heirloom bean varieties deep in ...

Pollination by animals contributes to a third of global food production, but little research has been done into the extent to which the identity of pollinators, pollen and crop varieties influence ...