Specialty Crop Growers Look to Take on Supply Chain Challenges

Josh McGill Sponsored Content, Top Posts

Over the past several years, the U.S. agriculture industry has never faced such unprecedented realities of supply uncertainty and sourcing challenges to meet consumer demand, and ultimately deliver an abundant food supply.   Shipping challenges worldwide have made getting imports for specialty crop production incredibly difficult, costly and time-consuming. As significant chemical shortages and delays in receiving products persist, growers and retailers look to confide in a reliable partner.   To help understand how we got here, it’s …

Don’t leave your success to chance: Place your bet on a solid crop protection strategy  

Josh McGill Sponsored Content

Specialty crop growers are high-stakes gamblers. Despite meticulous planning and vast experience, any grower can succumb to factors out of their control. Every season, you put everything on the line, taking a chance on a crop to make a profit — or lose it all. Like any gambler, you aim to stack the deck to ensure you’re not leaving success up to chance.       Shan Brooks, Atticus director, Florida & specialty markets/products, is no stranger to the risks you take season after season.       “Growers of specialty …

Making Sense of Biologicals: Crop Optimization With Seaweed

Clint Thompson Biologicals, Sponsored Content, Top Posts

Sometimes vegetable and specialty crop growers must think outside the box to remain sustainable amid high input costs and devastating diseases. What if seaweed could be used to aid in the quality of strawberries, bell peppers or tomatoes? Seaweed is a biostimulant that is part of the biological crop protection products that vegetable and specialty crop producers are increasingly using …

Breaking the Insect Population Cycle in Vegetables with Dual Modes of Action

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By: Craig Campbell, Senior Field Market Development Specialist (Valent U.S.A.) Southeastern vegetable growers are fighting a tough battle against damaging pests like whiteflies, thrips and aphids. Valent U.S.A. is excited to announce that Senstar™ Insecticide is now available to control these tough insect pests in brassica, leafy, fruiting and bulb vegetable production. Senstar works by combining two effective modes of …

UGA Extension helps Georgia Grown connect to consumers

Clint Thompson Fruit, Georgia, Sponsored Content, Top Posts, Vegetables

By Maria M. Lameiras for UGA CAES News Like the moments before a race begins, dozens of staff with Georgia Grown and University of Georgia Cooperative Extension prepared to load thousands of pounds of fresh fruit and vegetables into hundreds of waiting cars and trucks stretched out in long lines at the Gwinnett Georgia Grown To Go event in Lawrenceville, …