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Warren County celebrates year in ag

Warren County celebrates year in ag

By RICHARD SKELLY AFP Correspondent WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP, Warren County — A diversified crowd of about a hundred livestock, hay and...

Farm’s next generations weigh future at event

Farm’s next generations weigh future at event

By JANE PRIMERANO AFP Correspondent NEW BRUNSWICK — As the average age of working farmers creeps up toward the average...

NRCS, NJDA reps meet with NOFA participants

NRCS, NJDA reps meet with NOFA participants

By JANE PRIMERANO AFP Correspondent NEW BRUNSWICK — Representatives of the NRCS and NJDA met with farmers at the NOFA-NJ...

Conference puts focus on mental well-being

Conference puts focus on mental well-being

By JANE PRIMERANO AFP Correspondent NEW BRUNSWICK — Farmers don’t complain much. Not about weather, prices, recalcitrant critters; only occasionally...

Brinton explains ‘harvesting sunlight’ to attendees

Brinton explains ‘harvesting sunlight’ to attendees

By RICHARD SKELLY AFP Correspondent NEW BRUNSWICK — Will Brinton, founder of the Woods End Soil Lab near Augusta, Maine,...

Indigenous cultivators lauded as essential

Indigenous cultivators lauded as essential

By JANE PRIMERANO AFP Correspondent NEW BRUNSWICK — Lyla June Johnston is hoping to revitalize Indigenous food systems around the...

NOFA-NJ: Opportunities in value-added production

NOFA-NJ: Opportunities in value-added production

By RICHARD SKELLY AFP Correspondent NEW BRUNSWICK — A discussion moderated by Mercer County Rutgers Cooperative Extension Agent and Food...

We need to learn from history (Editorial)

We need to learn from history (Editorial)

The January edition of the USDA’s biannual cattle inventory report shows the nation’s cattle herd at 87.2 million head, down...

Panel: Soil amendment success takes curiosity, calculated risks

Panel: Soil amendment success takes curiosity, calculated risks

  SALISBURY, Md. — Be it biologicals from a jug or biomass from a cover crop, interest in soil amendments...

Maryland wine law takes effect in spring

Maryland wine law takes effect in spring

ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Farm wineries in the state will have to comply this spring with a law requiring them to...


Capacity crowd attends annual Delaware Ag Safety Conference

Capacity crowd attends annual Delaware Ag Safety Conference

VIOLA, Del. — On behalf of the Delaware Farm Bureau Promotion and Education Committee, June Unruh welcomed a capacity crowd...

Del. totals 155 Century Farms with additions of Warnicks, Evans, Fleetwoods

Del. totals 155 Century Farms with additions of Warnicks, Evans, Fleetwoods

DOVER, Del. — Edward Warnick and Reginald Evans farmed in different parts of Delaware but had the same dream of...

Dozens of wind-driven wildfires sweep across Va.

Dozens of wind-driven wildfires sweep across Va.

Spring’s arrival in Virginia brought unwanted heat as wildfires driven by high wind and low humidity swept through more than...

Scholarship sources can vary throughout region

Scholarship sources can vary throughout region

There are generally six main ways a person can pay for a college education on the Delmarva: funds from family,...

Let’s care more about lawn care (Editorial)

Let’s care more about lawn care (Editorial)

Since the dawn of mandated nutrient management in the Mid-Atlantic region, the sentiment in the farming community that residential citizens,...

Are you a reporting company under new CTA? (Ag Law)

Are you a reporting company under new CTA? (Ag Law)

(Editor’s note: Margaret Todd is the managing director of the Agriculture Law Education Initiative for the University of Maryland Francis...

Ride recreation economy wave to new income streams (Keeping the Farm)

Ride recreation economy wave to new income streams (Keeping the Farm)

(Editor’s note: Perry Hickman is the State Director of Virginia Rural Development.) I think we can all agree that agritourism...

Market showing subtle signs of improvement (Grain Marketing)

Market showing subtle signs of improvement (Grain Marketing)

(Editor’s note: John Hall is a professional commodities analyst.) The market has actually shown some improvement the last few days....

Virginia Tech Agricultural Research and Extension Centers release field day schedule

Virginia Tech Agricultural Research and Extension Centers release field day schedule

BLACKSBURG, Va. — Each year, Virginia Tech’s 11 Agricultural Research and Extension Centers invite the public in for an in-depth look at...

In search of salt-tolerable crops

In search of salt-tolerable crops

PRINCESS ANNE, Md. — As coastal flooding threatens more farmer acres, a UMES horticulturalist is looking for crop varieties that...

Scholarship Application Deadline April 1, 2024

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