vegetables

If you aren’t already celebrating, THIS is National Pollinator Week, June 21-27, as proclaimed Monday by Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack.

With people staying closer to home during the pandemic, more have taken up gardening, and that’s brought new demand to plants.

Farm income and land values surged in the closing months of 2020, lifted by higher commodity prices and large federal payments.

Investments in cell-grown meat development grew sixfold in 2020. There are about 70 cell-based meat startups around the world today, up from just four in 2015.

Calling their findings “surprising,” analysts say they estimate overall U.S. consumption of fresh vegetables increased slightly in 2020.

the National FFA announced the student membership has reached a record-high 760,113 … an increase of nearly 60,000 over last year’s membership.

California strawberry movement is on track to beat last year’s 202 million trays by a little over 16 million, and growers are reporting good size and quality.

The USDA announced it has purchased more than $2.2 billion of meat, fruits, vegetables, specialty crops and dairy products in fiscal years 2019 and 2020.

Avocado marketers say they weathered a couple of "very stressful" weeks after stay-at-home orders took effect, but since have seen retail sales recover.

The pandemic has effected sales at retail nurseries and garden centers. Sales of landscaping plants have slumped, but sales of vegetables, fruit trees have skyrocketed.