The Purdue Vegetable Team is launching a new webinar series focused on vegetable crops, called “Vegetable Chat.” The series is designed to serve commercial vegetable growers by bringing in experts to ...

Mr David Ogunleti, an agronomist at the Federal College of Agriculture (FCA) Ibadan, on Tuesday urged farmers to engage more in vegetable farming due to its high commercial value. Ogunleti gave the ...

THE NUMBERS Only about 20 farms in Rock and Walworth counties are involved in commercial vegetable production, but they grow about 5,073 acres of sweet corn, lima beans, peas, beets and other crops.

Cradling a bucket of freshly picked basil, Laura Seleski referenced a common refrain among farmers: It takes a lot of calories to produce the calories people consume. After five years growing produce ...

Cover crops provide benefits to vegetable farms of all sizes in addition to larger-scale contributions to the public good. Reduced tillage systems can provide additional soil health benefits. Many ...