This installment of historian David Cecelski's photo-essay series, “Working Lives: Photographs from Eastern North Carolina, ...
Bryan Searle dug potatoes early Sept. 29 and aimed to finish harvest the next day. “All in all, digging went quite well,” he ...
For consumers, it means the price of goods goes up. Farmers devastated after unexpected conditions destroy key harvest: 'Half as big as planned' first appeared on The Cool Down.
Sweet potatoes are a popular crop to grow in home vegetable gardens, and the delicious, versatile tubers can be roasted, mashed, chipped, and more, once lifted. If you are worried you don’t have the ...
Potato maturity depends on the variety, ranging from about 110 days for early types to over 120 days for late ones. Key harvest signals include firm skin, flowering for early harvests, and foliage ...
Every year in the early weeks of fall, Aroostook County potato farmers race to dig up their fields before the first frosts hit. Since at least the 1940s, students get a break from school to help out ...
The harvest season is getting underway in West Michigan and the results are underwhelming in some cases as farmers collect ...
HEGINS, Pa. — To a random passerby, this might look like empty farmland, but you have to dig to get to the gold on these acres in Schuylkill County. "So we grow up to 10 varieties commercially, and we ...
Campbell Farms is making a name for itself in potato-growing circles well beyond the borders of Idaho. With properties in North Dakota and Minnesota, this family-owned farm-to-fork operation oversees ...
READING, Pa. - Around 150 students, staff at Alvernia University and volunteers got their hands very dirty on Sunday as part of the annual iHartHarvest day of service. "They go out into the fields and ...
From farm to fork Managing every aspect of the growing, shipping and marketing process allows the Campbells to maintain tight quality control over the product they’re putting out, and to supply ...