Walk into any grocery store in America and you'll see the same tired fruit selection. Apples from Washington, bananas from ...

Despite generating over $75B annually, specialty crops face rising costs, weak prices and limited safety nets. Case studies ...

Fruit crops play an essential role in human food consumption, as important sources of vitamins and other micronutrients. The industry around the production of these crops is additionally a key source ...

For communities that rely on farming, the stakes are especially high. Crop failures threaten local food supplies, farm ...

After a long wait, the first crops of overwintered broad beans, salads, strawberries and gooseberries can be gathered now. Rhubarb and asparagus that have been so valuable through spring can be fed ...

Tomatoes often top the list of plants people want to grow, but lately, more gardeners are stepping away from them.

Most years David Diebold would have plenty of peaches and apples to sell to the customers who visit his Benton, Mo., store every summer looking for the fresh fruit. The fruit would be as fresh as ...

An early spring might sound like a good thing to you and me. An early spring to a Michigan fruit grower is a nightmare. So far, the fruit growers’ nightmares are not coming true. An extremely warm ...

Recent updates to the InteliCool cooling monitoring system from Inteligistics increase precooling efficiency up to 33%.

NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY, Pa. — Bobby and Sara Hricko walked through the apple and peach trees at Green's Fruit Farm near Elysburg, looking for damage. They manage the 90-acre farm, which specializes in ...

Fruit flies are a nuisance wherever you may be. But growers in California are dealing with an insect problem on a whole other scale. Crops on the West Coast are facing a fruit-fly infestation, thanks ...

Near-record to record cold is coming to Michigan in the next few days. Will Michigan’s fruit crops be damaged by the cold? Christie Apple, an agronomist specializing in fruit crops, has been looking ...