Walk into any grocery store in America and you'll see the same tired fruit selection. Apples from Washington, bananas from ...

Despite generating over $75B annually, specialty crops face rising costs, weak prices and limited safety nets. Case studies ...

Fruit crops play an essential role in human food consumption, as important sources of vitamins and other micronutrients. The industry around the production of these crops is additionally a key source ...

For communities that rely on farming, the stakes are especially high. Crop failures threaten local food supplies, farm ...

Tomato greenhouses are becoming test beds for a new kind of farm worker, one that does not just grab every red fruit in sight ...

For Trevor Hardy of Brookdale Fruit Farm, flexible irrigation design is the key to managing unpredictable weather, limited water, and labor constraints.

An early spring might sound like a good thing to you and me. An early spring to a Michigan fruit grower is a nightmare. So far, the fruit growers’ nightmares are not coming true. An extremely warm ...

Southwestern Michigan was under a Frost Advisory Friday morning. This came at a time where many fruit crops vulnerable as growing season continues. Hildebrand Fruit Farms owner Mile Hildebrand said ...

Most years David Diebold would have plenty of peaches and apples to sell to the customers who visit his Benton, Mo., store every summer looking for the fresh fruit. The fruit would be as fresh as ...

Recent updates to the InteliCool cooling monitoring system from Inteligistics increase precooling efficiency up to 33%.

Near-record to record cold is coming to Michigan in the next few days. Will Michigan’s fruit crops be damaged by the cold? Christie Apple, an agronomist specializing in fruit crops, has been looking ...